Stefan Wood Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 I think Chuck was talking about hair metal groups like Dokken. Quote
Robert J Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 I'm just waiting for the inevitable reunion tour. What with the Pixies and Dino jr. getting back for some shows, anything can happen. I saw the Pixies reunion but missed Dino Jr last week due to work. Here's a review of that http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-07-2...livereviews.php Mould weighs in on the Husker reunion issue - though I think there's word he's going back in the catalogue for this tour with some Sugar, solo Mould tunes and possibly Husker Du http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/n...c_nm/mould_dc_2 Quote
fent99 Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 Came late to the party with Husker Du (as ever with most music) but I think Warehouse is brilliant. Its as melodic as early REM with better songs, just a different, harder sound. Living End is great but like lots of live albums not that satisfying... Of the solo stuff Grant Hart's Intolerance is maybe the best with 2541 being one of the best songs about a breakup ever. Beaster from Mould's Sugar is my fave of his output Quote
Robert J Posted July 27, 2005 Report Posted July 27, 2005 My greatest fear has been a thread about one of the "umlaut bands". ← Chuck: this may help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut Quote
dave9199 Posted July 28, 2005 Report Posted July 28, 2005 Came late to the party with Husker Du (as ever with most music) but I think Warehouse is brilliant. Its as melodic as early REM with better songs, just a different, harder sound. Living End is great but like lots of live albums not that satisfying... Of the solo stuff Grant Hart's Intolerance is maybe the best with 2541 being one of the best songs about a breakup ever. Beaster from Mould's Sugar is my fave of his output ← The Living End is, I feel, one of the best live albums around. Up there with The Who's Live At Leeds & KISS Alive! Quote
Spontooneous Posted July 28, 2005 Report Posted July 28, 2005 Another Husker fan here. I heard a tape of a post-Husker Greg Norton band. Boy, was it bad. Quote
Free For All Posted July 28, 2005 Report Posted July 28, 2005 So I guess you've paid your Husker dues. Quote
Eric Posted July 28, 2005 Report Posted July 28, 2005 So I guess you've paid your Husker dues. ← Further, do you think the Huskers will win the Big 12 this year? Quote
Jad Posted July 28, 2005 Report Posted July 28, 2005 Thanks for the link. Bob has kind of dropped off my radar lately, but this new album sounds interesting, at least. Anyone heard anything off of it? Quote
Hoppy T. Frog Posted August 1, 2005 Report Posted August 1, 2005 (edited) The July/August issue of Indie Rock mag Magnet has an oral history of the 80s Minneapolis scene, focusing on the Huskers and the Mats. If the quotes from Grant and Bob are recent, there's still a lot of hostility there. I also must add love for Warehouse--and I'm surprised by the love for Land Speed Record. Even when I was 17 it palled relatively quickly for me. On the contrary, finally hearing the early singles and stuff when Rhino reissued Everything Falls Apart showed they were capable of much more than generic hardcore even at that stage of their development. Allegedly, LSR is only a recording of their first set that night, and the second set had more melodic and/or experimental stuff like "Statues", etc. Edited August 1, 2005 by Hoppy T. Frog Quote
dave9199 Posted August 1, 2005 Report Posted August 1, 2005 Thta's true. They had a hardcore set, then a more melodic set. I have a few bootlegs from that time and their set up like that. Quote
Jad Posted August 2, 2005 Report Posted August 2, 2005 Thirty minutes of songs crashing into each other, w/o a pause for a breath? THAT'S rock'n'roll. What's not to love? "Warehouse" was the first Huskers I'd heard. Some of it sticks with me more than I realize, having given it a recent listening session. Esp 'No Reservations'. What a great song. Yeah. Quote
dave9199 Posted August 3, 2005 Report Posted August 3, 2005 That's a great song. I love It's Not Peculiar, Friend You've Got To Fall, She Floated Away, Could You Be The One, Charity...& Back From Somewhere. Worst Husker song ever: Turn It Around. But I'll never skip that song because I am a FAN!!! Quote
Spontooneous Posted August 3, 2005 Report Posted August 3, 2005 Review of a recent Bob show here. Quote
J Larsen Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 I was a big Husker fan at one time. They sort of lost me at Candy Apple Grey. One of these days I should go back and give Warehouse a second shot. Back then I probably just wanted to hate it for being on a major. The Minutemen were the best band ever on SST, IMO. Quote
Robert J Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 Warehouse always gets heavy rotation for me. It's a real summer album. My highlights - Standing in the Rain, You're a Soldier, She's a Woman (And Now He Is a Man), You Can Live at Home [the ending reminds me of PIL's Album/CD] The Minutemen were the best band ever on SST, IMO. I've kept up with Mike Watt for a few years. I've seen him live about 4 times and have the Ball-Hog or Tug Boat and Contemplating the Engine Room - the latter is fantastic. Saw him a year or so ago with his organ trio (!) before the realease of The Secondman's Middle Stand. Quote
DrJ Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 (edited) I think Husker Du's "glory period" stuff has held up relatively well. I still enjoy NEW DAY RISING, ZEN ARCADE (although have to be honest, this one, which so many fans and critics lauded back in the day, has long, long stretches that I think with years of hindsight and maturity sound more than a little leaden and pretentious; probably would've been a much better idea to cream off the best for a single LP), FLIP YOUR WIG, CANDY APPLE GREY, and WAREHOUSE. I personally find no drop-off in musical quality on the latter - it just sounds a bit different than the rest, like they were inevitably, a little older and wiser and weary of each other. So basically, Husker's equivalent of the Beatles' "White Album" in the sense that it's starting to sound like a bunch of (mostly outstanding) Mould and Hart solo tracks with the others backing them up, rather than a true group effort. The thing that made their stuff work and so unique was, as has been pointed out, the melodicism. Any one of their songs would generally sound great whether done with solo acoustic or full fury Flying V distortion. I love that Husker could do both of these approaches convincingly. "Hardly Getting Over It" and "Friend You've Got to Fall" remain two of my favorite pop tunes of all time (love the Beach Boys-ish harmonies on the latter, again pointing out how these guys knew and loved pop of all kinds, far transcending the usual snarl and grind of rank and file "punk" bands whose stuff now sounds badly dated). Probably they reached the pinnacle with FLIP YOUR WIG though, and the roughly contemporary one-two 45 punch of "Eight Miles High/Masochism World" and "Makes No Sense at All/Love Is All Around (Mary Tyler Moore theme)." Quite a run. Edited August 4, 2005 by DrJ Quote
Big Al Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 The thing that always pestered me about Husker Du albums was the way they were mixed. Humongous amounts of treble, hardly any bass. I always thought that was just the SST sound, but then when their Warners records were mixed in the same way, I just figured they actually wanted to sound like that. I mean, Greg Norton is on those records, right? It would’ve been nice to hear him on “You Can Live at Home Now,” my favorite Husker Du song. Speaking of Norton, has anyone ever eaten at his restaurant? It’s called “The Norton’s” and it’s referred to in the Magnet article. And speaking of the Magnet article, I’m curious: did anyone know about Greg and Bob? I never knew (nor did I ever care). Was it a well-kept secret? Or was it one of the worst-kept secrets, like Rob Halford? And why bring it up in the first place? Does anyone else think that Grant Hart sounds a LOT like Elvis Costello when he sings? Hell, some of his songs sound like what might’ve been EC & the Attractions had Steve Nieve never entered the picture. I need to revisit Warehouse again. So many of those songs got me through my 19th & 20th summers. Quote
dave9199 Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 (edited) Greg isn't gay, Grant is & and no one, including Grant & Bob, has ever come forward and said they were an item. They've said they never tried to cover it nor did they talk much about it. It was an open secret; they just didn't go around talking about it as it had nothing to do with the band. I've read Greg is married, I believe, for his 2nd time to a woman who works with him. The only reference to Husker Du in the resteraunt is a B&W 8x10 live shot on a wall. His wife who is about 20 years younger didn't know for a long time that he was in Husker Du as she wasn't that familiar with them. The Warner albums do sound brittle. I bet Mould was pushing to be the loudest in the mix but his hearing was probably shot by then. I think he has tenitus. Edited August 4, 2005 by dave9199 Quote
John B Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 The thing that always pestered me about Husker Du albums was the way they were mixed. Humongous amounts of treble, hardly any bass. I always thought that was just the SST sound, but then when their Warners records were mixed in the same way, I just figured they actually wanted to sound like that. ← I always blamed Spot for that horrendous SST sound. I love many, many albums on SST but would love to see all of them remixed by someone with different sensibilities. Off the top of my head I think that The Living End might get my vote for best sound quality, over any of their studio albums I've heard. I've still never heard Flip Your Wig and will have to remedy that very soon. Quote
Tony Pusey Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 Havnt ploughed through this thread but just thought I would mention that Husker Du is Danish for do you remember ... and I do at least 8 miles high... Quote
John B Posted August 4, 2005 Report Posted August 4, 2005 Havnt ploughed through this thread but just thought I would mention that Husker Du is Danish for do you remember ... and I do at least 8 miles high... ← The name is taken from a children's board game: Quote
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