Favourite Hüsker Dü Album?

I'll be lame and vote for Warehouse. *ducks*

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

On that third flyer, check out the shape of the pylon in the background.

― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah noticed it before.

What was the 1st Husker Du everyone heard? Mine was Metal Circus. I said somewhere on the sst thread

Was the first husker du i bought, Tower had it in glasgow for £8 on import sometime in 1992. The next week I went back into Glasgow and bought all the Husker Du i could find in Missing Records.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname),

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

first i heard: zen arcade, early 90s
favorite: new day rising, as it has seen me through both hard and good times

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think the first Husker song I ever heard was "Makes No Sense at All" on a mixtape, but the first album I bought was Candy Apple Grey.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

What was the 1st Husker Du everyone heard?

1986 - heard 'Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely' on late night Radio Luxembourg, it was their "Power Play" selection for a week. That EP was pretty good, other tracks were 'All Work And No Play' and 'Helter Skelter'.

― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'll be lame and vote for Warehouse. *ducks*

i'm ducking too. at least it will have two votes.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

Candy Apple Grey in summer '92, after loving Sugar's Copper Blue. Disappointed that CAG didn't roar like CB, I refrained from buying any more Husker albums until the end of the year, after which I bought Flip Your Wig and finally Got It.

I still prefer Copper Blue to most of Husker's catalogue though.

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

first heard: either Zen Arcade or Metal Circus, in 1984.

favorite: Zen Arcade is shamefully the only one I still have on my shelf (on CD -- LP is long gone), but my gut tells me New Day Rising is better. Didn't like anything after Flip Your Wig.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

First I heard was "Eight Miles High." Theoretically, everything of theirs I heard after that should've been a letdown, but fortunately it wasn't.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 21:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

new day rising

― am0n, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

First heard "Zen Arcade" in early '85, the day Konstantin Chernenko died (or possibly the day Gorbachev took over, which would've been the very next day)

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

Did you 'Turn on the News'?

― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

Candy Apple Grey was the first one I heard, but I already had Copper Blue & Beaster then.

New Day Rising is probably my favourite, but I love the raging hardcore of Land Speed Record.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

Always meant to re-buy Candy Apple Grey on CD, but just couldn't bear the fuck-up with the artwork. Did they ever get that sorted?

― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

Voted and first heard: Zen Arcade in 1984.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

1986 - heard 'Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely' on late night Radio Luxembourg, it was their "Power Play" selection for a week.

Amazingly, I think this is the first place I heard them too! I remember they broadcast a live show around the same time which really floored me, coming out of a Sisters Of Mercy phase I'd never heard anything remotely like it. New Day Rising just pips it from Zen Arcade and Flip Your Wig for me.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

High five! I was ankle-boot deep in goth at the time myself.

― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

new day rising

― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

zen arcade narrowly over new day rising for me. former is psychedelic pop dressed up in a hardcore haze, sort of. latter is metal dressed up in a psychedelic pop haze, sort of. i love them both to death. heard zen arcade first and immediately fell in love.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah it's a tossup pretty much

i guess for me new day rising has:

the ultimate husker blast of hugeness (title track)

the ultimate sorta wistful punk husker proto-indie rock tune (celebrated summer)

the ultimate grant sunny 60s pop song (books about ufos)

― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

New Day Rising.

I assume you guys who voted for Warehouse are actually voting for your personal playlist where you've deleted the shitty half of the album.

― heck bent for pleather (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

First I heard was "Gilligan's Island" from Land Speed Record, which a friend had put on a punk compilation which blew my mind. Metal Circus and Zen Arcade soon afterward.

― Religious Embolism (WmC), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

zen arcade - even the hippy freakout song rocks.

first heard: land speed record, when i was 17, expecting to hear more stuff like sugar, who were rocking my world. blew my mind, though i hated it the first couple of spins. warehouse was next, and was more my speed. then zen arcade, which i thoroughly loved - bridging that gap between melodic, pop-orientated song-writing and full-on buzzsaw thrash, without compromising either one iota.

― aw beat de holy jasus.. (stevie), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

warehouse has a couple of clunkers but i still wouldn't junk them. mostly, its incandescent.

― aw beat de holy jasus.. (stevie), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

the ultimate sorta wistful punk husker proto-indie rock tune (celebrated summer)

that's one of the tipping points against new day rising for me.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

I love the SST records, hate the Warners ones.

― Religious Embolism (WmC), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

really? man celebrated summer was like the first husker song i ever heard when i was little and it seemed so epic and sad to me ;_;

― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

(btw everything falls apart is probably gonna be the most underrated one here, that's a dope collection of tunes)

― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

especially the cd version with the great singles like In A Free Land.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

ah! i'm a sucka so i only know the CD version...actually losing "in a free land" would knock it down a peg for me...that's top 5 huskers songs for me

― Deuce Bigalow: Male Juggalo (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

in a free land rules...

― aw beat de holy jasus.. (stevie), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

don't really like the production of the rest of the record though, lacks the fullpelt chaos of land speed record for their hardcore era. title track's a charm though.

― aw beat de holy jasus.. (stevie), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

(xp) "celebrated summer" always seemed so labored and fussed over to me, like they were trying to write one for the ages, or for the radio, or something. what i love about zen arcade and most of new day rising is how free spirited and loose and off-the-cuff it sounds. also, "celebrated summer" strikes me as one of the least-catchy major songs in their oeuvre.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

Flip Your Wig, with New Day Rising a close second. Always thought Zen Arcade was overrated: a couple of songs that rank with their best ("Something I Learned Today" and "Newest Industry"), a few good ones, some waste (pretty much all of the hardcore side), and one famous song ("Turn on the News") the appeal of which I just don't get.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

In A Free Land has always been my fave song jointly with Diane.

xp

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bob maybe wrote more better songs but Grants best is the equal of Bobs for sure.
xp

Turn On The News is one of my faves! I love it.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

it took me just 10 seconds to find Best Hüsker Dü Album (POLL Ends 4th May)

but yeah what ilx needs is more polls it's already run

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

mind you, i have a LOT of HD faves, they're in my top 5 fave bands of all time. Hence my shitloads of bootlegs collection (the advantage of knowing real hardcore husker du fans)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

well LJ i couldnt find it, but thanks for finding it for me!

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

great first response to that one imo

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

and since it was 3 years ago, what is your problem?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

Warehouse for me as well. "It's Not Peculiar" may be my favorite HD song of all.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:45 PM (2 years ago)

At least I am consistent.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

my problem is with the words I know I ran this poll before but for some reason It's been deleted at some point so here it is again

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

specifically but for some reason It's been deleted at some point

spoken with such flip certainty

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

anyway keep on keepin' on folks, i won't bother ye no longer

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

well i couldnt find it and you're full of shit for saying it took you 10 seconds to find it.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

do you want to know my deadly secrets?

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

ok, I copied

Land Speed Record (1982)
Everything Falls Apart (1982)
Metal Circus (1983)
Zen Arcade (1984)
New Day Rising (1985)
Flip Your Wig (1985)

and then pasted it into 'search posts'. was on the first page of results

― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 22:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

insane # of votes though

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

seriously

― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

why are those albums so disreputable

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

they are horrible in comparison to the good stuff!

― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

Warehouse yes. But CAG is just plain unlikeable.

― spare the powder, spoil the finger (S-), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

I dont know why anyone would prefer warehouse

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 02:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 03:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Zachary Taylor, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 04:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― a rhetorical style that implies an unwritten "now taste my ass" (stevie), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 07:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

wish i had given metal circus a vote now

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

Warehouse is pretty fucking awesome.

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― solid yet bouncy (herb albert), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

― A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

I've written a lot about Husker Du over the years--interviewed Mould and Hart in '86--so let me join in. I used to get my back up when Chuck would dimiss Candy Apple Grey and Warehouse, but sure, they're not nearly as good as Metal Circus, New Day Rising, or Flip Your Wig. (I'll leave Zen Arcade out of it, where I'm missing whatever everyone else hears.) I haven't listened to either in quite a while; I'm guessing Warehouse is the better of the two, and that Candy Apple Grey has dated the least well. I still think they're both fine records. They're just song records--I doubt they're going to affect anyone like Metal Circus affected me, but there's a bunch of good songs on Warehouse, and a few on Candy Apple Grey. If you're a band and the worst record you ever do is Candy Apple Grey, I'd say that's pretty impressive. (Ignoring that first one...)

― clemenza, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

Hart's snare always sounded awful on record. There was a muddiness to it on the earlier stuff but it at least sounds like a snare. It sounds godawful on Flip Your Wig, hardly there at all.

― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

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

i'm not any of those things! i'm evil!!! grrrrrrrr!!! i eat warehouse fans for breakfast!

― scott seward, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

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.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I dont know why anyone would prefer warehouse

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:40 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You seem to be answering your own question here Herm. Something about Warehouse must appeal to God-fearin, gun-totin, junk food eatin, fatass yanks, while CAG appeals to people who merely fear visits to the dentist and like warm beer.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

ugh beer

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm a sap, but "These Important Years" always gets me

― fischer-price my first chukkas (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

great live version, also...god bob's clothes in this clip....we should do a "Worst Dressed SST Band" poll..that would be some heavy competition.

― fischer-price my first chukkas (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

"ugh beer"

wow, really? sometimes i wish i felt this way, because i have a seriously unhealthy love for it.

"....we should do a "Worst Dressed SST Band" poll..that would be some heavy competition."

This would be the hardest poll ever.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

I drink Kerr's share of the beer, it all evens out in the end.

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

beer owns

― A piping hot bowl of grits, Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

Huskers were a sartorial trainwreck it's true... but then you had Ginn in his sweatpants flailing around next to rollins naked but for his sweat-soaked swim trunks...

Warehouse is a better single LP than CAG, once you pare off the gristle. As a double Warehouse is a debacle.

― I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bob Mould now = smokin' hot.

― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

As a double Warehouse is a debacle.

ludicrous hyperbole

― a rhetorical style that implies an unwritten "now taste my ass" (stevie), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

I dont know why anyone would prefer warehouse

it's less hard-edged, and more melodic than their other discs. i love husker du, and warehouse got my vote.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Debacle"? Yeah--hyperbole. I remember it as being about 80% good, solid songcraft.

― clemenza, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

With the occasional vintage high point--e.g., "You're a Soldier."

― clemenza, Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Okay okay please take 'debacle' to mean 'they really really should've edited this fucker down to a long single LP'.

I mean there are some UNBEARABLE duds on that record where it feels like Bob-by-numbers and Grantbot.

― I Smell Xasthur Williams (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

We need a Warehouse poll.

― Officer Pupp, Friday, 16 April 2010 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

We tried it once but she floated away

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

but she floated away

would be my vote!

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 16 April 2010 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

Mine too. Ice Cold Ice in 2nd place.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 16 April 2010 15:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

We need a Warehouse poll.

At the risk of irritating everyone:
HÜSKER PÖLL: Warehouse - Songs and Stories

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 16 April 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

Me, I eventually came to respect CAG (if not love it) but never, ever could get into "Warehouse". Seriously couldn't tell the Mould songs apart, seemed like each one had the same arpeggiated non-riff.

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 16 April 2010 17:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

It wasnt the best album to go out with

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 16 April 2010 17:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

Hated the title, too

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 16 April 2010 17:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

haha I'm beginning to think you hate Warehouse

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 16 April 2010 17:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

I count Metal Circus as the first review of mine ever published--soon after it came out, in a University of Toronto paper called The Varsity. (A friend of mine ran a review of Damaged in his campus paper a year or so earlier, but it was so badly mangled--the friendship remains intact--that one's in purgatory.) I gushed--boy, did I gush. In my defense, it was a record worth gushing over.

― clemenza, Thursday, 14 June 2012 00:18 (11 months ago) Permalink