Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:32 am

Vibracobra wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:32 am Yeah, Tilted.

One of my fave songs ever.

Thirded.

+4

Love the way it smacks you in the face with raw drum/guitar fury after "Come Around".

Revisting this great bootleg of the Huskers at the peak of their fast HC period (late 82)...faster and tighter than Landspeedrecord and more intense and noise-ridden than Everything Falls Apart. What I would give to hear them at this point with this speed and intensity on tape in a quality studio.

Metal circus/zen arcade/New day risiing for me simply because I dig when they tempered the college rock with some raw hardcore; from Flip your wig and onwards, the hardcore was felt more in "spirit" (if that) than in sound.

That said, I actually find the "pure" hardcore (which never really existed; Land speed record was just the first set in their show, second set was more varied and "Everything falls apart" have a good half of it's playtime devoted to stuff that's *clearly* not hc (tm)) aspect of their sound underrated nowadays due to the majority of their fans nowadays being "alt-rock" fans who have an allergic reaction to "generic" hardcore which I honestly don't think the huskers ever were. Even on "Landspeed...", the drumming at least is far removed from the stiff/lame polka beats I associate with acts like Minor Threat. Also, tracks like "I never forget you" and "Pride" are just as good as their best melodic songs IMO

jakethesnake wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 5:42 pm
That said, I actually find the "pure" hardcore (which never really existed; Land speed record was just the first set in their show, second set was more varied and "Everything falls apart" have a good half of it's playtime devoted to stuff that's *clearly* not hc (tm)) aspect of their sound underrated nowadays due to the majority of their fans nowadays being "alt-rock" fans who have an allergic reaction to "generic" hardcore which I honestly don't think the huskers ever were. Even on "Landspeed...", the drumming at least is far removed from the stiff/lame polka beats I associate with acts like Minor Threat. Also, tracks like "I never forget you" and "Pride" are just as good as their best melodic songs IMO

Totally agreed. One thing that comes across on the Everything Falls Apart remaster that appears on the Savage Young Du boxset is how much complex the rhythm section parts are compared to your average hc band back then. Even on the fast tunes there's this sense of swing and shifting rhythms, more in common with the Minutemen if anything, just drenched over with the squeal of Mould's guitar and yelps. I don't think they ever really got their due as one of the truly great HC acts of the period.

re: the snare on makes no sense at all, I also agree it's definitely not a drum machine, or overdubbed most likely. It just sounds like they kind of mute everything else and the snare gets to take over through the wonders of compression / limiting.