RIP, Mr. Grant Hart. This was the song--my first intro to Husker Du. KCSB (Santa Barbara), 1984, rainy day, recorded straight to a blank cassette. Best song recorded that afternoon of college radio. 15 years old then, I'm 48 now. Saw them three times not long after. This and "Turn On The News" will still be here long after we're all gone. .
kinda similar but not really story as me. summer/fall '84, i was visiting my cousin in madison, wi, saw a blue flyer stapled to a light post on state street that had artwork of three, all black, shadowy figures, one hunched over, walking behind each other, in fron of what looked like a junkyard. under that, "husker du, zen arcade" and handwritten below that was some date and venue. i was absolutely mesmerized by the artwork, so i took the flier down. when i got back home to milwaukee a few days later, i took the mcts to THE mecca of record stores back in the day, atomic records, and found that slab of vinyl that somewhat matched the flier. needles to say, hooked for life. unfortunately only saw husker du live once, bob mould solo twice. in 2010 my best mate saw grant hart do an acoustic show in milwaukee, and brought me back a cd that grant had signed (mysteriously) "to taco tom". dunno why i brought that up.
I remember when i listened this song for the first time and it was a cover by LIFETIME it was in 1995 i think and that´s the way i discorvered husker du. So I started listening all husker du stuff and got crazy cause they´re one of my favorite bands nowadays.
If not for Grant’s melodic songwriting we would in my opinion not have the beginnings of Emocore DC scene. This tune alone influenced the whole DC mid 80s scene and gave a new direction during the Revolution Summer to bands like Grey Matter, Dag Nasty, and Rain just to name a few. Later it would find its way to the melodic sounds of CA bands Samiam and Jawbreaker. Grant never truly got recognized as much as he should have when he was here. At least we have his beautiful music to remember him by. RIP Grant Hart, one of a kind.
best use of harmonics ever ! also quite possible the best song grant ever wrote. the day this song doesn't get my heart pumping will be the day i'm in a casket !
Great tune. Saw them a couple times in the 80's. One of my favourite concert memories was seeing them at Pink Pop (I think it was) Festival in Holland- they just kept playing ferociously I guess past their allotted time. Guys were coming on stage signalling for them to stop but they just kept right on playing. I think they finally cut the power on them. Anyways, I laughed my bag off.
This song has served me as a profoundly good guide through life up my life up to this, my 50th Climacteric Year. Hopefully it will serve me well for some time yet.
Absolutely love Metal Cirus, specially this song, this was the middle ground between the legendary fast paced "Land Speed record" and their slower albums like "Warehouses". Personally I prefer their later albums, but this is an absolute banger.
SECOND SONG WE'RE HEARING FROM HUSKER DU'S METAL CIRCUS E.P. IN 1983. ANOTHER WONDERFUL SONG. You can do what you want to do You can say what you want to say You can think what you think you want It doesn't matter anyway It's not funny anymore Play what you want to play Hear what you want to hear Don't worry about the result Or the effect is has on your career Act like you want to act Be what you want to be Find out who you really are And don't pay any attention to me
@zkxb Actually Dave Grohl mentions often how much Husker Du influenced him. Bob Mould even guest played on his latest album (it was shown in the Foo documentary) :)
I first got this song this college radio station that would play all kinds of cool stuff on thursday's from 8pm-10pm, I would load my cassette in and wait to record music. Back in like 1996 I saw Lifetime in Austin Tx and Dave(bass player) gave me a copy of "Hello" for a copy of my bands demo "MIllhouse" and when I got home I heard this song and was like this is totally good! I have never really heard any Husker but I think I'll check them out.
Grant Hart was the true, prime mover of the band towards a more melodic approach, which absolutely revolutionised the subsequent alt rock scene in the States and elsewhere. Without Husker Du, it's hard to imagine the Pixies or Nirvana ever going overground- and that's mainly thanks to Grant. xx
jonesmh123: It was recorded at SST (in LA area) by Spot. That was the label Greg Ginn from Black Flag started which also housed Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Soundgarden, fIREHOSE, Sonic Youth, and a bunch of others.... at different points in time...
your post remind me on situation when i met some guy who wore T shirt of a band 59 Times the pain...well,i told him that,this is song of Husker Du but this guy didn't know that,he knows only for a band....
You can do what you want to do You can say what you want to say You can think what you think you want It doesn't matter anyway It's not funny anymore It's not funny anymore Play what you want to play Hear what you wanna hear Don't worry about the result Or the effect it has on your career It's not funny anymore It's not funny anymore Act like you want to act Be what you want to be Find out who you really are And don't pay any attention to me It's not funny anymore It's not funny anymore It's not funny anymore It's not funny anymore Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Grant Vernon Hart
totally. our label guy was supposed to get us on a show with none more black after rad fest in may out east, but i don't think it worked out (nothing does with us) although i like lifetime the most out of dan's bands...kid dynamite rules though
i'm 21. wish i could have been around when either band was. check out some of the videos on my channel, i've been filming some underground chicago punk stuff since the summer so i remember what happened at the shows i was actually around for in space and time. lots of good bands in this city. also my band the please & thank yous has a few vids on there, you might like it. [/shameless plug]
Yeah... But you have an advantage. Any underground 80s 90s band and scene is one thought away. I miss the real thing too, but it's still around. Underground.
@Mozzer232 yeah i knew they got back together and stuff but i was still in high school in 2005 being a bitch, haha. if they play any sort of fest i'm there. i have a friend in jersey i might stay with if anything happens...i hear they still prefer to do basement shows, or at least paint it black does
Don't tell me who/what to like. Just because you say it "rocks" doesn't mean I feel it does. I consider myself 1000 times more the connoisseur in music (and other things) than most others. But at the same time you can choose to not share my tastes and it makes no difference to me. So either treat others with more respect and stop pushing your preconceived narrow views on them or just shut up. I could care less what you think because I feel on levels you won't ever connect with.
Oh it's not funny anymore that all the shills who mark for Flip Your Wig, Let It Be, Hold Me Up and other overrated sellout records just don't get it. Their pop streak is yellow down their backs and they won't ever get it. They are part of the ignorant masses who eat up these homogenized sounds of once great bands like aural feces. No I'm not a punk elitist or anything resembling one. I just like my music with character, abrasiveness, indie spirit, fuck you attitude, and very little poppiness.
@GEOpz838 No they aren't. Flip the Bird sucks, always has. It was the sellout of sellouts. Just as 'Let It Be' was the pathetic sellout by the Replacements. Up until that point Husker Du was a band with no peers. After that piss poor poppy mainstream crap Wig, they went down the tubes, and it only got worse. If you want the essence of Husker Du, listen to Land Speed Record through New Day Rising. Flush the rest of their stuff post NDR out of your memories, I know I have ;)
RIP, Mr. Grant Hart. This was the song--my first intro to Husker Du. KCSB (Santa Barbara), 1984, rainy day, recorded straight to a blank cassette. Best song recorded that afternoon of college radio. 15 years old then, I'm 48 now. Saw them three times not long after. This and "Turn On The News" will still be here long after we're all gone. .
kinda similar but not really story as me. summer/fall '84, i was visiting my cousin in madison, wi, saw a blue flyer stapled to a light post on state street that had artwork of three, all black, shadowy figures, one hunched over, walking behind each other, in fron of what looked like a junkyard. under that, "husker du, zen arcade" and handwritten below that was some date and venue. i was absolutely mesmerized by the artwork, so i took the flier down. when i got back home to milwaukee a few days later, i took the mcts to THE mecca of record stores back in the day, atomic records, and found that slab of vinyl that somewhat matched the flier. needles to say, hooked for life. unfortunately only saw husker du live once, bob mould solo twice. in 2010 my best mate saw grant hart do an acoustic show in milwaukee, and brought me back a cd that grant had signed (mysteriously) "to taco tom". dunno why i brought that up.
@@tomaszdusic-sx6sy well, glad here you brought all of that up-thanks for sharing.
I remember when i listened this song for the first time and it was a cover by LIFETIME it was in 1995 i think and that´s the way i discorvered husker du.
So I started listening all husker du stuff and got crazy cause they´re one of my favorite bands nowadays.
Yeah i also first heard the Lifetime version. Love both. Glad to have heard this one too! Love how raw it is.
SAME. Except for me it probably like 2000. Being an elder Millennial is weird
Same!
If not for Grant’s melodic songwriting we would in my opinion not have the beginnings of Emocore DC scene. This tune alone influenced the whole DC mid 80s scene and gave a new direction during the Revolution Summer to bands like Grey Matter, Dag Nasty, and Rain just to name a few. Later it would find its way to the melodic sounds of CA bands Samiam and Jawbreaker. Grant never truly got recognized as much as he should have when he was here. At least we have his beautiful music to remember him by. RIP Grant Hart, one of a kind.
I was thinking the other day that this sounds just as emo as Rites Of Spring’s For Want Of, especially the part with the harmonics.
True
best use of harmonics ever ! also quite possible the best song grant ever wrote. the day this song doesn't get my heart pumping will be the day i'm in a casket !
Grant Hart was the best lyricist of his time and now, gone entirely too soon. R.I.P.
Great tune. Saw them a couple times in the 80's. One of my favourite concert memories was seeing them at Pink Pop (I think it was) Festival in Holland- they just kept playing ferociously I guess past their allotted time. Guys were coming on stage signalling for them to stop but they just kept right on playing. I think they finally cut the power on them. Anyways, I laughed my bag off.
Sounds very, very like.
This song has served me as a profoundly good guide through life up my life up to this, my 50th Climacteric Year. Hopefully it will serve me well for some time yet.
You are 60 now. 😊
@@drunvert Get Bent.
Absolutely love Metal Cirus, specially this song, this was the middle ground between the legendary fast paced "Land Speed record" and their slower albums like "Warehouses". Personally I prefer their later albums, but this is an absolute banger.
Either way, it's Husker Du and it's still good!
SECOND SONG WE'RE HEARING FROM HUSKER DU'S METAL CIRCUS E.P. IN 1983. ANOTHER WONDERFUL SONG.
You can do what you want to do
You can say what you want to say
You can think what you think you want
It doesn't matter anyway
It's not funny anymore
Play what you want to play
Hear what you want to hear
Don't worry about the result
Or the effect is has on your career
Act like you want to act
Be what you want to be
Find out who you really are
And don't pay any attention to me
saw them in 85. loudest show I ever went to
Best advice for new gigging high volume high distortion guitarists : in ear headphones. Bob has tinnitus bad.
I must've been 17 when I first heard this song. I play it for my son now.
Cool
RIP GRANT HART :´(
Love this song, good one.
good bye Grant and thanks for all the great songs!
What a killer song. Hüsker Dü wäs öne öf thë bëst!
@zkxb Actually Dave Grohl mentions often how much Husker Du influenced him. Bob Mould even guest played on his latest album (it was shown in the Foo documentary) :)
FAREWELL TRAILBLAZER !!!! .... & thanks for every everything
Most melodic band to come out from Hardcore-Punk.
i've been trying to find the husker du recordings of this for over a year. i only know the lifetime version. this is sick.
That land speed record
RIP
Absolute GEM of a tune.
love this song!
Same
awesome! Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, and Flig Your Wig are good places to start album wise.
Don't forget Candy Apple Gray
I first got this song this college radio station that would play all kinds of cool stuff on thursday's from 8pm-10pm, I would load my cassette in and wait to record music. Back in like 1996 I saw Lifetime in Austin Tx and Dave(bass player) gave me a copy of "Hello" for a copy of my bands demo "MIllhouse" and when I got home I heard this song and was like this is totally good! I have never really heard any Husker but I think I'll check them out.
no, its a studio cut from the 'Metal Circus' ep released in 1983
I miss you Grant!
Love this band
One of the bands best. Seriously.
watch mojo puts rhcp over them. Seriously.
Yup, one of the great bands ever
True
Thanks for posting!
Grant Hart was the true, prime mover of the band towards a more melodic approach, which absolutely revolutionised the subsequent alt rock scene in the States and elsewhere. Without Husker Du, it's hard to imagine the Pixies or Nirvana ever going overground- and that's mainly thanks to Grant. xx
jonesmh123: It was recorded at SST (in LA area) by Spot. That was the label Greg Ginn from Black Flag started which also housed Minutemen, Dinosaur Jr, Soundgarden, fIREHOSE, Sonic Youth, and a bunch of others.... at different points in time...
In Lawndale/Redondo ^-^ still sucks here too.
Thing of beauty, their music...
Exactly
Zen arcade is a religious experience 😉
What would Husker Du? they would kick ass
think the next time im in a bar/ restaurant im just gonna play this song over and over just to piss people off.
..one of the BEST panksong in the universe!
I just heard the 59 Times The Pain right now, I remember that band from back in the day
THE SIGN ISN'T BACKWARDS! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???!!
your post remind me on situation when i met some guy who wore T shirt of a band 59 Times the pain...well,i told him that,this is song of Husker Du but this guy didn't know that,he knows only for a band....
RIP Grant.
You can do what you want to do
You can say what you want to say
You can think what you think you want
It doesn't matter anyway
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore
Play what you want to play
Hear what you wanna hear
Don't worry about the result
Or the effect it has on your career
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore
Act like you want to act
Be what you want to be
Find out who you really are
And don't pay any attention to me
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore
It's not funny anymore
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Grant Vernon Hart
Hey, no Pixies, no nirvana or any punk grunge without this group
The Pixies would still exist as long as The Gun Club existed.
Yeah hi school remember this shit
🖤
Yup from San Antonio Tx
@yamon98 I don´t know the band that you have mentioned but jawbreaker is great my friend!!!!!
Grant sounds like Joey Ramone... RIP mister...
0;50 don't worry about the meatballs
OH YES!!!
Bob made great tunes but Hart made beautiful ones.
Bob's were beautiful to me .
holy fuck
It's not funny anymore.
@jonesmh123 That's actually exactly what they did for the entire ep.
@MrBlairblack NOICE
totally. our label guy was supposed to get us on a show with none more black after rad fest in may out east, but i don't think it worked out (nothing does with us)
although i like lifetime the most out of dan's bands...kid dynamite rules though
I dedicate this song to my wife and my ex girlfriend
came here from lifetime’s cover
Erik Best I love Lifetimes cover of this song.
Hello youtube frog.....
Find out who you really are
Been a ‘Du fan for years....anyone heard the Deacon Blue cover of this? They’re a great band, cover sucks but interesting none the less
cover in the mirror :)
i'm 21. wish i could have been around when either band was. check out some of the videos on my channel, i've been filming some underground chicago punk stuff since the summer so i remember what happened at the shows i was actually around for in space and time. lots of good bands in this city. also my band the please & thank yous has a few vids on there, you might like it. [/shameless plug]
Yeah... But you have an advantage. Any underground 80s 90s band and scene is one thought away. I miss the real thing too, but it's still around. Underground.
Who are the 11 with thumbs down? Drones
Yea, it's not funny anymore!
@Mozzer232 yeah i knew they got back together and stuff but i was still in high school in 2005 being a bitch, haha. if they play any sort of fest i'm there. i have a friend in jersey i might stay with if anything happens...i hear they still prefer to do basement shows, or at least paint it black does
...
it's not funny now.
I wasn't even alive in most of the dates you people are mentioning.
Don't tell me who/what to like. Just because you say it "rocks" doesn't mean I feel it does. I consider myself 1000 times more the connoisseur in music (and other things) than most others. But at the same time you can choose to not share my tastes and it makes no difference to me. So either treat others with more respect and stop pushing your preconceived narrow views on them or just shut up. I could care less what you think because I feel on levels you won't ever connect with.
not funny at all...
Oh it's not funny anymore that all the shills who mark for Flip Your Wig, Let It Be, Hold Me Up and other overrated sellout records just don't get it. Their pop streak is yellow down their backs and they won't ever get it. They are part of the ignorant masses who eat up these homogenized sounds of once great bands like aural feces. No I'm not a punk elitist or anything resembling one. I just like my music with character, abrasiveness, indie spirit, fuck you attitude, and very little poppiness.
my flaccid penis could play better music than these fuckers
my flaccid penis could play better music than these fuckers
@GEOpz838 No they aren't. Flip the Bird sucks, always has. It was the sellout of sellouts. Just as 'Let It Be' was the pathetic sellout by the Replacements. Up until that point Husker Du was a band with no peers. After that piss poor poppy mainstream crap Wig, they went down the tubes, and it only got worse. If you want the essence of Husker Du, listen to Land Speed Record through New Day Rising. Flush the rest of their stuff post NDR out of your memories, I know I have ;)
Absolute GEM of a tune.