Poll of the Day > Husker du is the best punk band ever. fight me i dont care

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gonna be updating this here tonight a little if anybody cares.

Have you never listened to those before?

Also, I don't know what my favorite punk band would be (probably Fugazi), but my favorite albums are The Lawrence Arms' "Oh! Calcutta!" and Swain's "Howl".
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No, that one guy asked for recommendations, so i am giving a review of my personal favorite punk albums, but taking my time to listen to them again and write up a short-ish review of it, rather than just saying hey here i like this stuff go listen.

Minor Threat/Complete Discography/19809/hardcore/Washington, D.C.



Minor Threat was active from 1980-83 and this album contains 26 songs.

This band is important for several reasons, so I figured I would include their discography here because it was one single release, and its short enough to be one album

Minor Threat, like the name implies, is not a macho band. At all. They have an extremely fast hardcore sound that occasionally can get melodic in addition to being sprinkled with tracks about not drinking. At a bare minimum you have "bottled violence", "straight edge", "in my eyes", and the duo of "out of step(with the world)", and its cover "out of step" (the latter has the lyrics "dont smoke, dont drink, dont fuck, at least i can fucking think" changed to I don't...each thing), are about alcohol and drug refusal.

While the song has plenty of anti alcohol songs, thats not all it's about. The song 12XU, a cover of a song by the band Wire, introduces us to the concept of "flex your head" which I interpret as meaning intelligence and reason beats violence. There's a sarcastic song about selling out, and the song "screaming at a wall" is actually really fun to listen to when you do want to scream at a wall. Another song I'd highlight is "guilty of being white" which was covered by slayer. This song shouldn't discourage you because it isnt racist, and it really sounds great. Another song I really like is "in my eyes" where mackaye shouts "at least i'm fucking. trying. what the fuck have you done?!" Despite all that it doesn't seem to take itself too seriously.

So basically, you've got blistering hardcore that occasionally can slow itself down(and indeed listening to this album in order does show great songwriting evolution), that's got lyrics with serious bite that are very easy to understand. but not in a way where we feel insulted. ian mackaye hasn't even gotten angry yet.

This band never really intended to start a movement with the song "straight edge" but a movement did start and thats what it became known as. if you ever see somebody at a concert with an X drawn on the hand it means nah i aint/cant drink. 46 seconds spawned an entire movement. I can't blame them for promoting positive messages.

"I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at the shows
I don't even think about speed
That's something I just don't need"

[despite being lightning quick...]

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones/More Noise and Other Disturbances/1992/skacore/Boston, MA

I was originally going to do a single and en EP, but since this album has the single song on it, and because i feel like its a better representation of early Bosstones, I have chosen this album.

The Bosstones are a hardcore punk and metal infused ska band. They take influences from metal and punk. They have on another album a cover of "Think Again" by Minor Threat, with horns, and one of my all time favorite songs, a cover of "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith(please check this out). They take influence from both sides, which makes them a fun and absurd band to listen to at this stage.

The lead vocalist, DIckey Barret sounds, I think, like he's been smoking since age 12. Which is cool, it gives him character and he is honestly one of the most interesting vocalists to listen to, in my opinion. That sets to tone for a band that really does secrete class. They wear suits at concerts and have a hype man. That's it, they also do throw one heck of a show.

So you have a lot of poppier ska songs on this album, but it gets very hard at times. The song "Where'd You Go" is slower tempo, catchy ska. It was also included in the Clueless soundtrack. The very next song begins with the lead vocalist screaming for 3 seconds straight. There's both dynamics at work here.

The song "Bad In Plaid" exemplifies this in one song. At first it is a pretty upbeat, song with nice horns(this album does have a very nice horn section) about how he's a plaid man, don't mess with him or his jacket, but then later on in a frenzy of vocal outburst says 96 words in 20 seconds:

"The plaid means more than the color of our clothes
It means everyone is welcome to the Mighty Mighty shows
Feel free to represent on the Bosstones' stage*
We don't care about your race, color or about your age
You just gotta wanna want it and ya gotta wanna move it
It's a plaid plaid world and we're trying to prove it everywhere we go
As long as you're united with the plaid boys from Boston then you're all invited
Everywhere you go let's all get united with the plaid boys from Boston
And you're all invited!"

Another vocal/lyric highlight is another slower but fast frenzy of words. In the song "Guns in the Young", protesting youth violence, the vocalist says

"You see it on TV, you know it looks cool
All these actors going around killing thousands of people
In two or three minutes, it builds up in your head and you say
'yo I can do that'"

Husker Du is very nostalgic to me. My dad used to play New Day Rising all the time in the car.
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thats pretty sweet. my parents grew up listening to frankie valli, the rolling stones, and janis joplin. Not that I'm raggin' on it but IMO it wasnt music I ever cared about. New Day Rising has my favorite song on it, "Celebrated Summer" and THE no. 1 best pump you up high energy track, "New Day Rising"

This one time I was gathering carts in the lot at an old job and I saw a car with a husker du bumper sticker. amazed, i was doing my job but also keeping an eye on who owned the car. I saw two older people, probably 40s/50s get into it but they drove off before i could come over.

Next time they were in the store i was checking them out and mentioned it, and turns out it is their favorite band, and in fact they named their child Grant in reference to co leader Grant Hart. that was totally cool, though I did get the "guhh, you're a kid[20s] and you dont listen to modern music" but hey, still pretty sweet.

though i never listen to shit like taylor swift on my own but I have friends who like shit like that and I can tolerate it just fine, even if its not really my preferred choice.