Warner Bros 7599-25385-2. 1986Still shouty in places, which is nice. Suffers from that damn Mould/Hart 'we know best' production and that bloody shite snare.
Quite lovely poppy punkishness, with some real variation in the songs, whereas some of their stuff could dispense with the gaps between the tracks and just call it mush (see 'Warehouse'). We even get some acoustic and piano work. Think they must have had serious girlfriends by now.
No lowpoints!
... girlfriends? isn't it a fact that Bob Mould and Grant Hart were gay (the only 'straight' member of Hüsker Dü ironically being Greg Norton and his stereotypically gay moustache)
ReplyDeletegoddamit! If i'd known they were queermo's i wouldn't have listened to this shit.
ReplyDeleteOnly kidding. I had no idea. I just listen to stuff for the most part, rather than delve into the background of the doofus that makes it.
Were they, like, doing each other? That'd explain that crappy splashy snare reverb.
it may as least explain some of the tortured/tortuous lyrics, even if i of course entirely agree with the fact of such background info's irrelevancy - ironically, mould would probably have preferred having a girlfriend at that time, his unwillingness to 'come out'has earned him a great amount of criticism from the gay community
ReplyDeletehttp://joeclark.org/QiYE43.html
yup, sounds pretty gay
ReplyDeletemay explain the Cher-esque vocal vocoding on 'modulate' - silly fucker.
And this is pretty cool. TeeHee!
http://www.discogs.com/Bob-Mould-And-Those-Pillowbiters--Bork-Motorola-Cloudburst/release/1040900