Husker Du : Classic or Dud, Search and Destroy.

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^ rfi: what huskers vinyl is that on the wall of this record store?

that is the bootleg of their 1985 show at first avenue, just as they were working on Candy Apple Grey, and it's pretty amazing tbh. my favourite version of Green Eyes, for sure.
http://www.discogs.com/H%C3%BCsker-D%C3%BC-Live-At-The-First-Avenue-Club/release/2168534

thanks stevie - nice set!

You're So Square

ha, is grant singing that one?

He is! Actually, Bob and Grant share vocals but Grant's dominant on here, and it turns into a terrifying Wit & Wisdom in the middle.

in fact here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elo29fSasCE

I've got one of these bootlegs where they've got "Celebrated Summer" on the track listing as "Sons of Bitches".

hahahahaha what?

"let's go die" is still one of the best song titles ever

the whole track list on Land Speed Record is too fucking good. "Push the Button," "Guns at My School," "Let's Go Die," "Tired of Doing Things."

Track 10:

http://i.imgur.com/AXHCLei.jpg

I think this is the same show as what's on the bootleg vinyl. More songs on the CD though.

it definitely is. Sadly, this performance is very over-used. Shame there aren't more Huskers shows in circulation. I guess there are a couple tapes on YouTube.

weird questions: how seriously am I supposed to take the views expressed in "Real World" & who is the imagined interlocutor ("You wanna change the world by breaking rules and laws")?

I don't really know anything about the Huskers or their politics, but the song's speaker seems to toe the line between common-sense/can't-we-all-get-along thinking & a sort of reactionary conservatism ("I'm afraid of things like that & I lock my doors at night" obviously; but sometimes I even hear the line "I don't rape, & I don't pillage!" in a whiny besieged MRA tone)

so, my question is: do you think the band were satirizing contemporary American attitudes (yuppies! NIMBY!! broken windows policing!!!) or offering a genuine critique of a violent, destructive element within their own scene?

the second one, I think they meant it

(I don't have any support for this, maybe there's an old interview somewhere)

it seems very very Bob

who's the strawman?

everyone. pretty standard mould misanthropy. "everything falls apart" is a better song with the same message, "everything is so fucked up i guess it's natural that way / i guess we like it that way"

also WHEN ARE THEIR ALBUMS GETTING REMASTERED. EVERYTHING BUT THE VINYL SOUNDS LIKE SHIT! huskers and prince. what the fuck is up

seriously, I clicked on this revive for the tiniest glimmer of hope on the reissue horizon

At the time, Real World seemed very obviously directed at the circle-A types who'd get in sidewalk fights with "Nazi" frat boys, and eat out of the Au Bon Pain dumpster, and get very smug about it. Felt like a very sincere pleading for coming down to earth a little. Now it seems more an end run on nihilism- too fatigued to even believe in nothing. But maybe that's cause Mould's persona is much more fixed.

xpost I clicked on it fearing one of them had died (the feeling I get lately anytime I see an unexpected bump of a thread for anyone I like who's over 50) (lol sure symptom I am having a midlife crisis)

i clicked on it wondering what anyone could have to say about HD right now
also because i think Grant Hart is coming back around in a month or so and i'm looking forward to seeing him again even though last time i saw him he was in a crummy mood

He needs hugs iirc

he doesnt look so good these days. is he on the spike again?

Geez I sure hope not.

so, my question is: do you think the band were satirizing contemporary American attitudes (yuppies! NIMBY!! broken windows policing!!!) or offering a genuine critique of a violent, destructive element within their own scene?

Pretty sure the second one. That jumped out at me right away, and I mentioned it when I reviewed the record for my university paper in 1983. I think Minor Threat's "Salad Days" is after something (somewhat) similar.

don't know the Minor Threat; going to fix that now

thanks for the thoughtful replies, everybody!

Recently discovered that the way one feels about Zen Arcade might be directly proportional to how loud one listens to it

and if you listen to it on vinyl. night and day

Yes! Absolutely. I hated listening to Flip Your Wig for years because I only had it on CD and it just sounded so tinny and hissy and unpleasant. Now I think it's my favorite.

New official merch site (just t-shirts, but rumors of live recordings on the horizon):
http://officialhuskerdumerchandise.bigcartel.com/

Supposedly, all 3 Dus now have the same legal representation, which I guess represents some kind of hurdle-clearing thaw, ice cold ice etc.

They've had the same legal rep for so long, several years, that I wouldn't be surprised if they no longer did. Regardless, this is the first movement on the Huskers front in eons.

Man, those shirt prices not very punk rock. :(

gosh, i had two of those shirts when i was a teen, severe flashback time

Is this the first actual 'thing' since the Rhino Everything Falls Apart/Living End release?

i doubt this means a reunion is imminent

legal rep: you could make some $$
band: whatever

XP Was Living End before that?

Is this the first actual 'thing' since the Rhino Everything Falls Apart/Living End release?

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The Numero Group "Amusement" single, the "Live Featuring JC" ep thing that Reflex put out in 2006...

If there ends up being more that t-shirts or posters I will be surprised, I mean maybe, but I wouldn't get my hopes up

Sheesh, can't these guys buy back their masters already? All I want is a catalogue that doesn't sound like dogshit.

what you mean like completely re-recorded

I hope those shirts can make me look as happy as their model

It did take me a while to acclimate to the production on the SST albums-they sound like they were recorded in a cardboard box on a skid row

I think those SST albums sound fine, on vinyl. the CDs need a remaster though.

Man, if Hüsker Dü albums sounded any other way than how they actually sound, I don't know if it would feel right going into my ears. I'm so used to the poor production that anything rounder or fuller re: guitars and drums would feel "off."

yeah i feel like it's kinda part of the husker du deal! but they do sound better on vinyl, i agree, so a remastered CD would be welcome. but i wouldn't expect the remastering to like completely change the sound.

CD/Blu-Ray reissues with 5.1 surround mixes by Steven Wilson or nothing.

I think those records sound great, bizarre and weird and blown-out and full throttle. No remaster!

someday i will relisten to the LPs to find out what you fetishists consider to be bad production

i feel like the early-mid 80s was a weird time to be an underground rock/guitar band -- like obviously you didn't want to sound like def leppard, you wanted to be the opposite of that. and spot's production delivers in that regard.