The thing is, it's not just that it's an amazing song, but the chord voicings and drones he gets as an extra layer on top of the basic song is bloody insane, and then that solo...., and then he's singing on top of it as well! There's some footage of him doing this live, and it's just nuts what he's managing to do all at the same time.
Bob is an American treasure. It may be sacrilege to some, but I'll take Sugar every time over Husker Du. Love the Huskers too, but by the time Bob got to Sugar, he had become such an amazing songwriter that pretty much every song should have been a huge hit. Saw Bob solo in a small pub in Delaware last summer, absolutely amazing and I patiently waited afterward to get the chance to simply walk up, shake his hand, and say "thank you for doing what you do". I'm so glad I was able to do that. I'll never forget it.
I agree about Sugar being a better band. Yeah, it sounds like sacrilege. Oh well. I hope I get to see him sometime after Covid quarantine ends. He is one of those rare artists who hasn't started to really suck as he ages.
100% agree. Sure Husker Du were the pioneering phase of Bob's career - merging hardcore punk to folk nuance and essentially creating alternative rock in the process. But the Du were hampered by appalling engineering on all their records, whereas Sugar rocked hard sonically. This raised production value coincided with Bob's songwriting talents reaching an absolute peak. I still raise eyebrows amongst my music nerd friends to this day when I claim "Beaster" to be one of the greatest albums of the '90s. For me it is the perfect distillation of everything that makes Bob great; gut wrenching beautiful melody, fast empassioned vocals, sheets of trebly guitar, relentless pummeling snare rolls and lyrics of self immolation. Beaster is a lost fucking masterpiece and I stand by that.
If Husker Du was foundational to American Punk, Sugar was accelerant for alt / prog rock thereafter. Bob Mould is a national treasure! I have never had a Bob Mould personal mix NOT start with TILTED! ❤
This song is so ferocious,so well played and Bobs guitar playing just unbelievable...Sugar were so good and so underappreciated especially for a band so ahead of there time...they remind me of montrose a little on the first album.way to good for the time.
I heard this as a teen in 93. It still has the same impact as it did back then. I dont think I have felt the lingering influence of a song in so many ways as I got out of this one. For me, this is the greatest rock song ever written. Thank you Bob
this is the most downright bad ass songs of the 90's. get in your car, roll up the windows and turn the volume up as high as it goes. what a wall of sound.
@Shabda Sound Yeah, or a "mini-album". 5 tracks. I still call it an album because it feels like a coherent, fully-realised work. Alongside a few others from 92-94 (Grant Lee Buffalo, Bjork, Smashing Pumpkins, Suede) this was the soundtrack to my transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
@Shabda Sound That was my scene, yeah. Got to hang with a couple of them - J from Dinosaur (surprisingly talkative) and half of Urge Overkill (remember them). I love Grant Lee. Frist 3 albums are fantastic.
@@mad24r45 Thanks! Funnily enough, I just shared JC Auto on FB and claimed that Beaster is still the OG 1990s alt-rock winner. Good to know someone out there shares the same idea!
Sometimes I wish I were in my 20's again...until I hear these classic Bob Mould/Sugar songs. It makes me appreciate being 54 years-old and able to say that I was rocking out to Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du when they were fresh. This music still kicks the ass of whatever claptrap is released today! And Bob is still making great music and is an awesome live act!
The way the guitars move this song! The power of the mix, lyrics still the way the chorus riffs catch you like a good wave on a nice day. Wooooo....I can never get enough of Bob Mould, and this piece of freaking art noise sound.
Love it too..it actually elevates the song...reminds me of the crazy solos he did in Husker Du's early thrashy hardcore days which I read once described as Eddie Van Halen meets 12tone scale meets noise.
I had a English teacher when i was 14 and he used to play nirvana, dinosaur Jr ect in class and one day he played this and as I liked it so much he gave me his copy and I'm 45 and still listening to it. Amazing.
Bob Mould is a very underrated artist who to this day is relatively unknown outside of the US by only its his most devoted fans from his Husker Du and Sugar days
This song and video hits me even more on the balls and brains whilst bein on reading Bob Mould's autobiography atm ... Bob's been there, heaven and hell and back ...
There is no other song that gets me more hyped. While buying WuTang, I stumbled upon Beaster in the used records for .99 bin. Never stopped playing it. Thank god other people have no taste.
it makes hard rock actually sound like A Good Idea. Bob Mould is one of the best melody/harmony writers there's ever been - so far underrated, it's untrue. Godlike.
I hadn't listened to Beaster for a while, but had it playing on the iPod while working out last week .... one of the most intense workouts I'd had in a long time. If this song and the rest of Beaster don't give you some serious freakin energy than you must be dead!
remember Bob from the Leadmill, Sheffield '85 or '84. Local bellends thought they were seeing punk - coming spitting - eurgh! Bob told the bouncers and my mate Jon kicked one right up the jacksy
@gerardaven I remember it well... It was Saturday Morning and I just sat there with my jaw on the floor. I was already a fan of copper blue but this was just something else.
Ahhhh... Beaster. B-sides from Copper Blue. One of my favorite studio sessions. Bob's made some great tracks since, but these recordings were just incredible.,
@84heroes1 Thanks, 84heroes, for the list. I know some of these songs, and agree they're terrific: Dinosaur Jr, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, Pumpkins, of course. I'll check out some of the others I don't know. I see Pumpkins are loisted as doing a few gigs in UK soon: I'm wondering whether I might go ... last time I saw them in 1996 at Wembley, it wasn't such a great gig: Chamberlain was about to have that infamous night and get sacked....
Amazing song...always have and always will be.; If there was a song/band/ album that made sense to me (kept me sane, or even feel a part of this world), Sugar's Beaster was it. Many night blaring this on my headphones... anyting by Linkin Park etc does not even touch this song/EP..
@BoilingSkyFilms Not only that, but Bob played guitar on the soundtrack to Hedwig and The Angry Inch, starring/directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who also directed "Rabbit Hole". This song is absolutely ridiculous in it's intensity and I agree, my ears were ringing for a couple days after every Sugar show I saw...rivaled only by The Ramones in my case. I miss the 90's.
Went through the whole thing...Feeling ok when I first heard this song. Had been through a couple betrayals but I was over them. Then I had my heart broken and I connected this to it and both were amplified. Then I was OK again but it seems the bad feelings enticed me. The song and my life didn't match any more and I couldn't fake it...So I stupidly engineered a situation to make them fit. That was hell. But, for some time now, it's been back to just an entertaining bash of a song. And I'm glad.
The thing is, it's not just that it's an amazing song, but the chord voicings and drones he gets as an extra layer on top of the basic song is bloody insane, and then that solo...., and then he's singing on top of it as well! There's some footage of him doing this live, and it's just nuts what he's managing to do all at the same time.
I saw this live 3 times ..... honestly, it was fucking religious
Bob is an American treasure. It may be sacrilege to some, but I'll take Sugar every time over Husker Du. Love the Huskers too, but by the time Bob got to Sugar, he had become such an amazing songwriter that pretty much every song should have been a huge hit. Saw Bob solo in a small pub in Delaware last summer, absolutely amazing and I patiently waited afterward to get the chance to simply walk up, shake his hand, and say "thank you for doing what you do". I'm so glad I was able to do that. I'll never forget it.
The Bob Mould Band, likewise, is an even BETTER trio, if that's possible.
Yep. It's sacrilege alright.
I agree about Sugar being a better band. Yeah, it sounds like sacrilege. Oh well. I hope I get to see him sometime after Covid quarantine ends. He is one of those rare artists who hasn't started to really suck as he ages.
100% agree. Sure Husker Du were the pioneering phase of Bob's career - merging hardcore punk to folk nuance and essentially creating alternative rock in the process. But the Du were hampered by appalling engineering on all their records, whereas Sugar rocked hard sonically. This raised production value coincided with Bob's songwriting talents reaching an absolute peak. I still raise eyebrows amongst my music nerd friends to this day when I claim "Beaster" to be one of the greatest albums of the '90s. For me it is the perfect distillation of everything that makes Bob great; gut wrenching beautiful melody, fast empassioned vocals, sheets of trebly guitar, relentless pummeling snare rolls and lyrics of self immolation. Beaster is a lost fucking masterpiece and I stand by that.
Sugar is good, but Zen Arcade shits over their discography.
That utterly shredding bridge!
Criminally under-appreciated. Copper Blue the best album of the 90's.
One of the greatest songs ever recorded
If Husker Du was foundational to American Punk, Sugar was accelerant for alt / prog rock thereafter. Bob Mould is a national treasure! I have never had a Bob Mould personal mix NOT start with TILTED! ❤
This song is so ferocious,so well played and Bobs guitar playing just unbelievable...Sugar were so good and so underappreciated especially for a band so ahead of there time...they remind me of montrose a little on the first album.way to good for the time.
Copper Blue topped the UK pop chart and went Gold there. To be huge in Europe is no joke. Too often, Americans settle for less.
This is seriously like the best song of all time.
I heard this as a teen in 93. It still has the same impact as it did back then. I dont think I have felt the lingering influence of a song in so many ways as I got out of this one. For me, this is the greatest rock song ever written. Thank you Bob
So glad someone else feels that way...doesnt matter how many times i listen this could never burn it out
heard this as teen to blew me away
Couldn't have said it better myself. Taking my Beaster inlay sleeve to Liverpool on Friday to see if I can get it signed by the master.
this is the most downright bad ass songs of the 90's. get in your car, roll up the windows and turn the volume up as high as it goes. what a wall of sound.
Roll the windows DOWN and educate people.
Copper Blue and Beaster are masterpieces.
this still sounds so bloody amazing.
True!
"Beaster" is one of the best, if not the best rock album of the 90's.
@Shabda Sound Yeah, or a "mini-album". 5 tracks. I still call it an album because it feels like a coherent, fully-realised work. Alongside a few others from 92-94 (Grant Lee Buffalo, Bjork, Smashing Pumpkins, Suede) this was the soundtrack to my transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
@Shabda Sound That was my scene, yeah. Got to hang with a couple of them - J from Dinosaur (surprisingly talkative) and half of Urge Overkill (remember them).
I love Grant Lee. Frist 3 albums are fantastic.
@Shabda Sound Did you ever get into Flying Nun bands from New Zealand? 1982-1994 was the peak of NZ Indie.
just a short recap after 7 years: you are still very much right, cheers.
@@mad24r45 Thanks! Funnily enough, I just shared JC Auto on FB and claimed that Beaster is still the OG 1990s alt-rock winner. Good to know someone out there shares the same idea!
That guitar solo is something else....
Sometimes I wish I were in my 20's again...until I hear these classic Bob Mould/Sugar songs. It makes me appreciate being 54 years-old and able to say that I was rocking out to Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du when they were fresh. This music still kicks the ass of whatever claptrap is released today! And Bob is still making great music and is an awesome live act!
Bob's voice is like a thousand Angels crying.. love that man..
ive stood in record stores overcome with tears listening to this in the booth.
This is the sound inside my head. Thank you Bob for making it real
The way the guitars move this song! The power of the mix, lyrics still the way the chorus riffs catch you like a good wave on a nice day. Wooooo....I can never get enough of Bob Mould, and this piece of freaking art noise sound.
Fucking hell....that is some guitar solo....leaves you breathless
+Spitfire Pilot Bob's best guitar solo ever, hands down.
It's good, but his solos for "Pink Turns to Blue," "Celebrated Summer"are far more nuanced and rockin"
Love it too..it actually elevates the song...reminds me of the crazy solos he did in Husker Du's early thrashy hardcore days which I read once described as Eddie Van Halen meets 12tone scale meets noise.
This album.....Oh this album.
I know, f&ck do I know!
I had a English teacher when i was 14 and he used to play nirvana, dinosaur Jr ect in class and one day he played this and as I liked it so much he gave me his copy and I'm 45 and still listening to it. Amazing.
This is how it's done. So good.
auch, he was better than all of them, even Kurt. Seriously unheralded!
Facts
Waaaaay better than Cobain & co. That was kid's stuff, in comparison.
I’ve yet to find anything that rocks like this.
I saw them on the tour before Copper Blue was released. They played this and "JC Auto" at the end of the show. The loudest thing i ever heard
I fucking love everything Bob Mould does. This one of my favorite songs...
He’s the man
I was stripping a door once, and the paint wouldn't come off. Then I played Sugar's "Tilted" and irt came off like a charm!
a sonic prayer.
psa to malcolm's wrists - that snare is getting douched.
Mr. Mould is one of the best songwriters ever.
My first impression of this video is that it rocks! I’m sad it’s only in 480p cuz it’s kind of hard to see, but I already love this song!
30 years ago and still amazing. Bob has been called by many as "The Godfather of Alternative Rock" and I have no evidence to the contrary.
Bob Mould is a very underrated artist who to this day is relatively unknown outside of the US by only its his most devoted fans from his Husker Du and Sugar days
Bob Mould...a hidden treasure.
my earwax was forever gone when i listened beaster over and over with headphones on
and in very high volume! thanks bob
One of the most exhilarating rock songs I've ever heard.
Couldn't agree more with you brother! ...and then comes Judas cradle..J.C. Auto ...saw Sugar in 93' , amazingly heavy and beautiful both
So glad I saw them in the early 90's - brilliant show
AWESOME!!!!
Not heard this for years- still just as amazing as it was back then, you've gotta love Bob Mould!
Best Rock and roll song of the 90's
Imagine watching MTV or something and you see this for the first time, simply exhilarating, love Bob Mould!!!
This song and video hits me even more on the balls and brains whilst bein on reading Bob Mould's autobiography atm ... Bob's been there, heaven and hell and back ...
i remember this being album of the year in 'the NME' blew me away when i heard it!!!
I can't think of a more ferocious and exciting song in rock, especially the veering-out-of-control guitar break. Truly astonishing.
One of his all-time best. Beaster is a grossly underrated album. There was a time when I listened to this non-stop.
Best song of the 1990s, hands down.
私の記憶に間違いなければ、コッパー・ブルーのアウト・テイク集としてビースターは当時の日本で発売されました。かなり熱心に聴き込んだ記憶があります。
The greatest song ever written
damn right
Marc Johnson part in Maple Rites of passage brought me here.
this one gives me goosebumps
There is no other song that gets me more hyped. While buying WuTang, I stumbled upon Beaster in the used records for .99 bin. Never stopped playing it. Thank god other people have no taste.
Like finding a Picasso at a garage sale.
This song is nuts! What a solo!
Malcom Travis on drums..... bangin'!!
"Beaster" is one of the best albums/EPs EVER! Long live master Bob Mould!
it makes hard rock actually sound like A Good Idea. Bob Mould is one of the best melody/harmony writers there's ever been - so far underrated, it's untrue. Godlike.
Phenomenal song.
Best rock song EVER...well... in my humble opinion.
Yeh, always loved this. A lesson in momentum and dynamics. Relentless, start to finish.
Bob at his finest.
I hadn't listened to Beaster for a while, but had it playing on the iPod while working out last week .... one of the most intense workouts I'd had in a long time. If this song and the rest of Beaster don't give you some serious freakin energy than you must be dead!
everything Bob Mould is and ever could be distilled into one song
Still jammin to this in 2021
I knew I would end up with my partner when her head exploded upon hearing this. Definitely my most replayed track in my 40 odd years.
@Thisanawadee Cook Back again for a relisten.
@Thisanawadee Cook Yep, two kids
remember Bob from the Leadmill, Sheffield '85 or '84. Local bellends thought they were seeing punk - coming spitting - eurgh! Bob told the bouncers and my mate Jon kicked one right up the jacksy
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Probably the most perfect mini-album ever.
Nothing rocks like this song. All of Beaster is awesome - but this song kicks ass!!!!
@gerardaven I remember it well... It was Saturday Morning and I just sat there with my jaw on the floor. I was already a fan of copper blue but this was just something else.
recorded this at the time on a crappy mono video recorder, nice to see it in good sound
Here's even better: ruclips.net/video/zNQz6PSbsVw/видео.htmlsi=04XeioMwR-Vuxz2M&t=151
I saw the Beaser tour in Seattle '93. I'm glad I had my earplugs in !
Malcolm Travis from the Zulus on drums here...a Boston-area legend... 1/3rd of the sound of Sugar.
rockin like there is no tomorrow this song makes me love music even more how can you contain yourself listening to this song
Always loved this Song!
This is an achingly sad song, but it's wonderful.
This video does not have enough views! This might be the best song that came out in 1993.
6 people need to get their heads out of their sphincters.
+Thomas Whitt I guess that someone can't forgive Bob Mould for breaking up Husker Du and influencing Foo Fighters along the way.
+Ilya S he also influenced jawbreaker so thumbs up for bob!
Or the Judas Cradle out of their asses.
Punk rock grunge wotever bobjust wrote and played wot he liked.....the definition of music in my opinion and by fuck it was awesome..
A gem ! Just like all his other stuff !
Ahhhh... Beaster.
B-sides from Copper Blue. One of my favorite studio sessions. Bob's made some great tracks since, but these recordings were just incredible.,
My fave song of all time. I built a killer skate vid around this tune.
@84heroes1 Thanks, 84heroes, for the list. I know some of these songs, and agree they're terrific: Dinosaur Jr, Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, Pumpkins, of course. I'll check out some of the others I don't know. I see Pumpkins are loisted as doing a few gigs in UK soon: I'm wondering whether I might go ... last time I saw them in 1996 at Wembley, it wasn't such a great gig: Chamberlain was about to have that infamous night and get sacked....
That fuckin solo! JC autochrist it's awesome!
Oh god, we need another Sugar album !!!!
timeless masterpiece
This song is the shit
Εξαιρετικό!!!!! ♥️❤️♥️❤️
Amazing song...always have and always will be.; If there was a song/band/ album that made sense to me (kept me sane, or even feel a part of this world), Sugar's Beaster was it. Many night blaring this on my headphones... anyting by Linkin Park etc does not even touch this song/EP..
I couldn't agree with you more. 'Beaster' it's EP masterpiece!
what a great song, truly without equal
more people should know about this....
@BoilingSkyFilms
Not only that, but Bob played guitar on the soundtrack to Hedwig and The Angry Inch, starring/directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who also directed "Rabbit Hole".
This song is absolutely ridiculous in it's intensity and I agree, my ears were ringing for a couple days after every Sugar show I saw...rivaled only by The Ramones in my case. I miss the 90's.
thank you so much for uploading, you are right, this song just has to be here.
Good God this song rocks.
Fabulous. That’s it really
Finally…….when I G⛔️⛔️GLE Sugar, this is what I expect. Not some Afro bs.
Love this song to death a truly truly a classic in my opinion 😊😊😊
One of my faves. Genius
Amazing EP. Not good to drive to, though. My mind tends to wander.
Went through the whole thing...Feeling ok when I first heard this song. Had been through a couple betrayals but I was over them. Then I had my heart broken and I connected this to it and both were amplified. Then I was OK again but it seems the bad feelings enticed me. The song and my life didn't match any more and I couldn't fake it...So I stupidly engineered a situation to make them fit. That was hell. But, for some time now, it's been back to just an entertaining bash of a song. And I'm glad.
Beaster is absolutely the gretest ep in the history of ep´s!!
perfect rock song