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

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.

ah! now we're talkin! this song is the sweetest thing on earth next to "Now That You Know Me"

Again, like "I'll Never Forget You," I almost re-tabulated the votes. I swear I thought I was the only one who liked this song.

oh i LOVE it, but i am still hoping for some more noisy bob songs to show up

that cover with the lovers in the water is weird

(Ha, that's my old band, no joke)

(We didn't make that video, some fan did)

Ha, what? Are you on that recording?

At any rate, I love you, Zupita.

The last three songs all from the same album. Guess that means Baby Song's on its way, right?

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8. “Something I Learned Today” - 309 points
• Hammerhead cover from Dü Hüskers
• metal cover by Entombed

So which one of you guys was in Entombed?

xpost I'm not personally on that recording - we had a very open band policy - but the cover was my idea. The UK version of the CD had "Green Eyes" as a bonus track. Not sure if the singer is my bandmate's wife or just a friend.

Also I was in Entombed.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhh this song is so good that every time i hear it -- every time! -- my heart races

Oh yay, my tastes are parallel with the canon! So far I've voted for everything in the top 10.

in the late 80s when it was hard to know biographical trivia about non-superstars my friend was all 'so Bob and Grant are both gay, and that song Green Eyes? He wrote that about Bob.'

LOL

when they broke up bob wrote "hartly getting over it" and grant wrote "no bob-rise I have made"

In the teenage mind, if you have two gay dudes in a band together then CLEARLY they have to be having sex w/each other

"2541" may be the best band break up song ever.

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7. “The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill” - 318 points / (2 votes for first place)
• Live at First Ave, 1985
• Grant Hart, solo accoustic 1995
• metal cover by Peaceville

Is it true that this is about a friend of Hart's who was dying of cancer?

(something I read somewhere on the Internet; also that "Green Eyes" was about Hart's cat)

k, I don't even remember some of the tunes youse are picking