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

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

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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

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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

Copper Blue won out over Singles OST

it was almost Indecision Time

Picking up on one thread theme, hilarious to me that the pretty MOR Buffalo Tom were once ragged and noisy enough to be nicknamed Dinosaur Jr. and that the Goo Goo Dolls were once considered the upstate New York answer to the Minnesota sound. And lest one forget, Paul Westerberg wrote the GGD's semi-breakthrough hit "We Are the Normal." The Goo Goo Dolls put in enough years and miles humping it out that when they went huge, for all the wrong reasons, I more or less figured they deserved it.

I love polls where the results are predicted within the first couple of posts

the first couple goo goo dolls records on metal blade are pretty good and mat-sy

SA channeling the Mats here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx26NGh-7B0

Goo Goo Dolls channeling MN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKTXc0tk6E

the goo goo dolls adult contempo hits aren't exactly a world away from wussier later 'mats imo

"This one's for Paul:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nnJlOf7N8

the junk monkeys were even more mats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XzwggcczZ0

Who voted Soul Asylum?

I like how Soul Asylum was the Ralph Nader in this vote. Kinda fitting...

recount!

It seems reasonably to me that the 3 Soul Asylum votes would have gone to the Replacements.

but they were known as husker du lite!

We should call this poll "Frustrated Incorporated"

side note:

it's really weird how big the gear daddies are in MN and how unknown they are outside of MN...

GGD opened for Mats on the final tour, no? At least they did in Cleveland.

this is a really nice soul asylum song - "P-9" about the hormel/p9 labor union strike of the mid 80s...like it even more in light of recent events in wisconsin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlDACRwRVz0

To be fair in a recount, I would switch my Replacements vote here for Hüsker Dü, even though I still feel the Mats are more MPLS.

runaway train is better than every husker du and replacements song combined

"runaway train" isn't even better than tom petty's "runaway trains"

i had a gf once who was like... she was a freakin runaway train man... i always get real sad and tragic feelin when i hear that song, because of her... good video too...

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

so sad @ all those freakin kids