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

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

Think I can guess what about 9 of the top ten are, just not sure if we're going to get something else off Warehouse or not...

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

For every crappy gig he probably plays to a good, appreciative house. He did here in Dublin last year, and he's playing here again in a couple of weeks.

not sure if we're going to get something else off Warehouse or not...

I'll be disappointed if "Ice Cold Ice" doesn't make it.

i would've voted for norton. i always thought it was funny that the straight guy was the gayest looking dude in the band

Yeah he's definitely playing at a crappy bar, but I'll be there to bring the noise. Don't worry! I'm totally gonna embarrass myself.

Totally late to the poll/didn't vote etc., but enjoying the results. Ditto to what Josh said about Grant playing small, bad venues - but some of my favorite personal recordings of his shows are small venues. I was listening to the 'Spot's Arcade' bootleg getting ready for work this a.m. and that has some tasty Zen alternate takes/diff. songs. I think I'd personally chew Spot out if I ever met him - poor, lackadaisical, noisy production on whatever he touched. No wonder we've never had proper remasters. I saw HD on my 17th birthday and it took until seeing Mould this year to have closure on hearing some of the songs I needed to hear at that age, during that show.

Had tickets to see Grant here in 2009, but things got in the way, and I had to skip it. The next day, all accounts were that it was a complete disaster. In a way, I was glad I missed it; I don't think I could've taken seeing him so far off his game.

What sorts of venues did HD play in the 80s?

In Chicago in 1986 they played Cabaret Metro (1200 capacity); in early '87 they played the Riviera (3000), and in late '87 the Vic (I wanna say 3500-4000?). Dunno where they played before '86.

Ah, cool.

EveningStar - this is a good resource for past show locations - http://www.thirdav.com/hddb.shtml
I saw them at Mandall Hall and the Vic in Chicago.

Now Grant Hart is playing no name bars on the far north side. You guys should come to the show! I won't embarrass you, just myself.

I usually don't play the fan boy game, but hey, this thread's perfect for it.

I was 15 and listening to Guns N' Roses when Husker Du broke up, and they likely never played within 100 miles of me anyway. (Black Flag did though!) So I never saw them live.

However, I have been in close contact with two members: Got a nod and a howya doin' from Bob at a Sugar show as I staked my place next to his side of the stage. Also heard him on a SXSW panel talking about how record companies work and why people like Helmet should watch themselves.

I sold a six-pack of Summit to Greg Norton. I was working the register at a long-since-demolished liquor store by the Metrodome. One of those weird moments where I look up and there's that handlebar mustache and twinkly brown eyes looking back at me. He also gave me a nod and a "all right, let's be cool about this" kind of look. I took his $6.98 and told him to have a nice day.

Never met Grant, but I do always keep an eye out for him whenever I eat at a Perkins.

That database is cool. I'm relieved to see they actually never played in Rochester, so I've got nothing to kick myself about.

Never saw Husker Du but I did go and see Grant round about the time of Intolerance. He got a decent crowd in those days, filled out the New Cross Venue in London. Anyhow, he was nice and didn't seem to mind too much when I pestered him to sign my copy of All Of My Senses.

25 Feb 95 M Minneapolis MN: 1st Ave
26 Feb 95 M Minneapolis MN: 1st Ave

I was too poor to see these shows, two acoustic solo sets from Bob. I was working for the Downtown Marriot as a valet and one of our garages was in the same building as 7th St/1st Ave (I'd frequently have to wait for the line of people on the sidewalk to part so I could pull into the garage.)

And I remember squatting down between a car bumper and the wall, hiding from any of my other valets, smoking a cigarette and listening to Bob sing "Man on the Moon" from the other side.

And also, the closest they ever played to Little Rock was Tulsa? Fuck that.

You would think I'd be clear on this, but for some reason I'm not--I may have done a phone interview with Hart and/or Mould right after Candy Apple Grey came out. I know I did a record-by-record rundown for the publication I wrote for at the time, I just can't remember whether it was to accompany an interview or whether it was a standalone.

Good Lord, Husker Du played at the Stow Hill Labour Club in Newport in 1985! The only time they came to Wales, according to that site. Admittedly at the time I would only have known two songs of theirs and the journey from where I lived to Newport would have been tough for a 16 yr old, but bloody hell... I wish! And now I live in Newport, and I've drunk at the Labour Club and I never knew!

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

I've been to at least one of those, wanted to give him a hug.

I was wondering if giving him a hug would be inappropriate. I would also like to do that.

bob is so much cooler than grant tho

some of his writings/interviews have led me to the possibility he is a major dick, which wd preclude a hug.

I've mentioned elsewhere that when I saw Mould do a Workbook show, some smarty yelled out "Flexible Flyer." Bob proceeded to quickly mime shooting up. Everyone groaned piteously.

Who do I have to hug to get this top ten started?

Gotta run to a quick meeting and the coffeemaker's still not working.

Gotta run to a quick meeting and the coffeemaker's still not working.

It could be broke of it could be clogged

but I don't know for sure

Grrrghheauuurrrrhhh!

of = or

so you're thirsty
so what
i don't know

i don't wanna know if you've got coffee
i don't wanna know if you've got less than coffee

You'll be making some coffee
Coffee somehow...

Coffee maker broken is today

BTW there was some talk upthread about the Grant song 'Drug Party'-- this was recorded in a pretty great version by mpls band The Blue Hippos in '87 on their self-titled EP. It's a pretty great shit-hot garage-psych-soul record. Members of Otto's Chemical Lounge and Rifle Sport. I remember there being a video for their 'Drug Party' version but it might have just been a live clip shown on Lizz Winstead's Video Treats cable access show.

Goddammit writing that brought on a vivid and irl painful longing to be 16 in st paul listening to kfai in the winter again.

Grrrghheauuurrrrhhh!

Oh-hoooooooooah

He said there's no more pleasant plains
Until his coffee machine is working again

Well I'm standing in the queue
waiting for the top ten of husker du
and I can't stand the pain
and I can't get POLL without pleasant plains

Ah.. sugar in my coffee does taste quite right.

Time to let off some pressure, time for the top ten.

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10. “Makes No Sense At All” - 256 points
• Official video

walking around with your head up your ass
it makes no sense at all

I've asked before, but I wonder if the junkyard in that video is the same one from the Zen Arcade cover.

Another possible #1 eliminated. (Think I had it #4 or 5.)

i didnt know makes no sense at all had a video. sick!!!!!

Not seen that either, and there's one for Love Is All Around right after it

Wonder how much of an influence the drumming on that song was on Colm from MBV?

"makes no sense" has grown on me, but i remember having a hard time understanding why it was THE husker song when I finally got Flip Your Wig

i can see now that my appreciation was tampered by already being familiar with Candy and Warehouse, can imagine Perfect Pop from Husker Du was more of a novelty in the moment

Love "Makes No Sense," and it might be my favorite non-screamy Bob vocal.

Also, recently realized that the single and LP mixes are slightly different; the single is more raw/less 80s-hair-metal-reverby.

It's funny that we keep talking about how Bob possibly rewrote Makes No Sense again with I Don't Know For Sure or Could You Be the One, but hell, it's so damn catchy.

There was an embarrassing time where I would try to write songs, but not figure out that I was plagiarizing until I started trying to fit a "Trying to catch a tiger by the tail" line in there.

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9. “Green Eyes” - 290 points
• Live in San Francisco
• And then there's this.