Periodically I get on this kick in which I'll listen to one of my favorite bands so much that I eventually tire of listening to them. I've been on a HUGE Husker Du kick the last few months, and I've had a hard time listening to any other band. This song is one of the reasons why.
Reminds me of the time I was all fucked up on booze and couch syrup and forced a friend of mine to listen this roughly 20 times in a row. Still gets my vote for the most passionate vocal performance ever recorded. Epic, epic, epic.
I just have no idea for opinion, it's so amazing. I felt last time like I really want to, no, not want to, like I really desire to hear this band, because I haven't listened ti them so much. It's just amazing. I knew I'll listen to this.
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Why does this lovely man sing so awfully? - Why does he not sing so nicely as the lovely men in the original version?
He sounds like a badly drawn school boy who has temper tantrum. This is really not nice. And the guitars aren't nice sounding neither! - This is really a very very bad interpretation of this wonderful and lovely song.
I just can not believe that they do such a bad thing, I mean, 8 miles high God is near then!
@MrBaebel You have to realise that the same sentiment wont sound the same 20 years later. In order to be true to the atmosphere of the original song, it was right to pay their dues in this way. To play it the same would just be a superficial cover fit for a wedding party or school prom. It would be lost. If you want the sound of the original the only answer is the original.
@breadrollboy This is just a deconstruction of the original. The punk-rock mentality to give this kind of treatment to timeless songs of the prior generation was fashionable around the time of this recording. Though, to me, this sounds more dated than the one recorded in 1966. Not that it sucks. I kind of dig it.
Awesome version. You can believe that 40 years ago when Roger wrote this,that his passion was way way more than Husker. Nice remake but McGuinn wrote it and had more passion than anyone who walked the planet.
Awesome version. You can believe that 40 years ago when Roger wrote this,that his passion was way way more than Husker. Nice remake but McGuinn wrote ti and had more passion than anyone who walked the panet.
1983, Total Access studio. The band was drinking coffee with meth added to the grounds. 8 Miles High was recorded as a warm up track for the Zen Arcade seesion. "My vocal performance on that track was like the wailing of an abandoned child or a stricken lone coyote howling on the side of the road." - Bob Mould, autobiography.
nice comment mdjones2112.. the last third of it all is so worth the wait! he really goes nuts!!!! Thank god somebody had a tape machine rolling back then..
@juliajuliagenevieve - try the East Village on Halloween on Special K! Yea! Smoking DPT w/ crazy cult members! 43 hits in a single day! Those were the 80's!
When Charles Thompson (Black Francis, Frank Black, Chubsy Wubsy, whatever) was looking for a bass player for the newly formed Pixies, he placed the following ad in a Boston music paper, "Bassist wanted for rock band. Influences: Husker Du and Peter Paul & Mary." Kim Deal was the only one who responded.
This is one of those kinds of songs (and Huskers is one of those kinds of bands) that makes you feel that maybe, just maybe, smashing the hell out of something isn't really destroying something but rather a form of spiritual liberation that can't be attained in any other way.
@mdjones2112 There's a twisted yet very straight forward logic, wisdom, and self-realization in that statement...."can't be attained in any other way" = brilliant!!! 'Specially since this song has been an emotional outlet for me since I first it heard in my teens in the mid 80's.... The words mean little...But the delivery is "IT"
i love this cover so much more than the original - because it is about emotion, feeling. when Bob sings the last verse - he gets lost in it. its just him, his guitar, and a primordial screaming. sends shivers each and every time. among the best covers of any song, ever. pure perfection. and the tone of his guitar just slays me.
I couldn't agree more. This is more than a "cover" but rather a radical revamp of the original, so much so that it stands alone as a song entirely in its own right, as if the original never existed. The sound of the Byrds' version has virtually nothing to do with Husker Du's except the opening. Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and Blue Cheer's "Summertime Blues" achieve this too.
Bottom line: light years better than the original, and eternally monumental.
Unquestionably, one could argue that this wonderful Byrds cover, once dripping with San Francisco's flowery past in late 60's, not only broke this relatively new band (though they obviously would have made it any number of other ways .. eventually), but it stands, in my opinion, as the most radical -- and artistic -- cover of the 20th century. I really feel the Husker's studio version of this track created something far, far greater than the sum of it's parts. This one was truly monstrous.
Some music critic once wrote that if The Byrds' version was about a good acid trip, Husker Du's was about a bad one. This is the best bad trip ever. The first time I heard them was this song. Been thanking Husker Du ever since.
I really - really - like the original by Byrds. But I must say this is brilliant cover version made in punk style. Amazing so different in style from the original and yet so good. Thanks Drfeesh!
wow.... haven't heard this in a while... .. this is how to do a cover version, imo!!!... can't outdo the chiming majesty of the original but a balls out soulful reworking... like dinosaur jr's 'feel a whole lot better' .... a middle finger up to todays' spirit crushing mediocrity
@ejectorerector There's no point in having anything with today's sound. Poor kids - what waist of a generation - the IPOD lost generation. No sound no talent no passion no hope.
@salinagrrrl69 i think your just a trolling douchebag who should just stfu & stop spamming good tracks on youtube..your not going to hear the underground in the clubs because there are no real clubs anymore, lol
@NightTerrorRecs I have shot pool with Bob Mould cannoed with the Decendants hiked with Henry Rollins n on n on.... When this current generation can write a memmorable 'Eight Miles High' that will be remembered and covered by other generations later and play n play forever n everyone knows the words everywhere............then tell me to STFU~!
@salinagrrrl69 i'll tell you whatever the hell i like, the more you talk the more you reveal what an insecure troll you are - yeah and i hitchiked across america with elvis, rofl..blow it out your ass and PLEASE, stfu, you are just making an idiot out of yourself. hippy douchebag.
@NightTerrorRecs I believe that you are just.......just a little boy aren't you. A little boy that uses BIG TUFF GUY words to make his nutz seem made of iron as well his rightious absolute clear view of things. If this is any indication of the creativity of this generation in your words then all is lost.
@NightTerrorRecs: So you would prefer appeasement, surrender, and dhimmitude to the murdering muslim savages? That is very sad.
That said, salinagrrl's lamenting the next generation of music is off base. After all, when this song came out this band was relatively unknown and on an indie label. Most of the teens of that generation (mine) were into glam metal and hair bands of all things. It took a while for acts like Husker Du to be respected, and the respect often came after they were gone.
@NickB1967 pfft! at your first sentence and pfft! at you! what is it with zionazi trolls stooping so low as to carry on their propaganda war underneath youtube music clips? turn off your megaphone app and get some sleep you fucking dimwit. judging by your first sentence you learned nothing from the underground music of the era you grew up in. you are sad. you are a fucking idiot. you are a troll. if israel and zionism is so fucking great then fucking move there. cunt.
@NightTerrorRecs: And YOU clearly learned nothing from the 1980's. A commie dupe turned muslim dupe. How much Sandinista cum did you fellate? Your fawning obedience to the communists was poilitical porno. I imagine that sap Jello Biafra is still digesting fermented commie cum in his gut. The best bands of the era avoided commie political pretense.
That said, salinagrrl is still wrong. There are underground genius artists today working away in "Justin Bieber land". We shall see who breaks it.
@TheRealMikeEClark Back in the day they said the same thing as you did here. But to say REM's Superman cover was second was only a point of view. That's what they said......back in the day.
@PDXLimey I could not have said it better. This is THE only song that can make me stop in my tracks. I cannot describe the feeling. but it is like you said- hairs go up! Pure energy!
@subsamadhi got that right. or their conforming like whimps to get a place on the radio. i missed the good old days when musicans actually put their soul into their music, and not simply to make a quick buck.
@DeathSquadDesign I'm no idiot. I've worked in music for thirty + years and I know the difference between instruments and machines...talent and no talent......Oh and by the way.you have that for your screen name and you're calling me an idiot..? LOL LOL And you're not embarrassed...LOL
@sohooded You're comment that "there is no real music today" clearly marks you as a fool. There are just as many bands now that write their own music and play their own instruments as your mythical golden period of music. Working in the music section at giant box store doesn't make you part of the music industry...sorry.
Really clever trying to rip on me for my username, you're a joke. I'm guessing you're 40+ years old judging by your work comment, and you used "LOL" 3 times in one sentence.
@DeathSquadDesign yeah but i get tired of seeing everyone with laptops trying to come up with shit. i like bands that can record together. this was a given in the 60's. there is real music today...everything is music, and i like some modern bands, but i for one hate the sound of the modern studio rock n roll standard. everything sounds plasticky. Husker has the right sound for me in this recording. laptops are no substitutes for real instruments, and personally, vintage gear is better.
@subsamadhi they have to do what the musiclabel ask them to make so they cant scream or something and they cant do a guitar solo or something:'( such a shame because the most got talent...
Jesus fucking christ, the effort it must take to like this.
damnedcarrot 3 days ago
@damnedcarrot easy as breathing
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Most of the time, covers are worse than the originals. This certainly is not the case.
dner75 1 week ago
boring crap... thats what all those degenerated media zombies and brainless emo kiddies listen to
EINSdurchVIER 2 weeks ago
Bob Moulds guitar tone is unique hear. Ear shattering, but unique.
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 3 weeks ago
omg this version makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.......jesus this is power....
solidone 1 month ago
@solidone ,,, every time...
capricornvanja 2 weeks ago
this brilliant version throws me into a world of fantasy! Amazing.
timjmyall 1 month ago
Periodically I get on this kick in which I'll listen to one of my favorite bands so much that I eventually tire of listening to them. I've been on a HUGE Husker Du kick the last few months, and I've had a hard time listening to any other band. This song is one of the reasons why.
neatotweeto 1 month ago
about every 6 months I bug you Youtube folks!!!...this song is the SHIT!!!
Kangabeer 1 month ago
Reminds me of the time I was all fucked up on booze and couch syrup and forced a friend of mine to listen this roughly 20 times in a row. Still gets my vote for the most passionate vocal performance ever recorded. Epic, epic, epic.
travisnealtodd70 1 month ago 2
@travisnealtodd70
You wanna watch that couch syrup mate, next thing you know it'll be carpet cleaner ...
hiberniate 1 month ago
@hiberniate No kidding. Fortunately I'm not doing any of that stuff these days.
travisnealtodd70 1 month ago
God, that's great!
AlexanderJAllen 1 month ago
This song takes my all pain away for it's 3 minutes and 56 seconds.
Justeatmytoast 2 months ago
I just have no idea for opinion, it's so amazing. I felt last time like I really want to, no, not want to, like I really desire to hear this band, because I haven't listened ti them so much. It's just amazing. I knew I'll listen to this.
Justeatmytoast 2 months ago
The Byrds are out of any not ahead of their time
ColdOasisU2 2 months ago
god i love these vocals
maosaytounge49 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
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Why does this lovely man sing so awfully? - Why does he not sing so nicely as the lovely men in the original version?
He sounds like a badly drawn school boy who has temper tantrum. This is really not nice. And the guitars aren't nice sounding neither! - This is really a very very bad interpretation of this wonderful and lovely song.
I just can not believe that they do such a bad thing, I mean, 8 miles high God is near then!
MrBaebel 3 months ago
@MrBaebel You have to realise that the same sentiment wont sound the same 20 years later. In order to be true to the atmosphere of the original song, it was right to pay their dues in this way. To play it the same would just be a superficial cover fit for a wedding party or school prom. It would be lost. If you want the sound of the original the only answer is the original.
breadrollboy 3 months ago 9
@breadrollboy This is just a deconstruction of the original. The punk-rock mentality to give this kind of treatment to timeless songs of the prior generation was fashionable around the time of this recording. Though, to me, this sounds more dated than the one recorded in 1966. Not that it sucks. I kind of dig it.
raceyboy 1 week ago
@MrBaebel
That is simply the best compliment of the song I have ever seen.
Takano102 1 month ago
@Takano102 : ;-)
MrBaebel 1 month ago
@mdjones2112 actually my anger management class made us smash shit to release pent up emotions.
twiggiesmalls 3 months ago
me gusta mas q la original muy primitiva muy punk
arielvlad 3 months ago
And when he came down...
AsmodelSoljah 3 months ago
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Awesome version. You can believe that 40 years ago when Roger wrote this,that his passion was way way more than Husker. Nice remake but McGuinn wrote it and had more passion than anyone who walked the planet.
elrip1 4 months ago
Awesome version. You can believe that 40 years ago when Roger wrote this,that his passion was way way more than Husker. Nice remake but McGuinn wrote ti and had more passion than anyone who walked the panet.
elrip1 4 months ago
his voice is GODLY
hundhun17 4 months ago
There are songs I love and feel and have no idea what the fuck they are screaming about.
cometdust 4 months ago
I've got the first pressing of this still....I've nearly worn the grooves off the record...one of the better covers by a punk band
unlvrebelx 4 months ago
My reason for finding this so compelling: they took a soulful song, and bared their souls with it.
ashbury1993 4 months ago in playlist ashbury1993's Favorited Videos 2
i have listened to this for about 3 hours...
MrZappasTash 5 months ago
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stkristjan 5 months ago
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stkristjan 5 months ago
This is beautiful.
stkristjan 5 months ago
Love the descent into cacophony as it devolves... Ah!... Glorious noise!
mojo31173 5 months ago
Fuck fuck fuck fucking yes .
thirtythree303 5 months ago 3
magic, brill cover
swampdodger33 5 months ago
This cover sent chills up my spine the first time I heard it and it still does 25+ years later.
I actually used to play this at my club. People would dance. I am fairly sure I deafened more than a few with this.
Genius. Brilliant. Powerful. Timeless.
Knepperify1 5 months ago 3
1983, Total Access studio. The band was drinking coffee with meth added to the grounds. 8 Miles High was recorded as a warm up track for the Zen Arcade seesion. "My vocal performance on that track was like the wailing of an abandoned child or a stricken lone coyote howling on the side of the road." - Bob Mould, autobiography.
medicinegone 5 months ago 3
@medicinegone I'm not much of a reader but god damn do I need to read See a Little Light right now.
mtj027 2 months ago
I wish I was a teenager in re 80s. At least I can still listen to Husker Du and Texas is the Reason and feel like in there....
MrHelterskalter 5 months ago
I've loved this song for 20 years. Anger and beauty all in one.
deljzc 6 months ago
I was travelling through corn country in Minnisota and stopped by a roadside bar to find Bob Moulder as the bartender.
cumofo 6 months ago
i could mosh to this
ForgottenPunk25 6 months ago
@ForgottenPunk25
We did.
Knepperify1 5 months ago
This song is so desperate it's glorious.
b00mhauer 7 months ago 17
@b00mhauer Well said.
oneway3 6 months ago
i bought this 7" when it came out. i love it when bob lets go of the lyrics. one of my fav cover songs ever.
joooleeeful 7 months ago
This is an anthem.
ERaddock 7 months ago
Saw Grant Hart on Saturday night. He's still got it.
deanlambrecht 7 months ago
Huskers Ruled back then. Wish I could see them again
squeekspop59 7 months ago
@squeekspop59 well, i remember their name, but i never heard them do this song, so which song was it then??
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
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Closely listen to an Inception dvd made prior to the January the 8th Tucson shooting, especially around the dialogue, "Do It."
jamestargetedindiv 7 months ago
Husker Du is unique, exotic and highly talented. I appreciate their music, and even had the opportunity to see them live in concert in Chicago.
kenqc 7 months ago 2
@kenqc I saw them in Chicago in 1987. One of the best concerts of my life and definitely one of the loudest.
Tshea13 6 months ago
This is the sound of raw manic depression! And I love it!
FitzroviaTV 8 months ago 2
My college years= late nights drinking too much and listening to Husker Du... good times, good times!
sailorswife74 8 months ago
Bob Mould led Jimmy Fallon's band last night on Late Night. :)
tenchimasake 8 months ago 2
nice comment mdjones2112.. the last third of it all is so worth the wait! he really goes nuts!!!! Thank god somebody had a tape machine rolling back then..
davesmasher 8 months ago
Love Bob and the boys so much.
Admir0lsSidekick 9 months ago
Best. Cover. Ever.
5thdds 9 months ago
My friends and I were all hardcore back in the mid eighties.
I still remember dropping acid and walking into Wax Trax Records in Denver Colorado with this on the speakers.
Japanese tourists took photo's of all of us.
They apparently never saw an American girl with a blonde crew cut wearing all leather tripping out. ;O)
juliajuliagenevieve 9 months ago
@juliajuliagenevieve - try the East Village on Halloween on Special K! Yea! Smoking DPT w/ crazy cult members! 43 hits in a single day! Those were the 80's!
afullhalfgramofacid 9 months ago
@afullhalfgramofacid Excelent!! Long live the eighties, or at least our version of it. :O)
juliajuliagenevieve 9 months ago
@juliajuliagenevieve our version, thank you! (Doesn't seem to be a lot of it! :/)
hippojuice23 8 months ago
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@afullhalfgramofacid Excellent!! Long live the eighties, or at least our version of it. :O)
juliajuliagenevieve 9 months ago
@juliajuliagenevieve: Japanese find blondes exotic. I guess it is a reversal of how some American men find Japanese ladies exotic.
NickB1967 8 months ago
I have the original 45,bought it new---was very hard to find---around 1984.
AmyandClaireshow 9 months ago
Bob Mould getting busy.
jenica2072 9 months ago
My favorite band from the '80s, and tonight I learn Bob is backing vocals with my favorite 00's band, Foo Fighters. Full circle.
jenica2072 9 months ago
THIS is punk rock!! - 20 years later, and its still ICONIC. Its so good - takes me right back.
nala7000 9 months ago
When Charles Thompson (Black Francis, Frank Black, Chubsy Wubsy, whatever) was looking for a bass player for the newly formed Pixies, he placed the following ad in a Boston music paper, "Bassist wanted for rock band. Influences: Husker Du and Peter Paul & Mary." Kim Deal was the only one who responded.
MrSloika 9 months ago
Thanks for posting this.
I found it on Napster years ago, and loved it ever since.
CaptainPillowMusic 10 months ago
This is one of those kinds of songs (and Huskers is one of those kinds of bands) that makes you feel that maybe, just maybe, smashing the hell out of something isn't really destroying something but rather a form of spiritual liberation that can't be attained in any other way.
mdjones2112 10 months ago 70
@mdjones2112 Agreed! I have never heard this as a goofy punk take of a classic rock song, but a powerful reinterpretation.
pcarino 9 months ago
@mdjones2112 are you high
Crovie 8 months ago
@Crovie Yes I am thankyou for asking man.
spartan2549 8 months ago
@mdjones2112 There's a twisted yet very straight forward logic, wisdom, and self-realization in that statement...."can't be attained in any other way" = brilliant!!! 'Specially since this song has been an emotional outlet for me since I first it heard in my teens in the mid 80's.... The words mean little...But the delivery is "IT"
BrickPepper 7 months ago
@mdjones2112 im posting that to tumblr...
thepunkgirlwtheface 2 months ago
i love this cover so much more than the original - because it is about emotion, feeling. when Bob sings the last verse - he gets lost in it. its just him, his guitar, and a primordial screaming. sends shivers each and every time. among the best covers of any song, ever. pure perfection. and the tone of his guitar just slays me.
sgtnull 10 months ago
@sgtnull Spot on
moyajc 10 months ago
@sgtnull couldn't have said it better myself
wdrauch 5 months ago
Boy I miss being rabidly passionate about music. I couldn't have made it through my youth with out those great bands.
I even miss red necks yelling Devo! at us. Great days.
LastBankJob 10 months ago
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This is a good cover ? Really? I would hate to listen to what you think was a bad cover. They butchered this great song.
rorrok 10 months ago
@rorrok
Gene Clark loved it.
richmondpinch 10 months ago
@rorrok bryan ferry's probably the only cover i like of this song
Zontar82 10 months ago
@rorrok To each his own!
IDontUsePicks 10 months ago
Greatest cover of any song, by any band, EVAR. IMHO.
danejaneiro 11 months ago
6 people smoke bleach.
napalmko 11 months ago
They sound like Hank Williams III...no sh!t!
terrryc 11 months ago
@terrryc Dumb ass.... Husker was around befor Hank III was born.
MuckyPup1969 10 months ago
This song have a great emotional weight, it's amazing.
NerosGabranth 11 months ago
I wouldnt have known this band exists if it wasnt for billie joe armstrong.
BJAluvxx21 11 months ago 2
@BJAluvxx21 me to. i wouldnt be a bratty ass punk if it wasnt for him.
TheNameIsGir 11 months ago
amazing!
TheRealMikeEClark 11 months ago
The Byrds were in the cover business, and Husker Du covered them blind.
crowjaney 1 year ago 20
I almost wish it was LESS faithful. McGuins lead line suffers from not being on a 12 string, you hear that it's a much less interesting run.
alexdroogie100 1 year ago
I couldn't agree more. This is more than a "cover" but rather a radical revamp of the original, so much so that it stands alone as a song entirely in its own right, as if the original never existed. The sound of the Byrds' version has virtually nothing to do with Husker Du's except the opening. Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and Blue Cheer's "Summertime Blues" achieve this too.
Bottom line: light years better than the original, and eternally monumental.
The55nomad 1 year ago
Unquestionably, one could argue that this wonderful Byrds cover, once dripping with San Francisco's flowery past in late 60's, not only broke this relatively new band (though they obviously would have made it any number of other ways .. eventually), but it stands, in my opinion, as the most radical -- and artistic -- cover of the 20th century. I really feel the Husker's studio version of this track created something far, far greater than the sum of it's parts. This one was truly monstrous.
CuteePie83 1 year ago
Some music critic once wrote that if The Byrds' version was about a good acid trip, Husker Du's was about a bad one. This is the best bad trip ever. The first time I heard them was this song. Been thanking Husker Du ever since.
The55nomad 1 year ago 2
@The55nomad I love this comment. Bravo, person.
loveablebastard 1 year ago
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clacas1 1 year ago
Thank you, The Justcheez for that interesting fact about felatio. And here, I was just checking in to listen to some music...
5050NM 1 year ago
haunting
charemaine 1 year ago
My favourite cover of all time!
Bob's vocals sounds like an exorcism is taking place!
melvinPRX 1 year ago 2
One of the best bands ever, and the best cover version ever. So mnay owe so much to this band.
Alanmac1966 1 year ago
amen.
jdthejazzdoctor 1 year ago
I really - really - like the original by Byrds. But I must say this is brilliant cover version made in punk style. Amazing so different in style from the original and yet so good. Thanks Drfeesh!
dansejohn 1 year ago
You can't fellate cum, you need to fellate a penis in order to get to the part with cum. Nice try at being clever though.
TheJustcheez 1 year ago
You can't fellate cum, you need to fellate a penis in order to get to the part with cum. Nice try at being clever though.
TheJustcheez 1 year ago
@TheJustcheez: Picky, picky, picky. That is what I meant, namely, that he was and is a commie cocksucker. That said, Husker Du is missed.
NickB1967 8 months ago
@NickB1967 The word you're looking for is 'pedantic', I'm not that picky really...
TheJustcheez 8 months ago
This is fucking PROFOUND.
saempylae 1 year ago
WTF these guts ære american? husker du means Do You remember in norweigan. Lol
thefiddler46 1 year ago
@thefiddler46: Large numbers of Americans of Scandinavian descent in Minnesota, where the band was from.
NickB1967 1 year ago
Best cover ever
TheFuzzboost 1 year ago
wow.... haven't heard this in a while... .. this is how to do a cover version, imo!!!... can't outdo the chiming majesty of the original but a balls out soulful reworking... like dinosaur jr's 'feel a whole lot better' .... a middle finger up to todays' spirit crushing mediocrity
ricardo2323 1 year ago 2
you guys need dueling pistols asses.ps dont effing miss.
bubbah671 1 year ago
you guys need dueling pistols asses.
bubbah671 1 year ago
This is great
FarmerDoom 1 year ago
This song was the reason I began to love Husker Du and it led me ultimately to The Byrds catalogue ... another reason to thank the Huskers!
whitford70 1 year ago
Amazing powerful Cover. HüDü were one of the best bands ever.
Reulor 1 year ago
@Reulor agree!!!
sickpoola 1 year ago
Who says punks and hippies couldn't get along.
EmpZappa66 1 year ago 3
cool cover, but I like the original better. saw husker du back in '87 (I think) at fenders. they kicked ass.
weightlifterf2 1 year ago 2
1st ever hardcore band <3
cloudy23child 1 year ago
@cloudy23child HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. no.
MrChadthemonkey 1 year ago
@MrChadthemonkey you poor soul:D
cloudy23child 1 year ago
You need to own two pieces of music to get in to the Pixies. Beethoven's 5th, and Husker Du's Zen Arcade
Skatler1023 1 year ago
One of my all time favorites. Nobody around me seemed to understand.
noveds07 1 year ago
@noveds07 me too....hi buddy :))
sickpoola 1 year ago
my first true love...punk rock. now i'm having an affair with 60s music. this is perfect!!
ejectorerector 1 year ago
@ejectorerector There's no point in having anything with today's sound. Poor kids - what waist of a generation - the IPOD lost generation. No sound no talent no passion no hope.
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 this is the kind of bullshit the hippies of the 60s said about bands like husker du, get a clue.
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs I have been to the clubs go there still. Heard the latest music. WALLPAPER
I was around in the 60's the 70's the 80's the 90's last decade. Wallpaper
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 i think your just a trolling douchebag who should just stfu & stop spamming good tracks on youtube..your not going to hear the underground in the clubs because there are no real clubs anymore, lol
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs I have shot pool with Bob Mould cannoed with the Decendants hiked with Henry Rollins n on n on.... When this current generation can write a memmorable 'Eight Miles High' that will be remembered and covered by other generations later and play n play forever n everyone knows the words everywhere............then tell me to STFU~!
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 i'll tell you whatever the hell i like, the more you talk the more you reveal what an insecure troll you are - yeah and i hitchiked across america with elvis, rofl..blow it out your ass and PLEASE, stfu, you are just making an idiot out of yourself. hippy douchebag.
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs I believe that you are just.......just a little boy aren't you. A little boy that uses BIG TUFF GUY words to make his nutz seem made of iron as well his rightious absolute clear view of things. If this is any indication of the creativity of this generation in your words then all is lost.
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 not even from this generation you zionist troll. turn off your megaphone app and go back 2 sleep you old cow.
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs Yea just an angery little boy. Hey why not go out n spray paint it on a wall then come home n play video games n eat Cheetos.
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 'angery' ?? rofl learn how to spell before you criticize your betters
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs: What the fuck does "zionist" have to do with this?
NickB1967 1 year ago
@NickB1967 zionist refers to the other trolling she does on youtube
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs: So you would prefer appeasement, surrender, and dhimmitude to the murdering muslim savages? That is very sad.
That said, salinagrrl's lamenting the next generation of music is off base. After all, when this song came out this band was relatively unknown and on an indie label. Most of the teens of that generation (mine) were into glam metal and hair bands of all things. It took a while for acts like Husker Du to be respected, and the respect often came after they were gone.
NickB1967 1 year ago
@NickB1967 pfft! at your first sentence and pfft! at you! what is it with zionazi trolls stooping so low as to carry on their propaganda war underneath youtube music clips? turn off your megaphone app and get some sleep you fucking dimwit. judging by your first sentence you learned nothing from the underground music of the era you grew up in. you are sad. you are a fucking idiot. you are a troll. if israel and zionism is so fucking great then fucking move there. cunt.
NightTerrorRecs 1 year ago
@NightTerrorRecs: And YOU clearly learned nothing from the 1980's. A commie dupe turned muslim dupe. How much Sandinista cum did you fellate? Your fawning obedience to the communists was poilitical porno. I imagine that sap Jello Biafra is still digesting fermented commie cum in his gut. The best bands of the era avoided commie political pretense.
That said, salinagrrl is still wrong. There are underground genius artists today working away in "Justin Bieber land". We shall see who breaks it.
NickB1967 1 year ago
@salinagrrrl69 Oi. Just cause one guy is unbelievably uncreative in his arguments doesnt mean that you have to bitch on the whole generation... -.-
threecheersforalice 1 year ago
Too good to be true, what an amazing cover. Melodic trash all the way
1337owers 1 year ago
it does'nt get any better than this...ever
lepaul2002 1 year ago
BEST COVER EVER! !!!!!!! I SEE GOD & TEARS EVERY TIME I LISTEN TO IT. !!! GAME OVER! HUSKER DU WINS!
TheRealMikeEClark 1 year ago 10
@TheRealMikeEClark Back in the day they said the same thing as you did here. But to say REM's Superman cover was second was only a point of view. That's what they said......back in the day.
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
Anyone who dislikes this song has never blasted it to the world when he was angry.
TheSaxby 1 year ago
i wish punk like this was still around these days, thank god for fucked up.
thesuckmynuts69 1 year ago 2
Holy crap.... it still makes the hairs on my neck stick up... after all these years. Timeless classic.
PDXLimey 1 year ago 42
@PDXLimey I could not have said it better. This is THE only song that can make me stop in my tracks. I cannot describe the feeling. but it is like you said- hairs go up! Pure energy!
zanoubat 1 year ago 2
@PDXLimey I agree. It´s f#cking awesome !!!
1710libra 1 year ago
What happened to passion like this in rock? All "rock musicians" today are castrated monkeys.
subsamadhi 1 year ago 85
@subsamadhi got that right. or their conforming like whimps to get a place on the radio. i missed the good old days when musicans actually put their soul into their music, and not simply to make a quick buck.
JurricaChiannaNycole 1 year ago
@subsamadhi There is no real music today. It's sad what the young people have to settle for.
sohooded 1 year ago
@sohooded You are an idiot and so is subsamadhi. There is just as much good music today as there was back then.
DeathSquadDesign 1 year ago
@DeathSquadDesign I'm no idiot. I've worked in music for thirty + years and I know the difference between instruments and machines...talent and no talent......Oh and by the way.you have that for your screen name and you're calling me an idiot..? LOL LOL And you're not embarrassed...LOL
sohooded 1 year ago
@sohooded You're comment that "there is no real music today" clearly marks you as a fool. There are just as many bands now that write their own music and play their own instruments as your mythical golden period of music. Working in the music section at giant box store doesn't make you part of the music industry...sorry.
Really clever trying to rip on me for my username, you're a joke. I'm guessing you're 40+ years old judging by your work comment, and you used "LOL" 3 times in one sentence.
DeathSquadDesign 1 year ago
@DeathSquadDesign ty for writing all this
music now is amazing
Sadsic 1 year ago
@DeathSquadDesign yeah but i get tired of seeing everyone with laptops trying to come up with shit. i like bands that can record together. this was a given in the 60's. there is real music today...everything is music, and i like some modern bands, but i for one hate the sound of the modern studio rock n roll standard. everything sounds plasticky. Husker has the right sound for me in this recording. laptops are no substitutes for real instruments, and personally, vintage gear is better.
EyMeng 11 months ago
@EyMeng LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
EyMeng 11 months ago
@subsamadhi amen to that
DrOktober 11 months ago
@subsamadhi they have to do what the musiclabel ask them to make so they cant scream or something and they cant do a guitar solo or something:'( such a shame because the most got talent...
TheDJswart 9 months ago
Pure Beauty. Goddamn.
ssoultrain 1 year ago 2