FWIW I still don't have a confirmation email from Numero yet, but I just checked my site account and the item field is finally filled in with what I ordered - and my download is available (half a GB!) - so that's a relief. Shame it took them three-plus days to fix it. And if it were me, I would have more regularly piped up with a 'sorry things got messed up, we're working on it' message.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 9 September 2017 09:06 (six years ago) link
Reports coming in that Grant Hart has passed away.
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:03 (six years ago) link
so sad. bob might've been a more consistent songwriter, but grant's songs were my favourites. saw him play solo a decade or so ago, and he was just incandescent. that second nova mob album was sorely overlooked, too.
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:47 (six years ago) link
Fuck fuck fuck fuck
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:16 (six years ago) link
In actual tears. So long grant :(
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:17 (six years ago) link
Whoa, unexpected.
Thread title needs modification..
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:18 (six years ago) link
Just when I was wondering if a reunion could be a possibility..
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:20 (six years ago) link
RIP - 56 is way too young
― StanM, Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:29 (six years ago) link
Thanks, Grant, for always having a kind word and a smile for teenage me whenever we bumped into each other. Also for being one of the first gay guys I ever met, which was an important role to play in the lives of Minneapolis teen punks and wavers trying to escape the suburban mindset. Thanks for playing for us (and with us). RIP; you were a lovely man.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:37 (six years ago) link
Aw man, RIP Grant.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
this is seriously making me so sad. 56?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 September 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
I'm a mess tbh
Did you ever hug him, LL? I definitely remember us discussing the idea of you hugging him at a show.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 September 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
I did!! The pics are bad but I did give him an earnest hug, the most sincere kind of hug you can give a person.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
what the fucking fuck
― sleeve, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
thanks for that post, suzy
― sleeve, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
xpost oh i'm glad to hear that. That feels consoling to know.
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
this was the first of 4 or 5 shows i saw; they did "Ticket to Ride"
http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/05_live_audio.html#08May1985
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
Good God, that setlist is incredible
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 September 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
No! Awful. RIP Grant.
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 15 September 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
other thread for reference, not because of your post cuz this is indeed awful and is hitting me in several different ways:
RIP Grant Hart
― sleeve, Friday, 15 September 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
this is a lovely thing on numero's insta https://instagram.com/p/BZL8M3qhwEH/
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Monday, 18 September 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
Savage Young Du really rewrites the commonly accepted narrative of Husker Du (wild speedfreak hardcore kids who gradually grew out of it and embraced melody and craftsmanship)
some the earliest stuff on this set (pre-Land Speed Record) is actually (though less sophisticated songwriting-wise) is as melodic and mid-tempo as later stuff on Candy Apple Grey or Warehouse
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
that makes sense, from what I remember of Mould's book and the chapter in Azerrad's book, Hart and Mould bonded over 60s pop as well as all their punk records & started playing hardcore because it was what was going on at the time.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
i mean they were covering Donovan and the Byrds pretty early on
I think part of the reason that narrative developed was because the 1st single ("Statues"), which is in that earlier style, was basically out of print/unavailable until the Everything Falls Apart reissue in the 90s.
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
I am seriously anticipating being able to crank this stuff up in glorious non-MP3 fidelity
btw Extra Circus is now available digitally on Bandcamp, as noted on some other thread.
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
I can't remember if I mentioned this earlier but I'm really disappointed by the remix/remaster of "In a Free Land." Pumped the bass up and all the magic of those swirly silver stun guitars is gone. But "Everything Falls Apart" sounds better so I guess it's even. Also I got that Record Store Day reissue of "In a Free Land" and it sounds tight so w/e, psyched for the Zen Arcade box
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
good lord that reissue is pricy
have you been able to compare it to the Ryko EFA reissue versions?
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
Rhino!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:01 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also, in general Minneapolis punk is fundamentally misunderstood because no one that's not from here really gets that the Suicide Commandos are the most important Minneapolis band ever and that without Chris Osgood is really the central figure to the Minneapolis punk scene, and the Commandos were def one of those bands that existed in that pre-punk nexus between emerging punk, Nuggets, the Who, power pop, DEVO, etc, and everyone in any Mpls band of note would have looked up to them. But overall, I think Minneapolis punk was much less adversarial to classic rock and "year zero" mentality than punk in other cities.
Also like I dunno, classic rock is just in the water here, and KQRS was so dominant for years
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
sorry, thanks!
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
KQ RULES
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
the Suicide Commandos rule! so glad I got turned on to that album in the 80's, I was able to find the records back in the day
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
iconic t-shirt
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1566/3805/products/KQRS_PlainBlack_800x.jpg
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZbNVb7Qh0
one of the great videos ever, directed by chuck statler from mpls who later went on to direct whip it and other devo videos
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
wow, never seen that, thanks so much.
― sleeve, Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
Your Numero Group Order Has Been Shipped
― sleeve, Monday, 6 November 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
Got mine the other week -- very nice indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
My CD box arrived last week too, with the 7-inch. Shame there was no download code for those tracks, though.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
wow Extra Circus is really fucking good! mystery why they didn't just make Metal Circus an album really
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 11 May 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
Iirc, there were some additional teases from Numero Group about further Husker Du releases, but I haven't heard anything lately. Still crossing my fingers for further reissues.
Gotta say though, if Numero Group does go ahead with more Du reissues, I sincerely hope they make an exception to the recent "no more CDs" decision. It would really be a shame if these guys managed to never get a decent CD release of their albums.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
fuckin Greg Ginn, how I hate him
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
evergreen post imho
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
dude has straight up stolen a significant chunk of US 80's punk history, god it just enrages me
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DR9pmjaX4AU2uku.jpg
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
If it helps, I'd try pulling in the top end and filling out the bottom more. It's pretty much a standard EQ curve for anything that sounds thin, which is how those CD's and their digital masters currently sound. I'm sure the transfer could be better, but that EQ adjustment alone on a parametric equalizer would make a big difference.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
Honestly, I really can't help but wonder how much larger their rep would stand today had they gotten proper reissues out sometime between 2005 and 2015. It's not like they are forgotten and Mould has a pretty great solo career going, but I feel like the "discovered" live album, Dead Man's Pop and steady reissues helped the 'Mats to no end in terms of cache with younger listeners that might not have been around and it kills me to see Husker Du not getting the same thing.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
When I interviewed Carducci for my Flag book, he was insistant that the Huskers CDs sounded fine and didn't need remastering. Which is nonsense.
I interviewed Bob around his last solo album and asked him about further Du reissues and he said:
"I guess SST’s keeping them in print, and that was the main issue for a while. I think this Numero box set definitely cleared out the archives, in terms of unheard music. A lot of that stuff was floating around on the internet, but it had never been compiled and re-mastered and it never had as deep an accompaniment as Numero gave it, in terms of images and liner notes and all that. I think everything got exhausted, and the SST stuff, that’s sort of out of my hands – I don’t really worry about it as long as the music is available to people right now, and people are getting paid; I guess that’s all you can ask of what’s left of the music business."
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Ugh, that's such a bummer. I mean, I don't blame Mould for having to just let go of what he can't control but that answer pains me.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
i'm always a bit tickled when people complain about the mixing on the originals tbh. can understand wanting them on a newer format tho
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link