“For all the speed and clamor of their music,” the music journalist Michael Azerrad once wrote, “Hüsker Dü was perhaps the first post-hardcore band of its generation to write songs that could withstand the classic acid test of being played on acoustic guitar.” That’s an excellent point, but the heck with that, I want to hear Grant playing an “I’d also recorded a slide guitar on ‘Girl Who lives on Heaven Hill,'” Grant Hart tells us. Many people — including the band members themselves, reportedly — have always rued this peculiar mix, but to me it’s the ideal vehicle for the group’s sound. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Get track Meanwhile there was Bob, right at the front of the stage with that iconic Flying-V. The track is backed with piano, and the effect is perfect: almost as if the song were written for piano from the start. 3
But while Mould has achieved substantial notoriety and commercial success in his long post-Hüsker career, Hart has labored in comparative obscurity. 59 Times the Pain #10. These were big, sweaty, chain-smoking guys who obviously hadn’t shaved or showered in a while. 1 I had no idea there was one. 2
Labels: send music to New Day Rising, c/o David Leibowitz 2416 S 43rd St, Omaha, NE 68105. Spot shared the engineering tasks with the band members and their longtime collaborator Steve Fjelstad, but as Hart puts it, “SST decided that we were not to be the masters of our own destiny, and sent Spot to babysit/spy/sabotage our record. *** I said of the songs he wrote, not the songs he sang or performed. 1980
2 “But when I showed up after that session, Spot [the album’s co-engineer] and Bob issued an ultimatum: either the piano goes from ‘UFOs’ or the guitar goes from ‘Heaven Hill.’ After stating my case, which was ‘what does one have to do with the other?’ I relented and said if one had to go, let it be the slide guitar. Hart takes the all the nicety and sing-songy pleasures of “It’s Not Funny Anymore” or “Pink Turns to Blue” — songs that are almost too easy to like — and twists and bends and sets fire to it. New Day Rising #2. I wish to be an artist, not a celebrity. “New Day Rising,” the song, begins with a lead-in of anxious drumming — Hart pounding away, as if to say “Let’s this this fucking thing started!” — and then comes the crescendo, a guitar-blast crashing over you in a great squalling wave: equally furious and melodic; chaotic yet strangely orchestral.
Brings back many awesome memories.
But when I flip through the Hüsker canon, I can’t help giving Hart the edge.
He had been staying at my parents house and causing some problems there. Greg always kept himself trim and dapper, but Bob and Grant weren’t going hungry, that’s for sure.It’s only fair, then, that we should revisit the Hüsker discography, making note of various song titles as they The band’s final course is the delectable double LP: I enjoyed this as much as the first time I read it five years ago. 12 Songs. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now. For you I present the following addendum.
5:57. I bought this LP. These would be “Terms of Psychic Warfare” and “Books About UFOs.” Together with “I Apologize,” they are among the small batch of what I call The Great Lost Pop Songs of the 1980s.
Except that’s only the first side.Only two of the cuts on side two belong to Hart, but both are unforgettable. The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill #3. 1 Radio Hüsker Dü heralded a new era in rock with the prophetic title track from their fourth album, New Day Rising. Listen to music from New Day Rising like Pushing Me Away, Hired Angel & more. Available with an Apple Music subscription. But I think those assholes were on to something.That shouldn’t be an insult to Mould. Terms of Psychic Warfare #9. Bob Mould and Grant Hart have written tightly crafted, melodic pop songs that don't compromise Hüsker's volcanic, unchecked power.