This might fit better in Punk, too.

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
Unfortunately, the Huskers output on SST is in desperate need of remastering. I remember hearing Flip Your Wig when it came out and thinking it sounded awful. I've since grown to appreciate it, but modern listeners certainly have a problem with it. Due to this, I would suggest starting with their Warner Brothers output. Candy Apple Grey and Warehouse: Songs and Stories are both superb, in my opinion (which is contrary to what most experts would lead you to believe). The sound is still a little tinny, but the songs are so good you should be able to get past the production. Ericg, I hope you don't give up on them.

Actually, I like the "tinny" production as you call it. It makes their furious songs more raw. A remastering would probably make the production even worse, because they would compress the sound and turn up the volume. I like the diversity in sound the different ages represent. Even the echoing drum production on the eighties' synth-pop-records.

Zen Arcade is my favorite and I never came to turns with Warehouse.... I listened to it the other day, and the songs just aren't as good as the earlier ones. The break-up was quite necessary.

"husker do and a husker dont"

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
Warehouse: Songs and Stories...The sound is still a little tinny, but the songs are so good you should be able to get past the production.

So...You'd edit The White Album but not Warehouse? There are some cracking songs on there, but not 20 of them. If ever an album was begging to be reduced to 45 minutes, it's this one. Still contains one of the best closers ever.

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Originally posted by Sideshow Bob:

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
Warehouse: Songs and Stories...The sound is still a little tinny, but the songs are so good you should be able to get past the production.

So...You'd edit The White Album but not Warehouse? There are some cracking songs on there, but not 20 of them. If ever an album was begging to be reduced to 45 minutes, it's this one. Still contains one of the best closers ever.

I never said that. There isn't a double ablum out there that I wouldn't edit.

Here's my Warehouse Edit:

01. These Important Years
02. Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope
03. Standing in the Rain
04. Back From Somwhere
05. Ice Cold Ice
06. You're a Soldier
07. Could You Be the One?
08. Too Much Spice
09. Friend You've Got to Fall
10. Visionary
11. She Floated Away
12. Tell You Why Tomorrow
13. It's Not Peculiar
14. Actual Condition
15. No Reservations
16. Turn it Around
17. She's a Woman (And Now He is a Man)
18. Up in the Air

At least that's what I put on my iPod. 18 songs, 59:16. Turns out, I would only leave off "Bed of Nails" and "You Can Live at Home"-- yeah, I'd leave off the closer.

feed the rats to the cats, feed the cats to the rats, and get the cat skins for nothing

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Originally posted by Kulturtrager:
Zen Arcade

New Day Rising

Land Speed Record

Candy Apple Grey

Metal Circus

....and I'm never talking to you again..

Fixed.

I'll back-up JB.. the first music that got me into the underground was punk, specifically hardcore punk. Land Speed Record is a classic hardcore album... fast and aggressive while questioning hardcore's and rock's conventions.

New Day Rising is the best Hüsker Dü record. One of those albums that you think must have just fallen from the heavens, perfectly formed and an absolutely sublime combination of melody and noise. Zen Arcade is a very close second, but it has too much dross between the truly awesome songs. I think they peaked with the follow-up album. And it was a rapid decline after that, from the so-so Flip Your Wig, through the forgettable Candy Apple Grey, to the abysmal Warehouse.

As far as their early material goes: Land Speed Record was a really great hardcore record. Everything Falls Apart was OK, a good pointer to where they were going. Metal Circus was a fantastic EP and a precursor to Zen.