Fucking classic, even now. The only album that's not up to scratch is Candy Apple Grey.
"Brick on your head, 'cause you're a fuckhead" to the naysayers.
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 8 April 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 8 April 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
It occurs to me now Warehouse is the one, that was the name of only album of Husker Du I had. It was about 60% enjoyable as I recall.
The singles were always good, don't get me wrong...Eight Miles High was great too. I heard their version of that before anyone else's, actually. I don't feel cheated by that at all.
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link
That was the Hated's theory, anyway...
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 8 April 2005 07:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Incidentally, listening to DNA and sirone late last year made me realize how the bass could work and what a blind spot that was for me even though those aren't exactly rock. I haven't heard 'zen arcade' in ages so i should revisit this.
(thanks sundar, that must've been one of my v first posts on ilm though for better or worse I could never use a word like 'quality' or 'integrity' again nor 'influence' or 'emotion' without explaining it)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 8 April 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Friday, 8 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― dan. (dan.), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― SmartArse, Friday, 8 April 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― bg, Friday, 8 April 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
(Did I just say that?)
Also, Greg Norton, being the most underrated member of the band, is such a great bassist. I walk around most days with a loop of "Statues" running on repeat in my brain.
Any coincidence that this thread has been revived just after that special sometime in April when we add another hour?
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Sugar's Copper Blue is better than the last Husker records, though, whoever said that was OTM.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Search: side one of New Day Rising, played in the sequence it was released
Destroy: "Reoccurring dreams", "The Baby Song", about half of Warehouse: Songs & Stories.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Saturday, 21 May 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 21 May 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 22 May 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rena Navarro, Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
So here's a question that I've had for twenty years:
Why is it that on the inside of Zen Arcade it says "All songs written by whoever sings it except for "Someday" that Grant wrote"?
Didn't Grant also sing it, so it would still fall under "song written by singer" rule?
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, I see it's the only song with lyrics on the album that has two songwriters. Still, Grant Hart sang a song that he wrote.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
ahem, Bob Mould was a writer for WCW, not WWF.
and, classic - new day rising (the song). fucking great.
― shanissey, Thursday, 1 November 2007 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic. Nothing beats the first side/half of New Day Rising.
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic. Those SST records are timeless
― steampig67, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
They could at least have given Greg one of these weird credits like "Yoko: Wind" to beef up his instruments line.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Oops, wrong thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFryHOAmlQ
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Friday, 29 June 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
Would love to see a copy of the insert from Land Speed record. It had a list of bands that people should check out. It has always stuck in my head that there was a band listed called the Maggot Brains listed which had me wondering about the array of influences on original US punk bands, though it could have just sounded like a good name and only have distant connection to the Funkadelic lp.
I love the band just as they're heading into the psychedelic stuff so Zen Arcade & New Day Rising and the live in London dvd which has me as a skinny 17 year old thrashing about. Probably also Metal Circus though I haven't heard it in ages. & definitely live sets from late 83- around 86.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
I also love the Bob Mould '89 tour stuff that was recorded with Tony Maimone and Anton Fier as a rhythm section. Think there may have been a 2nd guitarist for some of that too.Not sure what exactly is in circulation but do really like it.
The one time I saw Sugar I was so bored I started reading the book that was in my pocket.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
There's a how to buy the Huskers in the new Brian Jones cover Mojo as I discovered minutes after my last posting. Thought there must be an edition due so looked it up and lo and behold.
― Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
with money?
― contenderizer, Friday, 29 June 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
New day rising
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
there was an ancient thread specifically for that:
Okay, so I guess Robert Palmer used to cover Husker Du's "New Day Rising" in concert! Does anyone have an mp3 of this??
― trippin' on brostep beats (NickB), Friday, 2 August 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
That was way back when it was merely a rumour though
Re: "I Will never forget you" - talk about feeling something intensely!
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 2 August 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
Ah, thank you Nick, hold on here...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
On Amtrak train now stopping in Redwing, MN. Wondering if maybe Greg Norton will be visible out the window.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/t/there-will-be-blood-03-645-75.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
These days (and this will always change) my favourite Hart is "She's a Woman (and now he is a Man)". So good.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 April 2023 12:46 (one year ago) link
so good!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 April 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
oh, that RSD release is out on CD apparently: https://www.discogs.com/release/26835887-H%C3%BCsker-D%C3%BC-Tonite-Longhorn
― StanM, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:58 (eleven months ago) link
Perhaps 120 people in total saw these three Longhorn performances.
I was likely one of them. "Tiger Night" (side B) was the name of the Wednesday new band night at The Longhorn. No cover, and there was usually free tap beer for an hour from 8-9 pm to get people down there. I went almost every week in 1980.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:47 (eleven months ago) link
oh, that RSD release is out on CD apparently: https://www.discogs.com/release/26835887-H%C3%BCsker-D%C3%BC-Tonite-Longhorn🕸
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:38 (eleven months ago) link
_Perhaps 120 people in total saw these three Longhorn performances._I was likely one of them. "Tiger Night" (side B) was the name of the Wednesday new band night at The Longhorn. No cover, and there was usually free tap beer for an hour from 8-9 pm to get people down there. I went almost every week in 1980.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:39 (eleven months ago) link
http://www.thirdav.com/hd_posters/p19800702.gif
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:44 (eleven months ago) link
Awesome
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:45 (eleven months ago) link
25 cent Special Exports. It's a wonder I'm still alive.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:45 (eleven months ago) link
Green cans
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:17 (eleven months ago) link
Bottles! I often picked up a 6-pack on the way to the show and I'd sneak 'em in after the 25 cent special was over.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:21 (eleven months ago) link
Green Death
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
wow THE DADS really got around
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:30 (eleven months ago) link
sorry The DADS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hb4r1bCpJw
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link
Thanks so much Dan!
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
I love talking about this era. What I remember of it anyway...
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:04 (eleven months ago) link
First: It's been eons since I listened to "New Day Rising," just because there's too much music and too few hours. While I never got to see Husker Du live (though got to see Hart and have seen Mould a bunch), weirdly enough I don't regret it, since the advantage of Spot's production is that I feel it captures the energy and aaaargh of group live, at least based on the bootlegs I've heard. This is kinda true about a lot of SST stuff, too. The Minutemen, for example, I feel most of their albums do a pretty good job offering a snapshot of what the group must have been like live, based on what I've heard.
Second: My memory was primed for "Books About UFOs," but I somehow totally forgot about "Terms of Psychic Warfare." What a great tune. Why don't people cover Husker Du?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2023 22:31 (five months ago) link
When I first heard "Terms of Psychic Warfare," I honestly thought it could've come from the mid-'90s, and that it would've been a massive hit that sounded great on the radio ten years after it was actually released.
― birdistheword, Friday, 10 November 2023 23:01 (five months ago) link
I saw them on the New Day Rising tour after hearing the album (plus Zen Arcade) and my recollection is that they were somewhat louder and more saturated-sounding than expected. It was a fairly small room though.
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 November 2023 00:24 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MxLfp4j.jpg
"Nord-strom riii-sing ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 14:20 (three months ago) link