Husker Du profile "The Minneapolis Sound"

[liquidmob]

"Sort of like playing over here in the United States except you're in a different country." Heh heh. Norton FTW!

[sarahsillygoose]

what song plays at 2:11 ??

[HUSKERchout]

@sarahsillygoose

Find Me

[Norks74]

@sarahsillygoose

That song you will be referring to is 'Find Me' from 'Flip your wig'.

I do believe....

[GiantStoneEater11]

Still got the ticket stub from the show at the U of MN in 1982--the show that got punk rock banned from the U. Husker Du opened for Dead Kennedys!!!!!!! DK had 'In God We Trust, Inc.' out so it was their fastest fastest stuff--kids were stage diving and the whole scene was so new that the crowd kinda forgot how and he busted his head--Jello Biafra stopped the show and scolded the crowd ("CATCH HIM!!!") but that was enough for the U--no more hardcore. History now.

[mikerage87]

They do know this. What they are sure of is the relentless pace in which they turn out milestone after milestone until the engines steam runs out and all we have left is the evidence that a band of such can produce that much for a fiery pop band such as themselves. If they know one things for sure, it's that they work hard at what they do and the reward is knowing you put in the time and effort to create such a legacy such as themselves. 

[facethruster138]

greg nortons halarious

[Joe1039]

I agree with the dean: best american rock band of the 80's. no other band was as consistent, inherently depressed or just simply mind-blowing as the du. They played pop music at heart through the punk aesthetic, that aesthetic however (maybe just shitty luck at the end, it happened to sugar as well) robbed them of being as big as REM. Oh well, considering most REM casual fans are only familiar with losing my religion, I'm sure that is a good thing. 

[superskidd]

hd the replacements and b flag-were the leaders of all to come

[Jordellfreshbreeze]

Best American band period.

[jacotango]

@Jordellfreshbreeze Hell Yeah! Blew all those fucking hair bands away!

[pbh94515]

I love Bob's words at the end. Very American. Inspiring actually. We need more of that today.

[chree2008]

that dude really sounded like a jerkoff.

its like playing here only in a different country..

[jacotango]

@chree2008 Found it funny but I loved the DU.

[braindamagehurts44]

2:20

first time ive ever heard gerg speak and he says that

[Sagrdum]

what s name of this song at begginng

[nikkari69]

Every everything from the album Flip Your Wig.

[bleachno9]

sorta like playin here in the united states but in a different country, LOL

[THEinterrobang]

Awesome. I remember my great-cousin saying the same thing Bill Batson said, that they were awful. One of my favorite bands of all time.

[AndyFrye14]

this was on PBS in Philly about 20 yrs ago, when i was in high school. they liberatedmme from Bon Jovi Land, thank god.

[jacotango]

@AndyFrye14 Hehe, very well put! :)

[GEOpz838]

Please, reunite guys!!!

[publanski]

Or at least remaster the albums and re-release them!

[DanPat121]

God, this is vintage.

[anonomousous]

im from england and I get what they mean by saying playing europe is sorta like playing in the US. Us europeans really arent that different from most American's though we like to think so.

[morgoth195]

Yeah, you Europeans definitely DO like to think so. But we Americans are just as guilty of that line of thinking.

[njbrit007]

Husker Du is better than Nirvana

[machiaveliyoohoo]

Agree

[wot2wot2]

huker du is better than anal sex

[idontknough]

Agreed but anal sex is a close second

[machiaveliyoohoo]

love it at the end where they play Hart's "Green Eyes" , one of the best songs of the 80s hardcore/SST era . "It's a great big world with other guys, I feel so deep when I look at those green eyes"..sigh..like most of Husker Du's best work, part beautiful, part creepy at the same time. They had the "bittersweet" thing happening in their songs along with an "otherworldliness" which made their work timeless and special.

[incurableparanoiac]

heart huskers, hate christgau

[TallFastLoud]

"So what's it like playing in Europe?"

"Sorta like playing here in the United States...except you're in a different country." hahaha

[tbzeee]

i knew it! robert christgau IS poindexter! "blah blah blah flaubert blah blah." whatta douche. and look at those sad punks around 2:00 bravely trying to mosh to "Find Me", one of bob's most droningly depressing songs.

[razorraymarv]

neil27a: have to disagree..the huskers in my opinion, got better with each record ( although granted, New Day Rising was an amazing älbum) and in fact reached their zenith with "Warehouse" one of the great rock records of the past 25 years.Pretty much not a duff track on the double album with "Up in the Air", "She's a woman" and "Turn it around" as good as any written by a rock band in the 80's..Not at all overrated , Husker Du produced enough great music to deserve their legendary status.

[neil27a]

over-rated(in my opinion). every falls apart &more +NDR are exc & ZA mostly pretty impressive. A lot of warehouse sucked I thought.I just personally find their later stuff boring/ basic. Westerberg took the replacements the same way towards the very end.I didnt enjoy. I think Hart was the one who came out with better quality music after husker and he gets too little credit for some of the best husker songs being his ones. Nova mob had a few great quality songs to me too. Just my opinion.TY 4 vid

[deanscream]

I heart Husker Du

[dirtbag1713]

23 year old guy also born too late

atleast these guys are alive still(not that they'll get back together but one can always dream) i really wish i could have seen the minutemen.. rip D Boon

[976EVOL]

AH, FUCKING RAD!!! Ive seen Mould 2x but I wish I saw Husker. Theyre my fave band and Im a 25 year old female. BORN IN THE WRONG TIME!!

[sonicbuzzard]

well i'm 41 and had the pleasure of seeing the huskers in milwaukee in 1987. They played the warehouse album beginning to end in order. you are right the music of the 80s was fair superior. I'll bet I have seen Bob/Sugar at least 20 times. Enjoy Bob.

[LDZMAN5075]

Grant hart is my best friends uncle that is sooo wierd i never knew they were this popular

[postwhatever]

Check the roadie's t-shirt.. Looks like another mighty band making a cameo.. :)

[RCharan821]

Wire? Wouldn't have caught that, man. Good call.  Saw Wire play in Philly a few years back. What a great band!

[poughkeepsiejohn]

There was something going on in Minneapolis in the 1980's. I mean, you had Prince, The Time, Sheila E., Soul Asylum, The Replacements and of course, these guys. Funny thing is, not only did these groups make fantastic, timeless music but most of these people are still involved in making compelling music today. Certainly a lot more compelling than what passes off as Top Forty.

Here's to The Twin Cities!

[prinznevsky]

shit. the good ol' days. no MTV(kinda), no internet, no "my(murdoch's?)space", no bullshit "indie cred" to live up to(well, kinda), no pigeonholing(well sorta). damn, i've argued myself out. i guess the "good ol' days" of punk aren't much different now, except for the Net of course. at least back then you could play a "punk" gig and get all the weirdos to show up. Now everyone(IE: no one) is a "weirdo" (thanks Kurt...),and wants to "tour" like it's band camp. at least gas was cheap in the '80s

[outnumberedbysheep]

pitty they didn't tour Australia they might have enjoyed it. I wonder if they owned any Saints or Died Pretty records. Its hard down here at the arse end of the world. I was fighting in the trenches baby, holding the fort for Husku Du down here. It was lonely. There were many casualties......sorry, my mind is melting

[anobar]

Grant is a great musician, just don't ever ask for directions from him. lol

[colico14]

That's awesome! :)

[anobar]

lol yeah..he lives a few blocks from my house. I was asking a buddy of mine for directions to a show he was playing in St.Paul, and Grant gave me directions the EXACT opposite way lmao, and when I tried interrupting him, he all sternly goes "Let me finish"...good guy though. He gave my brother a copy of "Zen in the art of the guitar".

[ullefry]

I'm sure someone have already said this, but Hüsker Dü i danish, not norwegian. And we dont spell it with "¨" - Something that people for some reason found cool in the 80'.

But the translations is correct!

Now you know.

AMAZING BAND!!!

[Andre2010]

if only there was an underground scene boiling under the surface of the present stagnant music like there was during the 80s id have faith in the music to come

[indietrash]

«it's sort'a like playing over here in the United States, except you're in a different country» lol

[zakryan79]

fuckin killer band always.

[sd39hogger]

Sheeesh, they got this old thing on here. I still have my beat up old VHS recording of this when it was first aired on KTCA. Huskers, Replacements, and Magnolias FOREEEEEVER!!!!

[bigtophalloween]

I agree with all of the above, except the Magnolias. I never liked 'em that much...

[nurbeltoccs]

I love Husker Du. There simply just isn't many bands you can route for nowadays.

[kc7fys]

Huskers put on the best First Ave shows. White light. No bullshit. They really shredded.

[forakiller]

best lyric writers ever!!!!!

[kc7fys]

Billy! You look great. Saw your brother just a few days ago at the State Fair for Suicide Commandos.

[rufustrunt]

This video will help you see why Husker Du broke up. Watch carefully the intereaction between Grant Hart and Greg Norton during the interviews. Grant Hart is CLEARLY stoned here and I thing Bob is buzzing a bit. Greg really seems uncomfortable in this setting.

[jjj7477]

wonderous....

[mikescircus]

Before there was the hype of Seattle there was the Minneapolis scene. As a teenage kid in 1980's Los Angeles, I went to several Husker shows circa 1984, 1985. The boys never let us down. Always kicked ass. SST records was So Calif based so they toured out west a lot. Home to Black Flag, Minutemen, etc. but the Huskers could crank it out like one of the best. Thank you Minneapolis!!!!!

[HUSKERchout]

lucky