Favourite Hüsker Dü Album?

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shasta hates husker du

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v62N98rK5a4

flip your wig
flip your wig

vote

Metal Circus is near perfect but too short.
Flip Your Wig is the only song that Mould and Hart sing on together (right?)
Warehouse has one of my favourite album openers ever in the form of 'These Important Years', and I *like* the production on it.
New Day Rising is great but never did it for me for some reason.
Zen Arcade was the first Huskers album I bought for seven bucks from a dude who was selling all his records to pay parking fines without having heard of anything they did before. Kind of blew my young mind, and remains the favoured album for both musical and sentimental reasons.

I think the top 2 are gonna be close

Not ashamed to admit that I've voting for Warehouse here - just so many songs on it that I love, as compared to all the other albums which in general I *respect* more than I out-and-out love. (Admittedly New Day Rising comes close for me.)

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flip your wig and vote

new day rising, though zen arcade was the first i heard -- getting scared that warehouse is gonna take this (or come close)

no chance

new day rising

will everything falls apart get 0 votes? or will land speed record finish last?

Not ashamed to admit that I've voting for Warehouse here - just so many songs on it that I love, as compared to all the other albums which in general I *respect* more than I out-and-out love.

otm * 100.

its still the one i least listen to

it has a few great songs but some autopilot songs and some clunkers. the rest all have better songs

52 votes for ndr wow

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How did you post before the results came in?

Holy shit this got a lot of votes!

i always wanted to do that
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but its possible. ilm reaches the end of the day but the system automatic bump hasn't kicked in yet

Huskers be popular.

Metal Circus was robbed. Obviously suffered in the "it's only an EP" way

that's about the most voters i've seen in an ilm poll
zen arcade fwiw, but no qualms about the winner

poll shows what a great band they were

insane # of votes though

seriously

i hope the people who voted for warehouse and candle apple grey are lurkers who stay lurkers.

why are those albums so disreputable

they are horrible in comparison to the good stuff!

they're good, just not great like the others. But those voters were hardly lurkers, they posted in the thread they were voting for those.

Warehouse yes. But CAG is just plain unlikeable.

naw its good. I prefer it to warehouse. In the UK, CAG was seen as the last of their great albums. The US seems to prefer Warehouse.

I dont know why anyone would prefer warehouse

i hope the people who voted for warehouse and candle apple grey are lurkers who stay lurkers.

― scott seward, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:25 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Well, toxic different-opinion-belittling bullshit like this doesn't exactly make people want to TRY To engage in the conversation. You'll get the board you foster, really.

When that band played Warehouse straight through with no apologies, introductions, stage chatter, or encores to the fans (in fact there was a fuck you to the fans on college radio earlier in the day, on account of the fact that some fans were hoping for a really special show because the last local show had gotten shut down early from the noise even though everybody should have known not to put one of the loudest bands on in a new venue in the fucking suburbs; so they made it very clear we had nothing coming, and we didn't get anything other than a headache or an MIP, or maybe Christmas opening, not bad), I realized that they can live at home now, but now I am a man.

The art on that major label double is vibrant, but I voted for the earlier double on Aggressive Rock Produktionen available at your local Hastings in the import section, with slightly less vibrant treated photography.

I dont know why anyone would prefer warehouse

imho:

"These Important Years"
"Standing in the Rain"
"Ice Cold Ice"
"Could You Be the One?"
"Friend, You've Got to Fall"
"Visionary"
"She Floated Away"
"No Reservations"
"Turn It Around"
"She's a Woman (And Now He Is a Man)"
"Up in the Air"
"You Can Live at Home"

love the 'ballads' of CAG but, 'lonely' aside, not a huge fan of its punk-pop.

i voted zen arcade btw

wish i had given metal circus a vote now

Warehouse is pretty fucking awesome.

Yeah, I voted "NDR," but the Hart songs on "Warehouse" are killer. "She Floated Away" and "You Can Live at Home" are epic.

yes, but unfortunately most of his songs are crap on it.

my problem with Warehouse is the limp late-80s major label production and those horrible gated drums. songs are awesome live - Warehouse tour was one of the best shows I've ever seen, the encore was Turn On->Reoccurring Dreams :D

Apologies if my previous comment seemed overly harsh but seriously sometimes ILX reminds me of this exchange from one of my favourite philosopher, E. Phillips:

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.

ILX as "a yearbook full of autographs of friends you might have had."

great job grandstanding about utterly innocuous and generally friendly poster scott seward

Yeah I know, I like scott and generally have no problem at all with his posts - for some reason that comment really rubbed me the wrong way though. Again, apologies all around.

warehouse, since it doesn't feature the obnoxious trebly distortion of their previous efforts

lol