I think of these as their Yoda songs.
Haha.
Anyone up for the rollout now or should I wait until 1300 CST like I said I would.
Seemed to peter out in the late afternoon yesterday.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Go ahead. I'm home sick and getting bored with the rest of the things the internet has to offer!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
Crazy office shit going down, so yeah, forgive me if I get started a little early.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Husker%20Du%20Poll/TERMS_OF_PSYCHIC_warfare700.jpg
20. “Terms of Psychic Warfare” - 166 points• Pretty faithful cover, Dirty Grocers
Perfect song to start off Part II with.
'Nother great Norton bassline.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Will always live side by side with Slade's 'Run Runaway' in my head.
― you only write about... pleassssure (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Spotify List Reminder
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Everytime I hear someone screaming in the background of the SST records, I never know if it's Spot or not.
This song being an example.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
This is too low.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Husker%20Du%20Poll/whatever700.jpg
19. “Whatever” - 168 points• Arcwelder's version from Dü Hüskers comp
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
TOO LOW
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
drums are crazy here.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
i took "Whatever" real personally when i was 17
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
The use of second person in the verses, separating the narrator from himself, before launching into the first-person barrage at the end is heartbreaking.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
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18. “Sorry Somehow” - 187 points• ''Aussie indie popsters'' Pray TV paint-by-numbers cover
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
Love it (although it didn't make my ballot), but surprised to see it so high. The cassette I bought in 1986 had a drop-out when Grant yells "Yyyeaaah I'm not sorry!" before the solo. It sounds wrong without the drop-out.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
that's weird.
It made my ballot. Lots of solitary nights in the car screaming along with this one.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
"whatever" and "terms" are cool but i didn't bother voting for them, guessing some of my warner-era nods didn't make the cut then. xpost and then a warner-era track i didn't vote made the top 20.
I only heard "Diane" relatively recently but i love it. Definitely understand if people find it in poor taste or too harrowing, but it's a really gripping, complicated mess of a song. i've read that grant was allegedly friends with edwards, and the casual flippancy of the verses mixed with the agony of the vocal suggests, at least to me, a real horror. obviously no one needs to clap hart on the back for dealing with this shit in a public sphere, though i doubt he thought "oh it'll be great when some irish group takes it to the UK top 30 ten years from now."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
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17. “Could You Be the One?” - 192 points• Husker Du play "Could You Be The One" and have a short interview with Joan Rivers.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
First HD video I saw on MTV. And during the daytime, no less!
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so dumb, I had to read that twice to realize they didn't have high-definition videos back in the late 80s.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
It was between this and another Mould track when I narrowed down my ballot to 20. This lost. I expected it would place without my help, and I'm glad it made the top 20.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
xp hahaha
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
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16. “I'll Never Forget You” - 197 points• Salbando cover from Dü Hüskers comp.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
This is the one that when I was making the list, made me go back to confirm that I was counting the votes correctly.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
It's a rocking punk song with a trollin' bass intro, but No. 16?
Especially when [your favorite Husker Du song] didn't even make the cut.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
YES! I took this song super personally when I was a teen.
I'm out of class now btw, expect nonstop inane posts from me for the next hour or so.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Because of short Tgiving week work crunch I was unable to get a ballot done. But I understand the votes for I WILL. NEVER. FORGET. YOU.
― you only write about... pleassssure (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
I WILLNEVERFORGIVEYOUfor not voting
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
I should haveMADEPLANSMADEPLANSto get it done the preceding weekend
― you only write about... pleassssure (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
I gotta say, "Could You Be the One" has always kinda bored me. It's fine, but it's what I would otherwise categorize as a boring Bob song, perfectly written but monotonous. I would rather listen to Bob scream monotonously than sing monotonously.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
We're finally at the middle of the list, with five more to go today and the final ten tomorrow.
Not that you were counting or anything, but the songwriter tally is currently Hart 7, Mould 7, with "In A Free Land" credited to both of them and Norton.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have a lot of hope for What Do I Want anymore :(
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
My hope is registering at a level of
NOTHING NOTHINGNOTHIIIIIIING
Really surprised by the last two. "Could You Be the One?" seems like the sort of Husker song someone who came to the band via Sugar might vote for. No offense, fans of "Could You Be the One?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Could You Be the One?" seems like the sort of Husker song someone who came to the band via Sugar might vote for.
Or, like me, maybe for people who came to the band via the Warehouse album and not aware that it's basically boilerplate Mould but still love it anyway because it was an early favorite.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
I dig "Could You Be The One," even though it didn't make my ballot (only two Warehouse songs did, both Hart's). But seeing it on MTV I thought, "Yay! Now everyone can see how great this band is!" but also "...this...this isn't what I'd play for someone to show them how great this band is."
That said, it occupies a cherished place on a mixtape I made in 1988. Or 1989. Yeah, 1989.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
I have never heard of this cover.
Would've voted in this poll if I had the time to replay all the albums. New Day Rising is my fave LP.
(first show -- 5 total, I think? -- Jan 1985 at the Peppermint Lounge after it had moved from Times Square to Chelsea.)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
it's the inflection in Bob's voice on "and I don't even know what i'm crying for" that makes "Could You Be the One" for me but i wdn't've placed it this high and there are much better songs on Warehouse
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
How do you write out that yawning moan Mould does sometimes when he's not singing words?
"Cuz I don't really know oh wow raiwlle yowl wow hoa huh hoa huh…."
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
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15. “What's Going On” - 212 points / (1 vote for first place)• Janitor Joe from Dü Hüskers
^ First one that hit No. 1 on somebody's ballot.
the living end version of this is so so awesome
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
I think about this song all the time. INSIDE MY HEAD.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I only saw them once, the last tour, at First Ave. I don't know if that was toward the beginning or end of the tour. But unless my memory is really failing the cover art of Warehouse was not replicated onstage. That would have been cool! Love u forever Fake Name Graphics.
― you only write about... pleassssure (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
I had a secret crush on a friend for years and years. It never went anywhere, but the most intense moment of the non-relationship was being unable to sleep and listening to 'Could You Be The One' on repeat at 2am.
Warehouse was my first Husker Du album, and I'm pretty sure I hadn't heard anything from Sugar before that either.
― funk79, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think Warehouse was the first one I bought, mostly thanks to the ol' 92 rolling stone guide that gave it five stars - would have been a solid single album, that's for sure
― da croupier, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
Warehouse was the 1st one i bought cos i bought it when it came out, then went backwards
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
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14. “Flip Your Wig” - 240 points / (1 vote for first place)• Live at First Ave
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link