Best Hüsker Dü Album (POLL Ends 4th May)

Did you get the live album?

I hope you're not running to the store to buy all the SST stuff bimble ;)

The band felt loyalty to SST.

i wonder if they regret that now. any news on bob and grant getting their masters back from ginn?

Bed of Roses, that's it. I confess I don't know what they sounded like prior to that. If someone wants to recommend an SST era track from them, I'll be happy to check it out.

'cold rain' is awesome, 'grey diamond desert' absolutely mind-blowing!

And many many more!

I finally tried a song by the Descendents because of this thread and just as I suspected, it didn't really grab me.

At some point, everyone should probably hear the Descendants' "Wienerschnitzel," and since that takes only eleven seconds or so...

Early Descendents is great. I need to dig that stuff out again.

The song I tried was "Can't Go Back" by the Descendents. I will try those Screaming Trees songs, though, thanks Stevie!

Anyway no I don't have any Husker Du live album. Should I?

do you not have Land Speed Record? it will melt your face off. The Living End is lots of fun too, from their final tour. and there's an ace bootleg circa their switch to warners, recorded off the radio, where they debut some Candy Apple Gray songs and cover 'you're so square' by buddy holly.

The live cd The Living End is pretty good. Awesome version of Ice Cold Ice

Hope you like the Screaming Trees stuff.

I'm now in the mood for listening to the Descendents - Milo Goes To College album.

Well I got around to playing the entirety of Warehouse today and I can see why it's rated so highly. Like all their albums, it isn't perfect, but I'd say most songs on it are very good, which isn't always the case with these guys. I'd say it's probably about as good as Flip Your Wig. And when I heard "Could You Be The One" again I got goose pimples! I had forgotten how nice that one was. I think I'm going to become obsessed with that song very soon here. "She Floated Away", "It's Not Peculiar", "Up In The Air" are some more real standouts. And what's with that bass line on "You Can Live At Home"?? It's like they got a whole new bass player in on that one! Funky!

I've also been pretty crazy about "Too Far Down" off Candy Apple Grey this week. I'm very close to compiling my own personal Husker best-of!

I think I'll try that live album, too, though, because "Ice Cold Ice" is one of my faves on Warehouse.

i'll vouch for the live album being great as well.

Warehouse is still the weakest album to my ears. Yes there's some truly great songs on it but some real filler. Grant's songs especially (with the odd exception obviously as she floated away is one of my faves)

Here's my Husker Du best of. Sorry I didn't include Pink Turns To Blue, or anything from Zen Arcade:

Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
Sorry Somehow
Too Far Down
Hardly Getting Over It
Makes No Sense At All
Hate Paper Doll
Green Eyes
Divide & Conquer
Games (see, I'm thinking of you, Alfred!)
It's Not Funny Anymore
Diane
I Apologize
Celebrated Summer
Perfect Example
Terms of Psychic Warfare (why did I miss this in my New Day Rising review upthread??)
59 Times The Pain
Books About UFO's
Standing In The Rain
Ice Cold Ice
Could You Be The One?
Friend, You've Got To Fall
She Floated Away
It's Not Peculiar
No Reservations
Turn It Around
Up In The Air
You Can Live At Home

Sorry I didn't include Pink Turns To Blue, or anything from Zen Arcade

Shocking

It needs
Pink Turns To Blue
What's Going On
Turn On The News
Chartered Trips

Wait! What is this goddamn live song?
"Now That You know Me" Oh my GOD

Living end, indeed

I would have included that if I'd only known!

wait what fucking record was that on that I missed?

anyway I'm going to add your suggestions, Herman.

"Ain't No Water In The Well" - what are they turning into Elvis now? Wow.

WHAT'S GOING ON
WHAT'S GOING ON
WHAT'S GOING ON
INSIDE MY HEAD

oh my god you guys totally didn't warn me for the live album

that's just ridiculously good, that live album

The cover of the Ramones' "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"
OH MY GOD

Wait! What is this goddamn live song?
"Now That You know Me" Oh my GOD

It was a Grant Hart song that was never on any Huskers album, but he recorded it a year later for his SST solo album, Intolerance:

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1312

I've got boots that are even better than the live album, but how good is Ice Cold Ice on it? Drums just explode.

No comment?

I hate Warehouse so much.

Finally found this poll, it never turned up in searches for it. It's pretty good that every album got a vote.
Can't understand how Warehouse beat those other studio albums.

Me neither.

Best album won though.

Can't understand how Warehouse beat those other studio albums.

I'm one of the saddoes who voted for Warehouse. I do not deny it. I like that album a lot.

Except for Warehouse, poll came off exactly how I'd have wanted. I think Warehouse is a terrific album, one of their best, so I'm not at all bothered that it did so well. Maybe a little surpised that Metal Circus beat Flip Your Wig.

Flip your Wig and Metal Circus should've been ahead of Warehouse.

Rockist.

Fucking fuck. That xpost makes no sense at all hee. Was trying to say something about how I expected Zen Arcade to win in that first sentence, but it got reduced to gibberish in the editing part.

Let's try again:

Except for Warehouse, Poll came off exactly how I'd have wanted. Warehouse is terrific, so I'm not at all bothered that it did so well. Maybe a little surpised that Metal Circus beat Flip Your Wig.

Did I say fucking fuck? I meant to say fucking fuck.

I thought I said it before, but Zen Arcade was robbed in this poll. NDR is inferior in every way that I can discern.

I love Husker Du and Zen Arcade, don't get me wrong. But it's an exhausting listen. That's why I prefer the poppier Warehouse.

I tend to play Zen Arcade now more than NDR because I've played NDR to death the past year

Man, I acquired "Warehouse" three (3) separate times - in three different formats - at 10-year intervals, over a 20 year period; and STILL never warmed to it, or learned how to differentiate one Bob Mould song from the next. (Same deal for Sugar/solo Bob.) Grant Hart's sea chanteys and rockabillys never did much for me either, tho at least I could tell 'em apart. Just a very depressing final album. But I suppose I'll give it another try in 2017, by which time we'll be downloading music directly into our cranial implants.

I do like Warehouse don't get me wrong, but I just think the albums before it were superior. I like Bob's 1st 3 or 4 Solo albums and Sugar were fantastic.

I don't have much taste for hardcore, or the production on the SST record, so I don't really dig the early albums (I've tried many times for many years). But Warehouse has some killer pop songs, especially "These Important Years" and "She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)". If I voted in this poll, I voted for Warehouse on the basis of those two songs alone.

if Bob Mould had produced these records like he did those Sugar albums I might play them more often.

Warehouse absolutely had killer pop songs. My favorite is She Floated Away, which I think is Hart's "sea chantey."

yeah those Sugar albums still make me break out in a sweat when I put them on: the production just roars, like say on "Gift".

Something about Sugar was off-putting for me. I couldn't warm to their songs.

as a whole they're pretty monolithic-sounding records, but try listening song by song. I'm sure I've listened to "Gift" like 20 times in a row on several occasions; "Explode and Make Up" too; though I couldn't tell you the last time I listened to FUEL as a whole. Live they were the same way, though that live record that came with Besides is pretty great.

In defense of Warehouse, it has "No Reservations" which may be my most played HD song.

New Day Rising and Zen Arcade all the way.I agree with the poll . At one time Husker Du were my favourite band ever, when I did that type of thing.

Anybody else think the production on Metal Circus and Everything Falls apart, closely followed by Zen is way superior to anything else they did.

I've bitched about the horrible biscuit tin sound before. They should have been so sonically massive

I think ALL their albums (vinyl & CD both) sounded pretty bad, but in different ways! To my ears, "Everything..." and "Metal Circus" probably had the best sonics, but that's in relative terms.