Something I Learned Today

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1. somesara March 12th, 2007 6:26 am

   If ever you feel unappreciated … I find so much stuff through your site, old faves and new stuff, new sites. My computer crashed and burned recently and took most of my music with it; fortunately your site is still up and allows access to archives, I had a good place to start rebuilding and a guide to other resources. Some of the bands I had forgotten about over the years, some I never knew (yes I feel ignorant), either way I appreciate the education. And the news, amazing how I can actually know some of these people and yet have no clue what has happened to them, if they’re still playing, if they died, what …

2. Dave March 12th, 2007 8:08 am

   Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

3. dd March 12th, 2007 8:49 am

   one of the best bands to emerge out of hardcore punk.

4. OTTO March 12th, 2007 9:27 am

   I used to DJ at WRCT, and I was at that show at the Graffiti (have a copy of the poster tucked away somewhere). Saw Husker Du so many times in the 80s, and they were always great. One of my favorite hardcore memories was seeing Husker Du in a basement in Philadelphia… think they called it the West Side Club, and think it was in a house rented by a DJ at Drexel’s college station WKDU. Thanks for the nice post.

   Memories, light the corners of my mind, misty water-colored memories of the way we were…

5. dirk March 12th, 2007 9:29 am

   great, greater, silt…!

   cheers!

6. rico March 12th, 2007 10:14 am

   Love the Hu Du! Thanks so much
   Rico
   Bleedin’ Out

   http://bleedinout.blogspot.com/

7. Robert Dunn March 12th, 2007 12:01 pm

   Finally! had most of these songs in horrible quality on shitty tapes but they sound great here. Excellent work.

8. Peter - KBD Records March 12th, 2007 4:45 pm

   Awesome post. Never heard the outtakes from Metal Circus and boy do they rock!! Thanks a lot for this Eric.

9. Conster Mock March 12th, 2007 5:26 pm

   Wow, this almost made me cry in joy. Thanks!!!

10. Brady March 12th, 2007 5:57 pm

    WOW

    Yesterday my wife and I made an offer on a house we really like… and today it got accepted.

    And on top of that, I finally get to hear Husker tunes I’ve been after for 15 years…

    Life can be very, very sweet some days! Thanks so much for posting. You made a great day even better!

11. monadjudant69 March 12th, 2007 6:22 pm

    may your name be written w/ stars for posting this awesome rare shit from my fave band ever…..25 years after my 1st Dü record,they still rule.

12. mikaj March 12th, 2007 8:56 pm

    This is fantastic - I never knew there was so much Husker info out there. I’m hooked. Thank you very much for the rarities post. My first Husker show was some place named the “elks club”, in Philadelphia. FOD opened with a very young Soul Asylum following. I won tix via WXPN when it used to be college radio. Anyone else at that show or even have a recording?

13. Courtney March 12th, 2007 9:27 pm

    I could listen to Erase Today forever.

14. ken helwig March 12th, 2007 10:01 pm

    Thanks so much for posting this. I cannot believe that some of these songs never made it onto albums. Wow!!!!

15. stillpoint March 13th, 2007 10:18 am

    la memoria libera…

    su una spiaggia di Thassos scrivevo pensieri sulla prima di copertina di un libro di Tobino, l’estate del ‘93. In cuffia questa, nel cuore meltemi. da somethingIlearnedtoday un post da non perdere, per gli amanti del genere…..

16. dd March 13th, 2007 12:53 pm

    meet husker du on some show in late 80s
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=DUMlQPGZhPY

17. Peter Davis March 13th, 2007 1:30 pm

    After listening to your fine and much needed rarities/outtakes mix, one can easily conclude that despite the band’s tin-ear, mid-range tendencies in the studio, they were deft self-editors. Much of what’s here, marvelous as most of it is to reference again after all these years, is the immutable fact that the grand majority of it (i’m partial to the Candy Apple outs) didn’t belong on any of the final documents. Hammers home the point that most bands these days aren’t as shrewd and or objective when it comes to cutting the fat from the bone of what they do. Any body else have thoughts on this?

18. Bernard March 13th, 2007 1:42 pm

    Thanks for the full band version of Never Talking to You Again. The rest is just as good. Great job

19. Eric March 13th, 2007 10:23 pm

    Peter… I agree with you on the studio outtakes, none of which seemingly fit in their respective albums. I don’t know, it may be because we’ve become so familiar with the albums that it’s tough to envision them as anything else. On the other hand, Warehouse could of (and should have) been pared back to a single album, the second half is a snooze.

    I think the live material from 1981 is posted above is much, much better than the sets captured on Land Speed Record. There is just a lot more variety to the songs and the sound. For those interested, here’s the complete 1981 sets from San Francisco (7/24/81) - 32 MB and Portland (7/31/81) - 48 MB Lot’s of overlap, but worthwhile nonetheless. Rar format, I’m too lazy to list the songs here.

20. dirk March 14th, 2007 10:04 am

    wow! muchas gracias!

21. will March 14th, 2007 7:03 pm

    Many many thanks for these.

22. Dfactor March 15th, 2007 12:17 pm

    Husker collector fans are the best - thanks for posting these! I went on a Bittorrent binge in 2006 and reaped about 8-10 Husker live sets throughout their career, but didn’t have any of these really early ones. Thanks!

23. monadjudant69 March 15th, 2007 5:35 pm

    shit ,those unreleased songs off “metal Circus”…..no bands come close to Husker du’s butt…fuck the new generation !
    an old fuck
    (maybe the only living french guy who saw both H Dü french shows in Paris)

24. sixty-six March 16th, 2007 1:05 am

    you sir are a golden god.

25. brendan March 16th, 2007 2:55 pm

    This great, my fave all time band. I have a record with ‘All work and no play’ that has lyrics on it. Is that not considered rare? Any way, this is teriffic. Thanks, I learned someting today.

26. Spiderhead69 March 17th, 2007 6:38 pm

    THanks for informing others as to how good they were back in the 80’s, when hair bands ruled the airwaves, we had Husker Du to play for our friends and go “eat this fucker”.

27. RJackson March 17th, 2007 6:52 pm

    Thanks so much for posting this again. My friend had some of this on tape back in college, but I lost the only copy I had in a move, years ago.

    I was just young enough that I never got to see Husker Du live and the one chance I had, they were playing their last show at Toad’s Place in New Haven and I couldn’t get a ride from Providence - one of the greatest regrets of my life. (The other being not seeing Mission of Burma live - which I have now remedied by seeing them 3 times in the last few years! That’s amazing in and of itself.)

    These downloads, however, will give me the solace of having some of my favorite bands music that I have been seeking out for a long time!

    Thanks ever so much.

28. Rao Ray March 18th, 2007 3:00 pm

    you rock.

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31. Gordon Lamb March 29th, 2007 3:42 am

    Oh, man, Thank you so, so much!

32. juan duque March 29th, 2007 4:07 pm

    Thank you from a Hu:sker Du: fan in Medellín, Colombia!!!!!!!!!!!

33. Mike Cool March 31st, 2007 12:19 am

    What can I say? Husker Du is one of the all time great bands. Bob Mould’s follow-up band effort Sugar took the Du concept to new heights but the original Du must be remembered as the genius pioneers that they were. Great post.

34. Mister Happy March 31st, 2007 1:23 am

    Thx Eric, had been waiting for those reposts for such a long time… Thank you for sharing these diamonds with us.

35. Tom March 31st, 2007 4:47 pm

    Thank you soooo much for this. I have been search for Erase Today forever. Its one of the best Husker Du songs. I can’t understand why it was left off New Day Rising–my favorite Husker Du album. Thanks a million!

36. Milhouse April 27th, 2007 9:03 pm

    Awesome, awesome, awesome. Some of these tracks I have, some I’d never even heard of the titles before now. HUGE Husker Du fan, one of the bands that “saved my life” when I was about 16. Thanks bunches for posting this batch of awesomeness.

37. Mitchener May 3rd, 2007 12:40 pm

    These are amazing! Many, many thanks! Can anyone help out a Torrent-fearful individual looking to find audio from a Bob acoustic show in D.C. in October 1996? I attended the show and have long hoped for a copy of the performance.

38. rhb May 10th, 2007 10:39 am

    gracias….thanks my friends god job.

39. KilledByScott May 17th, 2007 12:13 pm

    Awesome post! I can’t get “Sore Eyes” out of my head. Any chance you can post the rest of the songs off the Savage Young Du Demo? BTW: Thanks for the Chronic Sick tunes!

    -Scott

40. Simon May 24th, 2007 11:25 am

    If you ever need a kidney, just ask. All these years of listening to their albums and now I’m here listening to nearly an hour and a half of Husker Du songs I’ve never heard before! Thank you!!

41. Jeff May 25th, 2007 8:14 pm

    Thanks!

42. Burton June 9th, 2007 11:03 pm

    Thanks for posting these. Not to be greedy, but do you have/no anyone who has mp3s for the Mould/Hart performance for Karl Mueller in 2004? Do they even exist?

    Anyway, thanks so much!

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44. scuba steve July 3rd, 2007 12:30 am

    Is there an HD song that has the words/phrase ’51st state’ in it? No, not New Model Army crap…

45. Anonymous July 6th, 2007 12:10 pm

    And Gotta lotta???its from huskers????or fake?

46. Karl Bakla July 23rd, 2007 1:23 am

    Hay, thanks for posting these Husker Du songs, I love Husker Du & I appreciate hearing these tunes!

47. andy August 18th, 2007 12:54 pm

    Thanks,been after these for ages,cracking stuff!
    Wonderful!

48. earthdog70 August 30th, 2007 10:20 pm

    Thanks-hope to see Bob on his DVD tour this fall!

49. d3v September 23rd, 2007 6:29 am

    woah! had a few of these, but as another poster stated, in rough quality. this will be like having a new album to listen to. admittedly their time has long passed but they were one of the first bands that really touched me as a youth, with the revelation that, yes, you could have both great tunes with heartfelt meaning, and still be noisy and experimental at the same time too.
    thank you ever so much.

50. Ronnie October 18th, 2007 7:13 pm

    Whoa! I’ve got the same flyer!

51. alex December 1st, 2007 2:56 am

    dude the “never talking to you again” live is way better than the studio version.

    thanks man

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