New Day Rising
 : The first four seconds of this influential Minneapolis trio's fifth album pretty much set the table: drum shots like an anxious heartbeat, then a sudden wall of fuzzy, high-treble electric-guitar noise. The choruses are occasionally catchy, especially [... more]
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Script of the Bridge
Why have you never heard of them?: Easily one of the most powerful sounds to come out of the eighties. Before the Chameleons nothing sounded so layered and thick. After hearing the first song I was hooked on the Chameleons, and have been since the [... more]
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All Ears: Cultural Criticism, Essays and Obituaries
From Amazon.com: Dennis Cooper is best known as the author of transgressive novels such as Guide and Try, but he's also done his share of journalism. All Ears collects work from a variety of publications, including a profile of Sonny Bono that originally [... more]
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Beyond
From Amazon.com: Since bassist Lou Barlow left Dinosaur Jr. in 1989, the band--whose last record was 1997's expansive Hand It Over--has largely become an alter-ego moniker for guitarist/vocalist J Mascis. But now the original trio (including drummer [... more]
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Intolerance
Husker Du's Other Singer/Songwriter: For a time, I was quite the Husker Du fan. Grant Hart was the singer/songwriter of some of the best material from this legendary post-punk band. "Statues", "Diane", "If I Told You", and & [... more]
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Flip Your Wig
: Brutality was always the central selling point for this loud and fast Minneapolis trio, but there was a strange development after five years on the independent SST Records. Melodies happened. The last album before jumping to big Warner Bros. Records, 19 [... more]
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Metal Circus
From Amazon.com: This is the album on which the monster that was Hüsker Dü truly came alive. From here on out, this Minneapolis trio would define new directions and open new vistas for rock music with every release. Bob Mould's spectacularly [... more]
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Makes No Sense At All/8 Miles
Apocalypse NOW!: As definitive a single song as "Stairway to Heaven" was for Led Zeppelin, "Eight Miles High" flies so close to the sun, Bob Mould can't even make his mouth properly form the words at the halcyonic climax. "Love [... more]
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Zen Arcade
From Amazon.com: They didn't yet have terms like "alternative rock" when Minneapolis's Husker Du made their mark as one of the 1980's most influential bands. With two skilled songwriters--guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart--the genre- [... more]
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Land Speed Record
From Amazon.com: Land Speed Record fully exposes the rage and manic energy that drove Hüsker Dü to dizzying heights of creative and critical success; it's an incredible (though appallingly poor-sounding) document of a live Minneapolis show from [... more]
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Warehouse Songs & Stories
Amazon.com essential recording: "Ice Cold Ice," in which Bob Mould rails against "barren lands and barren minds" and Grant Hart falls in on the supercatchy chorus, exemplifies the Hüsker Dü career development that peaks on [... more]
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Candy Apple Grey
From Amazon.co.uk: Five years on from Candy Apple Grey, the roster of every major label would be heaving with angry young rock & roll powered by surging electric guitars, howling vocals and non-specific angst. This, of course, was a result of the [... more]
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