Band: Husker Du

[2207]

Can't say I liked everything I heard, but certainly NOT CRAP.

[Poof]

Love 'em. Got to hang with Grant Hart a couple weeks ago after he played an amazing set. it was an honor. Can't say enough great things about this band. NOT CRAP!

[LBx]

celebrated summer is one of my favorite songs ever.

me too.

5 of you are twats.

N O T C R A P.

[Mama Clortho]

Yesterday, it occurred to me that I had never knowingly heard Husker Du. Which is strange, as I know all about them, I'm not 16 and I'm very familiar with all related bands. I went to the store and picked up Zen Arcade and New Day Rising, knowing that these were their best albums.

Husker Du were a great band! So nice to discover them 'later' in life.

[Hexpane]

Yesterday, it occurred to me that I had never knowingly heard Husker Du. Which is strange, as I know all about them, I'm not 16 and I'm very familiar with all related bands. I went to the store and picked up Zen Arcade and New Day Rising, knowing that these were their best albums.

Husker Du were a great band! So nice to discover them 'later' in life.

get everything falls apart compilation, its a must have

[Gantry]

I didn't want to take up any more space in the sacred cows thread discussing Husker Du, so...

Husker Du live in 1981 at the 7th Street Entry:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J9UZFV47

[timpickens]

I didn't want to take up any more space in the sacred cows thread discussing Husker Du, so...

Husker Du live in 1981 at the 7th Street Entry:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J9UZFV47

I've never seen any footage of them from this early on. Thanks!

[Nina]

5 of you are twats.

eight of us now.

[LBx]

s'alright, we're cool...



so many classic tunes. a definitive NC for me still.

[Johnny C]

NOT CRAP EVER

[DregsInTheCrowd]

Husker Du are high in the running for my favorite band ever. I have listened to their albums obsessively since high my teens, and unlike many of my other high school favorites, their appeal hasn't diminished for me over the years. And yet, I understand not liking them. I should know, as I have played their music for dozens of friends almost since the moment I first heard them, and not a single person I know has ended up liking it. At least not enough to go and get an album. Oh well.

Sugar on the other hand, well, I've gotten many friends into Sugar. I love that band too, and a good number of Bob Mould albums (The Last Dog And Pony Show being my favorite). I even enjoy Grant Hart's solo work, though I don't think he's ever topped his new record, Hot Wax.

[FuzzBob]

10 people on this board have ear infections.

[Andy]

Certainly not crap. Bumpity bump.

[a leg plaster]

I like these guys a whole lot still. Zen Arcade doesn't mean as much to me as it used to, but their earlier stuff gets better and better. As do a few songs off of New Day Rising. Fucking 'Terms of Psychic Warfare'! I cannot get you out of my head.

Pun somewhat unintended.

Not Crap.

[DregsInTheCrowd]

Fucking 'Terms of Psychic Warfare'! I cannot get you out of my head.

Hahaha. A joke I've told to myself a million times. I love the vaguely The Mamas and the Papa's backing vocal thing that happens in this song. The Huskers rarely mined the '60s for inspiration more effectively.

[OrthodoxEaster]

Nöt Cräp. Are umlauts really that difficult to type?

First single's kinda ho-hum post-punk. The debut LP is an inhuman, exhilarating semi-hardcore blur (almost as good as the Meat Puppets debut). Everything Falls Apart, In a Free Land, and Metal Circus are just fucking great rock records. Zen Arcade is uneven but ok. The other albums each have a handful of excellent, roughed-up pop tunes but they start getting a little formulaic. Except for Warehouse, which is mostly nonsense.

Mould was a total master of the overfried distortion-plus-chorus guitar sound. See also: Geordie from Killing Joke, Live Skull's Tom Paine, Tippy from Man Sized Action, Andy Hawkins from Blind Idiot God, and a few others I'm probably forgetting. It's tough to rock this much-misunderstood and terribly abused pedal and not sound like some new-huevo wuss or '80s jazz-fusion dweeb (or hey, you could combine the two and join the Police). These men somehow overcame the odds.

[Rog]

Are umlauts really that difficult to type?

Yes.

new-huevo wuss

New egg wuss?

[Control Z]

Not crap. Seeing Husker Du in a small venue in 1983 felt like standing in a hurricane, or encountering something else at close range that is extremely powerful and potentially destructive.

First single's kinda ho-hum post-punk. The debut LP is an inhuman, exhilarating semi-hardcore blur (almost as good as the Meat Puppets debut). Everything Falls Apart, In a Free Land, and Metal Circus are just fucking great rock records. Zen Arcade is uneven but ok. The other albums each have a handful of excellent, roughed-up pop tunes but they start getting a little formulaic. Except for Warehouse, which is mostly nonsense.

Truth.

Mould was a total master of the overfried distortion-plus-chorus guitar sound. [...] It's tough to rock this much-misunderstood and terribly abused pedal and not sound like some new-huevo wuss or '80s jazz-fusion dweeb (or hey, you could combine the two and join the Police). These men somehow overcame the odds.

This is relevant to my interests. I fixate on guitar sounds without having Clue One about what exactly they "are" or how they are produced. Bob Mould's guitar sound = NC.

Bob and, I think, Grant went to one of the colleges I went to, several years before I attended. They were well remembered there by people who had a clue.

[Snowblinder]

This song just hits me every time I put on New Day Rising:

Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill

Fuck, that song is so good.

[Control Z]

Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill

A favorite of mine too since forever.