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

What was the accident with Nova Mob?

Yeah that was new to me too

I neglected the Nova Mob details when I was compiling things: there was a van accident while the band was on tour in Germany in 1992, nothing major but it marked a bit of a turning point I think.

I can't believe I missed this thread!

Actually, I can believe it, I'm just bummed about it.

Nice work pp!

where you been dg, been growing out my handlebar.

really starting to convince myself that "i'll never forget you" has all the hallmarks of what made this band so great: too far cast into unhinged disregard to even begin to give a fuck about whether people are going to find it too abrasive, barked out with mouth foaming and each livid notion bleeding into the next, unflinchingly candid and pitched directly from the gut. i can't listen to the mellower songs with their more by-degrees contours in the same way.

anyway:

1. First of the Last Calls
2. Eight Miles High
3. I'll Never Forget You
4. Pink Turns to Blue
5. Divide and Conquer
6. Diane
7. Celebrated Summer
8. Whatever
9. Makes No Sense at All
10. Don't Want to Know if You are Lonely
11. New Day Rising
12. Ice Cold Ice
13. Powerline
14. The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
15. These Important Years
16. Something I Learned Today
17. Green Eyes
18. Chartered Trips
19. Sorry Somehow
20. What's Going on

Ah, there's another Powerline.

Josh - elliptically - I've had similar hints confirmed by, I'm guessing, a similar source. Fingers X'd, eh.

Me, too.

I have to say, it makes me nervous how much they seem to actively dislike their original mixes. I can imagine a Husker reissue series as the musical equivalent of the Star Wars reissue.

Then again, I had no idea until this thread that "In a Free Land" was remixed for the Everything Falls Apart CD, and that's a huge improvement.

I wouldn't be opposed to a full Warehouse remix.

we'll still have our shitty original CDs!

while researching my black flag book a few years back, i argued to joe carducci that the sst stuff needed remastering, a suggestion with which he furiously disagreed. but the merge versions of the first coupla dinosaur albums sound so much better than the sst ones (same w/the meat puppets).

stevie-- sorry to sidetrack but I was looking at your book through the Shop function of my Nook the other day and there are two e-versions available-- one about $5 more than the other. Is one like the 'hardback' with more pictures and the other the 'paperback'?

Oh jeepers, I'm not sure - could be that the US edition, which has a different publisher, is the same text & pix but at a similar price... Let me find out for you.

Your book is a beautiful read Stevie Chick. Thanks

Aw thanks, Jessie...

Ps just waiting on a confirmation re: the nook version of the book, Jon.

From Facebook:
Saturday, December 22, 2012, 8:00pm until 1:00am, Grumpy's Bar: Grant Hart presents what will easily go down as his magnum opus, "The Argument" (according to us). Come on down for this FREE event. Meet Grant, hear the record spun in it's entirety and watch a live set!

Jon! Am reliably informed that both ebook versions of Spray Paint are identical, so I recommend purchasing the cheaper one!

cool! Thanks for investigating!

Today I was walking past the venue where GH will be playing, and I saw this
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8223/8278552504_93c3b4fdfa.jpg

then I uploaded it to flickr and saw one of my contacts there had recently uploaded this from a book called "The Bears on Hemlock Mountain"
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8273105575_d988effc91.jpg

and I thought of this thread. The end.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/46382_10151329759590699_1782333265_n.jpg

hahaha, just saw that Mould posted that!

Good show last night!!! He played a lot of solo stuff, incl a bunch from Hot Wax (he played My Regrets on my request!), and maybe this is a normal thing, but he sang 2541 with totally different lyrics about the 1840s? He begrudgingly played Flexible Flyer and a few other Dü songs ill-suited to the solo-with-guitar setup (also on request) and was having some guitar probs but was affable in spite of them. There were plenty of people there, but I was among the most enthusiastic. Not surprisingly I guess. I found it charming that he changed into his performance shoes, and he complimented me on my shoes as well. After the show we talked a little bit about his new album with the Irish musicians (which I knew all about thanks to the interview above!!!) and he said that he wants to start playing for "the ballet crowd" and not spend the rest of his life in (gestures around his head) "places like this."

This picture is not the best, but you can see how kind and warm he was. I think I was grabbing his arm pretty hard and he didn't complain.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8073/8375908290_82dc1bd9f0_c.jpg

Holy crap, that totally rules.

right on!

Got a ticket to see Bob Mould in March, which'll be the first time since I saw Husker Du in '87.

You got a hug in!

I know! At the last minute too. One dude ran up to him and planted one on GH's cheek while we were talking.

I hope clemenza tries to kiss Bob.

I posted quickly yesterday, and didn't notice your photo till later, La Lechera--that is pretty great. Lighting aside, Hart looks so incredibly different. (I think I'll be content to exchange one of those furtive little funeral-nods from Seinfeld with Bob.)

I have several other photos, just don't want to post them here! One is on facebook and the rest are on flickr. I'll send you a link if you wanna see them!

Also that's the one where you could see my zeal the most. I posted this one to wdyll -- you can see him better here. I think he was playing "Green Eyes" at the time, but I don't know for sure (heheh)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8492/8374842273_459a2005d6_c.jpg

i don't know what he was playing because that's me with the white shoes -- someone else took the picture

If you can put a Flickr link here, that'd be nice. That's neat how in the last photo, they've set a giant beer can in front of the stage.

glad you got to see grant! that sounds about like most...um...good vibe...grant shows! but yeah he's still totally riveting i think. new album should be good i heard bits of it from a friend.

he's really charming to talk to.

Crossposting from another thread:

new song unearthed!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/husker-du-rerelease-lost-statues-song-premiere-20130121

― kl0ppa john's (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 21, 2013 6:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trailer for every everything, which is worth it for the adorable footage of grant giggling on a couch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHCcY-Jwxg

to clarify -- young grant giggling on a couch

Omg will see that movie so fuckin hard!!!

i assume this will be better than "color me obsessed." it couldn't possibly be any worse.

I hope so too. Hack docs make me sad.

it looks... hacky to me. hope to be proven wrong though.

If the subject is close enough to my heart I become unable to tell if its a hack doc or not. I wept at the Scott walker doc and that was not a well made film, eg.

I probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it in a theater, but I'd watch it at home. I didn't watch the Replacements doc because I don't need to see a bunch of people talking about how much they like a band. BUT Grant is part of this doc and the trailer was cute so hey -- I'd give it a shot.

Also, I have high doc standards, it's true.

I trudged through the Replacements doc, and it was endlessly frustrating. But there were a few glimmers of new/interesting information, like how DTaS was remixed against their will...which, granted, anyone coulda guessed...yeah, never mind.

I'd see this, though, hacky or otherwise, just to see how he's doing.

few glimmers of new/interesting information
solo westerberg lol

grant seems to be doing fine! new album coming out soon btw!!

Saw Bob Mould last night. I know very little of his own work--all I have is File Under: Easy Listening, and all I remember from that is "Your Favorite Thing." Anyway, the show started really well: the first song was about "relax" or "react," then something about "it's a good thing/she said" (or maybe "success"), then a song from Warehouse (the titles always blur with me). The middle part wandered a bit, with one song that went on forever, but he did mix in "I Apologize" and "Your Favorite Thing." Best of all was the last encore. He started with a promise that "If you're within five years of my age, you'll recognize this right away," lead-in to the Viletones' "Screamin' Fist." Great local touch--he even shared vocals with some guy who my friend told me was Steven Leckie's nephew. Then he finished with "Flip Your Wig"/"Hate Paper Doll"/"Makes No Sense at All". That was a perfect ending for me--either he agrees with me that FYW was Husker Du's greatest album (not New Day Rising, and especially not Zen Arcade), or that's the one that for whatever reason carries the least amount of baggage for him.

grant seems to be doing fine! new album coming out soon btw!!

Man, Grant has had a new album coming out for forever.

BTW, saw some Hart interview with this new (to me) nugget:

GH: “The current situation with SST is not good but will get brighter. Greg Ginn (SST founder) is actually suing the band for overpayment of royalties. A World Turned Upside Down.”

Then he finished with "Flip Your Wig"/"Hate Paper Doll"/"Makes No Sense at All". That was a perfect ending for me--either he agrees with me that FYW was Husker Du's greatest album (not New Day Rising, and especially not Zen Arcade), or that's the one that for whatever reason carries the least amount of baggage for him.

"As far as Flip Your Wig goes, I’m on record as saying that’s my favorite Hüsker Dü album."

Sounds like the first two were "The Act We Act" and "A Good Idea", the first two from Copper Blue.

Copper Blue was a Sugar album, clemenza. Sugar was the band that Mould started after Husker Du.