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Andy wrote:I challenge anyone to come up with a better song than "Where Diamonds Are Halos".

For some reason I always thought that was a cover.

"I Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely" is one of my favorite songs ever. I still get chills every time I hear the opening bars.

burun wrote:

Andy wrote:I challenge anyone to come up with a better song than "Where Diamonds Are Halos".

For some reason I always thought that was a cover.

No, but "Armenia City In the Sky" is a Who cover.

burun wrote:"I Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely" is one of my favorite songs ever. I still get chills every time I hear the opening bars.

It wins just for the second line "Don't want to know if you are less than lonely."

Copper Blue is an excellent record. I don't know why the fuck all y'alls be hatin' on Sugar.

Plus, the super excellent copper box versions with the band-taken Polaroid inside are swell.

I have a Nova Mob boot where Chris Hestler is doing a fine impersonation of Bob on various Grant songs like Anything and Where you gonna land....Grant Needs Bob's guitar and Bob needs Grant's vocals and drums. You know the ego is taking over when you do your own backing vocals. My vote for Zen Arcade.

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!

M_a_x wrote:

Andy wrote: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.

No, I know it's David Barbe's song, but I like Bob's songs on there plenty, and I still love the Sugar dynamic. I love the David/Malcolm rhythm section, and those first two records are great. And yeah, FU:EL was a huge bummer and I gave up after that.

I could have gone to the show at Metro where Sugar recorded all the live tracks, before Copper Blue came out, but I was stupid and figured it wouldn't sell out. Duh.

AAAAHHHHH!!! Tough choice! I went with New Day Rising for "powerline" and "terms of psychic warfare". But they are all excellent. Except for Candy Apple Grey which just doesn't stand up to the others. Some good songs but "No Promise Have I Made" and "Too Far Down" are skippers.

i'd like to throw out some mad street love for Warehouse. I really really like this record. "Friend, You've Got to Fall" ranks among my favorite songs ever. With the songs alternating between the songwriters, there's a momentum to this record that makes it so amazing.

From what I've understood, the "Warehouse" that is being referenced was what housed their old practice space and where they wrote most of the songs for the record. It is in downtown St. Paul and is called "The Rossmor". It still stands but has been re-done and is now all condos.

Probably Metal Circus for me, too, but honestly, when I hear any of these Huskers albums now, I wonder why I loved them all so goddamn much when I was a kid. Each record has something so embarrassingly awful on it that I'd have to apologize for picking it as my first in this poll. On Metal Circus, that'd be "Diane."

Oh--I don't think I saw anybody make the correction above that the flip side of "Statues" is "Amusements" (somebody asked if it was "In A Free Land.")

Anyway, god bless the Huskers for being the gateway band I so desperately needed, growing up in small-town Minnesota, but I can't stand more than two minutes of those records anymore.