Are there ANY plans to reissue Husker Du?

Would also say my issues with Husker Du production mostly go away if you crank it loud enough!

Pretty fair to say, I think, that Copper Blue or maybe Beaster is what HD might have sounded like with traditional "good" production, but that would not have worked well. It needs that jagged in the red feel. There's a reason they call it stun guitar.

Wait what are blue oyster cult doing in the huskers thread???

Seriously though, does anyone have a line on some decent huskers vinyl rips? In my original fandom I had them all on cassette, and those were replaced by CDs. I never heard them on vinyl... and people's description intrigues me.

I love those first two Sugar records so much

The bass on Zen Arcade / NDR sounds like it went through a Laney 'Klipp' combo with the mega-compression button pushed in. It's truly horrible. With a better bass sound the whole thing would improve no end, but I guess that was the sound they were after (or maybe they just didn't know any better).

I really don't blame spot particularly. Bob Moulds guitar sound, there is no way to better capture anything that loud and in the red. there is just no space in it at all.

Where was I just reading about the Minutemen guitar approach? That D Boon would just turn the treble all the way up on his amp, and turn the bass all the way down, then crank it?

the MP3s sound great, I just skipped around a bit last night

I also got an email confirmation

They tweeted last nite they had some overrun of the Extra Circus 7 inch...so I ordered the 3CD + 7 inch, order went through, we'll see

Where was I just reading about the Minutemen guitar approach? That D Boon would just turn the treble all the way up on his amp, and turn the bass all the way down, then crank it?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 8, 2017 10:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And he was using a Tele, so OUCH

"Can't See You Anymore" is the best "Yeah!!! Just gotta have sex!" so funny

I also can't believe I'm listening to this and waiting for my vinyl of Neil Young Hitchhiker to arrive

haha otm

Where was I just reading about the Minutemen guitar approach? That D Boon would just turn the treble all the way up on his amp, and turn the bass all the way down, then crank it?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 8, 2017 10:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They considered guitar and bass to be separate, sovereign states with no over lap so...yeah

Wish I woulda bought that Statues Record Store Day a couple years ago, those songs are great

I think all four of the tracks from that double 7" are on this new box, fwiw

oh yeah i meant i'm hearing them and they are great! wish i woulda sprung for it back then just to have the 7 inch

i had it in my hand then put it down to buy something else

it's funny how some of this stuff puts lie to the narrative that they started out as wild ass hardcore kids that couldn't play and eventually developed songwriting chop

like "Writer's Cramp" in particular is a well crafted and well played little power pop/punk number that's far from hardcore

totally otm, they began as a post-punk band

People are talking about the thin, razor-in-the-red, sheet metal roar of Mould's guitar & the lack of bass & low-end as if they're mutually exclusive. Listen to the Zen Arcade rehearsals I posted upthread, it's not an either/or, you can have both! and it sounds glorious

Industrial Grocery Store is a great pop number

FWIW I still don't have a confirmation email from Numero yet, but I just checked my site account and the item field is finally filled in with what I ordered - and my download is available (half a GB!) - so that's a relief. Shame it took them three-plus days to fix it. And if it were me, I would have more regularly piped up with a 'sorry things got messed up, we're working on it' message.

Reports coming in that Grant Hart has passed away.

so sad. bob might've been a more consistent songwriter, but grant's songs were my favourites. saw him play solo a decade or so ago, and he was just incandescent. that second nova mob album was sorely overlooked, too.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck

In actual tears. So long grant :(

Whoa, unexpected.

Thread title needs modification..

Just when I was wondering if a reunion could be a possibility..

RIP - 56 is way too young

Thanks, Grant, for always having a kind word and a smile for teenage me whenever we bumped into each other. Also for being one of the first gay guys I ever met, which was an important role to play in the lives of Minneapolis teen punks and wavers trying to escape the suburban mindset. Thanks for playing for us (and with us). RIP; you were a lovely man.

Aw man, RIP Grant.

this is seriously making me so sad. 56?!

I'm a mess tbh

Did you ever hug him, LL? I definitely remember us discussing the idea of you hugging him at a show.

I did!! The pics are bad but I did give him an earnest hug, the most sincere kind of hug you can give a person.

what the fucking fuck

thanks for that post, suzy

xpost oh i'm glad to hear that. That feels consoling to know.

this was the first of 4 or 5 shows i saw; they did "Ticket to Ride"

http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/05_live_audio.html#08May1985

Good God, that setlist is incredible

No! Awful. RIP Grant.

other thread for reference, not because of your post cuz this is indeed awful and is hitting me in several different ways:

RIP Grant Hart

this is a lovely thing on numero's insta
https://instagram.com/p/BZL8M3qhwEH/

Savage Young Du really rewrites the commonly accepted narrative of Husker Du (wild speedfreak hardcore kids who gradually grew out of it and embraced melody and craftsmanship)

some the earliest stuff on this set (pre-Land Speed Record) is actually (though less sophisticated songwriting-wise) is as melodic and mid-tempo as later stuff on Candy Apple Grey or Warehouse

that makes sense, from what I remember of Mould's book and the chapter in Azerrad's book, Hart and Mould bonded over 60s pop as well as all their punk records & started playing hardcore because it was what was going on at the time.

i mean they were covering Donovan and the Byrds pretty early on

I think part of the reason that narrative developed was because the 1st single ("Statues"), which is in that earlier style, was basically out of print/unavailable until the Everything Falls Apart reissue in the 90s.

I am seriously anticipating being able to crank this stuff up in glorious non-MP3 fidelity

btw Extra Circus is now available digitally on Bandcamp, as noted on some other thread.

I can't remember if I mentioned this earlier but I'm really disappointed by the remix/remaster of "In a Free Land." Pumped the bass up and all the magic of those swirly silver stun guitars is gone. But "Everything Falls Apart" sounds better so I guess it's even. Also I got that Record Store Day reissue of "In a Free Land" and it sounds tight so w/e, psyched for the Zen Arcade box