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These are hometown heroes so I am definitely being generous. It’s like if REM was rougher around the edges and more indulgent. The post-punk to REM’s pop, maybe. I enjoyed each song individually, but over the course of almost 70 minutes it started to whelm me. At a certain point I get it, you know? It makes their songwriting and performances harder to appreciate. When there’s this much material of this kind in one place, the repeated ideas and sounds becomes more obvious and burdensome. But on a song by song basis it’s great.
This album isn't all that bad, it's just way too long, and sounds like someone doing a mostly poor impression of R.E.M.. At which point, I'd recommend just going and listening to them instead.
It may not be the best Hüsker Dü, but it's still better than a lot of stuff on this list.
2.7 I always think I should connect with Husker Du more than I actually do. This album sounds smaller than it should to me. Like a cross between SNFU and REM (one band I love and one band I despise)
Not my first time listening to them but first time listening to this album and idk. Each time I hear them I'm just unimpressed. There's no need for a full hour of this music. R.E.M. if they were shitty 2/5
Reminds me of R.E.M., and I like the sound. Often fun, but the songs started to really blend together for me.
There are some sings I liked, others I didn’t. It was somewhat repetitive as well
2.5 Not too bad of a listen, but not my favorite.
Fairly average rock, felt a lot like REM b-sides
im pretty lukewarm on this record, and i hope that's my genuine reaction to it and not me disproportionately pushing it for the baffling fact that it is the only husker du record to be in any edition of the book. it doesn't bug me because im particularly familiar with the band, i extremely am not, but for all the 1001 book's weird limitations and fixations, part of the reason why im sticking with this whole project is just the feeling that by the end of it i'll have carved out an extremely deep spot in my experiences with popular music in a way that will be Generally Good for me. the idea that its even Possible for an important and beloved band to have their two or three or four most important and beloved albums shunted for some fucking rando pick kinda breaks that illusion in a v discouraging way! in any case, the record itself is fine. its a Too Long And Shaggy slab of consistently solid "college rock"...not as heartfelt and ragged as the replacements, not as precise and mystical as r.e.m., just a bunch of mid tempo, melodic, slightly jangly, slightly power pop-y songs that mostly taste the same, but its not a bad taste. the main thing that makes it historically interesting is just the fact that this was a hardcore band a mere four years ago....but i suppose someone who only encounters them through the 1001 book will never actually appreciate that! what a weird thing. maybe ill listen to zen arcade soon.
These Important Years - 3/5 Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope - 3/5 Standing in the Rain - 3/5 Back from Somewhere - 4/5 Ice Cold Ice - 4.5/5 You're a Soldier - 2.5/5 Could You Be the One? - 4/5 Too Much Spice - 3/5 Friend, You've Got to Fall - 4/5 Visionary - 3.5/5 She Floated Away - 3/5 Bed of Nails - 3/5 Tell You Why Tomorrow - 3.5/5 It's Not Peculiar - 3.5/5 Actual Condition - 4/5 No Reservations - 3/5 Turn It Around - 3/5 She's a Woman (And Now He Is a Man) - 2.5/5 Up in the Air - 3/5 You Can Live at Home - 2.5/5
2.5 - Meh
I don’t get why out of all Husker Du discography the only album included in this list is this one and not Zen Arcade? Or any other, I would argue Warehouse is one of their worst. And it surely is not characteristic of their sound, like people who never heard about them would discover them here, listen to this album and would decide Husker Du were kind of heavier R.E.M. or something, wtf? Ok, onto the album itself..while I said it’s one of their worst I can’t really say it’s a bad album per se. It has its ups and catches, it’s just too middle of nowhere (to my liking and compared to their other work)
😧Would’ve given two stars, but one hour plus of this shit…fuck you
Not as good as Zen Arcade, so it would be odd if that wasnt included... but I love this album. Very influential when I was growing up... its lost its thrill a bit, but I will never not love Husker Du
just not that into it
fav songs: none repetitive, boring, bland 40/10
Bob Mould at his finest.
Nothing stuck out to me about this album. It was pretty long. A few of the songs were rocking and a few were kinda whiny.
No standouts
Semi hyväntuulista punk rokkia. Aika simppeleitä kappaleita. Ihan hyviä, melodiat ja sointukierrot toimii mutta alkaa vaan vähän toistamaan. Tän levyn ei ois tarvinnut olla 20 kappaletta. Parhaat: Bed Of Nails, Tell You Why Tomorrow, She Floated Away
After making one extremely successful and heavily influential double album with Hüsker Dü's 1984 album Zen Arcade, I don't think anyone expected the band to go out and make yet another double album that comes surprisingly close to touching the quality of Zen Arcade. This album feels like it has a more glittery and colorful waves of Noise compared to the more Industrial and brash sounds on Zen Arcade that really give it this much more accessible and Alternative appeal compared to the band's more Noise Rock past. I also feel the tonal shift in songwriting very much helps this band in their reinvention even if they never released anything else after this album. It is a nice fitting way to show the band continuing to grow while sticking to their titular noisy production. This album also paints a really pretty picture as to where a lot of indie music would be going in the wake of bands like R.E.M., The Pixies, and many other noisy and bands soon to be in the mainstream like Nirvana. It is crazy just how ahead of their time Hüsker Dü was for their time and just how well their music holds up despite many sonic shifts in the many sounds they play around with. Even though this album does feel a bit longer than Zen Arcade, Warehouse: Songs and Stories still feels like such a breath of fresh air and like such a compelling outlet for the band before they all went their separate ways. While I do wish Zen Arcade was also included in the list, I think for people's first introduction to Hüsker Dü, this isn't that bad of a starting point.
Not bad!
Pretty cool sounds!
Husker Du is one of those infinitely creative bands that I respect the living crap out of... I even love SOME of their stuff, but I truly don't GET INTO most of it. This record is a perfect example... I never listened to it before. I checked out after Zen Arcade. I didn't care for New Day Rising and I never checked back in.... they didn't last long enough. That being said, this is a very good record. The way they trade songs is pretty cool, but you can almost feel the breakup happening during the record.
These. Kick. Fucking. Ass.
The lyrics are solid and the sounds are interesting enough to keep me intrigued, but it's just starting to click for me after one listen. I'm gonna need more of this. There's potential here. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - These Important Years - Ice Cold Ice - Could You Be the One?
This was ok
A classic.
The Hu never really grabbed my attention back in the 80's and I guess the 90's. Nothing awful, just indistinct music to me.
2 Husker Didn't. Nothing really stood out, I can appreciate they were early but it was some generic '90s noise overall.
my biggest gripe is that every song sounds so identical. if you skip half way into almost every track, its damn near the same tempo, distortion guitar, and the drum track may as well just be a metronome. It was a chore to get through this one.
I dunno this just sounded like a lot of noise to me, turned it off halfway through. Ain’t nobody got time for that
zzzzzzz
4.5 stars. If you like fuzzy, blistering hardcore punk, then you’ll like Husker Du (you prob already do!). I’d say “New Day Rising” and “Flip Your Wig” are the two essential Husker albums, but this one might slide in at third place.
-I didn’t like this very much -it was just a lot of noise that I didn’t want to hear -probably wouldn’t listen again
Falls into a great groove sometimes, but the melody and content are not really there for me. Highlights: "Ice Cold Ice", "Too Much Spice", "No Reservations"
There has to be a German word to describe a band who you know are good and who are admired by people you respect, but whose sound does just not work for you
Not good, but has potential
Not my favorite. Not the biggest classic rock fan.
Thoughts before listening: Oh yeah. I really enjoy Husker Du's pop punk indie rock sound, and Bob Mould is a great songwriter. The one complaint I have about them is the same as other 80s punk and indie bands where the recording quality leaves a lot to be desired. Still though this will be a great listen. Review: So this album is noted for typically being the best produced from the Husker Du discography, and that is certainly a refreshing change of pace from their other albums. There are some fun poppy punk songs here that fit right into my wheelhouse, although none of them quite rise to the heights of HD's more classic albums like Zen Arcade. This is the sound of an incredibly influential 80s alt rock band reaching for the stars, but ultimately collapsing as the band would soon break up. I like this a lot although being a double album some songs work better than others. Still though as I suspected, this is right up my alley sound wise and I'll give it 4-stars.
I just don't like it. There are so many things that point me to Bob Mould and Husker Du, but I just find it to be flat and same-y. All of it, every time. Nothing distinguishes the songs from one another. (OK, I'll admit I do like the hook of "Black Sheets of Rain." But that's 5 seconds of joy in a, what? 6 album catalog?) The production seems so thin it makes the entirely of the band sound tinny and annoying. His voice doesn't make anything better either. I wish he could get out of that one register he's locked into. Sorry, Bob. Just no. Because they were fairly influential at the time and I know a lot of people really like them and him, I'll give this one a 2. It's not crap. Well, the production is. But it's just not for me. I've tried!
Yeah this had some good songs ig. Though I agree with the reviewer who said that this is basically the same song repeated 20 times lmao. Also saw another comment say that this isn't their best album, so guess I gotta check out their earlier stuff now. Hopefully I'll like them better. Songs I liked: Back from somewhere, ice cold ice, could you be the one, too much spice, she floated away
2.75 - Liked, didn't love. I really appreciate their sound and think its very emblematic of the time it was made, would be super fun in a specific setting. Definitely giving more of Husker Du a listen now... Top songs: She Floated Away, Could you be the one?
Sounded like budget barefaced ladies. Not for me.
One of the best of the best.
jeeeeeeezus that was long
I get this was an influential band, and their last. It is important historically, but not a great album. Maybe top 1000 album to know about, but not that has to be heard. 0 songs added to playlist.
Really like this sound but the album was very long and kind of samey. Some good to great songs in there though
Got tired of it fast but not bad
Frábær hljómsveit. Þarna komnir úr pönkinu í altrokkið. Ekki þeirra besta plata en fín.
Too much background noise.
Double albums are fan bait and not a good entry point for an artist.
Classic American punk band that I have largely ignored until now. This was their break-up album but I'm quite enjoying it so far. Well-crafted songwriting, by this time their sound had matured and was less abrasive than their earlier material, whether or not that's a good thing is up to the listener I guess.
Absolutely loved this album! I have heard some husker du albums that have been ok but this was like REM but more punk and art, minus stipes annoying voice
And "Right Artist, Wrong Album" Syndrome strikes again! Why is this the Hüsker Dü album of choice for this list? I'll admit that I have actually yet to listen to Zen Arcade for myself, but I KNOW that that album has seen more praise over the years than the rest of the band's discography combined, so how did they miss it?! But you know what? If Zen Arcade really is that much better than Warehouse: Songs and Stories, then maybe I ought to listen to Zen Arcade pretty soon, because this one was actually pretty good. Yeah, if Hüsker Dü have better albums than this, then those things must be awesome! For now, I'll say some positive things about their final album, Warehouse: Songs and Stories. The general atmosphere of the album is pretty cool. It's kinda hazy, but you can still point out the more melodic parts of the music, which creates an album with a good blend of alternative angst and some slight power-pop sensibilities. While neither Bob Mould nor Grant Hart are amazing vocalists, the fact that they switch places and are both lead vocalists and songwriters is pretty respectable. Said songwriting is pretty solid throughout the album. I will say that the album is a little long, but I don't have much of an issue with it for this album considering the high quality of the music. The fact that I enjoyed all of the songs is pretty commendable. Songs like "Ice Cold Ice" and "Could You Be the One?" especially were very good. Overall, while I can't call Warehouse: Songs and Stories a must-listen album, it has nothing to do with the quality of the album itself, and rather the (I presume) higher quality of a prior album in the band's discography. Hüsker Dü seem to have ended their career on a fairly positive note. Decent 4/5.
I liked a lot of things about this album, the vocals, drums, and the bass. I loved how they all had their own highlights throughout the songs and were very consistent. I did feel like the album dragged on a LOT and was honestly more of a chore to listen to but nonetheless I still enjoyed it to a degree. 6/10, Favorite Song: Visionary
Another clear wiff. Zen Arcade is stunning and belongs. A New Day Rising is a really strong follow up. By this point in their project together, Husker Du was running on fumes and just churning out rehashes. 555 albums in and my sublist of brilliant bands with mediocre albums on this list now includes: Husker Du, R.E.M., ZZ Top, David Bowie, Metallica, U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Cure, the Black Keys, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Paul Simon, Prince, Miles Davis, and the Go-Betweens. Given the GREAT music that those acts are responsible for, It's remarkable how many misses by them this list contains.
Don't judge an album by its cover. This is an album I would have never listened to and never been interested in learning more about based on the cover but it has a much better sound then I expected. It was like a harder rock REM, we are not just sad but we are angry and sad. I enjoyed it but the similarity is just a little to high for me to think it is amazing. Also it just feels long, and none were bad but none were amazing.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thinks they sound like R.E.M. The poetry & vocal beauty isn't quite on the Michael Stipe level and although the guitar work has its moments, it lacks the more subtle brilliance of Buck & Mills. 20 songs is kind of alot. Shades of REM, but I also get a bit of a Jimmy Eat World feel from them or maybe we are gonna bust into a Friends episode.
Husker Du is highly enjoyable Minnesota alt rock but of course, as a double album, this is too long. It’s lively energy that holds up well. If this was more compact, I’d be more willing to come back to it. 3.5/5
Bob Mould sounds so much like Michael Stipe to me, and I often felt like I was listening to R.E.M. throughout this album. This is an album I'd like to spend more time with, because I think it could really grow on me. I like the lyrics and the sounds I'm hearing. After one listen, I'm at a 3 though.
Nope
This is the first time I've ever endeavored to listen to a full Husker Du album, and I've come to the conclusion that I like the idea of Husker Du more than Husker Du themselves. I recognize that they were super influential to many bands that I love, and perhaps if I had heard HD when they first came out (and before a lot of other bands copied them, doing it better) I would have really been taken with them. The music is fine - it is solid alternative rock. But not super interesting. I like Bob Mould's music with Sugar much better. Still, HD made their mark, one I'm grateful for.
Album 111. Warehouse: Songs And Stories (https://open.spotify.com/album/1By3l3EcAlNZXJvSOHFJ98?si=fZxT9fnOSrOfBMLXlvIipg) — Hüsker Dü (1987) It's boring, shitty rock, ooops. It's such a default and tasteless rock like stock photos. Very long album, like an eternity, but a hell of an eternity. I feel like I listened to the same song 20 times for 70 minutes. Crap 1/5 No liked songs
I lacked context in rating this, because I'm aware of the band's impact, but haven't heard any of their albums. As this is their final album, I've no idea if it's peak Husker Du or the sound of a once-great outfit in decline. However, the lack of context forces me to be objective, I guess. It seemed quite mainstream fast US punky rock, but with moments of something edgier. The playing was, unsurprisingly, really tight, to the point of sounding effortless. I liked Ice Cold Ice a lot. I struggled to maintain interest in a double album, but it was decent enough and had plenty of tunes.
I like a handful of these songs, particularly Friend, You've Got to Fall and She Floated Away. However, at 1hr 9 minutes it's just too much of the same unappealing, rough sound that most of these tracks have. More grating than anything else.
I reckon I could’ve got into Husker do back in the day, and I’m sure John Peel would’ve played them, but alas I don’t have anything by them in my collection, this album is listenable- if a little dated.
This is such nothing music. Like the soundtrack to a forgettable 90s film.
This had some stand outs but the length is just egregious, a tight 30 no more than 40 tops.
Like most people, we have periods to which we gravitate with our musical preferences.....typically, during our youth. While there may be some bleed over into music we might pick up from other family members or friends, our comfort level rests in specific, "known" periods. Mine is Classic Rock and Blues. While I knew the Replacements to which this band has been compared, I never heard of Husker Du. I enjoyed this album, and while I might have suggested cutting some of these songs to make it a single album release, this one might be worth owning.
What a fun, fast, rollick of an album. I can’t believe I have never heard of Hüsker Dü. I’ll be checking out more of their albums for sure.
Pretty solid stuff.
accessible indie rock
Sounds like bad 90's rock. Nothing interesting, makes the head hurt a bit to be honest....
Don’t know Hüsker du but know and like Sugar - Bob mound next band. Strong similarities so I liked this. But all the tracks sound the same.
Yay, power pop!
Used to think HiskerDu was hardcore and inaccessible but now realize that it’s just plain ‘damn good music’. So melodic and great guitar work.
3 not exciting at all
Wow. Didn’t know these guys and don’t know why - top shelf stuff.
An hour of what felt like the same song.
Excellent
Oh no. Who asked for these long ass albums by generic sounding ass music?
Solid ig 5/10
A band whose name I have heard, but whose music I have not. Quite a large number of my favorite bands and musicians cite Husker Du as a major influence. It seems to me that this is one of those bands that existed solely to influence others who would go on to become household names. This album was okay. The vocals felt low and hard to distinguish against the instrumentation throughout. I can see how influential these guys were. Would probably give it a few more spins, maybe dig into some of their older stuff, this is their last album a casual bit of internet research tells me. Glad to have listened to it.
Energetic punk, except with actual melodies. I hear echoes (or, in some cases, precursors) of REM, Green Day, Klark Kent, and a lot of later indie/alt-rock. It's not my thing, but it's a good album from a clearly quite influential band. Favorites: "Ice Cold Ice", "She Floated Away", "Up in the Air"
As some of the reviews stated, I checked out Zen Arcade instead of this one. It was fine, probably the most entertaining thing was that I really had Husker Du pegged as some like Southern Rock or Jam band. Idk, that's what the name spoke to me. It was decent punk but everything kind of ran together, which I suppose isn't really that bad for the genre.
I love this DOUBLE LP! Their final recording and what a way to go out!
?? Mhh early post punk also indie, tolles cover aber musikalisch jetzt nicht überzeugt? C
One of my favorite records from one of my favorite bands. Absolute legends still tragically underrated.
I felt like I was listening to the same bland REM song for over an hour
- 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummers al toegevoegd aan MMMM
I never really got into them - and apparantly I hear that this is not the record for it. It’s fine - it reminds me of REM and perhaps even Counting Crows. I’m intrigued and will go listen to their earlier stuff
Bra i små doser. Litt vel intenst og saturert i lengden.
Looking at the reviews on here, I feel about the same way as most people: it’s great to come across Husker Du on here, but why this album out of their discography? I would have chosen New Day Rising, personally. This was the band’s final album, and it sounds like it. The tension in the band is evident in how Bob Mould and Grant Hart sound like they’re writing for different bands, and I wonder if the excessive length and bloat of this album came from that. With that said, it’s not a bad album, but it is one that showed them moving further away from their punk roots, towards a more mainstream sound and perhaps a mainstream success that eluded them. Mould’s songs sound a lot like what he’d go on to do with Sugar. It would have been better at half the length.
A surprisingly fun album and not in German
ok
Read the reviews while listening to this album and one person recommended Hüsker Dü's second album Zen Arcade. That's the album that belongs here. The song "Broken Home, Broken Heart" has more raw emotion than Warehouse in its entirety.
sounds like the Who
To me this sounds... bland? There's nothing wrong in particular, but it sounds all the same. I find that a lot of the time punk and punk-adjacent albums can be repetitive and not very varied, but still they're not too wearying because the artists know how to be concise. The guitars, which are louder than any other element in the songs (enough to drown out the vocals even considering this is a studio album), sound almost the same throughout. Did this album really need to be 20 songs/69 minutes long? On top of that, it was released in 1987, so I doubt it was even particularly innovative either; at least not enough to justify such a self-indulgent record. The only song that stood out for me was "Ice Cold Ice".
It was okay. Not as bad as the reviews were prepping me for
Sitting all excited in my new Sugar tshirt, hat and flag to listen to the guys next project and slowly realising it’s not very good.
Yeah - NO so much of the same on each and every song
Die sind ja gar ned so Türkisch Rock wieni ghofft han. Janu, schlecht sind ned, aber bsunders guet au ned. 3 mal Köfte bitte
Ander ziit ander nedi, vlt hät er de plausch gha. Aber isch mir zu rockig. Chume streng ine mit 2 stürs für düse albüm
A good album that sounded like a heavier version of 80s REM, but without the catchy hooks. I enjoyed the album, but it's not one I'm overly bothered about listening to again. 3 stars from me because I appreciate the impact they had on 90s music and they can clearly play and create good music. It just didn't blow me away.
3.4
Sounded great. A lot to digest in this big album but I liked it.
Good songs but too long
This was forgettable and I didn't care about it at all :/
Something about this really works for me - it's hard to put my finger on it. It's mainly the guitar, I really enjoy that style I guess. Reminds me of when I found a bunch of older punk and post-hardcore stuff online many years ago. This particularly reminds me of a band called Rain. Sort of a droning sound, with more complexity than a lot of more standard punk. Excellent guitars, nice bass tone, really solid overall. A really fun listen.
5/10 I have no feelings about this album. Highlights: She Floated Away Ice Cold Ice
Gut angefangen und dann stark nachgelassen
Jeder zweite Song ist ok.
Meh - aber medium meh!
Overall: 5/10 This album has a few highlights, but it's pretty forgettable. Not only is it way too long, but it's the biggest R.E.M. ripoff I've heard in my life. It made me wish I was listening to Document instead. After doing some reading, it seems like critics and fans of the band consider this a terrible introduction to the band and one of their weaker albums so.....thanks for making me listen to this I guess? Fav Song: Ice Cold Ice
Not my fave by them
its good but there could be a little bit more variety
I liked it. Long but good
6/10 Very samey. Felt like it was sort of one extended song in parts. Cool name. Feel like a more varied experimental album of there's would be more my thing p
way too long, bland, boring, not good, didn't even finish, though that was mostly just circumstance plus the lenght.
Quite the bloated alternative rock record. Honestly nothing really stood out to me here other than annoying vocals. I'm imagining the only reason this was significant enough to make the list is this album's young age relative to the age of this style of music. It's a very 90's sound. The problem with that is I can point to dozens of albums that sound similar but with better production, vocals, and whatnot. Overall, pretty underwhelming.
Punkrock, 1987 -> 2
People talk about them and REM together, like they have similar sounds and both paved the way. This album does totally sound like 90's alt rock, but it doesn't sound that much like REM to me (maybe slightly similar to the guitar-heavy albums like Monster). Some tracks are decent, like Ice Cold Ice.
If you plan to do a 20 track album, that runs over an hour, it seems like it would be a good idea to switch up the tempo occasionally so that it doesn't just start to sound like the same song on repeat. Individually, a lot of these tracks probably live in the low-3 range but rounding down to a 2, just because of how its repetition and how it overstayed its welcome.
Shittiest REM cover band.
Double album? Sure.
Hearing all kinds of 90's bands here when I listen to this. A little Greenday, one song reminder me of the friends theme song, etc., Unfortunately the songs are pretty boring, no noticable hooks, melodies, rhythms, and every song just kinda blends into the next. Pretty boring overall.
I see now where early REM got their sound from.
3.5
Production value is a 2. Song writing a 4.
Enjoyable, but it’s hard to get over the big question: why on earth was this picked over Zen Arcade???
There's some good stuff in here. I think it could have been gussied up into a four but it is very bloated. That being said, I am more interested in Husker Du than I was before so I'll be keeping an eye out.
You could probably make this a 20 minute album and nobody would notice. The songs all blend in to each other and there are really only minor instrument changes. I actually like the style; it’s like proto pop-punk, but it just goes on forever. Good enough but the decision to put this out like this was dumb.
Naw not for me
Solid, just a bit long
Hüsker Dü walked so Sugar could run
This bored me. Like, it wasn't terrible. Just meh
Aye it was decent, all a bit samey though
Not my fav, didn’t finish, a lot of the same things
I read a little bit of back story on this one. I had never heard of Hüsker Dü before, so I looked into them before listening. This album is the end of bands time together, in what was described as an incredibly messy and fucked break up. I can't say that this hype I read beforehand about how messy the album that came from this event really shined through. Like lowk just a normal rock album, I enjoyed it; however, I can't say it way anything special. Rating: 6.6/10 Fav track: Bed of nails (however I will say a lot of them sounded pretty similar, no offense)
a whole lot of nothing and repetitive songs
1. yearz - 0 2. hope - 0 3. rain - 0 4. back -0 5. ice -1 6. zoldier - 0 7. one - 0 8. zpice - 0 9. fall - 0 10. Visionary - 0 11. Floated -0 12. Nails - 1 13. why - 1 14. Peculiar - 1 15. Condition - 1 16. Reservations -0 17. Turn - 0 18. Woman - 0 19. Air - 0 20. Home -0
good punk album i like it
I liked this actually, i think it’s worth another listen
Q: What do you get if you strip The Wedding Present of all their charm and wit A: Husker Du
several songs were played
Перетянули ребята, под конец уже дышать сложно
Sounds ok, still no bangers
There's a lot of this. They're another band that bands I like were influenced by, but all I hear is a really good noise (especially on the Bob Mould ones), but without the great tunes. Sometimes it's like Teenage Fanclub without the tunes, sometimes it's like Monster era REM without the tunes. I quite liked having it on, and I'm convinced if I was 2 years older and American, I would love this band. I'll try another album of theirs.
Never listed to Husker Du in my life . This was fine and I get the comparisons to REM. Husker Du is just so much more forgettable. There was nothing really interesting here.
Good, but probably longer than it needed to be
Didn't like it that much. Felt kinda generic. Nothing stood out for me. It's fine to rock along to but didn't love it.
Better than I expected.
lame
No. 337/1001 Those Important Years 4/5 Charity, Chastity, Prudence 3/5 Standing In The Rain 3/5 Back From Somewhere 4/5 Ice Cold Ice 3/5 You're A Soldier 3/5 Could You Be The One? 3/5 Too Much Spice 4/5 Friend, You've Got to Fall 4/5 Visionary 3/5 She Floated Away 4/5 Bed of Nails 3/5 Tell You Why Tomorrow 3/5 It‘s Not Peculiar 4/5 Actual Condition 3/5 No Reservations 4/5 Turn It Around 3/5 She's a Women 3/5 Up in the Air 4/5 You Can Live at Home 3/5 Average: 3,4 Nice to listen to. Definitely too long for the lacking diversity in the songs.
This is an 80s college rock album that's 68 minutes long. The first thing I noticed when I put it on was the awful, tinny production. It's a shame, because the album is loaded with hooky, high-energy songs that are excellent. It's an excellent album, especially considering that it was a last gasp for air from a band that was rapidly imploding due to inner turmoil and drug abuse. The underlying songs are better than contemporary REM(a band that Husker Du are often likened to), but the production is far worse. I also don't think it should be anywhere near as long as it is(30-40 minutes would suffice). However, there's still an excellent album in here somewhere, it just needs a good remix with some cutting.
Not the best Husker Du album but still good
I would listen again
love it, tho surprised by its lack of low frequencies
It was pleasant and was an interesting neighbor to REMs sound. I’m familiar with the name but have never listened to them. Even I have heard of Zen Arcade so it is a shock to read it isn’t on this list. Honestly I liked all the songs on here but didn’t really love them. As a single listening experience, it does feel too long and there’s not enough variance to keep me engaged. But I don’t have a problem with any song on its own. So overall it wasn’t too memorable but I won’t let it deter me from listening to their other stuff as this doesn’t feel like their peak or like the sound that set them apart from others. Rating: 3.7
Not as terrible as I expected. But not really notable either.
blast of sound. sounds 90s. alt rock.
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely is really good but then there's too many ballads in a row and it looses it's momentum. BUT hat song good tho This is no Zen Arcade but it's alright
Hüsker Dü deserve to be included in the list but they really could’ve picked any of their other albums and done better. This albums is fine but not an essential listen. Minnesotans deserve better than this
Everything I’ve heard by Husker Du is really great poppy alt rock, I should explore them more.
Cool, an album that the artists themselves didn't like. Why is this on here?
If only the words "all killer no filler" had been applied to the song selection here. Some of Hüsker Dü's best...and some that would have been better as a Record Store Day limited edition outtakes LP (on purple vinyl ).
So close to the one it's not even funny. The only reason it's not is that while it is boring and repetitive and has no business being on this list, it is quite inoffensive. It's just way too long with zero impact.
For the genre it is, it is very good. It’s not really my style, but I’m keeping some songs from album in some sort of rotation.
No song stood out which made a 20 song album feel more like a chore than an enjoying experience.
I sort of enjoyed that but nothing stood out to me. I suppose it's influenced a lot of new stuff and sometimes that makes listening to the "original" inspiration feel a bit done. I can't see myself listening to this again though even if it wasn't terrible. I think I prefer Bad Religion? Husker's sound is maybe less cohesive, more busy, less focused? I recognise the drums mostly from similar bands but still can't get into it.
baseline good with all husker du albums but i think this is one of their least essentials
A little long but overall I enjoyed it
This was fine, but nothing I’ll go after again
I love Bob Mould, this sound was the prototype for Sugar, which I think is his best work. I think the sound is so unique here but the lyrics are still raw. Hard call between 3 or 4 stars.
⭐️⭐️ There is some great guitar work on this album, and a couple catchy choruses. Other than that the length of the album drags it. Definitely found some songs I like but I don’t think I would revisit the entire project.
I’m about as Gen X as they come, but I just never connected with Hüsker Dü. Beyond that, is this even one of the, erm, Top 5 Hüsker Dü albums? Barely? There’s nothing spectacular here, anyway, and the album (a double, as it’s really a Bob Mould album and a Grant Hart album all spun together) is far too long. The Mould songs are, inevitably, the better ones. My favorite is probably “Ice Cold Ice” (or “No Reservations”). But, at the end of the day, there’s nothing essential here.
Not as "hard" as I was expecting, and that was perhaps the only interesting thing about this, the discovery--to me-that bands I think of as early punk aren't as "hard" as I'd assumed. In any case, not bad but also kinda forgettable.
I went into this thinking Punk and was surprised. But I read the bio and changed my POV to the crucial runup to my dear grunge era. Goddamn, does Foo Fighters sound like this band. And some members of Pearl Jam, when they hold the songwriting pen. A heavier version of REM, who of course were contemporaries. I’m captivated by how far up front the guitar is in the mix. A little distortion, a fuzzy amp; without diving into their Wikipedia, I expect that this is a group that made its listeners start bands. Fun discovery. I want to listen to their transition from punk to whatever this is.
This one hurts because I love Hüsker Dü but they picked their worst album. Overcooked, overblown, overproduced and overtaken by the band’s demons. Both Bob and Grant were fully in the throes of addiction and were trying to make a major label debut with a band that had always been better when left to their own creativity. This is just rough to hear and while some songs shine through as pop gems this is an unruly mess of a record.
One memorable song
Good
I can almost explain why I don’t like this but it’s gonna take too much effort and I just wanna move on.
Ei lähteny
Ei säväyttänyt oikeen millään lailla.
Ok. Started good then got repetitive. Sounded like a punk REM. Also not a wide range sonically. Actually had to turn down the treble.
The band is important because Hüsker Dü played a vital role in the sound of 90s indie and alternative rock. This album isn't the best example of Hüsker Dü's legacy.
Catchy as hells but perhaps tü much Dü. 3.5
the way that i know that R.E.M. is mostly overrated is that these guys out R.E.M.'d them and never got that famous. this is kinda samey throughout, but is also unarguably the most endurable double album on the list so far
i was fülly expecting for this tü be a slog of a listening experience. in no world did i expect tü actually thoroüghly enjoy the whole listen? i guess sometimes albüms sürprise ü
I always think Husker Du is metal and then I listen to them and I'm like oh, this is like....Foo Fighters but a little more 80's pop and it's very confusing. This was fine. I'm glad they were formative or whatever but mostly I got "Learn to Fly" stuck in my head. Possibly most enjoyable double album on this list at least.
I saw Hüsker Dü do a show in a gymnasium in ( i want to say) 1981 or 1982. It was amazing. So much different than any of the other punk stuff coming through town around that time, like TSOL or Black Flag. More musical in general, more professional. Punk in tempo and volume, but the songs flowed differently. They weren't merely an angry one-two punch to whatever random thing or person was close by. There was a craftsmanship more like the big time bands we pretended not to like - Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin. And they had a hippie aesthetic which was interesting. Grant Hart played the drums barefoot, which I was truly astonished at. I've never seen that before or since. Warehouse: Songs and Stories is unfortunately their last album. So much bitterness, I don't know who lied to Bob Mould or why, but now they're done. A lot of spiteful songs on here. Still true to their pop-punk origins though, mixed with a punk-psychedelic wash which made them one of my all-time favorite bands. "Too Much Spice," "Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope," "Could You be the One?," "Friend, You've Got to Fall" are all super-catchy bangers. Every song on this album is appealing. And the contrast between Mould and Hart is played up well here, even if they would do better to combine forces. Maybe that would be too many cooks, though. A band who imploded too soon. RIP Grant Hart, sorry things didn't go your way. It's not the best Hüsker Dü album, but it's probably a good one for this list, it's their biggest seller (I think) and an attempt at mainstream acceptance, meaning they literally sold out. A gutsy move for a punk band. Hüsker Dü's influence is huge, of course, and I give this an additional star just for getting something by them on this list.
if REM decided to make the worst punk album you’ve ever heard.
I’d never heard of Hüsker Dü before and went into Warehouse: Songs and Stories with no real expectations. My first reaction was simply: this album is far too long. At 20 tracks and over 70 minutes, it feels wildly overstuffed, with very little justification for its runtime. My second thought was less charitable — much of it sounds like a bargain-bin, Temu version of R.E.M. Taken individually, a handful of tracks are perfectly serviceable indie songs, but as a complete album it becomes a slog. The sheer length drains any momentum, and what might have worked in smaller doses turns into something repetitive and ultimately dull. By the halfway point, I was genuinely desperate for it to end. This is not an album I’ll be returning to. Favourite tracks: Could You Be the One and Too Much Spice were decent enough indie tunes. I also enjoyed the Rockabiliy vibe of Actual condition. Least favourite track: Fried — which sounds like the Foo Fighters before the Foo Fighters existed, and I hate the Foo Fighters. More broadly, a lot of the album feels generic and uninspired. Album artwork: At least the cover is quite cute.
Cool vibe actually. Didn’t make it all the way through for unrelated reasons
Classic punk
Really like the guitar; kind of uneven and disjointed. You can hear the brilliance of Mould even this early
doesnt sound bad, nothing to write home about and certainly nothing im dying to revisit. definitely dragged out; 20 of the same song isnt going to be memorable or interesting.
I like this album but I can't say it is a great one, and it is strange to have this listed when Zen Arcade is both more exciting and more influential. This is fine, and 'No Reservations' is beautiful, but other Hüsker Dü albums deserve to be here instead
Why this Husker Du album? They have better work and Warehouse is just too bloody long for this type of music... A generous 3.
Вроде неплохо, но не впечатляет
This is a great album, but might have been better as a single album!
This album is just too long. If this were only the first 12 tracks this would be in contention to be a 4 for me. Unfortunately this really meanders and the lesser songs take away from the first two sides of the LP.
Funky. Not a huge fan. 2 stars.
I liked some songs on here, there was occasionally nice melody in the guitar work... but eh? Really blended together by the end.
According to their Spotify artist description, this band was as influential to post-punk rock and roll as R.E.M. and that must be the biggest exaggeration I've heard all year. How is this even a fair comparison when their top song has literally 1000x more listeners than this album's top song. I guess there is a point to be made that Hüsker Dü walked so that Green Day or Nirvana could run but their music is so simple that one could even claim that Taylor Swift was inspired by it. Maybe it's because I'm not a fan of punk-pop but the 20(!) songs on this album sounded to similar that it felt like multiple hours of mediocrity and a drag to sit through. 2.5/5 stars for being exactly mid
It... sounds like it wants to be punk? I hear early Foo Fighters in here, I hear REM. It's too flaccid for me, particularly the vocals; the mix in general lacks the punch I'd expect from this genre. With that said, I think I expect more from this because it had a heavy influence on later music in this style. For that, I think this qualifies as an important listen - clearly it had impact. Not my bag, but important nonetheless. 4/5.
Clearly able musicians. Which makes it worse that they could create something so unbelievably dull. Any time there was a hint of good or interesting music, they decided to revert back to repeating the same line 25 times.
This grew on me quite a bit but I definitely think they could have cut about half the songs and this would have been a classic album. I have a definite preference for the Mould songs and plan on listening to the earlier stuff and his later work as part of Sugar.
Like REM at 1.5x speed. And 0.75x quality. And 10 tracks too many.
Great punk rock sound without getting bland.
This is my least favorite from the Hüskers. They've clearly checked out on the band by the point, and were hardly working together to put together these songs. Does seeing this album on the list this mean New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig and Candy Apple Grey are also on the list? If not, somebody has made a grave error.
V/rv
3/5 - Liked the vibe, missed the hooks. I'd rather listen to The Replacements or REM.
Regrettably this ended up being their last album and it only makes me wish there was more from them as a band after this (not counting posthumous/archival live and outtake releases). But my love for this band’s discography, even after Bob Mould and Grant Hart embarked on solo careers, still endured. As does their music.
Das Doppelalbum wurde in den Nicollet Studios in Minneapolis aufgenommen und zeigt die US-amerikanische Band in einer Phase, in der melodischer Alternative Rock stärker in den Vordergrund rückte. Bekannte Stücke wie „Could You Be the One?“, „Ice Cold Ice“ oder „These Important Years“ stehen für die Mischung aus zugänglichen Hooks und der gewohnt rauen Energie. Stilistisch bewegt sich das Album zwischen Post-Hardcore, Alternative Rock und einem deutlicheren Gespür für strukturierte Songs. Insgesamt ein dichtes, etwas zerrissenes Spätwerk, das die unterschiedlichen Handschriften der Songwriter klar erkennbar mach
A few tracks on here stood out as catchy, energetic and fun to listen to, I found a few other tracks a little bit overly simple and at times a bit repetitive. I think if this was reduced down by 25% it would be that much better. I do definitely like the sound, a blend of punk, rock and early indie. Some very earwormy choruses and raw, no bs playing. Despite have some idea who they are, I hadn't listened to Husker Du before and this album is definitely giving me another to want to dive a little deeper into their discography.
It’s weird that when I hear Bob Mould I immediately think of Michael Stipe and when I hear Michael Stipe I immediately think of Gord Downie, but I don’t think of Gord Downie when I hear Bob Mould. Anyways, I mostly enjoyed Sugar’s Copper Blue when I had it generated a couple weeks ago, but I came away thinking I enjoy Husker Du more even though it’s been awhile since I listened to them. Now listening to Warehouse: Songs and Stories, I’m questioning how much I even enjoy Husker Du. This isn’t a bad album, I did enjoy it, but it’s long, the songs are all quite similar, and nothing really stood out to me. For my sanity, I threw on Zen Arcade. Now that’s the Husker Du I remember! There’s much more of an edge on Zen Arcade, the songs are all so much more ferocious and they’re really experimenting and pushing boundaries on several tracks. Warehouse honestly sounds almost bland in comparison. Again, I did still enjoy Warehouse: Songs and Stories, I just don’t understand why it’s included in the list over Zen Arcade. Warehouse: Songs and Stories - 3/5 Zen Arcade - 5/5
ok, but all the same.Too much
Despite being 20 songs long that all sounded quite similar, it only really got old towards the very end where I thought the songs dropped off in overall quality. Not everything was a hit, but there were many tracks that I definitely enjoyed, such as the opening song, Too Much Spice, and She Floated Away. High 3
I don't know if it was the mixing or what but the drums sounded terrible throughout this whole album. They have a weird tinny echoey kind of sound and the singers voice doesn't help at all.
It’s like if REM had less annoying vocals, rocked a little harder, yet is at the same time somehow worse.
Welp, that’s a Hüsker dön’t! I knew Bob Mould from later work with Sugar and as the writer of The Daily Show theme song. Seems he got better with age… 2⭐️
Not even close to being their best work, but I checked and it's the only Husker Du on the list. Meanwhile we get to listen to a recording of every time Springsteen, Lennon, or Jagger randomly farted on a microphone. HD belongs here, this album does not. Check out Candy Apple Grey.
There’s a pretty good album hidden in here somewhere, but finding it would be like combing through your old baseball cards trying to find the ones that survived water damage and neglect.
OK
This is ok in places, but it's too long and the vocals get a bit annoying
Kind of expected it to be better. Bit pedestrian in places.
Apparently these guys were contemporaries of REM. I never heard of them before 1001 albums.
very REM-esque, very 90s. not bad but not necessarily my thing
Just didn’t find anything too special with this one. Alright listen, but went on for too long.
Cleanest production of the bunch and more Bob Mould? Feed it to me.
Poor man's REM?
DNF
Never heard of them before. Strong resemblance to REM, but then a bit more refreshing since everything is new to me. Unfortunately none of the songs really stood out for me, maybe except the last one. 3.3 stars
4/10 - more noise than quality
I was curious but ultimately disappointed. The same song over and over.
Just noise. Couldn't wait for this to be over
On Warehouse: Songs and Stories, Hüsker Dü deliver a sprawling, distortion-caked curtain call that doubles down on the trio’s defining traits: loud guitars, slightly off-kilter vocals, and production that feels more like an obligation than a priority. It’s peak ’80s indie rock in all its scruffy, unvarnished glory—and all its limitations. Bob Mould and Grant Hart keep trading bruised melodies and emotional shrapnel, but across 20 tracks, the sameness sets in, turning what could’ve been a sharp exit statement into a marathon of fuzz and fatigue. Hart’s songs offer the brighter contours, his voice cutting through the murk with more ease than Mould’s serrated bark. Still, buried in the haze are flashes of what made the band so essential. “Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope” smuggles a ’60s pop gem beneath its scuzzy coating, while “Back from Somewhere” channels an unexpectedly turbocharged Tom Petty vibe, right down to its ringing harmonies. And “It’s Not Peculiar” proves they hadn’t lost their knack for a hook—even if you have to wade through the noise to find it.
There is no reason it had to be this long. I enjoyed the vibe, bit it would have been better as a tight 35 minute album.
A very odd choice to be Husker Du's sole representative on this list. Makes me wonder if the compilers know the rest of their catalogue, or is it here because they "should be represented" and it took critics so long to catch onto them that they chose their sub-par swansong. A double album which would have been an incredible single album if they'd stopped halfway through. It could have reached Flip Your Wig levels of perfection. That good! It's not even their best double album though. That's the endlessly inventive Zen Arcade. Not even close! Giving 5 stars to the band that invented 90s rock in the mid-80s as I know they won't appear again (and yet there are five Steely Dan LPs on this list...shows you can't trust critics...).
more like husker don't amirite
Classic Husker Du.
Never heard this before despite loving Zen Arcade - sounds like a fuzzier REM from the same era. Could happily lose about 20 minutes but there's some fantastic songs here
All hail Bob Mould. Fantastic
Ik kom niet zo heel goed toe aan het vormen van een mening over de liedjes omdat ik de productie retevervelend vind. Het is heel druk in de hoge en middenhoge frequenties en daar reageer ik altijd een beetje op zoals onze hond op elektrische voertuigen reageert. Ontzettend plat, wat schel en stomweg blikkerig. Het klinkt alsof je het afspeelt op de wekkerradio die ik kreeg toen ik naar de brugklas ging. Het was voor die tijd een prima apparaat maar geluidskwaliteit was bij het ontwerpen van die dingen geen factor. De liedjes zelf zijn zo onaardig nog niet, maar hier kan ik in deze vorm helemaal niks mee. En dan duurt het ook nog eens ruim een uur. Na de grootste hit (track 7) ben ik er klaar mee en zet ik het af. Het kost me teveel kruim. Ik kan niet anders dan 1 ster geven, waarbij ik wil optekenen dat het met een andere mix misschien wel een 4 had kunnen scoren.
The crazy thing about getting assigned this album is that before a few weeks ago I had never heard Husker Du. But then I attended a Q&A of the author of "Such Great Heights: the Complete Guide to Indie Rock" and this band came up multiple times in the talks about the Genesis of the indie rock era of the aughts (perhaps my favorite and most personally impactful period of music). Not only was intrigued by the inclusion of mid to late 80s artists in the talk of the rise of this eventual mainstream movement, my curiosity was piqued about this band in particular, so I headed to their Spotify page and listened to a couple songs. Now here I am listening with a critical ear to their final album in its entirety, and guess what? It's freaking great. Had I not sat through a presentation defending why this band influenced some of my favorites of all time, I'd be a lot more surprised but it's funny how things work out that way. I don't even like most 80s music, so I thought this would be another "well I get why it's considered 'good' but it's not good to me" bands...like Faith No More or R.E.M. But nope, these guys are just legitimately great. So the better question is why are they not more popular? And while I've yet to read Chris Deville's book, which surely goes more into depth on this, the presentation covered enough to explain how indie rock stemmed from underground rock (you know, it was initially actually bands on independent labels and not just a genre....one that eventually became an ironic version of itself when it went mainstream). But maybe...just maybe part of the reason this album didn't reach critical mass is its length. To me, although I loved so many of the tracks, the album itself is just too long and too repetitive. Take the best 10-15 tracks and make this a single LP, and you've got a 5-star album. But as it is, the same with many double albums, it's just too bloated. By the time it's over, no matter how much I enjoyed listening to it, I'm just ready for it to be over. It's not as eclectic or creative enough to keep me engaged from start to finish. Double albums are so often full of b-sides, and this one seems to be no exception....heck reading the Wikipedia it seems even some band members agree with me and feel the album would have been more commercially successful if it were a tight, focused record of their best offerings from the studio sessions rather than a diffuse collection of recordings, many of which sound similar. Another reason this album isn't a 5-star for me (and also likely contributes to its lack of commercial success) is that there aren't any true standout songs. Even though I enjoyed nearly all of them, none really wowed me in the way that most "perfect" albums have several tracks that soar above the rest. Again, I liked the album a lot, and I'll be listening to more Husker Du in the future, but after listening to this, it makes a lot more sense why they are influential but never really took off themselves...why they are a precursor to a movement 20 years later rather than a movement starter themselves.
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It was ok, a little boring alt rock from the 80s. Definitely too long; 70 minutes of this is redundant. Diet R.E.M.-music. Throw it in the pile of below average albums that’ll be forgotten and never played again.
Everyone always talks about how Spot's production really hurts Zen Arcade and (especially) New Day Rising, but those albums both sound *so* much better than this one. At least the thinness there serves to make those guitars sound so much sharper, whereas here they feel way more distant. Maybe that's their attempt to broaden out their sound for the major label, but it really hurts the album. And they don't even have the decency to give us another "Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely" on here, either! Honestly, this one is probably the Hüsker Dü album that you *least* need to hear before you die!
I like Bob Mould after Husker Du better, but this is solid. Again, like most double albums it might be too much of a good thing which knock it down to a 3.5 for me. Dropping for repetitive feel.
Quite a pleasing listen. Knew little about the band before this but they do remind me a little of REM. Enjoyable power pop / rock
Every song was extremely similar. It was tough to know when the next one began. It felt like one long extremely mediocre song.
Holy snoozefest, there’s maybe 2 good tracks over this 20 song run. It’s probably influential… somehow… so I kinda see why on the list this would be there.
I'd rather another R.E.M. album over this pick. Anything that these guys did in this album is completely overshadowed by them. The album was so samey the whole way through, but honestly, the music is not bad. There's something about this album that somewhat resonated with me, even if I think I wouldn't be losing anything by listening to it again. I'll get back to listening to R.E.M.
A band I always feel I ought to like but never quite manage to. Something about the way their albums are mixed ends up sounding thin and tinny, so the abrasive aggressive guitars end up come across as scratchy and grating and the voice as overly nasal and annoying - the overall effect is fizzy and muffled. The recordings really don't do justice what could be great songs, proto pop punk brimming with hooks and tight riffs and inventive playing.
Really boring, really fast. It was also WAY too long
Nothing special. Average 80s rock.
Sounded like very early pop-punk, which is a genre im not the biggest fan of, and has improved a lot since this album. Because of this it was pretty difficult for me to properly get into the album and left me wanting to listen to something else instead
20 songs over an hour and 9 minutes and I didn't hate a single one! 20 songs over an hour and 9 minutes and I didn't love a single one! A true shrine to all that is mid.
"Warehouse: Songs and Stories" is the sixth and final studio album (and a double album at that) by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü. Alternative rock, post-hardcore and power pop are the Wiki-listed genres. Yeah, really no outward punk songs. The album showcases the increased maturity in Bob Mould (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Grant Hart's (vocals, drums, percussion, bass, keyboards) songwriting and is known for the battle for each of their songs to appear on the album. The band dissolved following the album tour due to disagreements between Mould and Hart on Hart's drug use and the loss of their manager David Savoy from suicide. Bassist Greg Norton completes the trio. The album was critically well-received and, commercially, reached #117 on the US Billboard Top 200 and #72 in the UK. A fuzzy, melodic guitar opens the album and the song "These Important Years." Ringing drums. Mould on lead vocals stressing to seize the moment before time slips by. Hart on backing vocals repeating the song title. A sizzling start. Hart takes over lead vocals on the next song "Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope." A repetitive, hypnotic and echoing guitar. Keyboards and bells with the drums provide a unique rhythm. Hart is disillusioned with the American dream. The first side ends with "Ice Cold Ice," a song that starts slow and then goes punk fast. Great vocals by both the lead Mould and Hart who echoes and responds to him. The first single "Could You Be One?" proves that Hüsker Dü could do power pop quite effectively. Mould's melodic fuzzy guitar. A short, direct song with a short guitar solo. The next song "Too Much Spice" expands the power pop into more a more sprawling vibe. Hart with clear, forceful vocals as he describes an overindulgent person. Mould is ace with one of his catchiest and hardest melodies. The great song string continues in "Friend You've Got to Fall." Mould on vocals as he talks about the failure of a friend. Is he really talking Hart's drug use? The album can go dark and it does in Mould's "Bed of Nails." A sparse start and an evil-sounding guitar. Mould's voice shaking as channels suffering. Not everything is serious here as evident in Hart's "Actual Condition." A rockabilly beat and whimsical guitar. Tha album closes with a pair of songs that foreshadow the bands' demise in "Up in the Air" and "You Can Live at Home." One by Mould. One by Hart. Both different. So many great songs here. This is an album of an apparent one-upmanship between Mould and Hart. At times, it seems the each subsequent song builds on the previous one. The lyrics are very much mature - deep and personal with topics of depression, failed relationships, political disillusionment, hardships, warnings and serious band issues. The vocals are mostly forceful and confident but can be varied and playful especially Hart's. The one major issue with this album is the production mix; it is terrible. For me, the quality of songs outweigh this but, I know, is an issue for some. Mould later said that the album should have been trimmed but there was no way at the time due to their egos. I have no issues with including all the songs; they're all pretty strong. This album completed an incredible span for the band where, in a three-years period, they made 14 album sides of very good to spectacular music. This particular album is one of my favorites of 1980's. A must have and listen for everyone.
It's not bad, but I doubt I'll come back to this.
What a weird pick for this list! I still very much like it, but any other album from Hüsker Dü would have deserved the spot.
It's REM, but it's not. Not bad, but nothing really stands out
Not bad. Would have thought it was a 90s album but nothing about it stuck out to me.
The good: This album reminds me of some of what my father used to play in the car growing up. The bad: This is an hour and 9 minutes of the same fucking song over and over again.
Fed nok musik men sangeren lyder som Michael Stipe så det trækker ned
God brug af dobbeltalbum, kvaliteten var virkelig stabil!
This really grew on me and peaked in the end.
The moment this album started it occurred to me that, until just now, I had the completely wrong idea what these guys would sound like. I mean, you look at this name: Hüsker Dü. Vaguely German? Double umalauts? To be quite honest, I'd gotten the impression they were some kind of experimental group — based entirely on how their name read to me, yeah, but still. So when I pressed "play" on this album and was met with ... dang, R.E.M.-type punk music? Oh, I was just delighted. Suddenly I'm thinking the next 68 minutes weren't going to be so bad after all. And absolutely they weren't bad at all. Going just off of the energy I got from these songs, I had quite the fun time. Now, I'd absolutely meant to listen to the lyrics; I pulled them up alongside every song. But then, I ended up listening to this in largely the same way I did Minutemen's 'Double Nickels On The Dime': kinda jus' letting the energy in these songs propel me and carry me forward. If there were any problems in the lyrics, they sure didn't matter to me. Heck, if the vocals weren't all that great, I sure as heck didn't mind. Just another instrument to keep things rolling along. Though, I will say: I don't think this is **as good* as 'Double Nickels On The Dime'? And in general, while I enjoyed my time with this record, I don't think it should have been a double album, honestly? And all for the simple fact that I don't think this album really "justified" being a double album. Now, when I talk about length in regards to double albums, I'm often referring to whether or not they come across as "egotistical," or whether some kind of "hubris" has been breached. That's not the case here; I don't feel any ego or hubris coming off of this record. It's more just a matter of ... the songs are good, but collectively I don't think they're **that good**? Immediately my mind heads over to such albums like Prince's 'Sign "O" The Times' or The Beatles' White Album, and those aren't very fair comparisons. I mean, those albums are famous for their variety, something this one clearly wasn't aiming for. How am I gonna compare an album that has "Revolution 9" and "Good Night" next to each other to a double record that's happy to be R.E.M.-style punk the whole way through, y'know? The more apt comparison is of course to 'Double Nickels On The Dime', but even then it doesn't feel 100. I think of 'Double Nickels On The Dime' as less a collection of songs and more a series of bursts of punk electricity. You don't **have** to think about songs on an individual level, and you don't **need to** — that's the strength of 'Double Nickels'. Whereas, here on 'Warehouse', it **does** feel like you need that consideration ... and it just doesn't rate as strongly. And when you're losing to an album that has a side titled "Chaff"...! Maybe this album would be better off as one of those double album games where you pick a single album out of it? Y'know, like people have done with The White Album, or I've seen people do with Guns N' Roses' 'Use Your Illusion'. I think you could get something out of it. But then that just leads me to the thought that this album probably should've gotten the "White and Whiter Album" treatment — two separate releases, y'know? But explicitly separate releases; not something like 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'II' or Metallica's 'Load' and 'Reload' releases. I'm just saying, an album where I don't get spooked by the single chord fakeout at the end of "Ice Cold Ice" would be nice. And while we're splitting this album into two distinct releases, you may as well take the opportunity to trim some of these songs down a bit. As much as I enjoyed the energy of these songs, I could still tell that some of them were maybe going on a hair longer than they should have? For sure some of those outros could've been condensed. It still would've been a joy, in my eyes; I don't think you would've been losing much. One more thing: I've said I was unaware for the longest time that Hüsker Dü sounded like this. Honestly, I kind of wish I knew earlier, but that's besides the point. If I knew any one thing about Hüsker Dü, for absolute certain, it's that this ... is not the album I would have picked. From everything I'd read and taken in, I would've thought that 'New Day Rising' would've been here. That's the one on the Rolling Stone 500. Heck, I've seen people talk about this band's debut, 'Zen Arcade' — maybe that could've been here? Heck, it's the album that inspired the recording of 'Double Nickels On The Dime', so it would've been fitting given all of the comparisons I've made here. And besides the acclaim I've heard elsewhere, these are both single disc albums, so, y'know, maybe a little... I'unno. Despite my harping and going on, I still had a good time with this record. It could have been shortened a **little**, but in the end I didn't mind all that much until I got near the end. If nothing else, as a crash course on what this band actually sounds like, I'm more than satisfied. I might even hafta check out those two other albums at some point — who knows? For the time being, though, 'Warehouse' gets my approval. And I still like your double umlauts — that's just cool metal shit.
This band might be done, but punk never dies. 4.5 bumped up to 5.
I’m at a 3.5 that I’ll bump down to a 3, though if Grant Hart had chosen to end “You Can Live at Home” after 2:30 or so, I’d probably be willing to barely bump this album up to a 4. This is a strange, strange project. It’s bloated like a motherfucker, for one. The first half of this album all feel like leftovers, which is weird to not exactly start on your best stuff. Out of the first 11 tracks, I only liked about 6 of them, and even of the 6 I liked, there are criticisms noted as a “little repetitive” (These Important Years), “the outro needed some more work” (Standing in the Rain), “vocals very nasally” (Back from Somewhere), “not a fan of the one-chord fakeout ending” (Ice Cold Ice), & “outro VERY repetitive” (Too Much Spice). No notes on “Friend, You’ve Got to Fall” though. This album really, really does not find an identity through its first 11 tracks, and while they’re all decent to listen to with a good energy to the instrumental every time, the lack of a more focused / thought-out structure (the lack of bridges on most of these tracks is astounding, as is the repetitive / long / overplayed outros & every track starting with guitar/drums) really makes the album feel like it’s going absolutely nowhere for the first half, in what I would categorize as a competent, yet unsatisfying 3. For whatever reason though, the back half of the album (the last 9 tracks) suddenly find most of that; the structure to the tracks feels more thought out, the lyricism feels like it has more of a point, and the instrumentals kicks up in a way that just feels way more satisfying, turning the repetition into a positive as opposed to a sort of dry negative. Genuinely, if this album were just the last 9 tracks by themselves, I’d be at a 3.5 that I might be persuaded to bump up to a 4. I genuinely think either “Turn It Around” or “Up in the Air” would’ve made for great closing tracks, and if the album had ended there, I’d feel pretty satisfied with them. “You Can Live at Home” is one of the worst closing tracks I’ve ever heard for any album in my life. It is the culmination of an album-long frustration that I had with one Grant Hart. His penmanship is fine, and his instrumental work on the tracks he’s not singing on is generally good. However, I fully believe he cannot sing worth a damn, even though his vocals occasionally work at points on this album under really specific soundscapes. Bob Mould might be a diet Michael Stipe, yes, but at least he sounds close enough at points that it’s easy to just vibe along with it, as if this really were an R.E.M. album, and I think his tracks are generally better structured throughout the album. Grant Hart is the opposite. Grant Hart sounds like a bad Elvis Costello impersonator with an even more nasally voice, like a Muppet parody, and even then, I think a Muppet parody could do a better job. My issue with “You Can Live at Home”, however, is not from his vocals; it’s the fact that the entire last 2:30 of the track goes absolutely fucking nowhere, and with the inaudible lyrics (seriously horrible mixing) themselves already seemingly acting as a subliminal diss to Mould, given their internal issues and the break-up of the band afterward, I find it to be nothing more than a fully petty 5:24 of boring inaudible nothingness, capping off an album that should’ve ended on his partner’s tracks. It is singlehandedly dragging this album down to a 3, but make no mistake; this album isn’t that bad. The 20 tracks here all generally sound fine (save for the last one), and I’d say the very best ones are probably worthy of being a 4, if they had been able to pick them out and really flesh them out. The mediocre ones are what pull this down, especially that last one. Past that, the length of this album & the repetition of the intros / outros is too much to ignore. This was probably always going to get a 3 once the sort of “diet R.E.M. with a Green Day lean” thing came into my head, but at least it fought back during that second half to be a respectably good 3.5 that almost became a 4. Hell, it'd probably be a 4 if you cut out like, 80% of Grant Hart’s tracks. Ultimately, it’s just a 3 though, and it definitely didn’t need to be a double album.
I know the name and I've met their fans over the year. The write up I read when researching them said "Husker Du was never more than a cult favorite. Nevertheless, their albums between 1981-87 proved remarkably influential; they provided the sonic blueprint for the roaring punk-pop hybrid that crossed over to mainstream in the early 90's". Bob Mould was an influential guy and was also in Sugar who had some minor success years later. I kinda felt like I was listening to one long song, they all sounded the same to me. I can hear the blueprint mentioned above and how that carried over to bands like Green Day, maybe Nirvana as well. One trick pony. I was bored 5 songs in. Weak vocals, repetitive sound, wall of guitars with no breaks, zero hits or cult classics (Too Much Spice had 1.7M listens). Just not my thing I guess. I'll give it 2 stars for influence.
Really wanted to like this more
It started out ok, the first few tracks reminded me of Green Day, in a very remote way. It just got worse with each track after that, and I had to turn it off about halfway through.
Some good stuff on here, but does it need to be this long? Not very dynamic for a double album.
I agree with y'all, this IS the worst REM album.
Hüsker Dü:n tiesin lähinnä ”Diane”-biisistä ja sen mainiosta Therapy?:n coverista. Tää oli ihan jeespoks albumi. Hieman liian tasapaksu kuitenkin.
This is good stuff. Pretty sure I listened once before.
Seventy minutes of average rock music. 3 stars or C-.
Eh
Far from their best album but “You Can Go Live At Home” is a bloody brilliant swan song
upbeat punk inspired rock. nothing wrong with this one.
Kinda bored. Heard of this band many times over the years and it sounds pretty much like I thought it would. Meh,
It runs way too long, but some of the songs are quite good.
Weird Dü album to put on here.
some good riffing/rock n rolling. Gotta rep MN. Just not my fav band.
okay but a bit rowdy for me
Not my genre; nevertheless, decent.
Way to long !!!
Meh...
This was the never ending album of banality. It was hard to tell one song from another on this one. At one point I was wondering why there was a weird pause in the middle of the song and then realized it had gone on to a new track. There was a lot of skipping the ends of songs and just wishing it were over in general.
Husker Du not sound very good to me. These guys were the last minute substitution band playing the Delta Chi homecoming party when the original band’s van broke down 10 miles off campus. And 20 songs??!! WTF?? I can’t imagine their A&R guy was so in love with all of these tunes that he just had to include them all on the album. Du yourself a favor and Du not listen to this album. Simply put: It’s Du Du.
Having gone to college for the arts in New York City in the early 90s, I was surrounded by people curating the coolest music from every style. I was exposed to great punk, hip hop, jazz, blues and alternative rock. Of course, Hüsker Dü made it through the speakers, although this album was not in the rotation - the earlier stuff was much more alive and much more influential. This album is their divorce album - the couple has already broken up but they are trying to show us kids how much they both still love us so we get excess: two Christmases, two Hanukkahs and two New Years. Twice as much stuff, when we’d rather have just half of it, but with things back to the way it used to be. The album sounds like R.E.M. if Michael and Peter had a better drug dealer and went to jail more often than classes. It’s actually a good road trip album, you can put it on and let the energy of the music guide your drive. Not terrible, but definitely not their best.
Listening to this album is like listening to my mother telling a story. Goes on and on and on and on and on. Doesn't really say anything, just talks. Eventually your eyes glaze over and it all turns into background noise. Every now and then there is a pause, and you get excited...phew it's over...but nope they pick right back up and continue to ramble on until mercifuly it's over. Initially I thought this album was a weak 3/strong 2. It was generic rock, pretty mundane but not bad, but after 30 minutes it actually got annoying. I asked myself, is there not one person in this band that realizes every song sounds exactly the same?!?! Rating moved to a 2...leaning towards a weak 2. After 45 minutes I started getting upset. It felt like being at the golden coral. They know the food is bad, you know the food is bad but you go because its all you can eat and cheap. Music is terrible, but you bought the album so you're getting value. Rating is weak 2, moving towards a strong 1 After an hour I was legit mad, convinced I'm being punked. The album is a test to see how many times they can feed you the same damn song until you turn it off. Rating is a low 1, and a long winded review that doesn't really say anything about the music other than it's terrible.
Below average rock album. Nothing interesting musically. I would have given it a 2, but over an hour of this is just begging for a 1. This is not one of the 1001 albums I needed to listen to before I died, although it might have given me less time on this floating space rock to get through the rest of the list.
I don't exactly know how to feel about this album. First off, it doesn't seem like it did too well on the charts. I liked some parts, but other parts just sounded like random noise
These Important Years, sometimes it just has Too Much Spice.
>the Beatles