Gotta Lotta POLLING To Do - ILM Artist Poll #29 - Your HÜSKER DÜ Nominations Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHTbvKJNZT8

Erase Today folks!

you know, i'm almost done this already, and i don't think there's going to be a single grant song on this ballot.

Maybe "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill"...?

But yeah, I only ever think of Mould songs too.

Vote for "Gilligan's Island," everybody!

no gmail. gmx.com.

I don't know if I could take any more Google + invitations like the deluge I receive at my beatles comp box.

And besides, I was really intent on making that Makes No Sense At All joke.

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We'll see how many ballots come in. I was thinking the Top 33 – an odd number so we don't get a tie between songwriters.

Unless everyone votes for this song, which I heartily encourage you to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_krzwd1tTp8

you know, i'm almost done this already, and i don't think there's going to be a single grant song on this ballot.

― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, November 13, 2012 11:11 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

WHAT?!

I guess I can do this pretty easily too but there will be lots and lots of Grant songs.

"Dead Set On Destruction" is likely in my top 5.

I've told you about the evil woman I once dated who made a cassette version of Warehouse that excluded all of the Grant songs.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytfj35ZIp1r8dufio1_500.gif

I can get you her digits strongo. you guys can take turns playing the piano parts from Zen Arcade.

haha my ipod edit of warehouse excises all of the grant songs too.

most of the bob songs, too, mind you.

yeah me too -- that album is like a zillion songs too long

so far i have two songs from the warner years on this ballot and i still may cut them

I can't even get too worked up about this (Hart/Mould) because I've done it so many times already.

I usually skip all the Hart songs on Warehouse too.

Warehouse is lucky if it's one LP worth of keepers, but the sins are spread equally between Bob and Grant IMO. And my favorite song on the album is one of Grant's.

And I find Bob on autopilot utterly unbearable in a way that auto-Grant doesn't quite reach

but the sins are spread equally between Bob and Grant IMO.

This is OTM.

Totally! That's because he's better!!
Oops xp

This probably isn't the place, but I've never understood the dislike for "Warehouse" - I can only think of two or three songs I would pass over - but two of those three are Grant's songs. When "Warehouse" is great, it's fucking brilliant imo. Just a shame the production's a bit feeble.

Favourite song on Warehouse these days is probably You Can Live At Home Now. It's probably just as clunky as it is funky, but the way that the sound just keeps piling on is so great. In my mind it feels like the most monolithic vehicle for noise thing they did since Zen Arcade, give or take the odd How To Skin A Cat or Helter Skelter.

It's one of my favorite band finalés.

xpost that is my favorite track too. I didn't want to name it in case that constituted an attempt at nomination-influencing.

It's one of my favorite band finalés.

never really thought about it that way before, but yeah - final track on the final album. If you gotta sail a ship off into the sunset, you may as well make it a steel-plated battlecruiser.

full disclosure i once wept on a plane to the last 90 seconds or so of that song

aw

I read an interview in a short lived music mag with Bob and Grant in the spring of 87, just after "Warehouse", in which they said the album was recorded in the order the songs were issued, and that future developments would be based on the music of side 4 of the album, which whetted my appetite at the time as I loved the direction they were heading. And yes, in the right (or wrong) frame of mind, the last few minutes of "You can live at home" can be utterly devastating.

I think it was the only time Grant Hart got one of his own songs to either open or close a side, much less the whole record.

wait so this is a nominations thread? i thought all HD songs were automatically included, or not?

if not, i hereby nominate ALL OF THEM.

Same exact thought. They put out so few albums, do nominations apply?

Are EPs albums? (For voting purposes)

I bet my Grant songs outnumber Bob's 3 to 1

oh wait i forgot you can live at home is a grant

I may do a list of only Grant songs.

My #1 was easy. But figuring out the rest is impossible.

Took three minutes to come up with a list that is 17 Grant, 3 Bob. All I need to do is determine an order.

Stanning for "Crystal" here. Scariest drug song this side of "Luv n' Haight." And it's the fucking opening track on their major label debut. Gotta love 'em for that.

Here's a scan of my second-ever published review: Metal Circus, from a University of Toronto campus paper, 2/24/84. (Dug it up just for this thread.) Lots of special pleading, lots of adjectives, lots of clunky earnestness and lyric-quoting--I'm quite beside myself. I remember expressing befuddlement to the editor about the photo.

I don't think this is actually a nominations thread. Voting/campaigning here, results next thread.

But I could be wrong! I'm not the answer guy.

This is the 1 band I really want to get back together and do a nostalgia tour. They broke up a year or 2 before I got old enough to go see bands play live. Their records have aged so well, too.

I've wished that too (although I was lucky enough to have seen them in '87), but part of what made them so great was that they'd been playing constantly for a few years solid. It would be difficult-to-impossible for them to get near that level in a one-off situation.

Also, while Bob and Grant hate each other, they hate Greg even more.

Here are some photos (by Mike Dyer) from a club show in '85 that I saw, a place called Larry's Hideaway:

http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/stills/s19850502.html

They played "Ticket to Ride" that night, and it was just the best thing ever. (Scanning faces, not seeing myself.)

Scanning faces, I don't even see the drummer!

Nominations, lobbying, suggestions, throwing-it-out-there's, I don't know what you want to call it. I stole most of the intro from other poll threads.

What song does Gotta Lotta POLLING to do reference? They have so many Poll-worthy song titles. You're A Polldier, I Apollagize, If I Polled You, etc.

Also, while Bob and Grant hate each other, they hate Greg even more.

First I've heard this! Why do they hate Greg?

Books about P.O.L.L.'s

It's Not Pollculiar
Pollerline

I generally refrain from this craze, but: Bob Polled.

Gran-poll-t Hart

Girl Who Polls On Heaven Hill

I'm not easily amAAAAzed

WHAT DO I WAAAANT?
WHAT'LL MAKE ME HAPPY?
(scream the two syllable word of your choice repeatedly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzuIjnDJyY

also lol @ that image
what do i want?
giant plate of food

^^ voted for this song btw

I love the version of ''You're So Square'' on here that turns into "The Wit & Wisdom".

Also, this blog corrects it, but on my boot at home, "Celebrated Summer" is listed as "Sons of Bitches".

http://captainsdead.com/husker-du-live-at-first-ave-8-28-85.html

I click on this thread every morning feeling like a lonely freak who listens to hardcore Husker Du with regularity and has no interest in Zen Arcade onward

Not the same, but my favorite Wilco record might be A.M.

you are not a lonely freak
i like both sides but my heart belongs to noisy bob and spazzy grant

I appreciate hardcore Du for velocity and sheer rush, but I was never a hardcore kid -- they only clicked with me when they started with the catchy tunes. My ballot is slightly Grant-heavy, but even the Bob stuff is the catchy stuff. Pop Du 4 life.

Which is to say, if they had been a band capable of LSR but not of "Books About UFOs," I doubt I would have cared much.

There was a thing on a blog a couple weeks ago where they rated every Mould record and they put Everything Falls Apart dead last and didn't even mention Land Speed Record

I can understand loving Metal Circus more than Zen Arcade (I believe Steve Albini did), but I don't understand having "no interest" in ZA. What lost you?

What?! That's awful. I'm not even all about LSR, but Everything Falls Apart is pure gold.

I will repeat: I hope someone else voted for From the Gut. To me, that is the shortest sweetest representation of what I love about this band. It's not the world's best song or anything, but it has the parts I want.

oops xp

(sorry)

what do i want?
giant plate of food

Descendants lyrics, iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uLTTT3BPc

Which is to say, if they had been a band capable of LSR but not of "Books About UFOs," I doubt I would have cared much.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:10 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is OTM.

I think people were more distraught (re that blog) abt Flip Your Wig being the best rated HD record and Copper Blue winning overall.

Seriously? Copper Blue?

HOWEVER
I just remembered that I wrote Bob Mould an embarrassing email fan letter when he first started blogging because I was just totally amazed that I finally had the chance to tell him in actual composed sentences how much his music meant to me. He very graciously wrote back! So I guess I only say "seriously?" because I think Copper Blue fails to represent the masterful variety of his songs even if it's a great pop record.

It was short, not all that embarrassing. Just super earnest :-/

Yeah it was on a blog called "Stereogum".

I can understand loving Metal Circus more than Zen Arcade (I believe Steve Albini did), but I don't understand having "no interest" in ZA. What lost you?

This is not the right thread for me to really say so!

The crunchy hardcore songs on side two of Zen Arcade are the best. Had trouble narrowing it down to just two of those tracks. BEYOND! THE! THRESHOLD!

Zen Arcade re-sequenced as a hardcore EP entirely weeded of tuneful singing = still classic!

Husker Du, What's to Forget? EP

Side A:

Beyond The Threshold
Indecision Time
Pride

Side B:

I'll Never Forget You
What's Going On?

"Reoccurring Dreams" is its own hardcore EP.

Pride
a) stupid
b) selfish
c) all of the above
d) priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide

xpost on the crunchy hardcore. Totally otm. I used to skip that part back in the 80's, but now find it by far the best part of Zen Arcade. I'd add Masochism World to the "hardcore EP." I'm loving the weird rhythmic thing , and the way it's like half bash-it-out hardcore, but then it's got Who backing vocals in the middle. FWIW, What's Going On was my #1.

I think people were more distraught (re that blog) abt Flip Your Wig being the best rated HD record and Copper Blue winning overall.

Haaa. FYW is my favorite HD album. And Bob Mould's too, I think!

(not that we should put too much stock in Cranky Bob's view of anything Du-related.)

xp: "What's Going On?" was my #2.

@ Pete see you figured it out

Thing I love about Pride is the way it sounds like someone is winding up a spring and then letting it spin during each line of the verses.

Calming Lechera's nerves, I will mention that I voted "From the Gut". High up, even. One of those songs where I can still remember the needle hitting the groove for the first time; my mom's cheapie all-in-one turntable, autumn light streaming through her apartment's picture window, no one else at home.

I'm too young to have ever seen Husker Du, but did anyone see Dwight Yoakam opening up in 1986?

A reminder that the deadline for voting in this poll ends in a few hours.

I haven't checked today, but I know as of last night, we had 12-15 ballots submitted.

That said, I'm meeting some family members for pre-Thanksgiving and likely won't be home until 7 or 8 pm CST (0100-0200 GMT). If any ballots trickle in during that time, who would I be to turn them away.

thank you bendy
it's in my top 5!!

I'm too young to have ever seen Husker Du, but did anyone see Dwight Yoakam opening up in 1986?

No, but I saw them in 1987 with The Shamen supporting, bit of a mismatch really.

that sounds like a nightmare!

Deadline for submissions officially in 15 mins.

Vote! If nothing else, dilute the impact my ballot has on this, heh.

Just out of curiosity, how is this anyway? A couple of intriguing band/song combinations (Walt Mink, Janitor Joe). I remember seeing this in shops, but never bit. It's not on Spotify...

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Du-Huskers-The-Twin-Cities-Replays-Zen-Arcade/release/752123

The only one I remember vividly is the Pink Turns To Blue cover which was damn near Bangles' Hazy Shade of Winter Pt. II. I liked it.

Exactly 90 songs were submitted and voted upon. I know I said let's do 33, but how about we amend that to 30. It'll still be 33-percent. Ties be damned.

25 ballots were received. If you did not get a response from me, please let me know as soon as possible.

Now.. let's see... hmmm. Anyone here ever used a spreadsheet before?

Were you able to figure out something? If you're stuck, let me know--I could probably tabulate 25 ballots/500 songs in an hour or so.

Ranked them all at No. 11.

Seeing that it was a direct and very representative portent of Things To Come (much more so than the one-off Statues, which was very PiL), it seems insane there's no studio recording of Amusement.

Getting geeked for this.

Probably will start the new thread in the morning, Tulsa Time, with the albums and band members. Then begin with the top 1/3 sometime around 1300 CST/1900 GMT.

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