Hüsker Dü Classic or Dud?

Wish I still had that muddy cassette bootleg of the Du at 7th Street Entry in 1984. Hellacious roar in a small room.

All I recall thinking about HD's production was that the drums were unnecessarily loud on every one of Grant's songs.

Wait a minute...I thought there was a best Husker album poll here. Please point me to it. Thanks.

There is a poll, but I can't find it either.

Fuck! Look I really need someone to tell me which album to try. Something early. Please. I need to know which album got the most votes. Thanks.

Convention says go with Zen Arcade or New Day Rising.
i say both.
I think new day rising just beat zen arcade in the poll but I cant remember even though I think it was my poll.

Thanks! So sad that we can't find it. What about Land Speed...

it prob got the least as it was a superfast live record. I tried the ilx google search and still cant find it.

What about Metal Circus?

Best Hüsker Dü Album (POLL Ends 4th May)

Metal Circus is awesome too. I love them all really. Warehouse is my least fave but it does have some cracking songs

Metal Circus and Zen Arcade are my faves.

Heheh. Okay I'll write this down right now. Thanks guys.

Warehouse was the only album I ever had of them. I taped it from the radio station I DJ'd at years ago. It had some great moments...but very long.

just trust me when i saw New Day Rising, Zen Arcade, Metal Circus and Flip Your Wig are infinitely better! The others I would say are too, though for some reason there's a split with Candy Apple Grey. Here in the UK it's highly rated but not so much in the states. Warehouse is seen by fans as the weakest. and yes, it is a bit long.

Candy Apple Grey is the New Day Rising, man.

as far as the HD/Pixies/Nirvana connection goes (way upthread), on the acoustic demos released as Frank Black Francis, Charles calls "Caribou" the one that sounds like Husker Du...also on one of those stupid f#$king lists...25 band in the last 25 years or something, Charles says that when he formed the Pixies he owned five albums, "and three of them were Husker Du."

I just heard their cover of the Mary Tyler Moore theme "Love Is All Around"!!! Wow that is fucking cool as shit. Totally missed that during my entire recent Husker Du trip.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/MaryHat.jpg

HAHAAHAAHAH! WOOOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You made my night.

bump
because- i just had a thought

somefker remaster them or 'whatever' it is you do.please

everything they did

anybody questioning the Du's massive influence needs interrogating. they will be proven wrong

Remasters/reissues of the HD back catalogue have been held back indefinitely due to either a) the fact that the guys just can't get along, despite Mould being interested in handling things (which might be the problem right there) or b) the master tapes are lost in a dusty old box somewhere between Lawndale and Texas.

What a dull band.

It might all be the supposedly notorious bad transfers done by SST for their CDs, though, for all I know, I have nothing on vinyl. But everything sounds so thin!

Jack Brewer says that they paid some kid to drop a needle on the vinyl to 'master' many CD issues. Dude's got no reason to lie about that.

I said it on another thread about the SST stuff, but I think at some point Spot's production went awry whenever they got their first digital reverb, as everything went from being real cool and dry to sounding like it was recorded in the bat cave. Zen Arcade, My War and Double Nickels sound real sparse and then the follow ups of New Day Rising, In My Head, Project Mersh and 3-Way Tie for Last has bunches of reverb.

Actually, by the time those last three records came out, Spot had pretty much quit producing records for SST. He only had a hand in New Day Rising (on which Mould's guitars sound amazing, IMHO); Project: Mersh was Ethan James and Carducci, and 3-Way Tie was James again. I think SST must've had a hard-on for James because he used to be in Blue Cheer, but a lot of the stuff he produced sounds off.

What a dull band.

You've obviously never heard Metal Circus, then.

I thought they were great at the time, but posterity hasn't been kind. The whole wall-of-guitar-fuzz thang sounded shockingly fresh when I first heard it, but it was eventually done better harmonically by Sonic Youth, and melodically by My Bloody Valentine.

I still listen to SY and MBV regularly, but can't really be bothered with the Huskers these days. Also, they had the worst drum sound ever committed to tape. Not their fault I'm sure, but it still counts against them......

Remasters/reissues of the HD back catalogue have been held back indefinitely due to either a) the fact that the guys just can't get along, despite Mould being interested in handling things (which might be the problem right there) or b) the master tapes are lost in a dusty old box somewhere between Lawndale and Texas.

-- MacDara, Friday, August 15, 2008 11:56 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

grant hart's famous quote: "We'll reunite - IN COURT!"

Raw Patrick. Sore Cunt.

You are so wrong sweetnuts. So fucking very wrong

remastering would probably help these to an extent but these albums were not recorded well to begin with, they are never going to sound amazing

sound good enough to me

grant hart's famous quote: "We'll reunite - IN COURT!"

Also, "We'll reunite when Bob comes down off his high horse... -- and Grant comes off his HORSE HIGH!"

"could you be the one" is better than anything sonic youth have ever done. MBV better than both though.

remastering would probably help these to an extent but these albums were not recorded well to begin with, they are never going to sound amazing

-- akm, Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:03 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah listen to the originals on vinyl and it's not tons better.

but i've come to accept that spot was a terrible producer who for some reason was a perfect fit for husker du. i think that hellish hi-mid-range roar sort of saves husker from being more ordinary....i think if these records sounded "better" they would be worse.

Only ten slots between now and the Husker Du ILM poll. We might get into it by the time autumn closes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NcZ5BwQukE

http://i.imgur.com/xUbslS7.jpg

done

spent the afternoon on a kick & i think grant hart might be my favorite rock songwriter of the era (defined as broadly as you like)

really hope they never get back together. but they better fucking get on with remastering the catalogue.

bob on that idea:

I haven’t given it that much thought. If it’s going to happen someday, I’m sure it would be a perfect storm, where everything just lines up all at once. But yeah I don’t push it, I don’t think about it. As I said before, I’m pretty busy these days, and keeping track of everything is a challenge.

so if god magically farts them out, then maybe.

I think SST must've had a hard-on for James because he used to be in Blue Cheer, but a lot of the stuff he produced sounds off.

I learn something new every day. I had no idea Ralph Burns Kellogg and Ethan James were the same dude.

woah, me neither!

the living end is a killer live album. i put it next to television "live at the old waldorf"