Husker Du
released this somewhat transitional EP in 1983.
It seems them still playing breakneck hardcore to a degree on Bob Mould’s
Real World and Deadly Skies, Mould screaming his lungs out. However it’s Grant Hart’s material that heads
in a more conventional, songwriterly direction.
It’s Not Funny Anymore is almost power-pop, with some nice guitar fills,
while Diane is another story altogether.
Coming in on a steady, foreboding, insistent beat, before Mould’s guitar
shreds like f**k, and Hart bawls “Diane, Diane, Die-Anne”. It’s four and a half majestic minutes and is
Husker Du’s first real classic.
Also should
mention the proto-grunge Out On A Limb, which has a malevolent riff that surely
influenced Nirvana, before it goes absolutely mental after 40 seconds.
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