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 PermalinkI 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
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