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

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.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/Husker%20Du%20Poll/the_girl_who_lives_on_HH700.jpg

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

both of which are Hart songs that I really like btw

xpost

Games >> Makes No Sense At All

will say that this is some horrible shit

http://billdphilly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/heaven-hill-blend2.jpg

I thought Heaven Hill had a really good shot at #1. I can live with #7, tho.

I've decided that the last minute or so of Games is amongst the finest in pop history

Along with the amazing bridge

o no i have reached 'You Can Live AT Home Now' on the spotify poll playlist

;_;

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6. “Chartered Trips” - 326 points / (1 vote for first place)
• Bob Mould, live at 9:30 Club, DC, 2005
• Muskellunge cover, Dü Hüskers

Um, too high?

no way!
i thought it would be #1 for sure
surely there's nothing i can say about it that hasn't already been said but it causes the same sort of exhilarating cardial fluttering as all my other favorites

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

Can't see this making it now tbh.

Pretty sure I know 4 of the top 5, wondering what the fifth is...

Oh, I take that back. I think I know all 5.

wow a bunch of my shit didn't make it apparently

Chartered Trips was my number one. My love for this song has outlasted all my other relationships and possibly will forever.

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5. “New Day Rising” - 326 points / (2 votes for first place)
• Live in Indy
• Bob & Dave, Live in L.A. 2011
• And once more from Robert Palmer

And I love that Muskellunge version too

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
who was the other first place? hi 5 to you, from me.

One quick note: you'll notice Nos. 6 & 5 have the same number of points, but unlike the other ties, I gave the edge to the one that had more first-place votes.

Next time, I might use number of votes received as another tie-breaker, but with only 25 ballots, I'm not sure how much difference it would have made on this poll anyway.

Guys, the point in Chartered Trips where they add the echo to Bob's vocals at the end of the verses, dear god

Chartered totes deserves its placement

Love "Something I Learned Today"--a college friend and I used it for a super-8 film once. Never really cared for "New Day Rising."

This was also one of the songs that gave me pause in assigning writing credit. "In A Free Land" is credited to Hart/Mould/Norton while this one's attributed to Mould/Hüsker Dü.

You could surmise that band politics were really swinging into effect by the time this record came out.

Another Mould/HD song from that album is "How To Skin A Cat".

So Bob repeats take the rats from the cats and the cats from the rats 20 times and gets songwriting credit? And vetoes a slide guitar on one of Grant's songs because it doesn't fit the record?

One of those reasons that I lean toward Grant.

New Day Rising is like gospel music for me in a number of ways which I will absolutely not bore anyone with. Strong feelings!
I love it so much, especially at a deafening volume.

Without Mould's guitar , they'd be nothing.Hear glimpses of it on his recent output. Only glimpses

Definitely, stun guitar for the win.

And Greg Norton's melodic, non obvious bass,
at well chosen moments.

New Day Rising didn't make mine either. Intro Filler

Definitely, stun guitar for the win.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bob Mould and Eric Bloom.

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4. “Pink Turns to Blue” - 327 points / (2 votes for first place)
• Live in Seattle, 1983
• Live in Finland, 1987
• Nova Mob, Live in Cambridge, Mass. 1992
• The Blue Up? cover from Dü Hüskers
• Bloodpit cover

And just one point separated this from the last two.

Also, on the nominations thread, we were talking about the MPLS tribute to Zen Arcade comp.

I could not find it anywhere except for the link below. Mess around with the song titles in the URL and you should be able to find the rest of it.

h77p://www.4casey4.com/Music/The%20Blue%20Up%20-%20Pink%20Turns%20to%20Blue.mp3

I'm still at 100% of everything in the top 10 being something that was on my ballot, but with only 3 to go I'm starting to wonder if my #1 will make it. I have doubts. ;_;

The Blue Up! They opened up for Robyn Hitchcock at First Ave in 86. One of them later became a naked webcam celebrity.

Hi five La Lechera! You write a list of Husker Du songs down, you've gotta damn well start with New Day Rising imo. You mentioned gospel music, maybe I'm overdoing it here but I think it's kind of Coltrane-ish or Ayler-esque in a way - the fervour, the repetition, the overall sentiment of it. Anyhow, awesome song! Love the way the drums break out of that bash-bash-bash rhythm the first time around and the bass really kicks in and it feels like this whole rush of ecstatic noise is going to carry you away. Fuck yes!

I was one of the Pink to Blue #1s. My ideal Husker Du song.

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3. “Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely” - 361 points / (2 votes for first place)

• Official video
• Catherine Wheel cover
• Green Day cover
• Some kids in their backyard doing a cover of Green Day covering Hüsker Dü

And I'm going to break the no-YouTube rule here for just one deserved second:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGKRi1mFigA

First Husker Du song i ever heard, thank you Radio Luxembourg