Gotta Make Polls for the Polls I Make - ILM HUSKER DU POLL RESULTS

Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely
Pink Turns To Blue
Everytime - ranked a a bit high for the points
Powerline
Celebrated Summer
Everything Falls Apart - I was certain this one would make it. That wave of backwardsy guitar signaled that Husker Du was about to make a turn.
Sorry Somehow
Flexible Flyer
Could You Be The One
Statues - My favorite bass line
Eight Miles High
Broken Home, Broken Heart
Folk Lore - another one I thought would rank higher
You Can Live At Home
Whatever
Standing By the Sea - I kept taking this one off and then putting it back on the list.
Back From Somewhere - Like how the song changes time in the middle of the song for good. Also, I could've used some City Center pix.
Flip Your Wig
It’s Not Funny
Green Eyes

Great work pplains, love the graphics. About halfway through I realised I had no idea what the consensus picks would be beyond about four songs. Here's my ballot:

Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
Games
Green Eyes
Could You Be The One?
Something I Learned Today
Flexible Flyer
Makes No Sense At All
Sorry Somehow
Hardly Getting Over It
Pink Turns To Blue
Somewhere
Ice Cold Ice
Private Plane
Broken Home, Broken Heart
59 Times The Pain
I Don't Know For Sure
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
In A Free Land
I Apologize
Bed Of Nails

One song I really regret not voting for: 'It's Not Peculiar'

Etc, I started a thread here: Noisy or Ambient 80s US Indie Tracks

Many thanks for running this poll Mr. pplains. The graphics were especially strong. There will always be a place for this poll in the Private Plane of my heart.

My Ballot is:

1. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
2. Flip Your Wig
3. Private Plane
4. Terms Of Psychic Warfare
5. Flexible Flyer
6. Diane
7. Green Eyes
8. Celebrated Summer
9. I Apologize
10. Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope
11. You Can Live At Home
12. It’s Not Peculiar
13. No Reservations
14. Could You Be The One?
15. Chartered Trips
16. Pink Turns To Blue
17. Eight Miles High
18. Turn On The News
19. What’s Going On
20. Sorry Somehow

my ballot wd've been close to tipsy's (plus Flexible Flyer).

I remember how weird their playing the Warehouse album in running order seemed on that tour, compared to the loose earlier gigs. I went to a Beacon Theater AIDS benefit in Dec '87 where they were supposed to play acoustically (also Laurie Anderson, Glass, Burroughs, John Waters) but they didn't show, having just broken up.

Everything Falls Apart - I was certain this one would make it. That wave of backwardsy guitar signaled that Husker Du was about to make a turn.

This is otm. If there's a single, major turning point in their catalog, it's this.

When I went to school at Missouri, there was a man standing at the city limits welcoming all of us freshman and telling us that Husker Du played their last show there at the Blue Note in 1988.

Just a quick addendum here. Not sure if there is a recording of it (brief search online came up with no results), but Oneida apparently once played a set in Europe that consisted of one song: a cover of "New Day Rising". You can definitely hear parts of the Oneida DNA in that song (especially Kids drumming in regards to the drum intro) and I bet that they played the hell out of it.

Back From Somewhere - Like how the song changes time in the middle of the song for good. Also, I could've used some City Center pix.

ha yeah I've always appreciated the City Center callout in this. Who'd have thought it would get namechecked again in the 00s (by the Hold Steady)?

I can totally see Oneida doing a 20-min version of "New Day Rising"!

Think it was a 45 minute version! Something like that, but I think it was the whole set.

That sounds like heaven!!

There are some serious Oneida heads on this board, someone might be able to dig a recording up (assuning one exists).

this board is gradually convincing me I should have paid more attention to Oneida, actually. Where do I start?

Hmm, don't wanna hijack a Husker Du thread with Oneida talk, but the idea of where to start would differ depending on the Oneida fan. They cover a lot of territory. Will try to revive a thread and make suggestions there. Closest thing to what a live 45 minute "New Day Rising" in their catalogue, and a big diving off point as to whether you want Oneida in your life or not, would be "Sheets of Easter" from the album Each One Teach One.

goddamn everything falls apart the song is such a gem

I guess we like it that way <--- this part has always stuck with me.

Everything Falls Apart - I was certain this one would make it. That wave of backwardsy guitar signaled that Husker Du was about to make a turn.

This is otm. If there's a single, major turning point in their catalog, it's this.

Thirded. In amongst all that pretty decent hardcore, was this gem. At that age aswell, I loved the lyrics but the tune was sublime. That chorused, clean, guitar , albeit multi tracked with some grit, certainly signalled the willingness to change in direction . I'm not sure if Mould used that technique again though?

Fourthed...Also one of their greatest lyrics, I think.

A-G-C-D#-Bb-F

This was so awesome, thank you for the dose of happiness.

Only painful moment: looking back at the show history on thirdav.com and realizing they played Madison, WI, not once, not twice, but EIGHT times in '83 and '84, before I saw them. Most were all-ages gigs before Zen Arcade, which is when I got into them: One was a bar show after, when I was still too young. Which makes me all the more grateful for that January '86 Turner Hall gymnasium show, kind of their last hardcore hurrah in Madison.

My ballot:

1. The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
2. What's Going On
3. Eight Miles High
4. Games
5. Real World
6. Whatever
7. Something I Learned Today
8. Pink Turns to Blue
9. Green Eyes
10. Celebrated Summer
11. Terms of Psychic Warfare
12. In a Free Land
13. Everything Falls Apart
14. New Day Rising
15. You Can Live at Home
16. Broken Home, Broken Heart
17. Beyond the Threshold
18. The Biggest Lie
19. Books About UFOs
20. Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely

THE BIGGEST LIE

Where are Bricklayer and Blah Blah Blah

Cute previously unnoticed detail of the day. From "Back From Somewhere":

Standing at the city center
In the middle of the winter
[buried in the mix, two quick shakes of sleigh bells that don't appear again for the rest of the track]

Love the sleigh bells, never noticed they don't come back before!

Along those lines: Is it me, or does the instrumental track before "Pink Turns to Blue" sounds uncannily like the beginning of "Purple Rain"?

found that site with the duhuskers stuff on it

hxxp://www.milkmilk-lemonade.com/2007/07/mml-indie-classics-vol-3-du-huskers.html

Movember's bass in 'Whatever', rules. Well done Greg.
Your input catapults this song in to greatosphere.
I mean, Mould is on form vocally and that guitar is there. Grant pounds the fuck out of it. But the bass nails it down.

I'm Sorry.

What did you expect?

Saw a preview today for a pretty dire-looking forthcoming movie called "This is 40" and a Bob Mould t-shirt is prominently featured...

just listened to The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill 3 times in a row 'cos of this thread, astonishing!

I did an interview with Grant Hart recently that went online last night; a few insights that relate to comments above, I think.

Awesome interview, macdara... wonder if he'll be playing london on this sortie as well?

Thanks! I don't think he's headed to the UK this time out, but I imagine he'll tour the new record when it comes out in the new year.

That interview is amazing

can't decide whether my favorite part is the amateur veterinarian bit or his explanation of why husker du can't reunite

i am saving the remainder of that interview to read once i get a thing or two done, as a reward. it's that enjoyable!

Amazing interview, mac. Amazing subject.

Good interview.

I've mentioned before, albeit elliptically, that my understanding is that the last impediment to reissues has been removed, and that while the project is about as close to the start as could be, it should happen, possibly via an unexpected source.

I can't tell if you know something or you're just really good at writing horoscopes.

I once got a fortune cookie that read: "Of all the fortunate, you are the chosen one."

Josh - elliptically - I've had similar hints confirmed by, I'm guessing, a similar source. Fingers X'd, eh.

Then again, I love how my crappy CDs sound just fine!

Great interview, what a nice Monday morning present after having listened to lotsa Huskers over the weekend.

New Day Rising (in bed)
Flexible Flyer (in bed)
Could You Be the One (in bed)
Everything Falls Apart (in bed)
Dead Set on Destruction (in bed)

No Promise Have I Made (with a knife)

that nursing home incident sounds awful and like an awful lot to handle, not to mention the house fire and the cats. what a great interview! he is so forthright and generous with details. i can't wait to see him in january!

What was the accident with Nova Mob?

Yeah that was new to me too

I neglected the Nova Mob details when I was compiling things: there was a van accident while the band was on tour in Germany in 1992, nothing major but it marked a bit of a turning point I think.