Are there ANY plans to reissue Husker Du?

Do you ever feel like your contributions to Husker Du are overlooked?

This isn't thrown out as a condemnation of Bob, but I think that my fans know my material better than a lot of Bob's fans know his material. The reason I say that is every time I've gone to see a Bob Mould concert, someone has yelled out the name of one of my songs. When I'm out touring, I maybe hear that one out of five concerts.

i'm not sure that this is what it means?

http://i49.tinypic.com/14cz30x.jpg

Should Husker Du make that decision, and I recognize that's a slim chance, I'd like to think we'd do it for a cause greater than financial remuneration. . . . There was nothing sadder than being around in 1992 or 1993 and watching people like Smashing Pumpkins or Stone Temple Pilots make millions and millions of dollars. That was when the vacuum we created was really obvious.

Yeesh.

Does Greg cook mostly Pringles-based dishes?

http://metadiary.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/beefsteak-charlie-resize.jpg

look for yourself!

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/Dinner%20Menu.htm

looks good!

"I don't care what you say, I don't care what you're drinking today"

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/2006-03-31_Nortons_-_4.jpg

Wish it was a theme restaurant. "I'll have the pork chops with Candy Apple Gravy and a New Beer Rising, please."

Is that a Suicide Commandos record on the wall behind the bar?

Yep, right below The Suburbs "In Combo."

The apostrophe is misplaced on "The Norton's" logo.

Nobody who saw the band live would for a second doubt Greg's contribution. I've talked to all three over the past dozen years, and stopped reporting what they say about each other: Why enable this stuff?

greg and the guy who just left the hold steady should tour together as "the mustachios"

So, you've been clean for a long time?

[My addiction problems] were drawing to a close at the time Husker Du broke up. One of the things that made it possible for me to make those changes was removing that band and influence from my life.

love grant hart's music, but i'm skeptical of this claim to longstanding sobriety

Okay folks, here we go...

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du

Great story from M. Matos and a full preview listen of all three discs of the Numero box. Go nuts.

i feel bad for spot that every single review of these reissues will mention how bad he was at his job

in a way i'm quite glad that the release of this was stalled until the first year of our lord trump, cos though they've never really been my go-to for social critique, the lyrics on the early stuff really resonate right now

i mean like

why bother spending time
reading up on things
everybody's an authority
in a free land

christ, yeah.

never really though about the sonic similarity between 'statues' and 'you can live at home' before, two quite atypical huskers songs, but also the first and last track they released

today i watched a top of the pops story of 1984 thing on youtube and it reminded me that i played my "smalltown boy" 12-inch about....500 times that year. and then it occurred to me that the album i played the most in 1984 was probably zen arcade. and then it dawned on me how much these two things had in common.

the lyrics on the early stuff really resonate right now
i have always felt this way!! they have good political songs imo. turn on the news, divide and conquer, they're all great!!

xp that's a good spot scott!

There's a certain purity of vision to early Huskers, as there is with much punk and hardcore, but it's really about setting the stage for the real story. Not sure it has much of a story to tell itself any more than, say, the Suicide Commandos boxed set did. As hyped as I am to get any Husker Du set, this seems like mostly archaeology/anthropology.

Though I dunno, Everything Falls Apart And More sounding pretty good right now ... I wonder how much a total newcomer would be into this set if they knew nothing of the later stuff (as unlikely as such a scenario might be)?

the Suicide Commandos boxed set

Wait, the what now?

Anthology, sorry.

This thing:

https://img.discogs.com/sM-zQ05IwEDuwceUWvSHV_MJYa8=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2825238-1486569612-4775.jpeg.jpg

Oh, wait, is that a bootleg? Never mind.

track list looks like it includes the "Amusement" Record Store Day single Numero put out

http://www.numerogroup.com/products/hsker-d-amusement-3

I hadn't seen that before, it's Make A Record plus their two singles. I was hoping for unreleased stuff. Listening to the first Huskers disc, some of the poppier demos sound like the Commandos to me. I saw them very early on, but don't recall ever hearing them sound like that live. xp

Isn't Katzman putting out a brand new Suicide Commandos record?

http://first-avenue.com/sites/default/files/images/events/timebomb_album.jpg

It's fantastic!

xp

https://www.discogs.com/The-Suicide-Commandos-Time-Bomb/master/1196599

wonder how much a total newcomer would be into this set if they knew nothing of the later stuff (as unlikely as such a scenario might be)?

Not too hard to imagine someone in their teens/early twenties never having heard them before and being intrigued by either the post punk or hardcore angle. When was the last time husker du were reviewed in pitchfork for instance?

Hmm, maybe? Does anyone in their teens/early 20s even listen to hardcore? Or any of the SST acts? I have no idea. I don't even know if anyone in their teens listens to Van Halen.

Does anyone in their teens/early 20s even listen to hardcore?

there's certainly hardcore kids around I don't know if they listen to old hard core or new bands tho.

black flag and misfits shirts never go away

omg lol at young ppl listening to van halen
i can see HD resonating WAY more with youth of today than van halen!!

my kid likes old stuff. he went and saw DRI this summer. he's 14.

the lack of sexist lyrical content alone make HD more current than the average punk/hc/heavy/loud band from the '80s

i didn't realize it at the time but that was a huge part of their appeal for me as a young person

re: new generations getting into Hüsker Dü - yes, yes, yes! it is possible & needs to happen! i said this in the other thread, but I heard Flip Your Wig for the first time when I was 19, and I couldn't believe how great it was & how the fuck I had missed out on hearing it a decade after I became a Nirvana & Green Day superfan. "Makes No Sense At All" is the gateway for young teenagers and pre-teens imo. I'm happy this is coming out - anything HD related that's new is good, and I adore Everything Falls Apart - but as NickB mentioned, HD is consistently overlooked & forgotten by publications that are responsible for exposing tons of young kids to awesome old shit. there'd be no reason to do a retrospective review of the SST records because the digital/CD versions sound like absolute fucking shit. HD is one of the only bands where the difference between the digital & the vinyl is incredibly stark.

re: resonance of the primitive political lyrics - i completely agree, i listen to "In a Free Land" and "Everything Falls Apart" whenever I'm feeling especially hopeless or forlorn. this one sticks with me:

GOT NOTHING TO DO
GOT NOTHING TO SAY
EVERYTHING IS SO FUCKED UP
I GUESS WE LIKE IT THAT WAY
EVERYTHING FALLS APART

totally
i also enjoyed reading Things Fall Apart knowing this song

although i think different sounds resonate with different young people, there is a lot to like in HD that they won't find in a lot of HD's contemporaries

definitely. i could never get into Black Flag, Big Black, even The Replacements. it's all so dull, black & white sounding to me. rudimentary songwriting, playing, and guitar sounds. Mould is just a monster as a player: his Frankenstein amp & effects setup is just insane, & his tendency to write entire songs in the first position on the guitar, making his massive setup sound even bigger thru the use of drone notes. it's that swirling, silver, electric metallic sound that can't be tamed. and that's just the guitar. lyrically he was so much more nuanced and interesting than his SST contemporaries.

i have to re-read Things Fall Apart - read it in 8th grade & remember almost none of it.

I pre-ordered but it looks like the DL links are not yet working:

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Bob and esp Grant are, uh, kinda smokin' in that pic w/ Matos' piece.

grant was a super cutie

well I think their dissolute touring lifestyle took an obvious toll mid- to late HuDu.