― Dr. C, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Then all through the nineties I never listened to any of their records. A couple of months ago, I decided to put on New Day Rising. And I was left feeling ... well, nothing. If anything, it sounded like the Mother of All Emo Records, which would of course be a bad thing.
Funny how a decade can change one's perceptions so greatly.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jim B, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Anyway, I heard "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" on the radio today for the first time in a long time and it sounded like the Foo Fighters! (Except for the fact that it was much more well written, of course!)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)
I also really like reading Julio's early posts.
― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)
Woah. That is almost exactly the list I'd post, 'cept I'd add in "Books About UFOs" 'cuz it's sweet.
I don't like Zen Arcade that much as an album. I love some of the tracks on it, but I'd be way more likely to listen to New Day Rising all the way through.
― babyalive (babyalive), Friday, 8 April 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)
Fucking classic, even now. The only album that's not up to scratch is Candy Apple Grey.
"Brick on your head, 'cause you're a fuckhead" to the naysayers.
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 8 April 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 8 April 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)
It occurs to me now Warehouse is the one, that was the name of only album of Husker Du I had. It was about 60% enjoyable as I recall.
The singles were always good, don't get me wrong...Eight Miles High was great too. I heard their version of that before anyone else's, actually. I don't feel cheated by that at all.
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)
That was the Hated's theory, anyway...
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 8 April 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)
Incidentally, listening to DNA and sirone late last year made me realize how the bass could work and what a blind spot that was for me even though those aren't exactly rock. I haven't heard 'zen arcade' in ages so i should revisit this.
(thanks sundar, that must've been one of my v first posts on ilm though for better or worse I could never use a word like 'quality' or 'integrity' again nor 'influence' or 'emotion' without explaining it)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 8 April 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 8 April 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)
― dan. (dan.), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)
― SmartArse, Friday, 8 April 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― bg, Friday, 8 April 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)
(Did I just say that?)
Also, Greg Norton, being the most underrated member of the band, is such a great bassist. I walk around most days with a loop of "Statues" running on repeat in my brain.
Any coincidence that this thread has been revived just after that special sometime in April when we add another hour?
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
Sugar's Copper Blue is better than the last Husker records, though, whoever said that was OTM.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)
Search: side one of New Day Rising, played in the sequence it was released
Destroy: "Reoccurring dreams", "The Baby Song", about half of Warehouse: Songs & Stories.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Saturday, 21 May 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)
― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 22 May 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)
― Rena Navarro, Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)
So here's a question that I've had for twenty years:
Why is it that on the inside of Zen Arcade it says "All songs written by whoever sings it except for "Someday" that Grant wrote"?
Didn't Grant also sing it, so it would still fall under "song written by singer" rule?
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago)
Ah, I see it's the only song with lyrics on the album that has two songwriters. Still, Grant Hart sang a song that he wrote.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago)
ahem, Bob Mould was a writer for WCW, not WWF.
and, classic - new day rising (the song). fucking great.
― shanissey, Thursday, 1 November 2007 08:07 (seventeen years ago)
Classic. Nothing beats the first side/half of New Day Rising.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago)
Classic. Those SST records are timeless
― steampig67, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago)
They could at least have given Greg one of these weird credits like "Yoko: Wind" to beef up his instruments line.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago)
Oops, wrong thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFryHOAmlQ
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 05:58 (thirteen years ago)
Would love to see a copy of the insert from Land Speed record. It had a list of bands that people should check out. It has always stuck in my head that there was a band listed called the Maggot Brains listed which had me wondering about the array of influences on original US punk bands, though it could have just sounded like a good name and only have distant connection to the Funkadelic lp.
I love the band just as they're heading into the psychedelic stuff so Zen Arcade & New Day Rising and the live in London dvd which has me as a skinny 17 year old thrashing about. Probably also Metal Circus though I haven't heard it in ages. & definitely live sets from late 83- around 86.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:13 (thirteen years ago)
I also love the Bob Mould '89 tour stuff that was recorded with Tony Maimone and Anton Fier as a rhythm section. Think there may have been a 2nd guitarist for some of that too.Not sure what exactly is in circulation but do really like it.
The one time I saw Sugar I was so bored I started reading the book that was in my pocket.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:34 (thirteen years ago)
There's a how to buy the Huskers in the new Brian Jones cover Mojo as I discovered minutes after my last posting. Thought there must be an edition due so looked it up and lo and behold.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:40 (thirteen years ago)
Good news from Numero:
The rumors are true. On January 30, 1985, Hüsker Dü recorded a peak high performance to 24 track tape at Minneapolis’s First Avenue club in front of their hometown massive. This performance was supposed to come out as a live album later that year, but the band’s rapid upward trajectory caused priorities to shift. The tapes were shelved – thought to be possibly lost in the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive. Nearly 40 years later, these tapes have been rescued from the abyss, and we’ve tasked the team at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio on the transferring and Beau Sorensen at Tiny Telephone for the mixdowns.Today we are dropping the first batch for your listening pleasure alongside a limited '85 era tour shirt available this week only. We have a bunch of boxes of ephemera, photos, and tapes to go through so sit tight; we’re in the midst of a miracle year.
Today we are dropping the first batch for your listening pleasure alongside a limited '85 era tour shirt available this week only. We have a bunch of boxes of ephemera, photos, and tapes to go through so sit tight; we’re in the midst of a miracle year.
Streaming services have the first part of the '85 show mentioned.
― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:16 (one week ago)
awesome
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:17 (one week ago)
EGAD!!
― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:28 (one week ago)
Is this the widely bootlegged radio broadcast where they play early versions of Candle Apple Grey tracks?
With the You're So Square cover?
― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:29 (one week ago)
Is this coming out on a physical medium?
― The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:29 (one week ago)
sounds great, and i want that t-shirt dammit
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:31 (one week ago)
gah me too
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:37 (one week ago)
On their Instagram stories they said:
"I don't know what the plan is for vinyl and CD but we have this 85 tour shirt up for pre order. Will only be available this week."
― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 16:38 (one week ago)
I bought the shirt, fuck yeah
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 17:07 (one week ago)
How does one order the shirt?
― The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 17:31 (one week ago)
https://numerogroup.com/products/husker-du-85-tour-shirt?variant=44718110212294
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 17:31 (one week ago)
oooh thanks, tshirt ordered!
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 18:57 (one week ago)
YES
― Blood On The Knobs, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 20:54 (one week ago)
haha yes I too am a sucker for a repro vintage tour shirt
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 21:09 (one week ago)
Been wearing my XL Warehouse tee I bought from Virgin Megastore in 1992. Super baggy tees are good in this hot, hot weather.
― conspiracitorial theories (stevie), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 21:09 (one week ago)
the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive
I'm a glass-half-empty kind of guy because this is the first time I've heard of this and it really fucking sucks. (Happy about the live release, day 1 purchase for me, but still bummed about this among other world events.)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 21:11 (one week ago)
yeah I had never heard of that either, can someone summarize?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 1 July 2025 21:23 (one week ago)
Grant Hart’s childhood home in South Saint Paul burned down. He had inherited it (I think) but in any event it was still in the family and had a lot of memorabilia. Fortunately Grant had donated some of his archive to the Minnesota Historical Society shortly before.
― The "W" and Odie Trail (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 1 July 2025 21:29 (one week ago)
Want the shirt!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 05:15 (one week ago)
My guess is they are doing a run based on advanced orders, but it would be hilarious if ILX bought them out and the only people with shirts were ILXors.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 July 2025 12:34 (one week ago)
No chance. All my HD loving friends already knew about it before ilx (except me)
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 13:39 (one week ago)
Knew about, but did they order it?! Now is our chance to corner the market!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 July 2025 13:42 (one week ago)
xp one of Grant's cats survived that fire by taking shelter in a guitar case, which is a pretty great silver lining
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 July 2025 13:51 (one week ago)
Oh they sure didxp
Weirdly I don't recall seeing it mentioned in the SST group.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 2 July 2025 14:06 (one week ago)
I was at the Montreal show listed on that shirt. in the basement of Berri church. very tempted.
― bryan, Wednesday, 2 July 2025 14:20 (one week ago)
Ordered my shirt!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 4 July 2025 20:27 (six days ago)
They were not sold out of smalls lol
Yeah I expect that most of us vintage HD fanz, even meee, have expanded a bit.
― dow, Friday, 4 July 2025 20:49 (six days ago)