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 Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:32 am
Husker Du... one of the pioneers of Melodic Hardcore and a band responsible for heavily influencing the Emotional Hardcore (aka emo) scene and Alternative Rock.  CDs (including Demos, EPs and LPs) Northern Lights Land Speed Record (If only this was re-mastered) Metal Circus Zen Arcade New Day Rising Flip Your Wig Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All Candy Apple Grey Warehouse: Songs And Stories Everything Falls Apart And More The Living End (tell me if I missed any) Some Recommended songs: Beyond The Threshold Something I Learned Today I'll Never Forget You (You know what? Just any song from Zen Arcade will do) Band Peed Naked Data Control The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill Books About UFOs Divide And Counquer Find Me
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:39 am
Just to get one thing clear: Husker Du is a melodic hardcore band... not an emocore band! Listen to some of the songs in the Metal Circus EP and "Everything Falls Apart And More" (I think the original release was just called 'Everything Falls Apart') and you'll soon agree that the vast majority of Husker Du is Melodic Hardcore.
Most people who have told me that Husker Du is an emo band seem to have mainly/only just listend to Zen Arcade. Well whoop-dee-doo, so what if they've got an acoustic track on there? Husker Du existed before the underground movement of emocore in the mid-80s, they certainly influenced/inspired some emocore bands later in their career but they aren't emo themselves. Granted I'll accept Zen Arcade as perhaps a proto-emo album... but not emo.
There comes a time for every great artist(s) to create an awesome album to just exhaust all their emotional energy and frustration, and Zen Arcade is just that! It swarms with the theme of social alienation (as many hardcore bands do) and is simply something that will agitate you above and beyond your emotional threshold, but not without relieving it all out in the end. Perhaps it was because the members were gay? I don't know... though I wouldn't be surprised if they recieved their fair share of social rejection (and it was the 80s, less accepting of homos then I'd imagine), but regardless, you certainly don't need to be gay to feel the awesome vibes of this album. Zen Arcade isn't an album that you need to deeply analyse to appreciate, the explosive vocals and instrumental melody just gives you that automatically!
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:58 am
ZOMG.
I heart Husker Du.
They're a very, very good band.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:01 am
Husker Du is awesome. I have still yet to hear one of their songs that I don't like. Two of my favorite albums from them are Zen Arcade and Candy Apple Grey. Good stuff.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:59 am
Well they're later stuff swerved into some pop-rockish kind of stuff but I enjoyed them nevertheless. Yeah you're absolutely right, Haven't yet heard a song from them that I actually don't like.
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:27 pm
Yea, it was good to see how they were able to evolve their sound, and yet still stay as good as they were before.
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:38 am
gonk I really need to check these guys out. What album do you think an ignorant newbie should buy?
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:58 am
Zen Arcade... if you can get a hold on it... I heard its quite rare now. But New Day Rising is a pretty good start. Though beware, I don't think their older stuff are remastered...
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:30 am
okeedokee, thanks for the tip.. I'll remember that when I next have money
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:56 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:39 am
Contagious Cure Zen Arcade... if you can get a hold on it... I heard its quite rare now. But New Day Rising is a pretty good start. Though beware, I don't think their older stuff are remastered... It depends where you look. Where I live I'm probably the only one to hear about Husker Du but when I went to Vancouver they had 6 copies of Zen Arcade lying around in HMV. I like how 2/3 of the members were gay but they could still write a song about raping women with the best of them. Also if you haven't heard their cover of "Eight Miles High" you're missing out.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:58 am
BassFu Contagious Cure Zen Arcade... if you can get a hold on it... I heard its quite rare now. But New Day Rising is a pretty good start. Though beware, I don't think their older stuff are remastered... It depends where you look. Where I live I'm probably the only one to hear about Husker Du but when I went to Vancouver they had 6 copies of Zen Arcade lying around in HMV. I like how 2/3 of the members were gay but they could still write a song about raping women with the best of them. Also if you haven't heard their cover of "Eight Miles High" you're missing out. Believe it or not I actually didn't know they were gay when I first got into them, I mean they did make references to 'she' in a number of their love songs. After a while I found out that Bob and Grant were gay, then someone told me Greg was gay too! But yeah, I actually had to order an import to get my Zen Arcade. Most of the others were easy to find.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:00 pm
Contagious Cure BassFu Contagious Cure Zen Arcade... if you can get a hold on it... I heard its quite rare now. But New Day Rising is a pretty good start. Though beware, I don't think their older stuff are remastered... It depends where you look. Where I live I'm probably the only one to hear about Husker Du but when I went to Vancouver they had 6 copies of Zen Arcade lying around in HMV. I like how 2/3 of the members were gay but they could still write a song about raping women with the best of them. Also if you haven't heard their cover of "Eight Miles High" you're missing out. Believe it or not I actually didn't know they were gay when I first got into them, I mean they did make references to 'she' in a number of their love songs. After a while I found out that Bob and Grant were gay, then someone told me Greg was gay too! But yeah, I actually had to order an import to get my Zen Arcade. Most of the others were easy to find. I don't think anyone really expects anyone in the Hardcore community to be gay. I think the singer of Stay Gold is gay or I misheard what he was singing.
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:01 pm
BassFu Contagious Cure BassFu Contagious Cure Zen Arcade... if you can get a hold on it... I heard its quite rare now. But New Day Rising is a pretty good start. Though beware, I don't think their older stuff are remastered... It depends where you look. Where I live I'm probably the only one to hear about Husker Du but when I went to Vancouver they had 6 copies of Zen Arcade lying around in HMV. I like how 2/3 of the members were gay but they could still write a song about raping women with the best of them. Also if you haven't heard their cover of "Eight Miles High" you're missing out. Believe it or not I actually didn't know they were gay when I first got into them, I mean they did make references to 'she' in a number of their love songs. After a while I found out that Bob and Grant were gay, then someone told me Greg was gay too! But yeah, I actually had to order an import to get my Zen Arcade. Most of the others were easy to find. I don't think anyone really expects anyone in the Hardcore community to be gay. I think the singer of Stay Gold is gay or I misheard what he was singing. Well if there are a lot of them, they certainly aren't going out of their way to show it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:14 pm
Contagious Cure BassFu Contagious Cure BassFu Contagious Cure Zen Arcade... if you can get a hold on it... I heard its quite rare now. But New Day Rising is a pretty good start. Though beware, I don't think their older stuff are remastered... It depends where you look. Where I live I'm probably the only one to hear about Husker Du but when I went to Vancouver they had 6 copies of Zen Arcade lying around in HMV. I like how 2/3 of the members were gay but they could still write a song about raping women with the best of them. Also if you haven't heard their cover of "Eight Miles High" you're missing out. Believe it or not I actually didn't know they were gay when I first got into them, I mean they did make references to 'she' in a number of their love songs. After a while I found out that Bob and Grant were gay, then someone told me Greg was gay too! But yeah, I actually had to order an import to get my Zen Arcade. Most of the others were easy to find. I don't think anyone really expects anyone in the Hardcore community to be gay. I think the singer of Stay Gold is gay or I misheard what he was singing. Well if there are a lot of them, they certainly aren't going out of their way to show it. I wouldn't imagine when people like Danny Diablo encourage people to beat on women at shows.
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