Best bands/Albums on SST

sounds about right altho I'd argue Flip Your Wig is OK on vinyl

Ha otm.

FWIW, going by old newspaper reviews and articles, the grievance with Hüsker Dü albums is that they didn't capture the full-body roar of their live shows, which I'm sure was probably difficult to do regardless.

One of the greatest shows I've ever seen was Bob Mould at Brooklyn Steel in 2019. Lots of Hüsker Dü including an extra long encore that paid tribute to Grant with one of his songs. Also helped that most of the solo songs were from Sunshine Rock, easily my favorite of his solo albums. I was in the middle at the very front, inches from Bob, and the ear plugs were barely enough - that big enveloping sound was glorious, and it would be amazing to hear that faithfully captured on a Hüsker Dü album.

Sugar felt like Mould accomplishing a commercial rock Huskers that they tried with Warehouse

has everyone here seen this? I hope everyone has

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exf1SyjBlBg

I've been trying my hand at remastering a few more things from the SST back catalog using decent stem software and ProTools, not to try to throw shade at Spot or anything, just for fun and my own curiosity.

I recently made versions of The Punch Line and Nothing Left Inside.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/nv08coczju46ftz1qz20l/h?dl=0&rlkey=vil63tdnn47irfhbl3wy4syud

The Flag tune has mad crackling on the drum intro that I'd never noticed before, it seems to be on every version I can put my hand on, and I can't pull it out without damaging the drums.

do the 1982 demo version instead ;)

RIP SPOT

Husker Dü Announce New Live Album Tonite Longhorn
The set captures the trio across four performances in Minneapolis in 1979 and 1980

https://pitchfork.com/news/husker-du-announce-new-live-album-tonite-longhorn/

SST show on WFMU including an interview w/ Jim Ruland

I’m still disappointed the book wasn’t interested in diving into the non “punk” directions the label took from the late ’80s. Like, I don’t remember if it even mentions Ginn’s affinity for Tim Harding of the Richmond scene; I just got a mint copy of the Office Ladies LP on New Alliance from 1989, unopened until I sliced the shrink rap to put it on my turntable 20 minutes ago, and it’s great! But it’s like, Black Flag breaks up, the partners sell to Ginn, Ray Farrell and Mugger leave, and Ruland’s immediately uninterested in the story. Like, I dunno man, stuff like Issues Records and why it existed is interesting to me, but the book doesn’t even acknowledge it existed!

instead of like spending $44 billion dollars to ruin an app, i wish some billionaire with too much money would buy everything associated with SST and hand it over to the folks at Numero Group to give it the treatment it all deserves

agreed, altho Ginn has probably ruined the masters already through poor storage etc

i know i know, i just want someone to save what can be saved at this point

totally