Husker Du : Classic or Dud, Search and Destroy.

(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?

Sugar's Copper Blue is better than the last Husker records, though, whoever said that was OTM.

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.

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?

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.

ahem, Bob Mould was a writer for WCW, not WWF.

and, classic - new day rising (the song). fucking great.

Classic. Nothing beats the first side/half of New Day Rising.

Classic. Those SST records are timeless

They could at least have given Greg one of these weird credits like "Yoko: Wind" to beef up his instruments line.

Oops, wrong thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFryHOAmlQ

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.

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.

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.

with money?

New day rising

there was an ancient thread specifically for that:

Okay, so I guess Robert Palmer used to cover Husker Du's "New Day Rising" in concert! Does anyone have an mp3 of this??

That was way back when it was merely a rumour though

Re: "I Will never forget you" - talk about feeling something intensely!

Ah, thank you Nick, hold on here...

On Amtrak train now stopping in Redwing, MN. Wondering if maybe Greg Norton will be visible out the window.

http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/t/there-will-be-blood-03-645-75.jpg

No such luck. Some Mennonites got on in La Crosse though! Not sure if they are the carriage or black bumper brand.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/plectrumrecords2-500x350.jpg

^ rfi: what huskers vinyl is that on the wall of this record store?

that is the bootleg of their 1985 show at first avenue, just as they were working on Candy Apple Grey, and it's pretty amazing tbh. my favourite version of Green Eyes, for sure.
http://www.discogs.com/H%C3%BCsker-D%C3%BC-Live-At-The-First-Avenue-Club/release/2168534

thanks stevie - nice set!

You're So Square

ha, is grant singing that one?

He is! Actually, Bob and Grant share vocals but Grant's dominant on here, and it turns into a terrifying Wit & Wisdom in the middle.

in fact here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elo29fSasCE

I've got one of these bootlegs where they've got "Celebrated Summer" on the track listing as "Sons of Bitches".

hahahahaha what?

"let's go die" is still one of the best song titles ever

ordered the new shirt, really liked the color and design

sad to see David Savoy's name there. we were talking about getting an apartment together around then.

got the first shirt in the post today, good quality. now I want the new one lol

If I'd know we'd get so many options I might have waited, but I do like the quality of the first shirt. I already have too many t-shirts though and can't really justify yet another Du one. lol

^^

I went for the second/tie dyed. remember those hanging in Oar Folk, and the one they show with the cut off sleeves looks like one Grant used to wear (though assume it's not his since they don't say that it is).

If it really was Bob making Husker Du sound like the worst recorded music ever, I really don't get why Copper Blue sounds SO much better. And I wouldn't even say that sounds very good but it's 10X better than Warehouse. I do think Workbook sounds really good but that's a total different sonic animal.

I think it's important o mention at this juncture just what a paradigm-rearranging headfuck MBV's Loveless was for Bob, wrt how the album he made immediately after it sounds.

Ironic, considering the massive influence of Husker Du on MBV!

My tshirt arrived today.

I was bemused that the shirt cost more than the 2CD set.

FWIW, Mould was asked about Kevin Shields once during a live interview on I think Sound Opinions back in the 2000s. IIRC, he said they had dinner together and Mould asked Shields a question about something he did (presumably on Loveless) and Shields replied, "Well...." took a deep breath then talked for like 15-20 minutes straight when a flood of details came pouring out. Mould's inner reaction was "what the hell was that?" Mould and his interviewers Kot and DeRogatis then lamented Shields's lack of recording activity and Mould said something where along the lines of "I really want to call him up and say 'look, we'll just get TWO amps, TWO guitars, and let it rip."

Funny, I think I remember Sound Opinions guys asking Billy Corgan once about Bob Mould, about borrowing one of his recording techniques (iirc two-guitars slightly out of phase with each other, with one recorded a little slower than the other one).