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

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

WHOOPS

Don't use shower
Don't give up
Don't use shower
Don't let go
Don't use shower
Don't give up

The only husker du song I care about is “I will never forget you”
Never heard the descendants

― calstars, Saturday, September 21, 2024 7:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

shut the fuck up

haha

Hardcore punk makes people so friendly

Never heard the Descendants but with titles like 'Milo Goes To College' and 'I Don't Want To Grow Up' are so ugly I don't want to waste my time on it

If you think those title are ugly, you should see the record covers. (And I like the Descendents.)

Milo Goes To College is a great album.

Sorry all* but I just skipped through the first couple of Descendents albums on YT and this is the kind of party punk Hüsker Dü had to wipe out. Yes even Turn On The News. PS I have no sense of humour.

* see what I did there?

xp Milo Goes to College is 22 mins long. Bailed out after three tracks, why are we doing this poll lol

There is no comparison between these two bands but I’m just here to multi post about the Dü.
Never listened to Descendents and likely never ever will. Too male/juvenile.

Awful tiny sound, terrible singing, very male, juvenile and worse. Definitely a good decision to stay away.

juvenile

Definitely avoid the title track of Enjoy

There's something sonically off about 80s Midwest that is deeply white and alienating to me (Husker Du, Replacements, Prince[!!]) in a way that the Descendents don't even though their entire catalog is songs about being white and alienated!
It could just be a snare sound or guitar flange/chorus pedal or something but I could never put my finger on it. "From the Gut" doesn't skeeve me out nearly as much as anything from Zen Arcade, so it has to be something on the production end.

Prince?

Yeah even Prince doesn't escape Minnesota!

CONTROP:

Framing the Descendents as "pop-punk" is a fairly cursory and shallow take, esp compared to Husker DU!!!!

Some of their music is pretty avant and sophisto, even their earliest material had massive jazz and prog chops, eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79JBBNYbB0

a wild journey through insane meter shifts and 32s-40s is some hard bop modalism.

I remember reading an interview with Milo & Bill about how nervous they were how MGTC (ie, a progressive unique sound) would be received by the punk crowd but Watt & Boon who originally released it on their vanity label convinced them that it would do well. After the New Alliance copies sold out quickly, SST picked them up and took over from there.

“From the Gut” doesn’t skeeve me out nearly as much as anything from Zen Arcade, so it has to be something on the production end.

Zen Arcade was recorded in Redondo Beach, so I’m not sure this hypothesis holds up.

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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