Husker Du-I Apologize

[husker666]

This is definitely punk not metal but with melody ...the start of powerpop maybe or just a freaking great song....eitherway the huskers were such an inflential band in the 80s hence the famous frank black quote "when I started the pixies I only owned 5 discs and 3 of them where husker du" :)

[afoolisharrangement]

This sounds like REM murmur era on speed!! So melodic and amazing, great fucking track!

[schmittelt]

How 'bout it?

[POSEREXPOSURE1978]

classic tune, it never gets old.

[TheDamianstewart]

Haven't heard this in years and it still makes me bounce round the room!!!



[punkylass1]

Brilliant tune...although the subject...regarding his controlling father is sad....fuckin' love Husker Du!

[jenica2072]

CuteePie83, I couldn't have said it better. Amazing passion and fury. That's why I love them.

[bubblegumkiss2]

FOR ANY HUSKER FAN: There is an AWESOME cover of Celebrated Summer on YouTube by Anthrax. Def def def worth checking out. Dead serious. It rocks....!

[deadcommercialTV]

This song is so awesome :)

[BucketfulOfFruit]

this is so much more emphatic and 'real' then the green day/blink 182 etc carbon copies that came years after...up the huskers

[whammo64]

saw these guys in '86 or 87... the only live shows at the time to compared were by firehose, the feelies and the silos. long live 80s garage rock!

[phishman706]

@whammo64 i envy you so much. huskers and firehose are two of my favorite bands. i wasnt even born yet when you were ragin those shows. lucky man

[whammo64]

@phishman706 well, i guess there are pros and cons to being 40-something. also saw the minutemen (3 weeks before d. boon died), the replacements on the "tim" tour, U2 on the "war" tour, the fixx, REM on the "fables of the reconstruction" tour, camper van beethoven (original line up), screaming trees after the first album, 10,000 maniacs before they had an album, and a handful of lesser-known bands that stayed that way.

[whammo64]

@phishman706 also, if you don't already have them, i can't recommend the feelie's first two albums enough, as well as drivin' and cryin's "scarred but smarter".

[RockOlaIan]

saw this band at the charlotte in leicester 87 ish! best gig ever! they ripped the roof off!! husker du reunion please!!!!

[sickpoola]

with Beatles&Nirvana,Husker Du are my favorite band......

[spuffchops70]

This has to be one of the punchiest & most heartfelt songs ever recorded. One just doesn't hear stuff like this these days, or at least I haven't heard it (but then, maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.) Sorry for being so hopelessly nostalgist, folks. I apologize.

[noisesionoise]

this is the best

[GLUEBAGxZACKx666]

bought this record for ten bux a few months ago . its a good record to fuck to

[bikestamp1]

I saw these guys at Ralph's in Worcester, Ma in the mid 80's. Was one of the best shows ever in one of the best clubs.

[beowulven]

Read Dennis Cooper.

[FuttBucker667]

@beowulven No one should read Cooper, he's a terrible, juvenile writer.

[beowulven]

@FuttBucker667

This from a 24-year-old calling himself "FuttBucker". Get a job, you.

[FuttBucker667]

@beowulven I'm 18 and you're just jealous I came up with something as witty as Futtbucker and you didn't. Anyway, Cooper sucks, he's a bad writer and all he talks about is carving up teenaged boys. I mean is there one character who isn't a boy hungry pedophile? Read Celine or Kafka, you know, people with talent.

[beowulven]

@FuttBucker667

I haven't read Celine but I've heard her CDs; she's not so great.

[lwilson85]

@beowulven

Lolz

[FuttBucker667]

@beowulven No wonder you're so jealous of my wit. You can't come up with anything clever.

[akastuntfish]

good comment, pity hes a heroin addict great drummer nova mob were a cool band but couldnt keep it together

[bubblegumkiss2]

Grant sounds like a FUCKING MACHINE GUN on this track.. What a glorious rhythm section part.. Talk about a PARTY!!!!!! The WHO wishes they wrote this song, I'll bet :)

[malvolio29]

...that was great...good times...thx...

[mrhumanbeeing]

I saw them sometime in the early 80' at "larrys hide away' in toronto, great fuckin show...

[ffairlane57]

I saw them play this in providence, R.I. in 1985, and I was blown away.

[zoomerboomer666]

fuck yea great band. good shit

[veiza]

The entire globe may apologize not to made u guys as much successful as u deserved! A band the rock planet should be proud to celebrate, ever!!!

[orange105]

The band I was in used to play this song...such a classic!

[Unsatisfied17]

How du u get the little dots above the Us? haha might sound like a stupid question but its frustrating cuz on itunes sometimes their name has the dots and sometimes it doesnt...haha i luv Husker Du (even without the dots in the name)

[Mermelaada]

ü just copy it

or ALT + 666

[echoplus2020]

they're called umlauts btw

[morgoth195]

Hold the alt key and hit 129 on the right-hand numerical part of the keyboard (to the right of the delete button, near the num-lock button), and you'll get u's with umlauts.

[revived0103]

@morgoth195 what if you're on a laptop that doesn't have the right hand numerical part, only the numbers on top?

[spuffchops70]

Ich Bin Doktor Umlaut. Husker Du played der dog's bollocks hardcore punk rock, with der umlauts or not does not matter, nicht wahr?

[beowulven]

I've always thought it was funny that the member with the Studio 54 approved, flavor-savor mustache was the only heterosexual in the band.

[olafbigandglad]

kinda like the way that the only guy in zz top without a beard is named................. frank beard.

[aleji0]

@olafbigandglad I must have read that joke 20 times and it doesn't ever stop being funny as hell.

[willthebighead]

I swear that's like the billionth comment that says that haha

[sickpoola]

unbelivable band:::::::::::

[CuteePie83]

They broke all the rules. Their rebellion was not in their image per se, but in the physical, ineffable fact that they did things their way. Music is not a bunch of rules and laws.. it's a tool box to do with what you will (can). Same way Dickens wrote Tale of Two Cities, Husker Du wrote I Apologize and simply embarrassed the other so-called metal bands that were strutting around like they owned the place. Well they didn't. Why do I love you so ?

[ffairlane57]

There was something truly ver very different about them, and the way they wrote songs.  The hooks were sick.

[morgoth195]

Yes, they were very different for their time. I would say that it is the fact that they were the first to mix hardcore with melody, but that description doesn't really do them justice. Hüsker Dü were simply ahead of their time.

[gaspanda]

You can't believe that this and candy apple grey are nearly 25 years old. incredible...

[beowulven]

And without one "emo" bone in their body...

[antoniozart]

ha! I agree 100 percent!

[Shirls1987]

@Superspinster What the fuck's up your ass? Are you serious with this obnoxious post? Cutee's comments are AWESOME and TRUE, actually, to the letter.

[theguyondacouch381]

@CuteePie83 marry me?

[theguyondacouch381]

@CuteePie83 marry me?

[jasonbigelow]

@CuteePie83 Well said,punk rock was always whatever you wanted it to be, People lost sight of that.

[ReadSchopenhauer]

@CuteePie83 metal???? no way dude....Huskers were punk

[hippojuice23]

@ReadSchopenhauer labels labels labels... they are punk, though!

[42belvedere]

@CuteePie83 - I like your reference to Dickens. Very poignant.

[sleakitweasel]

I was visibly PALAPATATING as I lowered the sharp end of the needle onto this record way back when.

Bob, Greg and Grant - Thanks!

[gabseconds]

rock on!!!!!!!!!!!

[noctumfire]

great song the du still rocks

[itsadurg]

this is my favorite husker du song ever.