Husker Du : Classic or Dud, Search and Destroy.

yeah that got me into it right out of the gate. back in the day I only kept up until Flip Your Wig. now I gotta hear Candy Apple Grey.

CAG is their emo album.

Aw I LOVE She Floated Away. If you like that you should hear the solo Grant song The Main

If you like that you should hear the solo Grant song The Main

one of the greatest songs ever written

oh my god there are 39 copies of that relatively cheap 1989 SST LP release on Discogs, and not a single one ships from the US

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1291800?ev=rb

so brutal

(a couple other versions do have a single US shipper)

this is my favorite version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZToHDEw6fI8

I just got that myself, on the CD single that used it as a B-side!

I like Warehouse a lot, but something about the mix or mastering sounds very weird coming through computer speakers, as if certain frequencies have been misplaced and the stereo balance is off-kilter.

I like _Warehouse_ a lot, but something about the mix or mastering sounds very weird coming through computer speakers, as if certain frequencies have been misplaced and the stereo balance is off-kilter.

listening through computer speakers might be the problem. The OG vinyl sounds fine. As do their other LPs, unlike the SST CDs which most have a real problem with.

Candy Apple Grey CD is the closest you can get to blowing speakers out with that opening track, lol

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/15817

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2023
Release Date: 4/22/2023
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Reflex Records
Quantity: 5000
Release type: 'RSD First' Release
MORE INFO

A 2xLP set of rare, early Hüsker Dü live recordings, featuring original flyers and artwork. Drawn from the historical Hüsker Dü recording archives compiled by Terry Katzman, this double disc live set is an essential companion piece to the band's Savage Young Du Box Set. While the SYD release principally featured studio demos, the 28 tracks presented here are the aural and enchanting equivalent of a time machine that vividly thrusts the listener straight back to Husker Du's embryonic unsheathing on stage.

Side A dates to July 1979. Side B gives us a full year's evolution to July 1980, while Sides C and D land the listener in September 1980. Perhaps 120 people in total saw these three Longhorn performances. Until now, a handful at most have heard the playbacks. So, rare and fresh, it's all here: the songs, the driven performances, the small club intimacy of being in front of select friends, fans, and peers, with one fair shot at getting it right. These four sides compellingly document that you can't doubt that they did.

Side A - July 6. 1979 20:56

1 Insects Rule The World (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)
2 I’m Not Interested (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)
3 Sex Dolls (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)
4 Can’t See You Anymore (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
5 Sexual Economics (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
6 Do You Remember? (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
7 Nuclear Nightmare (Hart/Mould/Norton) (BMG Bumblebee BMI) (Granary Music BMI) (Husker Music BMI)

Side B - July 16 1980 Tiger Night 22:17

1 All Tensed Up (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
2 Strange Week (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)
3 Don’t Try To Call (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
4 Industrial Grocery Store (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
5 Do The Bee (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)
6 Do You Remember? (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
7 Ode To Bode (Norton) (Husker Music BMI)
8 Don’t Have A Life (Norton) (Husker Music BMI)

Side C - Sept 25 1980 Homerock 20:40

1 All I’ve Got To Lose (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
2 Don’t Try It (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
3 Writer’s Cramp (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
4 Gilligan’s Island (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)
5 What Went Wrong? (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
6 Uncle Ron (Norton) (Husker Music BMI)
7 MTC (Norton) (Husker Music BMI)
8 Drug Party (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)

Side D - Sept 25, 1980 Homerock 22:15

1 Chinese Rock (Meyers, Colvin) (Dilapidated Music DoraFlo Music, Quick Fix Music BMI)
2 Termination (Norton) (Husker Music BMI)
3 Call On Me (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
4 Gravity (Mould) (Granary Music BMI)
5 Statues (Hart) (BMG Bumblebee BMI)

Shit I had not heard of this before

Does "RSD First" release mean it'll be coming out as a non-limited non-RSD thing later?

I hope so ^

I read somewhere there’s a digital release scheduled for autumn; I don’t know for sure about physical.

These days (and this will always change) my favourite Hart is "She's a Woman (and now he is a Man)". So good.

so good!

oh, that RSD release is out on CD apparently: https://www.discogs.com/release/26835887-H%C3%BCsker-D%C3%BC-Tonite-Longhorn

Perhaps 120 people in total saw these three Longhorn performances.

I was likely one of them. "Tiger Night" (side B) was the name of the Wednesday new band night at The Longhorn. No cover, and there was usually free tap beer for an hour from 8-9 pm to get people down there. I went almost every week in 1980.

oh, that RSD release is out on CD apparently: https://www.discogs.com/release/26835887-H%C3%BCsker-D%C3%BC-Tonite-Longhorn🕸

_Perhaps 120 people in total saw these three Longhorn performances._


I was likely one of them. "Tiger Night" (side B) was the name of the Wednesday new band night at The Longhorn. No cover, and there was usually free tap beer for an hour from 8-9 pm to get people down there. I went almost every week in 1980.

http://www.thirdav.com/hd_posters/p19800702.gif

Awesome

25 cent Special Exports. It's a wonder I'm still alive.

Green cans

Bottles! I often picked up a 6-pack on the way to the show and I'd sneak 'em in after the 25 cent special was over.

Green Death

wow THE DADS really got around

sorry The DADS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hb4r1bCpJw

Thanks so much Dan!

I love talking about this era. What I remember of it anyway...

First: It's been eons since I listened to "New Day Rising," just because there's too much music and too few hours. While I never got to see Husker Du live (though got to see Hart and have seen Mould a bunch), weirdly enough I don't regret it, since the advantage of Spot's production is that I feel it captures the energy and aaaargh of group live, at least based on the bootlegs I've heard. This is kinda true about a lot of SST stuff, too. The Minutemen, for example, I feel most of their albums do a pretty good job offering a snapshot of what the group must have been like live, based on what I've heard.

Second: My memory was primed for "Books About UFOs," but I somehow totally forgot about "Terms of Psychic Warfare." What a great tune. Why don't people cover Husker Du?

When I first heard "Terms of Psychic Warfare," I honestly thought it could've come from the mid-'90s, and that it would've been a massive hit that sounded great on the radio ten years after it was actually released.

I saw them on the New Day Rising tour after hearing the album (plus Zen Arcade) and my recollection is that they were somewhat louder and more saturated-sounding than expected. It was a fairly small room though.

https://i.imgur.com/MxLfp4j.jpg

"Nord-strom riii-sing ... "

A song from Grant's first solo LP, performed by Hüsker Dü during their last tour:

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

Similarly, "See a Little Light" from Mould's first solo LP was vastly improved by the electric trio arrangement he came up with later on. Wish they held it together for one more album, but I don't think there was a chance in hell that would've happened.

I love "See a Little Light" the way it is: the cello, the jangle of that guitar.

Tbh I don’t really like the way he plays distorted rock guitar live versions of stuff that was acoustic/clean in the studio - I’ve passed on seeing the electric solo live mostly for that reason

I did grow to like Workbook, but I don't share that impression about his live shows at all - whenever his current trio comes through town, I've been blown away. One of the greatest shows I've ever seen was the first one he did after Grant died - he was also supporting Sunshine Rock, which is probably my favorite of his solo albums, but the setlist (which was enormous) covered a LOT of ground and everything sounded tremendous. I will say his electric trio shows are markedly better than his electric solo shows - Narducy and Wurster do add a lot to his shows.

speaking of, i have been thinking about how i am dying to write a 33 1/3 about Metal Circus when i checked to see if there were already a glut of those books about HD and found this! https://333sound.com/introducing-our-33-13-on-bob-moulds-workbook/

does not sound very much to my liking, which is good because i want to write more about Grant/his songs anyway.

i loved Workbook when I was 19 or so, See A Little Light still makes my heart sing tbh

It's a great song - it ought to be a standard and reinterpreted in myriad ways.

i just searched the lyrics and realized "listen there's music in the air" not "listen there's music in me, yeah"

loooooool i am always so close

Is it a challops to say I prefer Grant’s body of work? I think his solo records blow Bob’s away.

not on ILM!!

(I mostly agree)

Solo albums, yes. I love those two and a half Sugar albums though.