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Your favorite Hüsker Dü album

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Topic: Your favorite Hüsker Dü album

Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Subject: Your favorite Hüsker Dü album
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 16:12

Another non-prog band pulled randomly out of the hat.

Well ... ? And have you got any idea why it's your favorite?

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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 16:32

This hat must be filled with tons of stuff ive never heard of.

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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 15:34

Tough call between Zen Arcade and Flip Your Wig.

I'll go with Flip Your Wig since the melodies are great and the songs are still varied angry tunes (Divide And Conquer) and gorgous melodic though still pretty noisy tunes (Green Eyes). Songs like "Games" and "Flexible Flyer" lurk in-between, and are amazing. My only faults would be the reverbed drum sound hasn't aged so well...but I guess it adds an almost floaty atmosphere that works well in some songs, and "The Baby Song" which is a useless annoying interlude, but luckily short.

Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 15:40

I have a hard time listening to them, but when I do listen it is to 'New Day Rising' - good stuff.

Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 23 2012 at 15:48

Prog Sothoth wrote:

Tough call between Zen Arcade and Flip Your Wig.

I'll go with Flip Your Wig since the melodies are great and the songs are still varied angry tunes (Divide And Conquer) and gorgous melodic though still pretty noisy tunes (Green Eyes). Songs like "Games" and "Flexible Flyer" lurk in-between, and are amazing. My only faults would be the reverbed drum sound hasn't aged so well...but I guess it adds an almost floaty atmosphere that works well in some songs, and "The Baby Song" which is a useless annoying interlude, but luckily short.

I agree with all of this. Let me add too that "Find Me" from Flip Yr Wig is my favorite Husker Du song.

Flip Your Wig wins. "Metal Circus" would be near the top for me too, but it's an EP so that's presumably why it's not listed.

Husker Du's always been a frustrating band for me. They've never had a good drum sound, and the guitar roar just doesn't have enough depth to it. It just always sounds like it needed to be recorded better. The later albums on Warner Brothers did a little better, but they lost a lot of their rage by then. So my favorite stuff is the happy medium between raging furious and well recorded.

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Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 23:29

Zen Arcade, of course. It's a great concept album, with one explosive song after another. By the way, one's listening experience of this album isn't complete without hearing the "Eight Miles High" single the band released at the same time. Crazy to leave that off the album, since it's so great. Legendary, in fact.