Best Husker Du Record
61(my mistake--I guess he was just adding the second 7" to the list--wasn't clear to me.)
Best Husker Du Record
62I vote for New Day Rising.
What tips it for me is that the lyrics are genuinely lyrical.
Here they are acronymically ranked:
NDR
ZA
FYW
WHSAS
MC
CAG
EVFA(AM)
LSR
What tips it for me is that the lyrics are genuinely lyrical.
Here they are acronymically ranked:
NDR
ZA
FYW
WHSAS
MC
CAG
EVFA(AM)
LSR
Best Husker Du Record
63To explain the middle part of my ranking of Husker Du's records:
Flip Your Wig seems to me to be stronger than any of the records I've ranked below it with more emotional impact in the melodies.
I think Candy Apple Grey has more filler on it than Warehouse: Songs and Stories (a bad title as Tim Midgett has stated elsewhere on this board).
Candy Apple Grey has a good EP's worth of songs on it in my opinion; even then it wouldn't be as potent as Metal Circus.
Flip Your Wig seems to me to be stronger than any of the records I've ranked below it with more emotional impact in the melodies.
I think Candy Apple Grey has more filler on it than Warehouse: Songs and Stories (a bad title as Tim Midgett has stated elsewhere on this board).
Candy Apple Grey has a good EP's worth of songs on it in my opinion; even then it wouldn't be as potent as Metal Circus.
Best Husker Du Record
64you know, I just did a reiterating/overview the B-Sides and Rarities, and it comes as no surprise to see how many of the ..."discarded" songs are G. Hart tunes...
Best Husker Du Record
65Now that I think of it, can I just vote for "Eight Miles High" as my favorite Huskers anything?
Let's stick together and futurize our attitudes!
Best Husker Du Record
66mr.arrison wrote:Crystal
Man, this really IS a fantastic song - a last gasp. Pop Husker Du isn't terrible, but there's a real experimental insecurity in an album like Zen Arcade, maybe a sort of immaturity, that makes that album great. They seemed to have settled comfortably into a role, or an identity - Bob Mould especially - and stopped being interesting.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Best Husker Du Record
68M_a_x wrote:Andy wrote:And don't anybody dis Sugar. I challenge anyone to come up with a better song than "Where Diamonds Are Halos".
That's not even a Bob song, though, so hardly representative of the rest of their catalog. It's by David Barbe. He had a couple good songs, but what winds up on FU:EL? Goddamn "Company Book". Boggles the mind. You're right, I do love "Diamonds..." but what we wound up with was a live version on a b-sides record. I wonder if Bob purposely did that to squash it.
Sugar was hardly a band, more of a Bob Mould project (likewise with Nova Mob/Grant). Sugar was okay but kind of a simplified radio-friendly version of Bob's material on the last couple Husker records.
My favourite post-Husker record by any of 'em is still Grant's "Intolerance" - what a great album!
Bob used to talk a lot about wanting more of David's songs on the albums but company book was the only one that made it. The Beer commercial, Where diamonds are halos, In the eyes of my friends, frustration, Anyone, Sapphire Capitlol and When Annabelle cries all were cut or ended up as b-sides. Sugar was definitely a band in concert - compare the live version of In the eyes of my friends' to the studio one. What I found weird was Bob doing all his own backing vocals on record and David doing them live.
Best Husker Du Record
69154 wrote:either new day rising or metal circuis. god, both of those records are so great.
zen arcade i find myself listening to the first few songs, skipping about 8, listening to every other song or so 'til that god awful jam at the end. i just don't get its masterpiece status.
Simple... NDR and FYW hadn't come out yet. ZA was a punk record that did a very punk thing by breaking all the rules of punk, which made it, like, meta-punk, duuude. It was a huge step forward in the genre, beginning the splintering of indie rock from punk. Moreover, you need ZA to get from MC to NDR.
I'm surprised more people didn't vote for FYW. It seemed like their peak. As great as NDR was, and as much sense as it makes (no pun intended) to vote for NDR, FYW was NDR taken to its logical conclusion, aged and refined.
Best Husker Du Record
70I always wanted to get a tricked out car with a huge amp and dozens of 2" and 3" speakers and drive around blasting New Day Rising. you could hear me coming up the street going SSSSSSS.