Words sure to
strike fear into my reviewing heart: seminal, influential. These words have always been used to describe
Husker Du. Their debut album saw Bob
Mould, Grant Hart and Greg Norton release what was basically a live album in
1982. It’s not particularly well
recorded and most of the songs run into each other. Opening track All Tensed Up sets the tone,
breakneck tempos, shouted vocals (by Mould) and thrashing guitars. The songs are very brief and most run into
each other. The album has 17 tracks and
only lasts 26 minutes!
Standout
tracks are pretty difficult to find here.
Norton’s MTC starts out a little like Velvet Underground’s I Heard Her
Call My Name, ie all over the place, Mould’s Bricklayer is completely manic and
over in 53 seconds. Final track Data
Control stands out due to its length, at nearly five and a half minutes it’s by
far the longest song here, not a million miles away from a particularly messy
Neil Young track.
It’s difficult
to recommend this album unless you want to see where Husker Du started out
from.
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