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Hey! That rhymes!

"Pink Turns To Blue."

― Christine "Green Leafy" Indigo, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

New thrashy-and-poppy answers!

― Christine "Green Leafy" Indigo, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"These Important Years"

― earlnash, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

''Up in the Air''

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

(if there is one song which doesn't suck then this is a good one but i love it all!)

― Julio Desouza, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Whatever"

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill"

― J Blount, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Turn It Around" is pretty high on the list, but so is "Makes No Sense at All" and "New Day Rising". Just keep it all, please.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"What's Going On (Inside My Head)."

― Douglas, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Definitely "Pink Turns to Blue."

― Andy K, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Eight Miles High"

― Ian, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eight Fucking Miles High. I swear that single must have come with copies of Bob's vocal cords in the wraping. Its just way too intense not to be the best Husker Du song. The best album song is Whatever though as I think it was Ned who poitned out. All of Zen Arcade, Krishna chants and all, is better then Wharehouse if you ask me. Though I have a soft spot for "Live At Home" thats bigger then I think it should be.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I still dont understand peoples attachment to Wharehouse. Could someone please explain it too me. I know Derek, Sean and Julio have tried much to all of our fustrations.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 22 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Celebrated Summer" although there are a lot of good songs.

― Alex in SF, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Tooth Fairy And The Princess"

― Paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Powerline" is great, but so is "Hardly Getting Over It"...

― Michael Dieter, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm gonna go late in their career and say "It's Not Peculiar"

― paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Books about UFO's"

Always prefferd Grant's songs apart from on "Warehouse..." where Bob just edges it.

― john-paul, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Too Far Down

― Queen of the 120 Days of G, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely".

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"It's Not Funny Anymore" !!!

― Keith McD, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Books About UFOs"

yup.

― J, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Divide & Conquer" -- their fucking BEST!

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

You Can Live At Home.

― Dr. C, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

could you be the one? could be the one....

― dbini, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Eight Miles High" One of the few times I like a cover more than the original

― brg30, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Reoccuring Dreams." The most progressive thing ever to come out of punk rock.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Celebrated Summer.

If anyone is still reading this thread I'd like to know who else was shocked by Bob's picture in this month's Uncut. It dosen't look like him at all and I'm wondering if it's a mistake. He seems to have lost about 8 stone since his early Husker days and now looks like some sleek faced techno boffin, complete with little goatee. He had lost a lot of weight around the time of Workbook but now looks totally tranformed!!

― David Gunnip, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't know yet. 8-)

― Rob M, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why, "Chartered Trips", of course! It's got a truly memorable melody that Mould never quite gets around to singing - it's implied by the maelstrom of guitar. I love it. It sticks.

He used that trick a lot, or maybe that's just how I hear his vocals

― Matt Riedl (veal), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Grant songs on Warehouse are as good as anything they ever did. "Back From Somewhere".

― dan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Diane"

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"turn on the news" - zen arcade
(first song I DJ'd on air)

― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

In response to the appeal of "Warehouse," I think it contains their best songwriting and most melodic and mature tunes. Nothing to thrash to, sure, but every album before it built up to Warehouse. If only other bands could grow as much as Husker did... in only 8 years no less.

― Jeremy, Wednesday, 14 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Standing In The Rain."
Being late, being stood up, lots of rain, Bob being miserable, lots of bitter-sweet fuzzy guitar chords.

― stevo, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Everything Falls Apart"

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Eight Miles High" gets another vote.

― DeRayMi, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

pover line.....................always was and always will be the best track

― strapped, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pink turns to blue.

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Broken Home, Broken Heart.

Now You know just how it feels !!

― Olly Danzig, Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link

"I Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Terms Of Psychic Warfare

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

"Celebrated Summer," my wife says

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link

"Eight Miles High"

So gosh darn intense on the vocals.

― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Saturday, 16 July 2005 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"Makes No Sense at All"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Green Eyes

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Saturday, 16 July 2005 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"Newest Industry"

― Scream! Scrovula, Scream! (noodle vague), Saturday, 16 July 2005 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Girl Who Lived On Heaven Hill is incredible. But so is Pink Turns To Blue. And I'm very fond of Books About UFOs. Fuck it, that one then.

― Stew (stew s), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

"What's Going On" (The Living End version)

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sorry Somehow"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 16 July 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

It's The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill for me I think.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 16 July 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"Pink Turns to Blue" for having my favorite guitar solo ever

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

"I'll Never Forget You" — that shit is UPSET.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"Love Is All Around"

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

'In A Free Land'

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Reoccurring Dreams" with its endless waves of blows to the head is their greatest 14 minutes on record. But as for "songs", nothing beats "Divide And Conquer". Except "It's Not Funny Anymore", sometimes.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 16 July 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

in a free land

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Sunday, 17 July 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

'In A Free Land'

I still hear this as "In Opryland" ...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Green Eyes

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck. All the songs mentioned so far are unimpeachable.

For me...

Statues?
First of the Last Calls?

I'm going to go with 'Flip Your Wig'. If I was making a CD of bands for someone who didn't know them, This would be for the Du.

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 17 July 2005 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

'Chartered Trips'- When you have listened to Husker Du for morning till night for forever, you will see the beauty in the simplicity of the melody that sucks you in and does not let go!

― Jonnyk, Monday, 10 October 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Chartered Trips in fun times, Broken Home, Broken Heart in bad times.

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

"I'll Never Forget You" and "Dreams Reoccurring" are still hair-raising indeed...

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

chartered trips.

honorable mentions: eight miles high, in a free land

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Keep Hanging On

― Rob DW LEwis, Thursday, 8 December 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I hate having to Pick Only One, never more than in this case.

"Pink Turns to Blue"

― xero (xero), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sorry Somehow"

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't possibly do this, I Apologize.

― Mitya (mitya), Thursday, 8 December 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

How do I know what you think?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm into "Pride" right now. heavily!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

The live version of Divide & Conquer still conquers all . I'm such a blog-whore.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 20 December 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh god that song kicks utter ass, especially on that version. My answer to the poll: "Indecision Time".

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 20 December 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Damn you, Alex! No download link? Tease.
"Heaven Hill ..." for me.

― Jazzbo, Thursday, 20 December 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

i scratched the fuck out of my copy of The Living End and it will no longer play ;( but yes that track RULES.

― stevie, Friday, 21 December 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Not sure if it's their best, but She Floated Away, from Warehouse: Songs and Stories, has always been a favorite. I guess I like the melodic Husker Du best (and Grant Hart's songs over Bob Mould's songs).

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 21 December 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link

That song would make for a great drinking song.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 21 December 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I only purchased Land Speed Record for the first time last week after being into Husker Du for over a decade, which is very poor form really. But I like it! Underrated as a hardcore album, even.

Can't get away from Reoccurring Dreams as a favourite, that is still pretty epochal to me. I have a VHS of them playing in London in '85 and the version of that is FACEMELTING, bootleg videotape sonics notwithstanding

― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 23 December 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link

So happy you said that! I just bought Land Speed Record too! :)

― Bimble, Monday, 24 December 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

This has got to be the best thing ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnvmlGeCKk

― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Sunday, 14 June 2009 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link

The Living End is back in print, btw.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 14 June 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link

I know it's just a goof, but does anyone find The Baby Song especially spooky?

I had to take it off my Pod, it kept cropping up in shuffles, like something from a bad horror movie.

― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 June 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link

Damn, Grant Hart.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 15 June 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link

"Eight Miles High" may be the pinnacle, but "Diane" from Metal Circus comes close.

― Dan S, Monday, 15 June 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link

This has got to be the best thing ever:

― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What?????

― Bill Magill, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Can you all not see the Youtube up there of Hüsker Dü performing "Diane" in 1981? Greg Norton doesn't even have the handlebar yet.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link

xpost There's supposed to be a YouTube video there, don't you see it? Here's a link to click, just in case you don't mean it's not good.

― StanM, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link

I can (xpost)

― StanM, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Nevermind. Youtube can't handle the traffic anymore at the moment, again. Seems to happen a lot lately.

― StanM, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqyCwAeT3I

― StanM, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

"Celebrated Summer" ftw.

― Neil S, Saturday, 19 September 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Chartered Trips

Chartered Trips.

Loved it as an 18 year old.

Love it just the same as a sprightly 57 year old.

― Fer Ark, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

"Mascochism World" is the greatest song in recorded musical history

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link

that's by some obscuro band though, and i've got the only 7" that doesn't skip

"Masochism World" is the second-greatest song in recorded musical history

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 26 November 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link

Chartered Trips
Chartered Trips.
Loved it as an 18 year old.
Love it just the same as a sprightly 57 year old.
― Fer Ark, Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:08 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

The math on this post is boggling my mind right now. A 57 year old in 2009 would have been 18 in... 1970.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 27 November 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link

i think we should give Fer Ark the benefit of the doubt here. they were 18 in 1984, which would have made them 43 in 2009, when they posted that message. and they were thinking "i love just the same as a sprightly 57 year old would!", looking forward with envy to how they imagined they would feel about it in 2023. you're almost there Fer Ark, and we look forward to your check-in when the time comes

― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 November 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link

You know, someone who does these all-encapsulating polls should do one with Husker Du and all the offshoot projects (Hart solo, Nova Mob, Mould solo, Sugar, and the other stuff Bob did, the Parmesan Crusted Halibut at Greg Norton's restaurant, etc.) I would be happy to participate.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 27 November 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link

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