ctrl-s wrote:Opinions may vary as to the preeminent album by the Du, but so far no one has mentioned the glaringly obvious fact that "Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill" off of New Day Rising is the greatest song of all time, space, and dimension, as determined by me upon listening to it five minutes ago for the first time in quite a while. Go put it on right now 'cause it will SMACK YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD.

I do not like this song at all. It's rubbish.

New Day Rising has many of Du's worst tracks: Heaven Hill, Celebrated Summer, I Appologise, Books About UFOs, 59 Times the Pain, Perfect Example...these songs I do not like at all.

Songs like 'No Reservation', 'Ice Cold Ice', 'Standing in the Rain', 'Up in the Air' are far superior to anything from NDR (bar NDR itself). Hart's drumming might be poor throughout WSS (presumably the drugs) but I his song writing (I'm more of a Mould than a Hart man) number amongst his very best. So do Mould's.

Adam CR wrote:

tommydski wrote:sugar were okay. if you liked 'warehouse' you should certainly like 'copper blue'. fuck it, there's stronger song-writing on 'copper blue' than on the final two husker du albums.

'intolerance' is also pretty good. again, only really for the husker du obsessive but it's not so bad.

This is fighting talk.

Screw you both: "Flip Your Wig" first!

sparky wrote:Screw you both: "Flip Your Wig" first!

I can see how a person might make this mistake.

Although bass player Greg Norton hasn't been mentioned thus far, apparently he got out of the music business and now owns and runs a restaurant. Has anyone ever been to it?

Here is the official website

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/

Check out the info about the "Nortons". I found it amusing that it says Greg Norton has been in the restaurant business for 26 years and no mention of Husker Du at all.

Adam CR wrote:

sparky wrote:Screw you both: "Flip Your Wig" first!

I can see how a person might make this mistake.

Mistake? I've just coughed out my belly button in apoplexy. Which is probably why tommydski is looking at me so funny. Damn rabbit.

DrAwkward wrote:"Heaven Hill" and "UFOs" blow away any single tune off Arcade, methinks.

Unless the Arcade tunes in question are "Something I Learned Today" or "Pink Turns to Blue." I stand by my choice of NDR for the reasons stated above, but those two off ZA are unfuckwithable in their own right. Introduction to Husker Du, summer 1984: Zen Arcade, side 1 track 1: ctrl-s, meet one (1) monstrous fucking punk rock bassline, loud and clear and catchy as hell. "I'm not INSI-AI-IIDE your BRAIIIIN!!! WAAAUGHHHHaugh oh WAAAHHahhhahhhhahhah!!!!"

I also have much love for Candy Apple Grey but do not regard it as the equal of the aforementioned two albums. Recommended: listening to "Crystal" at top volume on headphones on a flight sometime. Husker Du trumps any and all FAA regulations.

Wish I still had that 7th Street Entry cassette bootleg from '84. Hellacious roar in a small room.

ctrl+s wrote:Recommended: listening to "Crystal" at top volume on headphones on a flight sometime.

but presumably you should turn off the album before 'dead set on destruction'.

grant hart wrote:The Atlantic winds are high
There's only one virgin and she don't fly
And they can't land the plane
And they can't get home 'cause of a hurricane.

which reminds me of -

DrAwkward wrote:"Heaven Hill" and "UFOs" blow away any single tune off Arcade, methinks.

Strange, I usually use the latter of these two songs as Exhibit A when making the case that New Day is a completely one-sided album.

Adam CR, it is funny! You and I both love Warehouse but have such opposite opinions on Intolerance...I love Intolerance probably as much as any man loves any record. "Anything" is classic. "Angels Coming"? Classic. "All Of My Sense"? SPOOKY CLASSIC! Still, I'm not one to insist that everyone who doesn't fall in line with my tastes deserve death....just interesting.

I listen to mostly Warehouse and Land Speed Record. Oh and bootlegs, especially a certain 1980 show with great, non-Ultracore'd versions of stuff like "Do The Bee" and "Gilligan's Island". I dunno, I'm such a huge Du fan I can't really rate any album except I will say Flip Your Wig is the only one I think of as having any filler - I'm thinking of the two instrumentals and "Private Plane" and "Games". That's 4! That's an ungodly amount of filler for Du!

On one of my band's albums we did a Husker reference...I thought this was clever. At the very end of the last song, with a noisy sloppy ending, I say "Who cares, it's the last song on the album". I've always prayed someone would get that, but alas, no.

Interesting Metal Circus trivia: Mould recently revealed in an interview that "First Of The Last Calls" was his retort to Westerberg's "Something To Du"...how awesome is that! Pots calling kettles black and all...