Warehouse: Songs And Stories

This is a name I've heard many times but never listened to. A couple of music nerd friends refer to them as important, which means they're probably bland but someone like Thom Yorke name dropped them once. Ok, kinda underwhelming. Maybe I was expecting something more hardcore and offensive given the heavy metal umlauts. But it's alternative "college rock" a la 80s REM. Give it some credit, it's pretty catchy in places and the vocal harmonies are nice. But it isn't blowing my socks off. Also, this doesn't have anywhere near the ability to go over an hour. It's like a 10-page CV of jobs at fast food joints. 3/5.

I can't believe that these guys were considered "edgy" when I was in high school. It's obvious that they were trying to sound like the Ramones. Instead, they come off as sounding like Tom Petty. That's not a bad thing, but it's nothing to get excited about. Still, it wasn't a bad listen even if it was rather unexciting.

6/10 a bit samey, but I liked the vibe overall

Reminded me of a less jangly REM. 5/10

Middelmatig album

Lacks the immediacy of Zen Arcade

It was decent, not really too exciting, especially as a double album it felt a little too long for what it is.

Decent listen, but wasn't my favourite.

I love Hüsker Dü, but this is easily the least essential album in their entire discography.

I thought I was going to hate this. I don't hate it. Its fine

Power rock with slight punk tendencies, but loads more melody and talent - clearly inspired Green Day especially with the vocal style. A bit disappointing having heard the catchy power pop of Sugar. Low 3 as there a no real stand out songs.

C'est du punk un peu doux. Cependant 1h10 l'album, c'es tun peu long pour moi. J'ai prit plaisir à l'écouté mais rien ne m'a accroché comme chanson de tout le long, contrairement a des ablums avec le meme genre de note. un 3 très près du 2.90

Whoever put this in over Zen Arcade is a fucking idiot.

Like most Hüsker Dü albums. It’s full of great songs hampered by some bad engineering and mixing. The sound is rough, especially the drum sound, which screams 80s independent. The way too trebly guitar tone can also grate, but the songs are worth getting through all that.

10th January 2022 Listened mainly on the way into the office in London. Chilled evening watching slow horses series 2. Was pleasantly surprised by this, had a warmth to it which separates it from other early punk. 3.5 if I could.

The music has a good energy, but I’m not a big fan of the vocals or the album’s length. Would have been better as a strong 40 minute album. 3 stars.

Inte alls oävet.

Nice cover of just like heaven.

Hodgepodge of production makes this unlistenable at times. Not an album that best represents this band Feels like 2 albums by 2 band mushed together the way the 2 singers are on it

Good old Husker Du, of Flip Yr Wig and Bob Mould And Grant Hart. Do like them, but not bad and not brilliant. 3 stars.

The obvious question here is what Husker Du thought they were accomplishing by making a double album. While the album is fine, there's nothing here that couldn't have been done on a single disk. Usually double albums reflect a desire of a band to expand their horizons. This feels more like a married couple having a child in lieu of getting divorced. Musically, the album is pretty good. There's just a fair amount of filler that shouldn't have made the cut. It's full of Husker Du's characteristic late-era stuff, which is a little more melodic, but still has a nice burn to it. In '87, this is several years ahead of the curve in terms of what alternative music would end up being, even if it's a bit lackluster compared to some of the band's other albums. I think I can say affirmatively though that I prefer the songs where Bob Mould handles vocals. In fact, if you lifted most of Grant Hart's songs from it, this would be a significantly better album. Fave Songs: Turn It Around, No Reservations, Ice Cold Ice, Standing in the Rain, Could You Be the One?, It's Not Peculiar, Actual Condition, Up in the Air

This album is from an era -- that might only exist in my head -- where American bands competed with each other to see who could create the most EARNEST songs. Earnestness is a feeling that I get a lot when I listen to Husker Du and it's what attracts me the most to their tunes. Maybe it's Bob's plain voice or his first-person lyrics. I'm not sure but I know that I'll never not like anything that sounds like this record. There's a lot of Husker Du songs I love but they aren't on this one.

not bad but repetitive

Never really listened to these guys before. Spotify bio compares them to their contemporaries REM. I think there's a reason only one of them blew up... they sounds pretty much the same. Two men enter, one man leaves.

Un bon son punk, un peu en avance sur son temps même, mais la durée de l'album est un peu trop longue et passé la barre du 30 min ça devient un peu redondant

The packaging screams late-period monolith, so it's a shame that markers of early or late are lost in the swirl of sound. From the surface, though, emerge points of bright difference: The folk of She Floated Away seems to come from another century and would work to close the album, but it keeps going and not entirely wrongly. By the end, Hüsker Dü are producing a kind of shoegaze haze up top, with a few more songs of note beneath.

The final studio offering is, as Mould reportedly had it, a “pretty good” album, not one of my favorites though. It does feature one of my top Hüsker songs (Standing in the Rain) plus a couple of honorable mentions (Ice Cold Ice and She Floated Away), but overall it has that disjointed, My songs/your songs problem characteristic of the band with two strong leads that’s about to call it quits. Good but not essential.

One of my favorite albums of all time

Kinda punky, not a whole lot of variety through the album

Fine album, but was a bit confused as to why it was included. Then when I went to check my copy of the ”1001 albums” book for the section for this album, I was stunned to find that this is the only Hüsker Dü album included, with ”Zen Arcade” having been omitted. So now I’m even more confused

At first I really wasn't into this, but it definitely grew on me. Luke is a big fan but says this isn't an album he listens to actually, which makes more sense to me as I found it to be quite cringe pop punk. But apparently it is the OG pop punk so I can't compare it to stuff.

This wasn't bad but I did kind of forget it was on

Beetje plat. Is wel entertainend maar er zit geen volume in

Like REM or Soul Asylum but not as catchy.

Punk Rock but not for my taste unfortunately.

C'etait bien en sah ! 3.5

It was a decent listening but some song where hard to go through in my opinion... I would not recommend the album but it had decent songs too... Mixed feelings overall 2.5/5

This is lo-fi US punk. It’s pretty low production quality really, bordering on bad at points. I suppose that taps into the ethos of punk in a way. The songs and lyrics are OK, but I don’t know anything about these guys, having read their backstory - they are cited as a big influence on subsequent bands - including (you can hear it) - Foo Fighters. I think the low mixing/production quality spoils this unfortunately. 5/10

Cant de cigne de la banda, que va acomiadar-se a un gran nivell. Una d'aquelles bandes que no tenen disc dolent, per més que la seva limitada discografia només engloba sis discos d'estudi. La seva opera magna sempre serà 'Zen Arcade', però aquest segon doble no va molt per sota, i el seu to de comiat premeditat amb els missatges intercanviats de Bob Mould i Grant Hart li donen un toc especial

A few nice songs on there but overall just not special enough and too long to stand out of the masses

Very R.E.M., if R.E.M. had a lot more punk backbone. It's a long album, and the songs don't really shift up from point A to point B, so it gets tiring to listen to. There's also really no connecting thread through the record, so it's just a bunch of songs together. None of this makes it terrible, but it doesn't make me want to revisit anything aside from the tracks I liked. Favorite tracks: "Ice Cold Ice", "Friend, You've Got to Fall", "Tell You Why Tomorrow"

Nice

At times I found myself checking to make sure Spotify hadn't jumped to REM - the sound is certainly very similar, and no bad thing. A safe Husker Du album

This is good. Surprised I haven't heard of them before. Need to listen to older albums

After listening to this album, I wonder if I'm more of a Husker Don't. Also the name reminds me of the fireworks from Joe Dirt. It wasn't a bad album, just nothing special. Been a quiet week so far.

I've heard a song or two from these guys once before, might even have been covers, but I've never listened to them like that. First off, I love the name Husker Du, just fun and funny to say. But the music is quite good! It's centerline rock music, not doing much of anything out of the ordinary but as far as core rock sound goes they pretty much nail it. It's a long album, and that weighs it down for me, but it's still quite enjoyable and consistent. A handful of tracks I'll return to. I'd be interested to hear another album from them, especially if they've got any one in particular regarded as their magnum opus because I like their simple style. Favorite tracks: Standing in the Rain, Ice Cold Ice, Turn it Around. Album art: Love the vibrant colors at play here. Took a while for me to even focus on and see the image because the colors were delightfully distracting. But that's all you need baby, it works! 3.5/5

It was very enjoyable but would have been better on a single disc. Not a fan of double albums unless its for a specific context (i.e. a rock opera) or there's too much quality to waste for b sides.

Felt like this could have been on the Singles sound track. Not extraordinarily memorable, but gave me that 90s indie rock feel I love.

I've heard SO much about this band that I maybe went in with super high expectations. Therefore, I was a little disappointed. That being said, this was a decent album - it just didn't have very many standout moments to me.

First time listen here. I Like the jangly guitar sound and sub REM feel. They are good but not in the same class. Favourite Tracks "Ice Cold Ice", "You're A Soldier"

Un rock interessante. Bello, ma senza picchi.

Pretty lackluster and uninteresting except the songs that sounded like REM, then they just sounded like REM (not a bad thing). Terrible mix too

Up-tempo and cool, but all a bit samesies.

Energetic but samey.

I hadn't heard of Husker Du until recently, my initial thought was, oh this is what REM should have been like! After a few listens, it's a bit long, but I'm enjoying it. I can see where other bands got their inspiration, hearing a lot of Green Day in there. 3.5

Yeah that's alright

Die typische stem van Bob Mould blijft geweldig, maar daar blijft het dan alleen wel bij, want het is allemaal niet spannend, behalve 'Could you be the one?'

Coole songs, beetje REM achtig maar dan iets heavier. Kon ik wel waarderen.

Plaat duurt wel veel te lang en is niet heel divers.

Rock alternativo. Ni fu ni fa.

Proto REM. fairly forgettable.

Nice

Rock alternativo. Ni fu ni fa.

Un poco gritones. Música muy rápida. 3

Don't like the sound of the album. Snare drum sounds papery and the guitar tone sounds like a cheap crate.

Not what I was expecting by the band name but not too bad. Tolerable.

Good, but not great. 6.5/10.

Oh boy, only got to track 4 and felt like I had been listening to the album for an eternity, The only thing that stopped each song from sounding similar is the lyrics.

Pretty good late punk stuff.

que capa maravilhosa

Buzzsaw guitars with a mix of melancholic melodies. Best Tracks: These Important Years; Ice Cold Ice; Could You Be The One?

3.5/5 I'll have to relisten!

Like REM sped up just a little. Didn't hate it, didn't love it.

Better than expected. 3/5

Worn house

Hade kunnat bli en fyra om det var lite mindre långtråkigt och 10 låtar kortare

Too long but quite a few good tracks. Reminded me of R.E.M.

Started out great, then seemed a bit redundant

Sounds like a crazed R.E.M.

twas aight

Fine but not my vibe

It was fine. I don’t think I care for this band but I should listen more…

De hecho me gustaron varias canciones. Claro que al final todas se parecen

Was leuk

goed

I am late-comer to Husker Du, but I love the energy with hints of melody thrown in. Big fan of this album especially.

I will admit that this is a band I had only ever heard of and never heard. Once again, though this is not my new favorite album, I can totally hear the origins of later music in the chords of this.

Good but a bit long. Rockier REM

Sounds too similar to REM to me and the songs all sound too much like each other

background noise album, too long and didnt scratch my itch, saved 0/20

2/5: For an album with 20 songs, I wish there was more variety. I really wanted ot stop listening to his album after the first 10 songs because there was little sonic variety. "Ice Cold Ice" was my favorite song and the riff caught my ear. The album felt a little sloppy at points when it came to all the intruments being in sync and the production felt ok. The singers voice is not my favorite (not terrible, but not super enjoyable to listen to).

That singing...

I feel like I ought to like Hüsker Dü. Dü I like Hüsker Dü? I Dü not. It's not that it's bad per se, it's just overlong and the jangle of the guitars becomes grating after a while.

I'm sure this was more revolutionary in 1987, but in the present day it just sounds like nearly 70 minutes of fairly run-of-the-mill alternative rock. Only a couple songs, like She Floated Away and Bed of Nails, really betray the band's earlier post-hardcore sound. I'm afraid this is one that hasn't aged into a place where I can appreciate it.

Hard to categorize this because disc 1 was killing me but I actually enjoyed disc 2 more, although it often felt like poor man's Murmur by REM. going to have to give it a 2 here for overall lack of imagination.

Way too long and too similar.

how many times can you say the title of the song within the song challenge

Meh. 2/5

R.E.M. copycat. If it wasn't so long at over an hour I might have given it a three.

Feels very of it's time, I guess a bit prescient (feels more 90s than 80s) with that atonal delivery. Kind of feels like the stuff I like the least about R.E.M. rinsed and repeated.

2.5 -- didn't hate this at all, even saved a song. But I found it had to hear them? Vocally it felt a bit all over the place, and the singing felt muffled, and the leads voice didn't grab me.

Oooo over an hour of power chords and a drummer just beating the shit out of his snare! How fun!

The album cover is fun, if a bit blinding, that's all I can say about this one note, too long album. There was a fun song (Ice Cold Ice), there was some xylophone, and it was otherwise inoffensive but poor production and soooo long: skip it

Niet zo’n sterke mening over, maar echt te lang voor hoe mediocre het is

2.4 2x

Mmm not fo me I fear!

I could have done without this one. All the songs sounded the same.

2.0

A rock album. Not a great one though.

Not my type of music.

Hmmm. Upbeat alright. But got a bit monotonous after a while. Yawn.

Better than expected but not my choice.

I appreciate the energy but that’s mostly it for me.

An album of 20 songs that are virtually indistinguishable from one another and a mix thinner than Ariana Grande. It was just boring.

2,4/5

I really didn’t have any biases towards this album one way or the other, but I was still disappointed. I’m not sure what I was expecting from the album cover but I was just so wildly bored for the vast majority of the album. The only song so enjoyed enough to save were the songs “bed of nails” and “she floated away”. I think the problem for me is the production style and the length of the album, it’s not like 3 hours long or anything, it’s just 20 songs for alittle over an hour. So it’s not long in a total sense, it’s just a lot of songs. Which leads to the bigger problem which is the production style. The whole album is just this indistinguishable wall of fuzzy noise. That wall of fuzz is just so exhausting and grating on my attention. There was several times I had to replay a song because I just zoned out hard. Definitely not bad enough for one star, it wasn’t insultingly bad, just completely forgettable.

Didn’t think it was that bad for the first 30 minutes, and was leaning towards a 3… realized it had another 40 minutes to go, and was like NOPE, not that good. 2.25 / 5

Way too long

felt way too long than it actually was.. and i think it was way too long than it should've been. midway through the album i was just bored and ready to move on. it's not bad music or anything, it's just not anything noteworthy

Highlights: These Important Years. 2.7

DNF after about half. i’m so bored by it, and don’t feel the need to listen to it in full. you’d think it would work semi well at the gym but every track just drags

2.5

This app atm got everything twisted. The album that should be on here is new day rising or zen arcade, not only did this album put Dü in a bad light it didnt even represent their best let alone their most influential albums, they only put on the albums that were endorsed by major record labels. Husker Dü were a great band yet got sold out by major record labels, this app acc pmo. This album jus sounds like a REM copy, isnt absolutely dreadful but disappointing, especially as the app put one of their worst albums out

A lot of the songs felt way too similar to be super enjoyable. Also not sure why so many bands I’ve never heard of with generic rock music are ok this list

One of those albums where the songs can mesh into one. Frustratingly I remember there being a song I really liked in my first listen (was it No Reservations? Or Up in the Air?) but now can’t pinpoint it for the life of me, which all the more justifies the meshing point. I had never heard of Hüsker Dü before and wanted to enjoy this after hearing them described as a lesser known REM in their influential role on post punk. But the album felt a bit shoddy around the edges. I found the song You’re a Soldier irritating to say the least.

I was bored before I got to the end of track 3, and then there were 17 more songs. I imagine that this is an album that sounds better Live.

Sounds like the worst of REM combined with the theme song from the TV show “Friends”.

I can't just listen to the same song over and over again 20 times. Something about the sound just feels so messy all together, the vocals/music blend together and not in a fun enjoyable way, more like a "what am I listening to way"

I'm more familiar with Bob Mould's second group, Sugar, so this is pretty much my first exposure to Hüsker Dü. There was some zigzagging going on here, and reading that Bob Mould and Grant Hart clashed a bit over songwriting duties, I guess it makes sense now. They seem to trade off songwriting/vocal duties on each track. Overall, an overarching alt rock theme that I guess wasn't always the group's primary sound? You also hear hints of power pop that would become very prominent in Mould's next endeavor with Sugar. It's not the most polished, and the album as a whole felt a bit bloated, though. I see some chatter in the reviews that this maybe wasn't the best album rep for Hüsker Dü, so I'm slightly curious to check out their older work. Not sure if I curious enough, however.

Their sixth album. Indie Rock. It's all a bit samey and probably twenty minutes too long. The first half of the album was okay but after that it started to grate on me. I'd give it a 2.5 but on here a two.

Me: "mom can we have R.E.M." Mom: "no we have R.E.M. at home" R.E.M at home:

Boring but not terrible, and everything sounds the same

Not interesting enough to warrant being as long as it is

Midnight Oil would have been a better choice.

These albums keep being the wrong genre. I meant to say this in my last review, but it's true for this one too, the covers keep setting my expectations for what it's going to sound like and then it's always just regular rock. Also this shit is ass

A bit too samey and long

this is maybe a 4/5 album with a production quality that sounds like this album is being played through the busted speakers at a dying Hot Topic store. I am used to shitty production and sometimes shitty production is a deliberate choice but...not here.

i mean it's not bad enough to be a 1, i wouldn't ask anyone to turn it off in the car, but god is this dull. flat production, simple chords and melodies i feel i've heard a million times elsewhere, and an ungodly 70 minute runtime that just drags and drags. couldn't wait for this one to be over.

Never heard of them and still wish I hadn’t. If punknewwaveindie was a word it would describe them. As it would for a number of bands who do it a lot better. 2/5 16/4/26

This started badly but I definitely grew into it. Thought it would be a bit more punky but it’s definitely Indie. Maybe their earlier albums might be better?

DNF

People sure love them some who skidoo. I do not.

I'm confused - Wikipedia says that Hüsker Dü are a Punk Rock band but gives the genre of the overlong album as Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore / Power Pop? Pretty mediocre and boring, with nothing that grabs my attention. Some tracks, for example, "Visionary", sound like they're performed by a bad R.E.M. tribute band.

ça va mais c'est un peu tjrs pareil je pense qu'en ayant écouté les 10 premiers on a tout écouté

Some of the songs (mostly Mould-penned) have cool elements, anticipating both 90s indie rock and more commercial “alternative” styles, but a lot of the tracks are so sonically indistinct that they barely register to my ears as music.

Not good enough to be this long

This album certainly has a punk / alternative energy to it that I can respect. I didn't care for the music that much, the singer's nasally voice was just kind of grating. The songs probably would have sounded better if the production was cleaner, but I have a feeling that is not what the band was going for. Overall, I'm a little disappointed because I was not familiar with this band's music, but I do recall a lot of musicians from the 80's showing them massive respect (an interview with Kirk Hammett from some VH1 documentary comes to mind...)

Crap rock

I can hear the inspiration for bands like Nirvana but the fuzzy guitar is not my cup of tea

return to warehouse

I don't see the appeal... The album felt like a wash and I wasn't about it. 3/10

meh

Some songs were fun here but it never made me care.

pretty terrible

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

2.5 Not too bad of a listen, but not my favorite.

Fairly average rock, felt a lot like REM b-sides

2.5 - Meh

just not that into it

fav songs: none repetitive, boring, bland 40/10

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

This was ok

2 Husker Didn't. Nothing really stood out, I can appreciate they were early but it was some generic '90s noise overall.

I dunno this just sounded like a lot of noise to me, turned it off halfway through. Ain’t nobody got time for that

-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

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!

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.

Got tired of it fast but not bad

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.

Nope

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.

Sounds like bad 90's rock. Nothing interesting, makes the head hurt a bit to be honest....

An hour of what felt like the same song.

Oh no. Who asked for these long ass albums by generic sounding ass music?

?? Mhh early post punk also indie, tolles cover aber musikalisch jetzt nicht überzeugt? C

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

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.

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".

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

Ander ziit ander nedi, vlt hät er de plausch gha. Aber isch mir zu rockig. Chume streng ine mit 2 stürs für düse albüm

This was forgettable and I didn't care about it at all :/

5/10 I have no feelings about this album. Highlights: She Floated Away Ice Cold Ice

Gut angefangen und dann stark nachgelassen

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

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.

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.

Naw not for me

This bored me. Like, it wasn't terrible. Just meh

Not my fav, didn’t finish, a lot of the same things

several songs were played

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.

lame

Not as terrible as I expected. But not really notable either.

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.

No song stood out which made a 20 song album feel more like a chore than an enjoying experience.

⭐️⭐️ 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.

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.

Ei lähteny

Ei säväyttänyt oikeen millään lailla.

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.

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’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.

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.

Funky. Not a huge fan. 2 stars.

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 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.

3/5 - Liked the vibe, missed the hooks. I'd rather listen to The Replacements or REM.

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

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.

very REM-esque, very 90s. not bad but not necessarily my thing

Poor man's REM?

DNF

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.

more like husker don't amirite

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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.

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.

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

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

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

I agree with y'all, this IS the worst REM album.

Eh

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.

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.

Why is this so thin and weird sounding? I had to check that my EQ wasn't messed up. I totally get the REM comparisons. I hate when you get albums like this that you know are going to get a pretty low rating after the first two songs but you still have an hour left. Part of the problem with this album is that I think the music would actually be decent if it wasn't for the terrible, terrible production. I mean at some point a lot of people heard this mix and said 'yeah that's how we want this to sound' which is sort of baffling. It's not like the late 80s had some kind of trend where everything sounded like it was recorded in an Altoids tin so I'm curious about that decision. The unfortunate production makes this basically unlistenable. And a double album with the same two or three songs playing over and over makes it that much worse. 2/5

Had a moment of hope at the beginning of “Ice Cold Ice” where I though they might have an ever so slightly different version of the same song, but it was torn away from me at the 40 second mark.

Boring old stoner rock I don't hate it as background music

I wanted to enjoy it but it was just repetitive. Like bobby Joe Ebola and REM combined but way worse than both of them

Least “special” album on the challenge so far and I’m over 600 deep. Forgettable sound, no change from song to song.

I even couldn't stand listening till the end of the album...

This is super middle of the road, but am going even lower because it’s too long and I’m confused by the inclusion. Would be hard to convince me this album is a “must listen” for any reason

This was okay. Kinda grinded on me after a while and nothing I really loved. 2.5 but rounding down for “meh” factor

No thanks for the aural assault. Punk voices and twangy guitars with some weird attempt at melody. If these guys helped bridge punk and alternative, then it's a case of the legacy outpacing the reality.

This is just noise. Like the odd thing here and there is okay but genuinely I found that very little about this album warrants it being here. It’s not even fine, it’s mediocre

Meh. Wasn’t wildly impressed.

I thought this album was decent. A bit boring and far too lengthy, but I do want to give some props for the musicianship. I, at some points, couldn't tell if the song had changed or not due to the similarities between the tracks. Had it been shorter, I would've perhaps enjoyed it more, but over an hour of the same thing was a bit of a nightmare to get through.

Only familiar with Husker Du as the memory game that Nanny & Gramps brought back from Denmark. The band has that 80’s alt rock sound made famous by REM (just a bit whinier.) The double album runs too long. There’s a distinct difference in the two writing styles, so each composer should have gotten a disc making it two separate standard lengths instead of a double. The top cut is Actual Condition followed by She Floated Away. The song She’s a Woman (And Now He Is a Man) is the reason this album makes the 1001 Must Hear List. This topic was no where near the public’s awareness in 1987. Warehouse (although lengthy) is under stocked. (2.4*s)

Husker Du is not bad but I prefer the board game over the band...some great times at Nan & Gramps. Disc 1 is more punk rock than 2 and I like the alt-rock direction the 2nd half took. "Too Much Spice" is my top track with not much else standing out. Overall, the record is a little drab. Not a very impactful album and not sure why the list spot. Maybe the turmoil between the bandmates caused a stir. 2.04 blue stars.

I had only been familiar with Husker Du by virtue of their band name (always was a fan of the children's game). Now that I've spent an hour+ with them, I'm not sure they are for me. I can understand why they may have influenced other bands but they didn't do much to keep me interested after the first handful of tracks. Overall the album is a little tedious and would have been stronger had they shortened it up and trimmed some of the fat. After a while the songs start to meld into each other and do little to stand out. When all is said and done this one will be shelved and skipped over by me in the future. 1.77 stars

boooooring

Hmm

Why is this on the list? Are they a genre starter? Meh

boring

Kind of the truest kind of break up album in that I think the Band was going through a breakup during it's making. In that sense, a little like Spacemen 3's Recurring. However, I prefer the way S3 did it, a side for each songwriter vs. the alternating tracks here. Feels like more of an out and out, pick your side, dogfight. Too much trudging through the sludge, wallowing in the quagmire here.

I quickly realised I was going to struggle to get through 68 minutes of a poor man’s REM even if I’d possibly have lapped it up in 1989. I managed 7 songs then bailed. That was enough.

It's a big album, and, there's not a lot of nuance. I think I enjoy them more when they're shorter and punchier.

Cover 4 Nothing really stands out. These sound like standard 90s alt but they're basically all the same song (at least musically). Lyrics are ok

Basic.

This may be one of the worst vocals on this list. It's helped somewhat when backing vocals harmonise with the lead one (as in Ice Cold Ice), but in general it's terrible. The wishwashy mixing of the singing with the other instruments definitely doesn't help. Actual Condition, You Can Live at Home, Tell You Why Tomorrow, Too Much Spice... everything is so similar to the rest, and not in a good way. Another reviewer wrote: "I like some of the individual pieces of this album but as a whole, not an enjoyable listen for me. Vocals especially rubbed me the wrong way. Kind of felt like 'what if REM, but worse.'" I'm poaching that snippet of text because it perfectly summarises my thoughts. Standing in the Rain has a pretty sweet major-II chord that gets introduced about halfway through and really saves the song. Others, like She Floated Away and Ice Cold Ice, have particularly solid hooks that make the best of a bad situation. The sheer volume of this monster of an album makes it easier to find highlights in a mushy swamp of (semi-)dreck, but it also suggests Hüsker Dü should have just released a 35-minute record with all the mediocre songs removed. 2/5 Key tracks: Standing in the Rain, Ice Cold Ice, She Floated Away

Have to be honest and admit I dont think I've ever listened to this group before. Somebody involved with Weezer is really into these guys. Tell you why tomorrow is the blueprint for at least 3 weezer songs. Overall, this was ok.

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Some of this landed. I like the idea of heavy sound and folky vocals.

pas mon genre!

Bonus point bc I was listening with the windows down and the vibes were good

Solid but I kinda forgot I was even listening to this at points. The most interesting part was when this stopped and Spotify immediately started playing Wire instead. 4/10

Hey mum, I'm going to band practice Ok son, please take your sisters Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope with you Awww Mum! They don't even play instruments! Play nice son, just give them a bunch of annoying bells or something

2.5

Sounds like a bunch of yanks trying to play The Jam ... badly. Overly long, would have worked better if it was culled to a single album.

The Singer sounds like a zesty Ozzy Osbourne. 20 tracks and 69 minutes (nice) all sound the same. Why is this album so long? Why does it sound so bad? What *Exactly* justifies it's placement in this list?

Did they just copy and paste the same song 20 times? 2/5

I know there are differences in the songs but it sounds likeall the songs have the same music with different words. Don't remember this group when I was growing up and glad I don't remember them.

Pretty repetitive and sounded too close to REM for me to properly enjoy. Had to switch it off while driving as I was getting tired listening to it. Not bad but not good.

This made me feel nothing. Except maybe annoyed at how I didn’t care about it at all.

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398/1001

This is a car CD for sure. You can definitely tell the sound where Bob Mould would eventually take Sugar forming here. It’s just a little too long and doesn’t necessarily stick with me. There are definitely highlights though. Favorite songs were Standing In The Rain, Ice Cold Ice, Actual Condition, and Turn It Around.

**A very redundant album, each track sounded the same. Different words, same background.

This was ok, but rather boring

Was a bit samey but first example of this style that got more prevalent in the 90s

That was long. I get the Michael Stipe references - the refrain of Could You Be The One was dead on Stipey. Having said that - no REM nuances or melancholy topics, and far too repetitive overall. Bit of a miss.

Not for me (although I agree some early REM sounds to some tracks). Too long, too samey, got bored.

Hella same-y all the way through. Almost nothing to distinguish any of the songs, for 20 songs... 3/10

It was ok.

This is like REM, but worse.

A bit raw and unrefined for me. Garage punk.

What was this? Some of the songs were catchy, but then turned annoying. I felt like they all sounded the same, and I didn't feel like finishing the album. I don't understand this album being on the list.

I didn't hate this as much as I thought I was going to, but I also didn't notice when it ended

Cool to read the Spotify recap of their influence on the start of Pop Punk. Not amazing but v nostalgic and I love it for that. Second half had a bit more diversity than the first. Would listen to this in a basement.