Gotta Make Polls for the Polls I Make - ILM HUSKER DU POLL RESULTS

I should probably know this, but isn't Grant gay too? Not that that would necessarily influence his take on nonromantic songs about girls...

My #3! Love the barroom piano.

That piano incorporated in a rock song reminds me of Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Was it this song or Heaven Hill that was supposed to have a slide guitar part until Bob threw a fit?

Grant's gay, but I think he's also a biological dad too, so there's that.

Would love to hear Grant sing Books About UFOs in a mock cockney accent btw

by nonromantic I mean just about girls doing their thing, going about their lives -- not as romantic objects or subjects of longing or w/e

― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:57 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

songs that pass the bechdel test basically

Being constantly aware of all the changes that occur
Sitting in my room
Sitting on the rooftop
Telling the same story to everyone that I know
Reading books about UFOs

^^ all things i have done irl
this song could have easily been about a boy, but he chose to make it about a girl and i appreciate that. i don't get the sense that he's mocking her for being spaced out and dreamy either; it's just the way she is. <3

xp -- exactly

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Husker%20Du%20Poll/you_can_live_at_home700.jpg

12. “You Can Live At Home” - 250 points / (1 vote for first place)
• Alternate take from Warehouse sessions

And do listen to that alternate take holy fuuuck.

BTW, just for a funny reminder/context, sleeve note on Minutemen's "Double Nickels:"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9xmfyDvyy1ql6h4fo1_500.jpg

xpost o_O

I may be misremembering, but I think Zen Arcade, Double Nickels, and the 'Mats Let It Be were all reviewed in the same issue of Rolling Stone.

One more for today:

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Husker%20Du%20Poll/games2700.jpg

11. “Games” - 251 points
• Couldn't find any cover/live stuff/bootlegs, so here's what you get all over the place if you try to Google for Husker Du games.

yeaaaaaah

honestly had no idea if that was a fave or not, esp since i think i read that it was rarely played live

if anyone has that alt take of You Can Live... in mp3 form I definitely DO NOT want to hear about it in an ILX webmail. That is one remarkable performance.

got a feeling at least 1 of the tracks i'd've had in my top 3 isn't gonna make the poll at all but cd be wrong

also i didn't vote so screw me

30. Hardly Getting Over It
29. Turn On the News
28. I Apologize
28. It's Not Funny Anymore
26. In A Free Land
26. Flexible Flyer
24. Powerline
23. Diane
23. She Floated Away
21. Divide and Conquer
20. Terms of Psychic Warfare
19. Whatever
18. Sorry Somehow
17. Could You Be the One?
16. I'll Never Forget You
15. What's Going On
14. Flip Your Wig
13. Books About UFOs
12. You Can Live At Home
11. Games
Spotify link

I like this version of Could You Be The One with Bob adding a lot more interest to the vocal lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmk_Fw1GrMk

Also so weird to see these clips of them appearing on these mainstream TV shows, at the time i had no idea they were getting quite such a push by Warners.

oops, didn't mean to embed, sorry for rude

God I love 'Games' so much.

That whole Huskers outtakes disc can be found here:

hxxp://captainsdead.com/husker-du-up-in-the-air-studio-outtakes.html

"Books About UFOs" was my #1. One of the most joyous songs I can think of. I remember how utterly out of nowhere it seemed to appear on New Day Rising--there had been definite hints of a pop sensibility before on "It's Not Funny Anymore" and parts of Zen Arcade, but nothing like that. If it's based a real girl, that was the girl for me. She sounds like the most perfect and perfectly flaky '70s kind of girl.

That "Books" clip is so good. The kid walking back and forth, the people in back who are barely paying attention...Part of me wants to say, "Don't you know who this is? Don't you know what he's playing?" But in other ways, everything seems exactly as it ought to be for "Books About UFOs." Why wasn't I there?!

People who prefer Hart to Mould: is it about lyrics? I just realized that Hart probably wrote much better lyrics.

not always

I think his songs are catchier/prettier/more affecting/moving. And as much as I like Mould's mastery of bllllaaaaaaargh!, Hart can even best him in that category on stuff like "The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill." Which I imagine will place ... high. I still love Mould's songs, of course, but it was Hart I always connected with when the band and me were in sync.

it's a testament to the band that any claim one wants to make about the qualities of one over the other can be shut down. like i might want to say grant has more annoying hollow earworms, someone could play me "it's not peculiar" or "turn it around" to differ. cuz really anything, good or bad, one was doing, the other would be damn sure to do to

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It's Not Peculiar was my #1, btw.

I think it took til "Warehouse," honestly, for Bob to catch up to Grant in the pop department. Up until then they sort of excelled at different things. But, like, those two songs I pretty much like as much as any of the Grant stuff.

i'm done with mould on warehouse after "bed of nails"

I really like "It's Not Peculiar" and enjoy "Turn It Around". Maybe I just like Mould's voice better? I rarely even remember most Hart songs, with some exceptions.

I'm almost never this partisan about band members so it puzzles me! I could never decide between John and Paul.

can't believe i forgot about Games! massive cock-up that.

I prefer Grant Hart's songs. They're catchier, less angsty and generally more fun. But those songs aren't nearly as good without Bob Mould on guitar.

I'm listening to Warehouse as I type and this is what perfunctory-perfect formalism sounds like and, by extension, one of the few un-messy Last Albums.

anyway I prefer Mould when "Hardly Getting Over It" is on -- a slowcore iteration of the MBV-angst he mastered on Copper Blue -- but change my mind when "No Promise Have I made" is on.

Seeing some of the clips reminds me: On top of everything else, Mould and Hart were great, creative backup singers to each other. And sometimes hugely subtle but crucial, like Hart on "Games" or Mould on "Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill."

#1 obv Makes No Sense At All

#1 obv "The Baby Song"

The Baby Song is an always-skip track

Both of those #1s would be VERY disappointing!

Only possible answers: Chartered Trips or Something I Learned Today.

Or What Do I Want.

Mould & Hart - Even in the much later years, they were both contributing huge parts to each other's songs, at least in the recording. Something does my heart good when I hear rivals falling into tense breakups hold each other up like that. (Let It Be, Anodyne, Sonny & Cher Variety Hour, etc.)

omg i just got some exciting news
grant hart is going to be in my neighborhood! in january!

Selling stuff door-to-door?

I'm honestly not sure what will finish #1. I was thinking it might be "Turn on the News," so I'm glad I was way off there. My best guess at this point is a cover--not that one, the other one.

I predict "Heaven Hill."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvpRnXwL33Q

^ this one you mean? xp

Always bums me out when Grant plays some half-filled bar to disinterested patrons.