The Battle of Minneapolis: Husker Du / The Replacements / Soul Asylum [OPO]

So...let's see. Huskers are probably better, and more multipurpose, but I will always be in love with the Replacements. Voted emotion. Don't care if it's wrong because it feels right. Both are bands that I can't imagine anyone taking lightly because I have loved them so much.

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^ Voted Replacements but feel very similar to LL about both them and HD.

I will also say that I have big soft spot for early Soul Asylum but not enough to consider voting for them against these two.

actually I change my vote to Savage Aural Hotbed

I cherished it so much I hid it. Now I can't find it.

Ha.

but yeah, Soul Asylum is a strange addition to this poll.

Someone should print this thread out when the poll closes, mail it to Dave Pirner and be all like IN YOUR FACE.

HOW'S THAT FOR SOME "MISERY," DAVE????

I don't care about Soul Asylum at all, and avoiding bands with Soul _____ is always a good idea imo.

― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Been trying to sell Soul Batch as a band name for a while now
No takers

Dü over Mats, but barely.

Voted Replacements, based primarily on my love of Sorry Ma and Hootenanny (but only bits and pieces thereafter.) LOL at Soul Asylum = Freddie and the Dreamers upthread, yeah they were nowhere near the importance of Husker Du, but based on the number of LPs in my collection and shows I attended, SA actually edge out the Du, who were always too dour and humorless (and loud) for me, just not really my thing. But correct answer for me is really this:

Voted suburbs

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:36 AM (14 hours ago)

TVBC is an amazing amazing band

Let It Be is probably my favorite album ever, but I've been on a major Husker Du kick of late, and might love more of their songs on the whole. Close, but I'm going with HD. Don't care about Soul Asylum really.

I agree that Soul Asylum here is the band not quite like the others, but I feel like someone needs to step up and rep for Hang Time and The Horse They Rode In On.

And c'mon, Grave Dancers Union is one of the decade's best albums, if you exclude every track after the first one.

Hang Time was great

Here's an MP3 of TVBC, kinda strange mutant punk/funk/weirdo stuff...this is from 87's "Ex Cathedra" album

http://www.tvbc.tv/mp3/Veil_of_Seven_Sorrows.mp3

band leader paul metzger has released a ton of stuff in the last decade, lots of folk/raga/improv stuff on various modified banjos and stuff like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UkzRUWdbOU

three more underrated old school mpls bands:

Man Sized Action (featured Brian Paulson who got famous as a producer for Wilco, etc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqSi8SUkiB0

Rifle Sport (feature Flour and Todd Trainer later of shellac) -- a little more allied with the chicago/albini axis stuff, this doesn't quite capture how amazing they were at their reunion show a few years ago

NNB's deathless "Slack"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWTGExPigI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8b8jQGf5Xk

oops Rifle Sport:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWTGExPigI

Magnolias were around forever and a little closer to the Replacements type stuff but a little more 60s classic pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l61p5ZWH92U&feature=related

dropping Soul Asylum quickly, I saw the other 2 bands about six times each, and have to go narrowly w/ Husker Du for that Zen Arcade-thru-Candy Apple Grey quartet.

Still, the 'Mats were better at show business, live.

Someone should print this thread out when the poll closes, mail it to Dave Pirner and be all like IN YOUR FACE.

No need to mail, I can just swing by liquor lyles and drop it off for him.

Du's joy-punk sound is so singular and perfect. Du all the way

No need to mail, I can just swing by liquor lyles and drop it off for him.

― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 7:28 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

omg is this a snap??? or does the dude actually work there

ps - i am sorry about my st paul crack upthread u_u

i'm sure it's very nice there.

St. Paul Civic Center -- $8.50 -- i bought a headache.

Wait, joy-punk?

du easily

Nah Dave doesn't work at LL but he was/is a staple there for years (I don't go there much anymore but when I lived next door he was there about 50% of the time)

hmmm- saw all three, prolly had the most fun at SA shows, but i voted R with no hesitation. loved HD but i skew sloppy moreso than serious so...

ps. Run Westy Run/Blue Hippos show was a most memorable show candidate

I hold Let It Be very very close to my heart but that run of Husker Du albums from Zen Arcade to Warehouse just contains so many great songs, I can't not vote for Husker Du. Also I heard Husker Du in my teens whereas I didn't discover The Replacements until I was 22 and I think that's huge big factor in why the former are so dear to me.

I honestly don't mind Soul Asylum (pre-Grave Dancer's Union) nearly as much as all of you, they're probably as under-rated here and there as the Replacement are over-rated.

Would be interested in how Pirner would vote on this as he was obviously in mucho debt to both Westerberg and Mould.

i bet if it hadnt been for grave dancers union SA would be another great lost band. Hang Time is a great album.

Holy crap I haven't heard this in 20 years but even this GDU-era Soul Asylum song, don't mind the verses, but listen to how perfectly Pirner apes Mould on the chorus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrrE5bCA5lg

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ve4hwVMFZ0g"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/igK9yHHcM9Q"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

yuck. sorry.

I kind of never need to hear Husker Du ever again their stuff is recorded so harshly/shittily whereas I have more of a sentimental attachment to the 'Mats and their catalog is just funnier

^^this

(just post the Youtube URL natlawdp, the board automagically embeds for you)

And magic is easy once you know the secret. (Hi there natlawdp!)

sweet, it's official: old guy effs up attempt to post old footage of old bands his old arse saw live...

*shakes fist at interwebs*

ps. a li'l help with this VCR clock?

Sure -- unplug VCR, throw into dumpster.

Ha!

i bet if it hadnt been for grave dancers union SA would be another great lost band. Hang Time is a great album.

otm. At the time, Soul Asylum could easily be mentioned in the same sentence as the other two bands that will dominate this poll.

And I remember liking Grave Dancer's Union at the time but haven't listened in like forever. "Somebody To Shove" is an awesome track though.

I never saw the band in the early days but I did see them many a time in the Columbia era and they were pretty great live. Wish I got to see them in a club or theater - by the time I caught them live they were playing enormodomes.

I still laugh at Dave Pirner getting upset with Tabitha Soren when she asked him if breaking up with his girlfriend to date Winonna Ryder made him a sellout (starts at 2:37):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tZLbuHUNiU

I interviewed him a few times back then. He was very jaded even as things started exploding, I felt. I can only imagine what he's like now...

Husker Du > Replacements > Soul Asylum

Based on my length and strength of fixation for each.

I saw Du half a dozen times and religiously bought everything they released, following my first hearing of them on John Peel. This was around the time of Zen Arcade and Peelie played 'Beyond The Threshold'. I'd seen a picture of them in NME (two rotund farmers and a member of the Village People - how ironic), read the little blurb about them being a hardcore band and thought "What the fuck...". I had to hear them. And did so many, many times.

Soul Asylum entered my world thanks to Bob Mould. The reason I bought their 'Made to Be Broken Album' was down to him credited as producer. I liked this album a lot at the time, although have not revisited it in years. Saw them live in about '88 at Hull Adelphi and they blew me away. I heard that big hit and hated it and never went back to them, possibly because of my indie snobbery ,although I'd be amazed if I missed out on anything worthwhile. please enlighten me.

The 'Mats were a contender but the odd one out for me. My love for these developed after their demise. I only saw them live once and this must've been around the time of one of their questionable later releases. Without Bob, so that doesn't count.
Let It Be is one of my desert island discs. I did toy with the idea of voting for these but that would have been wrong. It had to be Husker du.

I remembered another band (like Soul Asylum) that was carrying the torch for sounding very Mould-esque:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5HRDF0NDTY

..and another band from the era that had a serious Husker jones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3VcPVMk6so

(there are a few Husker-influence bands that I liked but I can't think of too many using the 'mats as a touchstone that I actually liked all that much, as much as I loved the 'mats themselves.)

That first Overwhelming Colorfast disc was in high rotation back when it came out. Saw them live at the time too, I think supporting The Ramones in New York - Roseland I think... Ring any bells, old New York ilxors?

Wound up voting for Husker Du.

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Wound up voting for Husker Du.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, March 18, 2011 5:23 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

divide and conquer

woah!

hurrah

bulb after bulb at 8:26 5 Mar 26

Such a crazy turn, went from getting called (by some) the best live band in America, to persona non grata, even in their home town. They were amazing live, albums good but it was all about the live show


they still have a big and devoted fanbase here

Thanks. Had been wondering about that statement

png not the right phrase, but the fanbase they had before Runaway Train is not the fanbase they have had since, playing BBQ fests and mainroom holiday shows

of course there's 33 years to account for there too

I only got to see them once, at the Marquee in London, along with fellow Minneapolitans and no-one’s favourite band on SST, Run Westy Run. That was just before Runaway Train came out, definitely didn’t enjoy hearing that for the first time

Run Westy Run speaking of bands with a smaller, but nearly religiously devoted fanbase in Minneapolis. never could get into them myself.