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
― NYC if you didn't know was taken over by skeleton hipsters in the past (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
thanks stevie - nice set!
You're So Square
ha, is grant singing that one?
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 24 October 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― NYC if you didn't know was taken over by skeleton hipsters in the past (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
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".
― pplains, Friday, 24 October 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
hahahahaha what?
― NYC if you didn't know was taken over by skeleton hipsters in the past (stevie), Friday, 24 October 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
"let's go die" is still one of the best song titles ever
― Pentenema Karten, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
the whole track list on Land Speed Record is too fucking good. "Push the Button," "Guns at My School," "Let's Go Die," "Tired of Doing Things."
― Pentenema Karten, Friday, 24 October 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Track 10:
http://i.imgur.com/AXHCLei.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 25 October 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
I think this is the same show as what's on the bootleg vinyl. More songs on the CD though.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 October 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
it definitely is. Sadly, this performance is very over-used. Shame there aren't more Huskers shows in circulation. I guess there are a couple tapes on YouTube.
― Pentenema Karten, Saturday, 25 October 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
weird questions: how seriously am I supposed to take the views expressed in "Real World" & who is the imagined interlocutor ("You wanna change the world by breaking rules and laws")?
I don't really know anything about the Huskers or their politics, but the song's speaker seems to toe the line between common-sense/can't-we-all-get-along thinking & a sort of reactionary conservatism ("I'm afraid of things like that & I lock my doors at night" obviously; but sometimes I even hear the line "I don't rape, & I don't pillage!" in a whiny besieged MRA tone)
so, my question is: do you think the band were satirizing contemporary American attitudes (yuppies! NIMBY!! broken windows policing!!!) or offering a genuine critique of a violent, destructive element within their own scene?
― bernard snowy, Friday, 10 April 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
the second one, I think they meant it
― sleeve, Friday, 10 April 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
(I don't have any support for this, maybe there's an old interview somewhere)
it seems very very Bob
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 April 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
who's the strawman?
― bernard snowy, Friday, 10 April 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
everyone. pretty standard mould misanthropy. "everything falls apart" is a better song with the same message, "everything is so fucked up i guess it's natural that way / i guess we like it that way"
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 April 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
also WHEN ARE THEIR ALBUMS GETTING REMASTERED. EVERYTHING BUT THE VINYL SOUNDS LIKE SHIT! huskers and prince. what the fuck is up
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
seriously, I clicked on this revive for the tiniest glimmer of hope on the reissue horizon
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 April 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
At the time, Real World seemed very obviously directed at the circle-A types who'd get in sidewalk fights with "Nazi" frat boys, and eat out of the Au Bon Pain dumpster, and get very smug about it. Felt like a very sincere pleading for coming down to earth a little. Now it seems more an end run on nihilism- too fatigued to even believe in nothing. But maybe that's cause Mould's persona is much more fixed.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Friday, 10 April 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
xpost I clicked on it fearing one of them had died (the feeling I get lately anytime I see an unexpected bump of a thread for anyone I like who's over 50) (lol sure symptom I am having a midlife crisis)
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 April 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
i clicked on it wondering what anyone could have to say about HD right nowalso because i think Grant Hart is coming back around in a month or so and i'm looking forward to seeing him again even though last time i saw him he was in a crummy mood
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 10 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
He needs hugs iirc
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 April 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
he doesnt look so good these days. is he on the spike again?
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 April 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Geez I sure hope not.
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 10 April 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure the second one. That jumped out at me right away, and I mentioned it when I reviewed the record for my university paper in 1983. I think Minor Threat's "Salad Days" is after something (somewhat) similar.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 April 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
don't know the Minor Threat; going to fix that now
thanks for the thoughtful replies, everybody!
― bernard snowy, Saturday, 11 April 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Recently discovered that the way one feels about Zen Arcade might be directly proportional to how loud one listens to it
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 11 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
and if you listen to it on vinyl. night and day
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 April 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
Yes! Absolutely. I hated listening to Flip Your Wig for years because I only had it on CD and it just sounded so tinny and hissy and unpleasant. Now I think it's my favorite.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 11 April 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
New official merch site (just t-shirts, but rumors of live recordings on the horizon):http://officialhuskerdumerchandise.bigcartel.com/
Supposedly, all 3 Dus now have the same legal representation, which I guess represents some kind of hurdle-clearing thaw, ice cold ice etc.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
They've had the same legal rep for so long, several years, that I wouldn't be surprised if they no longer did. Regardless, this is the first movement on the Huskers front in eons.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Man, those shirt prices not very punk rock. :(
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
gosh, i had two of those shirts when i was a teen, severe flashback time
― Haino Corrida (NickB), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
Is this the first actual 'thing' since the Rhino Everything Falls Apart/Living End release?
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
i doubt this means a reunion is imminent
legal rep: you could make some $$band: whatever
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
XP Was Living End before that?
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, October 14, 2015 4:39 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The Numero Group "Amusement" single, the "Live Featuring JC" ep thing that Reflex put out in 2006...
If there ends up being more that t-shirts or posters I will be surprised, I mean maybe, but I wouldn't get my hopes up
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
Sheesh, can't these guys buy back their masters already? All I want is a catalogue that doesn't sound like dogshit.
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
what you mean like completely re-recorded
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
I hope those shirts can make me look as happy as their model
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 23:16 (eight years ago) link
It did take me a while to acclimate to the production on the SST albums-they sound like they were recorded in a cardboard box on a skid row
― beamish13, Thursday, 15 October 2015 05:00 (eight years ago) link
I think those SST albums sound fine, on vinyl. the CDs need a remaster though.
― please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Thursday, 15 October 2015 08:24 (eight years ago) link
Man, if Hüsker Dü albums sounded any other way than how they actually sound, I don't know if it would feel right going into my ears. I'm so used to the poor production that anything rounder or fuller re: guitars and drums would feel "off."
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 15 October 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
yeah i feel like it's kinda part of the husker du deal! but they do sound better on vinyl, i agree, so a remastered CD would be welcome. but i wouldn't expect the remastering to like completely change the sound.
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
CD/Blu-Ray reissues with 5.1 surround mixes by Steven Wilson or nothing.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 15 October 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
I think those records sound great, bizarre and weird and blown-out and full throttle. No remaster!
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 15 October 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
someday i will relisten to the LPs to find out what you fetishists consider to be bad production
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 October 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
i feel like the early-mid 80s was a weird time to be an underground rock/guitar band -- like obviously you didn't want to sound like def leppard, you wanted to be the opposite of that. and spot's production delivers in that regard.
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, ZA and NDR sound great. FYW started that weird almost-hair-metal-reverb thing, but it and CAG have aged well (far better than Workbook, I'd argue). Warehouse doesn't sound great, but that's more dü to the band's muted instrumental approach.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 15 October 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link