Counting everything, from Husker Du through Sugar and all the solo albums.

Bob Husker - Not Crap. There isn't a song of his off of any Husker album that I would skip.


Bob Sugar - Not Crap.

Copper Blue is solid
Beaster is AMAZING
FUEL & BeSides are a little milder.
but Beaster is AMAZING


Bob Solo - mostly not

Workbook - Not Crap
Black Sheets of Rain - Not Crap
Poison Years is an unnecessary repackage - crap
S/T - solid
The Dog and Pony Show - hokay


Bob DanceHouse -

Modulate - The biggest piece of "my first computer" music bullshit disappointing wasted effort vanity Cher-backing-track-reject ass-lick horse crap I have ever heard.
Never have I been more disappointed.


How about if Yow put out a solo record, and it sounded like Rick Astley fronting the Spin Doctors? That's about an eighth as bad as this record.


I'm not even going to comment about anything else.

Make whatever music you want to make, Bob, just a little warning, okay, big warning next time. Or call it something different. Please don't hang any more anchors onto what was a shiny second/fourth act.

Thank you. Rant over.

Oh yeah, whoops, I guess that totals up to 17 good records and one humongous elephant shat.....


Not Crap. But Sweet Mother Christmas, already!

don't forget about the pro wrestling, too. i have it on good word that he's written sequences for professional wrestling, no joke.

This moment is my first listen to Bob solo, and my initial reaction is crap. I mean, I really appreciate everything he's done musically, I really like Husker Du, but I'm having trouble not feeling too young to appreciate this. I had a similar reaction to XTC the first time I heard them.

But the case with XTC was that, upon repeated listens it sounds continuously less sappy and ends up in the not crap category. I think there's a half-life of "hipness" pretense, or just getting over a generation gap.

I table my vote.

Husker Du is untouchable. Brilliant.

Sugar is basically pretty good.

Ive not been a big fan of his solo records, but him live solo is fucking arresting to watch. He played a Fort Renoshow in DC two years ago with TMH's band, and it was one of the live music highlights of my life, just him and an acoustic guitar on a warm summer evening in a park. You can catch a little hint of how good it was with his solo performance that closes the (soon to be available) Brendan Canty-produced film, Burn to Shine, albeit without the length or summer eveningness.

Bob being a disco DJ? Who cares? He's Bob Mould. Short of him committing some kinda OJ-style madness, he's permanently not crap at this point.

NOT CRAP.

"I am going to drink from the elixir of skinhead violence which Bob Mould Made."

-T. M.

NOT CRAP with a big ol' waffle factor of 1.

i don't like husker du. so sue me.

I noticed recently that Bob Mould composed the theme tune to "The Daily Show". It was then performed for the show by They Might Be Giants.