Hüsker Dü - Land Speed Record/Everything Falls Apart/Zen Arcade vs Descendents - Milo Goes To College/I Don't Want To Grow Up/Enjoy

i mean i listen to TONS of 80s music. tons. but not this stuff.

and like i said on that other poll, i have never listened to a minutemen album other than project: mersh. they weren't my bag. i loved milo goes to college when i was a kid but i remember buying Enjoy when it came out and listening to it once.

i could live with just land speed record/sister/evol/up on the sun/i against i/born too late/zen arcade as far as sst goes. and i don't even really need born too late i just like that song. that's 7 albums out of 5000 albums.

i used to think it might be fun to start a listening thread for the 4,986 sst albums that nobody listens to. there are so many that you have never heard! so many! but it might just end up being a slog.

i kinda just think of happy nightmare baby as a rough trade album. it doesn't feel like an sst album.

last sst i listened to was an always august record that wasnt very good at all. would still probably enjoy angst, slovenly, tar babies, universal congress of, that roger miller record, maybe even das damen? will always love huskers, minutemen, meat puppets, first couple of firehose records too, but ive listened to those ones a million times and there a million other records out there that ive never heard at all so, yeah keep moving on imo

i was always more of a homestead/touch & go person anyway.

My entrance to this stuff was Minor Threat, which I still really love.

cannot remember the last time i listened to any touch & go, but i did listen to nice strong arm's 'stress city' last week (and it was great) xp

Yeah all the albums that never get listened to / will get to tomorrow. There’s just landfills of the stuff. And some of it will be great and surprising. That’s why the threads like the Tom Petty track by track listening party are so baffling to me. Like sure he’s fine. But that’s what you’re gonna spend your time listening to?

i've never stopped listening to minor threat. i don't think i ever will.

its only one tom petty song a day! takes like 3 to 5 minutes.

"Turn On the News" has always come off to me like a parody of a rousing rock 'n' roll protest song.

Yes, your punk rock call-to-awareness anthem should probably not sound like a second-rate attempt at "Calling Dr. Love".
I'm much more of a Warehouse person myself, though I especially like the opening song (which basically encapsulates the theme of the whole album) and "Pink Turns to Blue".

I've only heard the Descendants compilation Somery: "Silly Girl" and "Good Good Things" from I Don't Want To Grow Up are pretty good pop-punk that could have actually made it to radio in the 90s.

I've never stopped listening to all these bands/albums that I like. I still made time for new stuff too though

"like a second-rate attempt at "Calling Dr. Love"."

its way better than calling dr. love! but i hate kiss. i don't care about the lyrics of turn on the news. who cares about lyrics? those guitars rule!

the solo at the end is awesome as is the chugga chugga part

I went through the SST catalogue on Discogs after the last poll and figured out I owned, at one time or another, around 125 SST albums. Also about 15-20 singles INCLUDING the Treacherous Jaywalkers cover of "La Isla Bonita", featuring Sylvia Juncosa on lead guitar. You could pick all this shit up for about a quid in the London bargain bins.

I had the complete SST catalogues of:
Always August
Alter Natives
October Faction
Paper Bag: Improvisational Music Co.
Das Damen
Lawndale
Divine Horsemen
Saccharine Trust
Bazooka
Gone
Henry Kaiser
Cruel Frederick
Brian Ritchie
Trotsky Icepick
Elliott Sharp
SWA

Plus some good stuff too.

I forgot Universal Congress Of and Pell Mell

Elliott Sharp did so much stuff on SST when Ginn got into him in the mid-late ’80s. He wrote in the back of The Wire a couple of years ago that Greg even offered to buy his label zOar (thankfully that never progressed).

The Semantics record, Bone of Contention, is really good; I missed my chance to ask Ned Rothenberg about it when I saw him perform at the NCH in late 2019.

I’ve been picking up what I can of the catalogue, or at least the stuff I know will appeal to me. Still some mint-condition stuff available for not-silly prices.

Turn on the News is awesome I’ll fight anyone who says so. Also seconding the last three songs of the album are great sequence, ending the album on a positive but enigmatic note.

Who says that TOTN is NOT awesome

losers

Dü no contest and I have skimmed thread but why no love for Metal Circus? Between ZA and EFA and absolutely stellar imo even if it’s short.

Was just about to post that too! I listen to Metal Circus more than any of these other albums.

i used to think it might be fun to start a listening thread for the 4,986 sst albums that nobody listens to. there are so many that you have never heard! so many! but it might just end up being a slog.

wow! crazy.

listening to the Dü now and all hail Greg Norton. SST had the best bass

"Turn On The News" was the very first song I played on my once-revered college radio show.

Willing to FP over this fwiw.

That song completely rules and I feel the same way.

I've always loved it.

Sure, it's got Freebird chords and someone doing monkey sounds, but what else was going to start off Side 4? Take that, Corndogs!

"Turn On The News" was the very first song I played on my once-revered college radio show.

Willing to FP over this fwiw.

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta),

That's the spirit.

I think Good Good Things about The Descendents, but every time I've tried to get into Husker Du, it Makes No Sense At All.

OK I just played Turn On The News for the first time in ages and it's still a harmless stompalong with stupid lyrics, nothing wrong with that though I guess as this is a description of the Ramones entire career. Love the way the rhythm guitar goes totally out of tune by about the halfway point of the song and they didn't bother with a retake.

Let me replace 'Ramones' with 'Sammy Hagar' in the previous post

The lyrics to "Turn On the News" vs. the lyrics of Van Halen's "Right Now"

Y’all I don’t honestly think the lyrics are bad. I’m deeply familiar with the song and genuinely find it exhilarating. How can you not feel the chug??

I feel the same way about It’s Not Funny Anymore.

It’s not funny and all of Metal Circus is godlike. The soundtrack to my late teens.

Fun fact everyone swapped instruments on Turn On the News

Husker Du's "Turn On the News" vs. The Beach Boys' "Student Demonstration Time"

All this uptight pushing and posting is keeping us away from what we're loving.

And what we're loving, of course, is "Turn On the News" by Hüsker Dü.

Next ilx covers project should be Zen Arcade and everyone gets to send in a chorus shout for Turn On The News

It’s 40 this year no?

Yeah -- wow, didn't know this, Wiki says ZA and Double Nickels were released the same day, 7/3/84

Grillin' dogs the next day, going "whaddya mean this ain't no picnic?"

I feel like we could make a pretty good short story out of the Zen/Double Nickels song titles if we tried

Something I learned today, Jesus and tequila. It's expected, I'm gone. It's not funny anymore. Do you want new wave or do you want the truth? I'm never talking to you again.

What do I want?
Political song for Michael Jackson to sing.

Guess that’s the wrong album sorry whoops

Guess that’s the wrong album sorry whoops

Guess that’s the wrong album sorry whoops

Wrong album woops

Sorry for hiccup

Unsure if Catcher In the Rye or Trouble Boys is the better book

Only one of them features people setting piles of money on fire

xyzzzz, maybe just listen to a playlist of the ballads? "Answering Machine," "Within Your Reach," "Androgynous," "Here Comes a Regular," "Unsatisfied," "Skyway," "Sixteen Blue," and then maybe a second playlist of defiant anthems, like "Bastards of Young," "Left of the Dial," "I Will Dare," "Alex Chilton" ...

Dunno your nationality, tbh. The Replacements are among the most American bands of all time (along with the Minutemen, CCR ...), and iirc over the years a lot of the "I don't get it" comments I've encountered have come from elsewhere.

or watch the 1981 7th Street Entry show that's up on Youtube, for the early raw genius.

Well I love Minuteman, Du, some Black Flag and like CCR too (though only heard some of their songs), despite not listening to them till my late teens/early 20s. I like The Smiths despite growing up in South America lol so don't think its a nationality issue. But it might be an age thing.

Replacements sounded a bit like REM at times(?) and I like REM a lot. Anyway it was only one listen so I'll try a few more xp

I am from the US and have never ever gotten the Replacements, aside from "Stink" which I do like

my ultimate conclusion is that it helps to encounter them when you are 14-16 years old
after that ymmv

I agree w/that for sure

agree with that generally, but seeing them live on that last reunion tour made me aware that fundamentally they have a catalog of great songs that connect with an audience of diverse ages, so not just a "you had to be there" thing.

i don't think you "had to be there" at all -- i wasn't there. it helps to be young when you discover them. it doesn't matter when you're young, so long as you can access those fleeting young person feelings.

I heard them for the first time c. "Don't Tell a Soul" (when I was in 8th grade, maybe?) and the only impact that had is that I like that album as much as most of their albums.

i feel so dumb for missing them on their reuinion tour

JIC me too, I was 14 and a 9th grader

dressin sharp and feelin dull

I literally took that entire album to heart.

I think around the same time I bought the "Say Anything ..." soundtrack. Why? I have no idea, it's not like (from memory) there is anything that prominent in the movie besides "In Your Eyes," and I'm pretty sure I had "So" already. But you get the Fishbone rarity "Skankin' to the Beat" (maybe that was why I bought it?), a mediocre Cheap Trick song ("You Want It"), a great Chili Peppers song ("Taste the Pain," maybe one of their few good actual *songs* imo, certainly at that point), Depeche Mode's "Stripped" (live, iirc?), but also "Within Your Reach." I think, as with "Don't Tell a Soul," it may have been a cassette cut-out.

I forgot that Within Your Reach is in Say Anything - really good use of it iirc

I also had that soundtrack bitd. Can’t even fathom listening to it now as I do not wish for meltdown rn or ever tbh.

MISSSTER WHIRRRrrLLLYYYY....
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