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Section 15--Covers, Tributes
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The term "tribute" has been extended to include any obvious (or maybe not
so obvious) reference to the band. The Hüsker cover songs listed include
released material for the most part, along with a few demos and privately
distributed recordings. Songs found only on live concert tapes are not
listed unless they have some special significance.
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Artist: Replacements
Title: Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Format: Album
Label: Twin/Tone
Catalog Number: TTR 8123
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1981
Time:
Notes: Rather snide, as tributes go:
Delivering noise
Real tough boys
What else have I got
Half-priced drugs
Stolen guitars
What else is new
It's somethin to dü
It's somethin to dü
Well it ain't nothin new
Stand around and sweat
Girls you bet
Sure beats working too
Half my stuff's
Broken guitars
Blah blah blah
Somethin to dü
Somethin to dü
It ain't nothin new
It's somethin to ... dü
Somethin to dü
Somethin to dü
Nothin to
It's somethin
Delivering noise
Real tough boys
And what else have I got
Half-priced drugs
Stolen guitars
When the weather's hot
It's somethin to dü
It's somethin to dü
Said somethin to dü
Somethin to Hüsker
Break the mould
Contents:
Somethin To Dü
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Artist: Dead Milkmen
Title: Eat Your Paisley
Format: Album
Label: Fever/Restless
Catalog Number: AAD 72131-2 [Fever]/72131-2 [Restless]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Jun 1986 (Restless reissue Jul 1991)
Time: 41:23
Notes: Song contains the lines:
Now it's got a sweet tooth for long hair
So Bob and Greg and Grant you should beware
Also on: Death Rides a Pale Cow (The Ultimate
Collection), Restless, 1997; and Enigma Variations
2, Enigma CDEX-73247, 1987, plus various promos,
singles, imports.
Contents:
The Thing That Only Eats Hippies 2:47
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Artist: Robert Palmer
Title: Superstar Concert Series
Format: 3x12" LP
Label: Westwood One Radio Networks
Catalog Number: SS 87-10
Date Recorded: 1987?
Air Date: 13-14 Jun 1987
Time: 86:09
Notes: Live cover of "New Day Rising" embedded in four-song
medley. NDR segment barely lasts 30 seconds. Not a
bad version from the "Addicted To Love" guy.
Contents:
Medley: 9:32
Planet Of Women/New Day Rising/Nervous/Flesh Wound
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Artist: Blue Hippos
Title: Blue Hippos
Format: Album (12" only?)
Label: Twin/Tone
Catalog Number: TTR 87100
Date Recorded: Sep 1986
Release Date: 1987
Time:
Notes: Studio cover. Produced by Terry Katzman.
Contents:
Drug Party
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Artist: Masters of the Obvious [Paul Caporino]
Title: Tiny Hateful Dog
Format: Album (cassette only)
Label: Looks like a homemade job.
Catalog Number: MOTO 2
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1988?
Time:
Notes: Typical MOTO sendup, though neither as stinging
nor as humorous as some. Caporino's cheesy home
production (featuring the worst drum machine ever
heard anywhere) doesn't help.
Contents:
Candy Apple Wig
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Artist: The Strangemen
Title: Duck And Cover
Format: Album
Label: Vielklang
Catalog Number: 0425280MLP
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1988
Time:
Notes: Studio cover. The Strangemen, an unashamedly
Hüskeresque band from Berlin, backed Grant Hart
on his Fall 1989 European tour. They have also
performed "The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill" and
"Pink Turns To Blue" live. This is an album of
cover tunes. The version of "Diane" that appears
here later turned up on the the Case Closed
compilation described below.
Contents:
Diane
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Artist: Big Dipper
Title: Love Barge
Format: CD EP (promo)
Label: Epic
Catalog Number: ESK 2009
Date Recorded: 03 Feb 1989
Release Date: 1990
Time: 10:30
Notes: Live cover. Recorded by Carl Plaster at the
Bottleneck in Lawrence KS.
Contents:
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill 3:09
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Artist: Squirrel Bait/David Grubbs
Title: Motorola Cloudburst
Format: 7" single
Label: The Pope Fanzine
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 25 Nov 1987
Time:
Notes: Freebie record included in fanzine. One side is
labeled "Bob Mould and Those Pillowbiters/Brown I
Read, Oh! My Chones," and the other is labeled
"BORK! Gerard's Dick." According to discogs.com
and attested elsewhere, the Pillowbiters side is an
early unreleased Squirrel Bait track (it certainly
sounds as if it could be a Sun God outtake) and the
Bork! side is "tape piece by David Grubbs done for a
Gnosticism class at Georgetown University." The
latter consists of repeated, jumbled samples from
a speech, superimposed over a guitar background:
"And if there's any hope for America it lies in a
revolution. And if there's any hope for revolution
in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to
become Che Guevara, because if you don't do that
you'll just be beating your head against the wall,
or the cop in the street will be beating your head
against the wall."
The above rap, it turns out, was delivered by Phil
Ochs during a 27 Mar 1970 performance at Carnegie
Hall. The side ends with a telephone message from an
unknown (but familiar sounding) party:
"Oh, Grubbs is...[indistinct]. I don't know what
the hell is going on with this Esperanto shit. I
guess, speaking of the 100th anniversary of
Esperanto, you just gotta have a message in that
damn language."
For what it's worth, Bob Mould knows nothing about
this record. One source thought the fanzine might
have been called Ajax, but the discogs.com info
sounds more authoritative.
Contents:
[See notes]
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Artist: Calhoun Conquer
Title: Lost In Oneself
Format: Album (CD, 12")
Label: Aaarrg/Major International
Catalog Number: Aaarg 22/MRI 29 [Switzerland release]
Date Recorded: Nov 1988
Release Date: 1989
Time: 40:14
Notes: Zürich headbanger band on a hometown label that
was apparently well distributed throughout Europe.
At times they sound like Motörhead wannabes, but
come up a bit short on both energy and strength of
material. Their interpretation of "Diane," on
the other hand, is downright dirgelike. The
release date was most likely mid-1989, which, given
the dubious status of the Strangemen album listed
above, would seem to credit them with the honor of
getting put the first cover version (of many to
come) of this song.
Contents:
Diane 5:51
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Artist: Ritmo Tribale
Title: Kriminale
Format: Album (12")
Label: Vox Pop [Italy release]
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1989
Time:
Notes: Hüsker song does not appear to be on the 2003(?) CD
combined reissue of Kriminale/Bocca Chiusa. Both
the CD and the LP are out of print and difficult to
find. Furthermore, not all versions of the vinyl LP
include the Hüsker track either; it is absent from
the version distributed in Germany by Sub-Up, which
consists of a 12-track single record (the last track
is "Julian"). This site and this site, however
list 21 tracks, suggesting perhaps a double-LP or
some sort of bonus record? The mystery continues.
Contents:
Standing In The Rain 3:05
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Artist: Deacon Blue
Title: Real Gone Kid
Format: 7" EP
Label: CBS
Catalog Number: CBS CD DEAC 7, CBS DEAC EP 7
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Oct 1988
Time:
Notes: Bonus track available on double pack 7" and CD only;
the other two versions (7" and 12" singles) do not have
this track.
Contents:
It's Not Funny Any More
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Artist: Heidi Berry
Title: Love
Format: Album
Label: 4AD
Catalog Number: CAD1012
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Sep 1991
Time:
Notes: Studio cover.
Contents:
Up In The Air
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Artist: Coffin Break
Title: Rupture
Format: Album (12")
Label: C/Z Records
Catalog Number: CZ020
Date Recorded: Nov 1989
Release Date: 1990
Time: 55:26
Notes: Studio cover.
Contents:
Diane 3:11
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Artist: Coffin Break
Title: Rupture/Psychosis
Format: Album (CD)
Label: C/Z Records
Catalog Number: 90020
Date Recorded: Jan-Feb 1989 (Psychosis)
Nov 1989 (Rupture)
Release Date: 1990
Time: 55:26
Notes: Two studio 12" albums combined on one CD.
Contents:
Diane 3:11
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Artist: Pollen Art
Title: Rivers Of Fire
Format: Album (12")
Label: Mindpower Records
Catalog Number: MPR (001)
Date Recorded: Sep-Oct 1988, Jan 1989, Aug-Sep 1990
Release Date: 1991
Time:
Notes:
Contents:
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
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Artist: The Anarchy Diner
Title: God's Penis
Format: Album
Label: None
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: 15-27 Dec 1991
Release Date: Unreleased
Time: 80 minutes
Notes: Studio cover. It is doubtful at this point that
the album is ever going to be released. The band
is long gone, having briefly mutated in 1994 into
the equally obscure Susquehannah before its members
dispersed, but the masters for all three AD albums
remain in the hands of one of its cofounders. The
Anarchy Diner, however, lives on as an e-zine,
The Diner.
[Thanks to Jason Linkins for the updated info!]
Contents:
It's Too Late
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Artist: Drunken Boat
Title: Drunken Boat
Format: Album
Label: First Warning
Catalog Number: 72705-75704-2
Date Recorded: Jul 1990
Release Date: Dec 1991?
Time: 38:49
Notes: Studio cover, just a little snide.
Contents:
What's Going On? 2:57
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Artist: Die Art
Title: Gold
Format: Album
Label: Zong
Catalog Number: 0170 059
Date Recorded: Jun-Jul 1991
Release Date: Late 1991
Time: 42:18
Notes: Studio cover. Album apparently rereleased as Rough
Trade RTD195.1957.2 in 1994.
Contents:
Diane 4:49
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Artist: Buzz Hungry
Title: The Envictor
Format: 7"
Label: SOL
Catalog Number: 226-7
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Sep 1992
Time:
Notes: David Barbe's "The Beer Commercial," the B-side of
this record, was a staple of Sugar's live sets.
Buzz Hungry was David's previous band. Purple
vinyl.
Contents:
The Beer Commercial
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Artist: Catherine Wheel
Title: 30th Century Man
Format: EP (12",CD)
Label: Fontana
Catalog Number: ? (12")/864-837-2 (CD)
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Dec 1992
Time:
Notes: Studio cover. Limited edition release (2000 12",
2000 CD). Burma's "That's When I Reach For My
Revolver" is also covered on this four-song EP.
Hüsker track reissued in Canada in 1995 on Waydown
CD EP. (Note too that a live cover of the Hüsker
song appears on the 1993 compilation album Adventure
Club Sessions, a collection of on-air performances
at KDGE in Dallas.) The Balloon CD EP below, also
released in 1992, may have the same content.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
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Artist: Catherine Wheel
Title: Balloon
Format: CD EP
Label: Fontana
Catalog Number: CDP 770
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Dec(?) 1992
Time: 21:07
Notes: Studio cover. Same version as 30th Century Man
above and Waydown CD EP below.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely 3:30
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Artist: Mega City 4
Title: Live Shivering Sand
Format: 7"
Label: Big Life
Catalog Number: Mega L4
Date Recorded: 05 Mar 1992
Release Date: 1992
Time:
Notes: Recorded live at the Junction, Cambridge, UK.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
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Artist: Mega City 4
Title: Inspiringly Titled
Format: 2xLP
Label: Big Life
Catalog Number: MEG LD2
Date Recorded: 05 Mar 1992
Release Date: 1992
Time:
Notes: Hüsker track identical to 7" single above.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
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Artist: Political Asylum
Title: How The West Was Won
Format: 10"
Label: Allied Recordings
Catalog Number: Allied No. 23
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1992?
Time:
Notes: Politically charged acoustic punk. Band was led by
Scottish anarchist writer Ramsey Kanaan. This
straightforward cover of DWTKIYAL, however, is mild
enough.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely 3:25
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Artist: Various (Wounded Knee)
Title: King Kong #3
Format: 7" EP
Label: King Kong
Catalog Number: KK03 [Sweden]
Date Recorded: 1992?
Release Date: Late 1992/Early 1993
Time:
Notes: Came with Swedish magazine (also called King Kong
#3). The 7"x7" magazine also serves as sleeve
artwork. "921008" inscribed in runout area, which
presumably indicates the pressing date. Limited
edition of 1000. Swedish hardcore band Wounded Knee
began in 1985.
Contents:
Deadly Skies
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Artist: Trip Shakespeare
Title: Volt
Format: Album
Label: Clean/Black Hole
Catalog Number: CR 89248-2
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: May 1993
Time: 22:22
Notes: Studio cover. The "Helpless" cover also on this
is Neil Young's, not Bob Mould's.
Contents:
Dead Set On Destruction 2:36
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Artist: Various
Title: Dü Hüskers
Subtitle: The Twin Cities Replay Zen Arcade
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Synapse
Catalog Number: SYN 002
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Jul 1993
Time: 76:45
Notes: All of Zen Arcade covered by various semi-obscure
Minneapolis bands.
Contents:
Something I Learned Today (Hammerhead) 2:40
Broken Home, Broken Heart (The Mighty Mofos) 2:20
Never Talking To You Again (Prest Asbestus) 3:06
Chartered Trips (Muskellunge) 2:48
Dreams Recurring (Lies Incorporated/TVBC) 1:45
Indecision Time (Superball '63) 2:07
Hare Krsna (Dogfight) 3:29
Beyond The Threshold (God's Favorite Band) 2:03
Pride (Pseudonymphs) 1:40
I'll Never Forget You (Salbando) 2:50
The Biggest Lie (Dylan Hicks & 3 Pesos) 3:02
What's Going On? (Janitor Joe) 4:54
Masochism World (Vertigo) 2:46
Standing By The Sea (ZuZu's Petals) 3:53
Somewhere (Walt Mink) 2:15
One Step At A Time (Flour) 1:53
Pink Turns To Blue (The Blue Up?) 1:56
Newest Industry (Balloon Guy) 4:29
Monday Will Never Be The Same (Willie Wisely Trio)
1:09
Whatever (Arcwelder) 3:22
The Tooth Fairy And The Princess (Teenage Larvae)
3:59
Turn On The News (Big Trouble House) 4:59
Recurring Dreams (TVBC) 9:13
Eight Miles High (The Hang-Ups) 4:07
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Artist: The Hang Ups/Vertigo
Title: Eight Miles High
Format: 7"
Label: Synapse
Catalog Number: SYN 001
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Jul 1993
Time:
Notes: Sleeve art spoofs original. "Masochism World"
is live version. Tracks are the same as those
on the Dü Hüskers CD above.
Contents:
Eight Miles High
Masochism World
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Artist: The Hang Ups
Title: Comin' Through
Format: CD EP
Label: Twin/Tone
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Unknown
Time:
Notes: Same version of "Eight Miles High" as on
Dü Hüskers CD and Hang Ups 7" above.
Contents:
Eight Miles High
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Artist: ZuZu's Petals
Title: Cinderella's Daydream
Format: 12" EP (45rpm)/CD EP
Label: Twin/Tone Records/Roadrunner Productions BV
Catalog Number: RR 2384 3 [CD]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Jul 1993
Time: 13:40
Notes: Hüsker cover written by Grant, but miscredited to
Bob. Other songs besides title track are "God
Cries" and "Human Being."
Contents:
Standing By The Sea 3:52
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Artist: Richies
Title: Don't Wanna Know If You Are Lonely
Format: CD EP
Label: We Bite
Catalog Number: 1-097-2 (France release)
Date Recorded: Dec 1992
Release Date: 1993
Time: 16:25
Notes: Studio cover. Same version appears on Case Closed
compilation (see below).
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely 3:10
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Artist: Pray TV
Title: Aftermath
Format: CD EP
Label: Wasteland
Catalog Number: WSLD 9203
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1993
Time: 22:05
Notes: Australian band. Grant not credited.
Contents:
Sorry Somehow 3:56
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Artist: In June
Title: UNGAWA beepbeep
Format: Album
Label: In June
Catalog Number: IJR 004
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1993
Time: 46:11
Notes: Mellowed-out rendition with female lead vox (Kirsten
Rian, who sings a little like Chrissie Hynde).
The band appears to be from the Pacific Northwest,
most likely Oregon. There is little information in
the liner notes and little energy in the songs.
Contents:
I Apologize 4:31
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Artist: Dandruff!!
Title: Four Fifteen E
Format: Album
Label: Top Hole Records
Catalog Number: Top Hole 994 0182
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1993
Time:
Notes: Song contains the line "I want Bob Mould in my
coffee."
Contents:
John Drinks Decaf
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Artist: Apple-O
Title: Search For Terrestrial Intelligence
Format: Album (cassette only)
Label: Search For Terrestrial Intelligence
Catalog Number: STI 004
Date Recorded: 1992, 1993
Release Date: 1993?
Time: 40:19
Notes: "Apple-O" is Apollo DeLucia, who did everything
on this self-produced cassette album and threw in
as bonus tracks all of Land Speed Record on side 2
(where he calls himself Äpple-Ö). The songs are
all slowed down and mellowed out, so that this
lasts twice as long as the Hüsker original. High
points include the reggae "I'm Not Interested," a
warped and dissonant "Don't Have A Life," and a
"Tired Of Doing Things" set to the lurching tempo
of a drunken marching band.
Contents:
All Tensed Up
Don't Try To Call
I'm Not Interested
Guns At My School
Push The Button
Gilligan's Island
MTC
Don't Have A Life
Bricklayer
Tired Of Doing Things
You're Naive
Strange Week
Do The Bee
Big Sky
Ultracore
Let's Go Die
Data Control
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Artist: Braille Closet
Title: Say Something
Format: 7" single
Label: Figurehead Records
Catalog Number: fig015
Date Recorded: 18 Aug 1993
Release Date: 1993
Time:
Notes: Studio cover, slightly speeded up, but otherwise
unremarkable. A-side is mid-tempo indie rock, also
not particularly noteworthy. Band was a four-piece
from Orlando FL.
Contents:
Hardly Getting Over It
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Artist: Pansy Division
Title: The Nine Inch Males
Format: 7" EP
Label: Lookout
Catalog Number: 85
Date Recorded: Sep 1993
Release Date: Feb 1994
Time:
Notes: Studio cover.
Contents:
The Biggest Lie
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Artist: Various
Title: Case Closed
Format: Album
Label: Snoop Records
Catalog Number: SR #C19 [Germany release]
Date Recorded: Late 1993-Jan 1994
Dec 1992*
Release Date: Apr 1994
Time: 72:10
Notes: Distributed in the US by Rotz Records. US price
is about $18 (actually a bit cheaper than in
Germany). Released on red vinyl as well as CD
Contents:
In A Free Land (NRA) 3:02
Dead Set On Destruction (Terry Hoax) 2:52
Target (Sick Of It All) 1:45
Out On A Limb (Alloy) 3:54
Tell You Why Tomorrow (Mink Stole) 3:22
I Apologize (Rubbermaids) 3:35
Something I Learned Today (Jonas Jinx) 1:32
Too Far Down (Only Living Witness) 3:38
New Day Rising (Motorpsycho) 2:22
The Biggest Lie (DI) 2:26
It's Not Funny Any More (Upset Noise) 2:04
Turn On The News (Brzeszinski) 4:25
What's Going On? (2Bad) 4:01
*Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely (Richies) 3:07
Hardly Getting Over It (Baysix) 2:53
Celebrated Summer (Big Drill Car) 3:17
Makes No Sense At All (Balance) 2:23
Green Eyes (Gigantor) 2:43
Diane (The Strangemen) 5:00
Never Talking To You Again (Alison Ate) 2:14
Ice Cold Ice (Vanilla Chainsaws) 5:20
I'll Never Forget You (Engrained) 2:15
No Reservations (Medfield M.A.) 3:50
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Artist: Only Living Witness
Title: Prone Mortal Form
Format: CD
Label: Century Media
Catalog Number: 77073-2
Date Recorded: Dec 1993
Release Date: 1994
Time: 50:52
Notes: Recycled track from Case Closed tribute album.
An odd note among mostly metalloid offerings.
Contents:
Too Far Down 3:48
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Artist: Boxhamsters
Title: Weilo Goes To Geldverdienen
Format: 7"
Label: Bad Moon Records
Catalog Number: BAD 021 [FRG release]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1994
Time:
Notes: Bonus 7" with vinyl Prinz Albert LP (BAD 020)
Contents:
Pink Turns To Blue
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Artist: Mold
Title: Sonic Youth At Disney World
Format: CD EP
Label: Funky Mushroom
Catalog Number: FM-038
Date Recorded: 1993
Release Date: Aug 1994
Time: 14:36
Notes: Sarcastic Mould "tribute" story/song on this EP.
Contents:
Bob Mould Hates Me 4:20
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Artist: Benalto
Title: I'm A Little Teapot **out of print**
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Hotel Benalto
Catalog Number: 5
Date Recorded: Jun 1994
Release Date: Aug 1994
Time:
Notes: Different "Grant Hart" from the Posies version. You
can view the lyrics here (you'll need to scroll down
a bit once you get there). One-shot release of
500 vinyl, 200 cassette copies.
Contents:
Grant Hart 3:33
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Artist: "Dü Hüskers"
Title: [None]
Format: Cassette [unreleased]
Label: [None]
Catalog Number: [None]
Date: 17 Sep 1994
Notes: Live performance (CBGB, New York NY) by tribute band
consisting of Zack Throne on vocals/guitar, Jimmy
Ilario on bass, and Charlie Benante (Anthrax drummer)
on drums. Guest vocal by Scott Ian of Anthrax on
"Punch Drunk." Guitar work is amazingly accurate.
Contents:
New Day Rising
I Apologize
Standing In The Rain
Erase Today
Everything Falls Apart
If I Told You
Folklore
Punch Drunk
Eiffel Tower High
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
Makes No Sense At All
Could You Be The One?
Chartered Trips
Friend, You've Got To Fall
Something I Learned Today
No Reservations
In A Free Land
Celebrated Summer
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Artist: Various
Title: There's A Boy Who Lives On Heaven Hill
Format: CD EP
Label: Burning Heart
Catalog Number: BHR 009 [Sweden release]
Release Date: Oct 1994
Time: 15:16
Notes:
Contents:
Pink Turns To Blue (Sator) 2:56
Back From Somewhere (Merryland) 2:28
Visionary (Popsicle) 3:04
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely (Fireside) 3:37
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (Ledfoot) 3:11
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Artist: Killbilly
Title: Foggy Mountain Anarchy
Format: Album
Label: Crystal Clear Sound
Catalog Number: CCR 9451-2
Date Recorded: 1993
Release Date: 1994
Time: 47:39
Notes: Banjo on "Hare Krsna?"
Contents:
Hare Krsna 3:12
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Artist: Treadmill Trackstar
Title: Excessive Use Of The Passive Voice
Format: Album
Label: Raging Rose
Catalog Number: RRR10001
Date Recorded: 02 Apr 1994
Release Date: 1994
Time: 65:31
Notes: The cover of "Too Far Down" starts out as a grunt-
for-grunt emulation of Bob's rendition by principal
Trackstar Angelo Gianni, then goes rockout. Overall
this acoustically-dominated album is pleasant enough,
with a retro feel to the louder tracks. A couple of
songs feature only acoustic guitar and cello as backing
instruments, and on these the band sounds uncannily
like (Mould-influenced) Jason & Alison. The 30-minute
final track consists of a three-minute song, followed
by a few minutes of silence, followed by Gianni doing
readings of his stories and, I guess, poetry.
Contents:
Too Far Down 3:51
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Artist: Kerbdog
Title: Kerbdog (Dry Riser)
Format: CD single
Label: Vertigo
Catalog Number: VERCX 83
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1994
Time: 8:42
Notes: There are four versions of Dry Riser. This
is the only one with "New Day Rising" on it. The
others (a limited edition CD and two 7" singles)
have different B-sides. Nice, faithful rendition.
This EP also includes, in addition to the title
track, a full-speed-ahead cover of "Suspect Device."
Contents:
New Day Rising 2:29
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Artist: Peyton Place
Title: Peyton Place
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Columbia
Catalog Number: 476 974 2 [Norway release]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1994
Time: 42:39
Notes: Countryish stuff sung in perfect, southern-accented
English by this Oslo band. Kristin Solli, singing
lead on "She Floated Away," sounds like an honorary
member of the Carter Family...or at least the
Walkabouts.
Contents:
She Floated Away 3:33
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Artist: Lotion
Title: Lotion
Format: CD EP
Label: Big Cat Records
Catalog Number: ABB66SCD [UK release]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1994
Time: 20:00
Notes: Very interesting and oddly engaging rendition of
REM's "Gardening At Night" and Hüsker Dü's "Flip
Your Wig" sung together at counterpoint.
Contents:
Gardening Your Wig 4:32
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Artist: Lotion
Title: Universal Buzz Radio
Format: Syndicated Radio Program (CD)
Label:
Catalog Number:
Date Recorded: 1994
Release Date: 1994
Time:
Notes: Live Lotion concert from Rochester NY syndicated for
college radio broadcast. Features live version of
"Gardening Your Wig" (see above).
Contents:
Gardening Your Wig
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Artist: Pansy Division
Title: Pile Up
Format: Album (CD5/cassette)
Label: Lookout
Catalog Number: 110CD
Date Recorded: Sep 1993
Release Date: Feb 1995
Time: 49:04
Notes: Compilation of singles, b-sides, etc. Mould cover
originally released on The Nine Inch Males 7".
Contents:
The Biggest Lie 1:45
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Artist: Starbilly
Title: Master Vibrator
Format: Album
Label: Buzz
Catalog Number: 008
Date Recorded: Fall 1994
Release Date: 1995
Time: 38:50
Notes: Studio cover. Also released on Unmistakable Tick
7" (see below).
Contents:
Diane 7:47
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Artist: Starbilly
Title: Unmistakable Tick
Format: 7" single
Label: Buzz
Catalog Number: 001
Date Recorded: Fall 1994
Release Date: 1995
Time:
Notes: Studio cover on B-side
Contents:
Diane
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Artist: Robert Forster
Title: I Had A New York Girlfriend
Format: Album
Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog Number: 92482-2
Date Recorded: 1994
Release Date: 1995
Time: 39:03
Notes: Album of cover songs evocative of the "Golden
Throats" series. See also 2541 CD EP below.
Contents:
2541 3:47
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Artist: Robert Forster
Title: 2541
Format: CD EP
Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog Number: Unknown [UK release]
Date Recorded: 1994
Release Date: 1995?
Time: Unknown
Notes: Four-song EP.
Contents:
2541 3:47
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Artist: Superdrag
Title: N.A. Kicker
Format: 7"
Label: Arena Rock
Catalog Number: 001
Date Recorded: 1994?
Release Date: 1995
Time:
Notes: Song was released on CD as a track on the singles
compilation Stereo 360 Sound in 1998 (see below).
Contents:
Diane
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Artist: Sebadoh
Title: ...In Tokyo
Format: Album
Label: Bolide Records
Catalog Number: P300505-3 [holographic number on CD]
Date Recorded: 06 Jul 1994
Release Date: Feb 1995
Time: 73:10
Notes: Live cover. CD is a bootleg of sorts, but was
released with permission from the band.
Contents:
What's Going On? 2:29
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Artist: Beat Godivas
Title: Jerkwater Towns
Format: CD5
Label: Strange Ways Records/Indigo
Catalog Number: Indigo 1186-2
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1995
Time: 50:07
Notes: Guitar-driven midtempo indie rock from a now
presumed defunct Berlin band. Country-rock
influences on a few tracks. Vocals are a bit
strained at times. Nice keyboards on the Grant
Hart cover.
Contents:
2541 4:31
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Artist: Therapy?
Title: Diane
Format: CD EP
Label: A&M
Catalog Number: 581 293-2
Date Recorded: 1995?
Release Date: Late 1995
Time: 13:19
Notes: Slow, drony version.
Contents:
Diane 4:03
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Artist: 22 Brides
Title: Heartbreak A Stranger
Format: CD single
Label: Zero Hour
Catalog Number: ZH2011-2
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Dec? 1995
Time: 7:12
Notes: Lively, very pretty version.
Contents:
Heartbreak A Stranger 4:17
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Artist: Lifetime
Title: Hello Bastards
Format: Album (CD/LP)
Label: Jade Tree Records
Catalog Number: JT1021
Date Recorded: May-Jun 1995
Release Date: Late? 1995
Time: 22:57
Notes: Straight cover. Punk rock lives.
Contents:
It's Not Funny Any More 2:03
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Artist: Farside
Title: Farside
Format: EP (CD/cassette)
Label: Revelation
Catalog Number: Rev:45
Date Recorded: Nov 1994
Release Date: Late 1995
Time: 24:48
Notes: Hüsker cover is first of two hidden tracks, a
pretty, acoustic version.
Contents:
Hardly Getting Over It 4:57
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Artist: Catherine Wheel
Title: Waydown
Format: CD EP
Label: Fontana/Mercury
Catalog Number: 422 856 805-2 [Canada]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1995
Time: 19:44
Notes: Studio cover. Same version as appears on 30th
Century Man above. Also includes the cover of
"That's When I Reach For My Revolver." Content may
be the same as the Balloon CD EP above.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely 3:30
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Artist: Saturnine
Title: Summer Was A Waste
Format: 7" single
Label: Dirt Records
Catalog Number: DRT 22
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Feb 1996
Time:
Notes: Hüsker cover on B-side.
Contents:
Pink Turns To Blue 2:22
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Artist: Posies
Title: Amazing Disgrace
Format: Album
Label: Geffen Records
Catalog Number: DGCD-24829
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Aug? 1996
Time: 2:24/49:16
Notes: Serious tribute to Grant. Also available on: the
promo sampler titled Randy Leasure's Posies CD
Sampler, released on Geffen in 1996; a live Posies
album (CD, LP) titled Alive Before The Iceberg;
and a Swedish singles/B-sides compilation CD titled
Passing The Posies.
Contents:
Grant Hart 2:24
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Artist: Marshall Crenshaw
Title: Miracle Of Science
Format: Album (CD/cassette)
Label: Razor & Tie
Catalog Number: RT 2823-2
Date Recorded: 1996
Release Date: Oct 1996
Time: 48:13
Notes: Studio cover.
Contents:
2541 3:22
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Artist: Jolt
Title: Emily/Eiffel Tower High
Format: 7" single
Label: Rhetoric Records
Catalog Number: 015
Date Recorded: 10 Feb 1995
Release Date: 1996
Time:
Notes: Studio cover. Pink vinyl.
Contents:
Eiffel Tower High
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Artist: Anthrax
Title: Fueled
Format: CD EP
Label: Elektra
Catalog Number: 7559-66072-2 [Germany]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1996
Time: 12:03
Notes: Three-song CD EP. Less rare (and consequently
cheaper) than the Japan version (see below).
Remarkably faithful cover of the NDR version.
Contents:
Celebrated Summer 4:24
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Artist: Anthrax
Title: Fueled
Format: CD EP
Label: Elektra
Catalog Number: Unknown [Japan]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Mar? 1996
Time:
Notes: Seven-song CD EP, Japan-only release. Expensive.
Contents:
Celebrated Summer
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Artist: Furnaceface
Title: unsafe@anyspeed
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Cargo Records
Catalog Number: card1029 [Canada release]
Date Recorded: 1996?
Release Date: Fall 1996
Time: 39:55
Notes: Out of print? The song in question is apparently
only an indirect tribute to Grant. Kieran Grant
wrote in a 31 Oct 1996 Toronto Sun article:
A political song on unsafe@anyspeed about the
not-so-blissful domestic affair between Ontario
and Quebec became Ode To Grant Hart, named for
the Minneapolitan Husker Du drummer.
"It sounded like something Grant Hart would've
written," says Mr. Poopyhead. "And the chorus,
`I don't know what she's crying for,' made a
lousy title.
"We always have these rough songs with working
titles, and every record has at least one Husker
Du Song."
Mr. Poopyhead is thrilled to hear that the song
resembles a Huskers tune enough to actually
warrant the title. Which is not a common thing
amongst musicians who usually hate any
comparisons to their work, let alone make their
own comparisons.
Oddly enough, it could be argued the song itself
owes more to Mould than Hart: the main verse riff
has been appropriated from "Flip Your Wig" and the
chorus line quoted in the article above is more
than a little reminiscent (melodically as well as
lyrically) of "I don't even know what I'm crying
for" from the chorus of "Could You Be The One?"
Overall, the album is solid punkpop, sounding a
lot like the Doughboys. Digipak.
Contents:
Ode To Grant Hart 2:55
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Artist: Floating Opera
Title: Everybody's Somebody's Monster
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: -ismist Recordings
Catalog Number: -ism CD 0028
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1996
Time: 37:36
Notes: Lincoln, Nebraska band with 4ADish overtones. Three
different female lead singers (Lori Allison sounds a
lot like Sandy Denny), keyboards, cello, subdued
guitars. Very nice stuff. Heidi Ore sings lead
on the drastically slowed-down Mould cover, backed
by Richard Rebarber's piano and Jon Taylor's guitar
accents.
Contents:
Makes No Sense At All 4:40
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Artist: Various (Big Drill Car)
Title: Keep The Beat
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Hairball 8 Records
Catalog Number: HB8-001
Date Recorded: Early 1994
Release Date: 1996
Time: 64:43
Notes: Same track that was earlier released on Case Closed.
Frank from Big Drill Car discusses the song in the
liner notes: "This one's from a session in early
94. Recorded for a German HUSKER DU comp that we
never got copies of. We're releasing it on this
comp in hopes of getting copies of it. At the time,
BIG DRILL CAR was on hiatus. Keith our drummer was
in Santa Fe and our bassist Darren was in Tahiti.
So Mark and I decided to throw something together
with Josh Freeze since we were all HUSKER DU fans.
Mark already knew the songs begin to finish. I
learned the bass parts and booked recording time at
Chris's Control World in Costa Mesa. A few short
takes later and you end up with a sonic feast fit
for the most astute HUSKER or BIG DRILL fan."
Contents:
Celebrated Summer 3:16
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Artist: NRA
Title: Access To Surf City Amsterdam Only
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Offtime Records
Catalog Number: OT9110
Date Recorded: Nov 1993
Release Date: 1996
Time: 40:35
Notes: US release of (out of print?) Dutch or German
release. Same track as on Case Closed. Good solid
punkpop album, with obvious Hüsker influences.
Contents:
In A Free Land 3:01
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Artist: The Pride
Title: Lipstick Traces
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Blue Rose Records
Catalog Number: BLU CD 022 [FRG release]
Date Recorded: Dec 1994-Sep 1995
Release Date: 1996
Time: 50:12
Notes: This album of tuneful guitar pop features not just
one but two versions of Grant Hart's "She's A
Woman (And Now He Is A Man)." The first is a
lilting, countryish interpretation; the second a
more rollicking, also countryish interpretation
(both are outstanding).
Contents:
She's A Woman ["Farfisa Version"] 3:38
She's A Woman ["Electric Version"] 3:20
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Artist: Screamfeeder
Title: Gravity
Format: CD EP
Label: Hypnotized
Catalog Number: HIP024
Date Recorded: 1996?
Release Date: Dec 1996
Time: 13:10
Notes: Four-song EP featuring Hüsker and Come covers that
eventually found their way onto the Home Age album.
Contents:
Keep Hanging On 3:04
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Artist: Tres Kids
Title: Tres Kids
Format: 7"
Label: Bear Records
Catalog Number: 4
Date Recorded: 15 Jul 1997
Release Date: 1997
Time:
Notes: Straight hardcore from this Athens GA band, now
apparently defunct. Nine tracks on this 45rpm EP,
a few of which are sound bites from movies, toilet
noises, and the like.
Contents:
Obnoxious :43
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Artist: Screamfeeder
Title: Gravity
Format: 7"
Label:
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1997?
Time:
Notes: Presumed out of print. "Keep Hanging On" reissued
as one of the tracks on the 1999 Home Age album.
The CD EP was apparently released in Dec 1996; this
7" may have been released at that time as well.
Contents:
Keep Hanging On
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Artist: Junkie XL
Title: Saturday Teenage Kick
Format: 7"/CD EP
Label: Roadrunner
Catalog Number: RR 2245-3 (CD)
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1997
Time: 19:22
Notes: Dutch band. Rap-style song contains a sample of the
guitar intro to "Divide And Conquer" (repeated over
and over during the "chorus"). The live version
(on the EP) uses the sample significantly less.
Contents:
Saturday Teenage Kick 3:45
Saturday Teenage Kick (live) 5:51
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Artist: Various
Title: A Good Idea
Format: Album (cassette)
Label: None (fan project)
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: Early 1997
Release Date: May 1997
Time:
Notes: This is a compilation of Bob Mould cover songs
performed by subscribers to the Sugar internet mailing
list, assembled by Mark Bell of Toronto. A limited
number (I think "2" qualifies as "limited") were
pressed to CD.
Contents:
Teresa Lewis describes the tracks as follows:
Come Around (Perihelion): what might have happened
if Bob had been on a mellow rather than manic kick
while recording Beaster. I.e., "I've done
my share of pot...I've done my share of weed..."
Hoover Dam (Jeff Hoppe): a banjo (?) solo from space
and a vocal that for some reason reminds me of Ween
(sorry, Jeff!).
Eiffel Tower High (The Intentions): very close to
CAG version, if a little looser. A fun romp through
one of my personal favorite Hüsker songs.
Ice Cold Ice (Kevin Keller): dense layers of electric
guitars, a drum machine (?) that captures Grant's
outro, and a cool acoustic guitar straight out of
"Classical Gas."
Explode And Make Up (Justin And Robert): what it might
sound like if Bob could hire his alter-ego to do
guitar solos during acoustic gigs.
Afraid Of Being Wrong (Test Pattern): Yes! somebody
had to cover earlier Bob as a reminder of where this
all came from. Loud, tight and very professional.
JC Auto (Mark Bell): Whoa. Samples from the cult
movie "The Wicker Man" are just the beginning. It
sorta grows on you.
Slick (Pierre Parrant): "sensitive" chord changes,
Gregorian chanting and squealing tires recorded not
far from HD's birthplace; it's karma.
Gee Angel (Madison Avenue): I imagine this would've
been the hüsker's approach to this song, had
they had the chance. Revved up, with big shout-along
vocals (always a plus).
Powerline (Neil Tergett): layers and layers of
crackling electricity. Plus you can understand the
words for a change.
After All The Roads Have Led To Nowhere (Vote For
Noah): fast, intimate (can these coexist?). With
a passionate vocal.
Clownmaster (Just Pi): Sugar goes garage--viva los
early sixties.
Dreaming I Am (Starts With S): a totally radical
arrangement, using cello, piano, and mandolin (yes!!)
to turn bob into chamber music, without the potential
boredom factor. Beautiful.
These Important Years (Cynical Spin): if HD had been
on good enough terms to go camping together during
Warehouse and rehearse around the fire, this
would've been it.
Too Far Down (Bartt Richards): pared-down, powerful
guitarwork and a vocal that gets at the heart of the
song without being exploitive. not an easy thing.
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Artist: Farside
Title: Unknown
Format: Unknown
Label: Unknown
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1997?
Time:
Notes: Existence unconfirmed.
Contents:
Too Far Down
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Artist: Splitsville
Title: Ultrasound
Format: Album
Label: Big Deal Records
Catalog Number: 9037-2
Date Recorded: Sep 1996
Release Date: Jun 1997
Time: 31:37
Notes: For some reason, there seems to be consensus that
the song "Hüsker Dü" is about the game, rather than
the band, but the lyrics suggest otherwise; the
following is from the Splitsville website:
HUSKER DU
The summer was not too bad
The winter was not much worse
Remember the times we had
Is there nothin' to make this work ?
Do you remember ?
You said this was just a game
I said you were much to kind
And what is it in a name ?
You said that's not hard to find
Do you remember ?
Sometimes I forget myself
The drummer was not too bad
The singer was not much worse
I'm feeling like I've been had
There is nothing to make this work
Do you remember . . . .
Band evolved from Greenberry Woods. Album also
includes a song called "The Kids Who Kill For Sugar,"
which does not appear to be a reference to the band.
Contents:
Hüsker Dü 1:38
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Artist: KPOP
Title: KPOP
Format: Album
Label: Nub Records
Catalog Number: BGUM 0012
Date Recorded: Aug-Nov 1996
Release Date: 1997
Time: 25:16
Notes: Female-vocal-driven alterna-pop from Norman OK. It
breaks no new ground, but is often catchy. In its
punkier moments the band evokes Sleater-Kinney.
The tribute to Bob is a fairly nice mid-tempo rocker
written by main songwriter Jennifer Abbott, who also
handles the vocals. Here's an attempt to decipher
the lyrics (how many song-title references can you
spot?):
Candied apple in a red hot spotlight
You don't have to tell us what you did last night
By the sea you made your love to me, yeah
With a capital P[?] that rhymes with B
And that stands for... Bobby Mould
Ooh-ooh scudaloo
Your su-sugar cu-ube is
Bah-dobba-doo [?]
Lone actress helpless without lines
What'll I do if I can't change your mind
All I need is a fortune teller
With a capital T that rhymes with B
And that stands for...
[repeat 1st verse/chorus]
Contents:
Bob Mould 2:20
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Artist: Various
Title: Land Speed Sonic
Format: Album
Label: Berserk Records
Catalog Number: BK 001 [Italy release]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1997
Time: 44:31
Notes: An engaging collection of Hüsker covers by an
assortment of Italian bands. Most of the renditions
are pretty faithful to the originals, but there are
a few eyebrow-raisers like Shock Treatment's "Too
Much Spice," for which they apparently decided to
make up their own tune, and Burning Defeat's
acoustic today-was-my-first-guitar-lesson version
of "I Apologize." Some of the musicianship is
indeed crude, and the English is occasionally
endearingly fractured, but the participants'
affection for Hüsker Dü is plain. And how could
anyone not like not like a band (Lomas) whose
members are called Bitto, Bambo, Mucci and Fox?
Contents:
Punch Drunk (Cripple Bastards) :30
First Of The Last Calls (Kina) 3:04
Ice Cold Ice (Lomas) 3:52
Too Much Spice (Shock Treatment) 2:10
I'm Not Interested (Acredine) 1:14
Signals From Above (Sottopressione) 1:43
Find Me (Punch Line) 3:53
Something I Learned Today (Tempo Zero) 2:12
In A Free Land (Kina) 3:06
I Apologize (Burning Defeat) 2:05
All Tensed Up (Acredine) 1:23
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
(Cripple Bastards) 3:11
I'll Never Forget You (Sottopressione) 2:09
Standing By The Sea (Burning Defeat) 3:10
Flip Your Wig (Lomas) 2:16
Celebrated Summer (Punch Line) 3:49
Everything Falls Apart (Tempo Zero) 1:41
New Day Rising (Shock Treatment) 3:03
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Artist: Gutta Percha
Title: 16 Millimeters
Format: CD5
Label: Plasma Records
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Feb? 1998
Time:
Notes: Minneapolis band. CD cover art is playable on a
record turntable and features an extra song, a
rather unusual gimmick.
Contents:
What About Bob Mould?
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Artist: Sidecar
Title: Take A Loss
Format: Album
Label: What Else? Records
Catalog Number: WE#17.0
Date Recorded: Late 1997-early 1998
Release Date: 15 May 1998
Time: 40:28
Notes: Pretty conventional punk rock from this Dayton, Ohio
band. The Hüsker cover, which is the last song
listed, is slightly more punkified than the
original on Warehouse. Designated as an "e.p. and
then some," the CD contains eight more unlisted
bonus tracks, including a Boston cover and a bunch
of live songs.
Contents:
Standing In The Rain 2:25
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Artist: Anthrax
Title: Stomp 442
Format: CD5
Label: Victor
Catalog Number: VICP-60321 [Japan]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Sep 1998
Time:
Notes: Japan-only rerelease of US album, with six bonus
tracks, one of which is the Hüsker cover. CDNOW
lists a different Japanese reissue with only one
(non-Hüsker) bonus track, but identical artwork.
Confusing.
Contents:
Celebrated Summer
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Artist: Various (Blackstar)
Title: X
Format: CD compilation
Label: Peaceville
Catalog Number: CD VILE77
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1998
Time: 56:34
Notes: Digipack 10 year anniversary release with cover
tracks by Peaceville artists. Song later
released as bonus track on Barbed Wire Soul
reissue.
Contents:
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
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Artist: Heavens To Murgatroid
Title: ...and the planets keep spinning
Format: CD
Label: BAM Records
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: 1998?
Release Date: 1998
Time: 40:25
Notes: Portsmouth NH band Heavens To Murgatroid had a
good run in the 90s, disbanding not too long after
this album was released. This "Divide And Conquer"
cover doesn't quite soar like the original, but is
still an enjoyable listen because of the dual
guitars and alternating vocals.
Contents:
Divide And Conquer 3:12
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Artist: The Crowd Scene
Title: [Unknown]
Format: CD
Label: Unknown
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1998
Time:
Notes: Lyrics in German for yuks.
Contents:
Makes No Sense At All
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Artist: Various
Title: Good Idea 1998
Format: CD
Label: None
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: Various times during 1998
Release Date: Oct 1998
Time: 31:16
Notes: Second in a "series" of compilations of songs
performed by subscribers to the Internet Sugar
mailing list. This one was not limited to Hüsker-
related covers, and, in fact, includes only the two
listed below. The seven original numbers, however,
almost all owe something to the Hüsker influence.
Compiled and mastered by Keith Lee at his studio,
The Grotto, St Paul MN.
Contents:
Green Eyes (Steve Shaw & Keith Lee)
Eternally Fried (Eliot)
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Artist: Superdrag
Title: Stereo 360 Sound
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Superdrag Sound Laboratories
Catalog Number: SSL 0001
Date Recorded: 1994?
Release Date: Late 1998
Time:
Notes: Compilation of the band's singles.
Contents:
Diane
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Artist: Everready
Title: Festavus For The Restavus
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Cool Guy Records
Catalog Number: CGR013
Date Recorded: 1998?
Release Date: Late 1998
Time: 37:04
Notes: MRR-style California punk band. Reasonably faithful
cover, but with buzzier guitar.
Contents:
Diane 3:09
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Artist: Bellibone
Title: My Strange Autumn
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Orchid Records
Catalog Number: Unknown [FRG]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 1998
Time:
Notes: Studio cover. Its inclusion on My Strange Autumn
(evidently the only Bellibone release) is not
confirmed, but there is no doubt of its actual
existence: there's an MP3 sample of it here
Contents:
Pink Turns To Blue
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Artist: Face to Face
Title: Standards & Practices
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Vagrant/Lady Luck
Catalog Number: LL05/VR338
Date Recorded: 1998?
Release Date: 1999
Time:
Notes: All cover songs, recorded during Ignorance Is Bliss
sessions. Seems to be a Japan-only release, but was
available by mail order from the Vagrant website
until mid-2000.
Contents:
Helpless 2:54
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Artist: Mother Brothers
Title: Rosa Rugosa
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Corn Boy Records
Catalog Number: CBCD001
Date Recorded: 1999
Release Date: Late 1999
Time: 34:23
Notes: "Wheels" is in fact quite typical of the bass-driven
stuff on this album. Shades of the Minutemen as
well.
Contents:
Wheels 1:51
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Artist: Screamfeeder
Title: Home Age
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Hypnotized/Shock Records
Catalog Number: HIP035 [Australia]
Date Recorded: 1996-1997
Release Date: Late 1999
Time: 33:27
Notes: Dead ringer for the Hüsker version until the vocals
cut in. This is the same version of "Keep Hanging
On" that was initially released as a 7" single
and CD EP in late 1996. Nice cover of Come's "Off
To One Side" on this album too.
Contents:
Keep Hanging On 3:01
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Artist: Semisonic
Title: Closing Time
Format CD single
Label: MCA
Catalog Number: MCSTD 40221/155645-2
Date Recorded: 1997?
Release Date: 1999
Time: 12:36
Notes: Teresa Lewis wrote in Dec 1997: "Semisonic [...]
have a song that's obliquely about Bob on their
next record. (This was confirmed by the immensely
talented guitarist in the band who wrote it.)"
The song in question was eventually released as a
b-side on this CD single (Closing Time). The
guitarist/songwriter in question is Dan Wilson.
Is the song about Bob, obliquely or otherwise?
Here are the lyrics; you be the judge:
Well the one man band is on his way again
After all the leaves have turned
And a long way around it is his only friend
After all his bridges have burned
He says bye, bye, baby bye bye
Now he's going away for good
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Better do like you should
Yeah, you better be good now
There's a lot more sugar and a lot less snow
In the places where he needs to go
There's a long, long list of everywhere but home
And that's exactly where he's dying to roam
He says bye, bye, baby bye bye
Yes he's going away for good
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Better do like you should
Everybody be good now
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Yes he's going away for good
A long way from home [4x]
He says bye, bye, baby bye bye
Yes he's going away for good
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Better do like you should
Yeah you better be good now
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Yes he's going away for good
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Better do like you should
Everybody be good now
Bye, bye, baby bye bye
Yes he's going away for good
A long way from home [4x]
Contents:
Long Way From Home 5:20
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Artist: Sommerset
Title: Sommerset/28 Days
Format: Split CD EP
Label: Kafuey/Trial And Error [NZ/Australia]
Catalog Number: TRIAL 011CD
Date Recorded: 1999
Release Date: 1999
Time: 16:18
Notes: Three songs apiece by Auckland NZ punksters
Sommerset and Melbourne punksters 28 Days. Nice,
energetic "Free Land" cover by Sommerset.
Contents:
In A Free Land 2:54
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Artist: Posies
Title: Alive Before The Iceberg
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Houston Party Records/Badman
Catalog Number: hpr-012 [Spain]/b-32029-99
Date Recorded: 28 Jul 1998
Release Date: 1999?
Time: 47:28
Notes: Live album that looks legitimate enough (slick
packaging and production). Set includes "Grant
Hart" from the Amazing Disgrace album. Badman, out
San Francisco, appears to be the US label.
Contents:
Grant Hart 2:05
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Artist: Blackstar Rising
Title: Barbed Wire Soul
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Metal Blade
Catalog Number: 14236-CD
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 14 Apr 2000 (reissue)
Time: 74:17
Notes: Song appears as bonus track only on this reissue,
not on the 1998 Peaceville original. Note subtle
alteration of band name.
Contents:
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
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Artist: Sövsö
Title: Songs For My Love
Format: CD single
Label: None
Catalog Number: None [Denmark release]
Date Recorded: 03 Feb 2000
Release Date: 2000
Time:
Notes: Sövsö was Kenny Nielsen and Søren Griepentrog. This
2-track CD was professionally recorded at Studio
Bageriet in Denmark and self-released. Only about
100 copies were produced and sold.
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Artist: Charles Bronson
Title: Complete Discocrappy
Format: Album (2xCD)
Label: None
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: Mid 2000
Time: 71:50
13:29
Notes: This is Charles Bronson the punk band, not the actor,
and this double CD is a compilation of everything
they ever recorded. Hüsker cover is track 91 of
disk 1. There are 117 songs in all.
Contents:
Punch Drunk :26
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Artist: Green Day
Title: Warning
Format: Single (CD5)
Label: Reprise
Catalog Number: W548CD1/9362 44958 2 [UK release]
Date Recorded: Jun 2000
Release Date: Dec? 2000
Time: 8:33
Notes: Recorded for the pilot of a projected MTV series
called "Influences," in which Green Day pays tribute
to Hüsker Dü as their primary "influence." Warning:
there are lots of Green Day CDs called Warning, but
the one with the Hüsker song is one of two UK CD
singles bearing that title. The CD of interest is
sometimes called "Warning, Part 1" or "CD 1." The
track listing mistakenly gives the song title as "I
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely." It's a
straightforward cover, but Billie Joe's vocals pale
in comparison to Grant's.
Contents:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely 3:07
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Artist: Various (Pig Meat)
Title: Skifflin' Post Punk From Holland
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Costbar/Autogram Records
Catalog Number: CLCD-6303 [Germany]
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 2000
Time: 73:58
Notes: Compilation album of Dutch postpunk "minimalist"
bands, including Trio Hell, Feetwarmers, Pig Meat,
and Sarah & the Alien. Pig Meat's acoustic
rendition of "She Floated Away" is okay, if a bit
lethargic. Jankobus Seunnenga is erroneously given
writing credit for the song in the liner notes.
Contents:
She Floated Away 2:38
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Artist: Cripple Bastards
Title: Almost Human
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Obscene Productions
Catalog Number: OBP 039
Date Recorded: 1997
Release Date: Feb 2001
Time: 58:45
Notes: These beguiling Italian lads grind out old-school
punk thrash with growly Napalm Death style vocals.
This album collects all of the band's studio output,
plus a live performance from Utrecht
in Feb 2000. The two Hüsker covers are taken from
the Land Speed Sonic tribute. The album cover, in
keeping with the label name, is, uh, not exactly
suitable for children.
Contents:
Punch Drunk :27
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Artist: Jon Auer
Title: 6½
Format: CD EP
Label: Pattern 25 Records
Catalog Number: P2503
Date Recorded: Unknown
Release Date: 19 Jun 2001
Time: 25:20
Notes: All cover tunes (Ween, Madonna) on this solo effort
by the Posies' Jon Auer, but this CD is no joke.
"Tears" (Chameleons) is a standout. Nice rendition
of Grant's song too.
Contents:
Green Eyes 3:15
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Artist: Saturnine
Title: Pleasure Of Ruins
Format: CD
Label: Motorcoat Records/Victoria Land Records
Catalog Number: 7-89397-71862-9
Date Recorded: 2001?
Release Date: Sep 2001
Time: 38:42
Notes: Low-key, occasionally drony, pop album with a few
minor gems. The song listed below namechecks
Hüsker Dü in its second verse:
Whatever happened to a band like Hüsker Dü?
They should have been superstars,
I doubt they made much money
I wonder if my heroes ever make the Hall of Fame?
I heard that one was working
For an advertising agency
(Liner notes refer to the song title as "One Thing
About Cleveland.)
Contents:
The History Of Cleveland 3:32
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Artist: Crummy Stuff
Title: The Way We Listen To..
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Ammonia Records
Catalog Number: SIAE WR1020122 [Italy]
Date Recorded: Jul 2000-Feb 2002
Release Date: May 2002
Time: 33:48
Notes: All covers album by this Italian punk band. Their
straightforward but satisfying rendition of "New Day
Rising" is, interestingly enough, available on
iTunes (but judging from the song samples, the best
track on the album has got to be their punked-up,
charmingly-accented interpretation of "You Shook Me
All Night Long").
Contents:
New Day Rising 2:23
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Artist: Nitrominds
Title: Fire And Gasoline
Format: CD
Label: Deep Six Records
Catalog Number: DS-42
Date Recorded: Mar 2000
Release Date: 25 Jun 2002
Time: 17:24
Notes: Ten hardcore ditties in just over 17 minutes from
Brasilian punksters André, Edu and Lalo makes for
a pretty frenetic (if not quite LSR-ish) pace. Not
bad stuff. The Hüsker cover is faithful to the
original.
Contents:
Something I Learned Today 1:51
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Artist: Infestation Of Ass/He Who Corrupts
Title: Never Corner A Mitchell...
...See How He Reacts
Format: Split 7"
Label: Compulsive Blasphemer Records
Catalog Number: BP-01 [in runout]
Date Recorded: May 2001
Release Date: 01 Jul 2002
Time: 4:32 [Infestation Of Ass side]
6:35 [He Who Corrupts side]
Notes: Speedcore band Infestation Of Ass was apparently
from St Louis. Their cover of "Bricklayer" was the
final track on their side of the split 7" shared
with the more metallish screamers, He Who Corrupts.
Contents:
Bricklayer :36
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Artist: Sciflyer
Title: Melt
Format: CD EP
Label: Sciflyer
Catalog Number: SCI002
Date Recorded: Early 2002?
Release Date: Summer? 2002
Time: 15:38
Notes: Nice stuff (presumably self-released), reminiscent
of a slightly revved-up Lanterna on this 3-song EP.
The Hüsker cover manages eerily to capture the boxy
sound of the NDR mix.
Contents:
Powerline 3:09
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Artist: Anthemic Pop Wonder
Title: Rapid Pop Thrills
Format: CD
Label: Funstuff Music
Catalog Number: [none]
Date Recorded: Aug-Dec 2001
Release Date: Summer 2002
Time: 54:05
Notes: This album of poppy tunes includes a nostalgic
tribute to Hüsker Dü.
Contents:
How Great Was Hüsker Dü! 2:34
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Artist: Wolf Colonel (Jason Anderson)
Title: something/everything!
Format: Album (CD)
Label: K Records
Catalog Number: klp 132
Date Recorded: 2002?
Release Date: 20 Aug 2002
Time: 37:59
Notes: Although it's arguably one of the weaker tracks on
this fine album of quirky indiepop tunes, "Jet Ski
Accidents" features an explicit Hüsker Dü reference:
Tell me at least six things
You may or may not consider personal
I'm not talking jet ski accidents
Rather truly words you thought you'd never say
And don't you think we should kiss
While the Hüsker Dü is playing?
Do you like Grant Hart songs?
Do you like Bob Mould songs? (yup)
And have you ever sung along with New Day Rising?
Babapapa babapapapa... lalala lala
Ah, it's all just indie rock!
I'd love to make reluctant sex (sex, sex)
Even though you claim it's wrong
"It's wrong it's wrong it's wrong it's wrong/
it's wrong it's wrong it's wrong"
You prattle on
But so is speeding
And I watch your speed every day in that truck
I'd love to make you nervous
I'd love to make you insecure
I'd love to make you breakfast the morning after
Babapapa babapapapa babapapapa babapapapa
Contents:
Jet Ski Accidents 1:42
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Artist: Elf Power
Title: Nothing's Going To Happen
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Orange Twin Records
Catalog Number: 011
Date Recorded: 2002
Release Date: 01 Oct 2002
Time: 52:05
Notes: Kind of a weird departure for these Elephant Six
vets -- an album of nothing but covers, mostly punk
and new wave classics ("Pay To Cum," "I Walked With
The Zombie," Kotton Crown"). The sitar break on the
Hüsker tune is a pleasing touch.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 1:51
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Artist: Radon
Title: We Bare All
Format: Album (CD)
Label: No Idea Records
Catalog Number: 068
Date Recorded: Summer 1993
Release Date: 14 Oct 2002
Time: 66:16
Notes: Compilation of old singles, LPs and live stuff
from this veteran Gainesville FL punk outfit.
The Hüsker cover was recorded live at the
Covered Dish in Gainesville.
Contents:
Divide And Conquer 2:13
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Artist: Vitesse
Title: You Win Again, Gravity!
Format: Album (CD)
Label: Hidden Agenda
Catalog Number: AHA!040
Date Recorded:
Release Date: 03 Dec 2002
Time: 51:44
Notes: Celeste Alexander contributes baby-voiced guest
vocals to the synth-y and pleasant "Green Eyes"
cover.
Contents:
Green Eyes 2:13
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Artist: Entombed
Title: Sons Of Satan Praise The Lord
Format: Album (2xCD)
Label: Music For Nations/Threeman Recordings
Catalog Number: CDMFN293
Date Recorded: Nov 1998
Release Date: Late 2002
Time: 44:49/46:15
Notes: This Swedish "heavy" punk band obviously recorded a
lot of cover songs over the years -- enough to fill
two CDs with studio material (the first disk is
titled Sons Of Satan and the second Praise The
Lord). The Hüsker song is slightly mistitled
("Learnt"). Interesting range of bands covered,
including, Dwarves, Bad Brains, MC5, Jerry's Kids,
Black Sabbath, Twisted Sister.
Contents:
Something I Learned Today 2:11
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Artist: The Grannies
Title: Taste The Walker
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Dead Teenager
Catalog Number: DT-004
Date Recorded: 11 Sep 2001*
Release Date: 2002
Time: 39:24
Notes: Metal-psych-punk? More of the tracks will end up on
the iPod than not. The "Never Talking" cover starts
quietly, gets frenetic, and ends with a longish,
backwards-tracking, psychedelic coda. The song
"Race Against Time" sounds like GBH circa 1982 (not
a bad thing at all).
*Yeah, maybe.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 4:09
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Artist: Various (Potato Fritz)
Title: Fidel Bastro ZEHN B
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Fidel Bastro
Catalog Number: FB 26/EFA CD 06261 [Germany]
Date Recorded: 1999
Release Date: 2002
Time: 79:01
Notes: Compilation album celebrating the 10th anniversary
of the Fidel Bastro label. Hüsker cover recorded
live in Hamburg, a decent enough acoustic rendition
with female vocals credited to"Gwendolin" (but a
male voice is also audible). Represented musical
styles range from punk to noise to pop to folk to
avant-skronk -- mostly German bands, but Bastro and
David Grubbs show up.
Explanatory excerpt from the label website:
Fidel Bastro was founded in 1992 with the
intention to release the new CD/LP of the
legendary american Noise-Band Bastro in
Germany. But Bastro broke up and the members
formed a new project called Gastr' del Sol.
So it was their work 'A Serpentine Similar'
which became the first Fidel Bastro-release.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 1:55
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Artist: Foo Fighters
Title: Low
Format: CD single
Label: RCA Records
Catalog Number: 82876-52983-2
Date Recorded: 01 Dec 2002
Release Date: 09 Jun 2003
Time: 9:10
Notes: Hüsker cover recorded live in Hamburg.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 1:54
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Artist: My Own Worst Enemy
Title: No Guarantees
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: ELIS EIL Records
Catalog Number: EE05
Date Recorded: 2003?
Release Date: 23 Sep 2003
Time: 39:29
Notes: Not a bad effort at all by this Boston-area band.
Style generally falls into the post-punk category.
Nice tribute to Mia Zapata is one of several strong
tracks. Lots of fuzzy guitar on "Never Talking,"
and a decent job by lead vocalist Susan Minichiello.
Album recorded by musician/engineer/all around good
guy Pete Weiss.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 2:05
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Artist: Ensign
Title: Love The Music, Hate The Kids
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Blackout Records
Catalog Number: BLK 0065-2
Date Recorded: 2003?
Release Date: 14 Oct 2003
Time: 45:41
Notes: NJ band Ensign belts out a nice selection of punk
rock hits on this all-covers album. Great job on
Dag Nasty's "I've Heard." The project is obviously
a labor of love. Other bands covered include Bad
Brains, Misfits, Sick Of It All, Negative Approach,
Descendents, Discharge.
Contents:
In A Free Land 2:55
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Artist: Anodyne
Title: Salo
Format: CD EP
Label: Init Records
Catalog Number: INIT-15
Date Recorded: 03 Mar 2002
Release Date: 2004
Time: 23:01
Notes: Pretty much pure metal. Vocals sound a lot like
the Napalm Death guy's roar voice (but not the
squeal voice). Hüsker influences are apparent in
the guitar tone and in the less metallish tunes.
Band dissolved in 2005.
Contents:
Beyond The Threshold 1:29
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Artist: Various (Life Indicator)
Title: I Hope The End Is Always The Beginning
Format: Compilation album (CD5)
Label: Snuffy Smile
Catalog Number: smile-040 [Japan]
Date Recorded: 2002?
Release Date: Late 2002
Time: 66:01
Notes: Bunch of Japanese punk bands each doing one original
and one cover song. Life Indicator's interpretation
of "In A Free Land" sticks close to the Hüsker
version; much of its entertainment value derives
from the sincere effort at singing in English. Band
members include Nato (drums & vocals), Shima (guitar
& vocals), and Kubo (bass & vocals). Other artists
cwon the album: Baggage, Bottledirt, Evomom, lots
more. Simply packaged with no jewel case or inlay
cards, just the liner notes booklet and the disc
itself in a clear plastic sleeve.
Contents:
In A Free Land 2:40
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Artist: Poster Children
Title: On The Offensive
Format: CD EP
Label: Hidden Agenda
Catalog Number: AHA!070
Date Recorded: 2004?
Release Date: 21 Sep 2004
Time: 20:05
Notes: We all love the Poster Children, of course. Weren't
they after all one of the first truly net-savvy
(not to mention fan-friendly) bands? Who couldn't
love a band that titles one of their albums RTFM?
Anyhow, this EP finds them doing half a dozen cover
songs all suggestive of a certain dearth of
enthusiasm for military-based problem solving. All
the tracks are solid; the Hüsker cover and its
delicious riff are handled with due reverence.
Contents:
Divide And Conquer 2:55
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Artist: Gravenhurst
Title: Black Holes In The Sand
Format: CD EP
Label: Warp Records
Catalog Number: WAP181CD
Date Recorded: 2004?
Release Date: 02 Nov 2004
Time: 31:40
Notes: Long, acousticky, shoegazery songs. Nick Talbot
actually sings the verse lines of "Diane," rather
than recite them as Grant does in the original.
Contents:
Diane 4:13
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Artist: 20 Minute Loop
Title: yawn + house = explosion
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Fortune Records
Catalog Number: FR-41422
Date Recorded: 21-23 Sep 2003
Release Date: 22 Feb 2005
Time: 44:16
Notes: The album is mostly pop stuff, sometimes Beatlesque,
sometimes breathy-angsty, with occasional forays
into punkier territory. Not bad at all. The Hüsker
cover is delivered with appropriate urgency -- and
its arrangement, interestingly enough, includes a
brass section; even more interestingly, the concept
actually works.
Contents:
I'll Never Forget You 2:25
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Artist: VHS Or Beta
Title: The Melting Moon
Format: 7" single
Label: Virgin Records UK
Catalog Number: ASW 68320 [UK release]
Date Recorded: 2004?
Release Date: 04 Apr 2005
Time: Unknown
Notes: A thump-thump disco version of "New Day Rising" is
the B-side of this clear-vinyl, limited-edition
single.
Contents:
New Day Rising
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Artist: Various
Title: Tolerance. A Tribute To Grant Hart
Format: 7" single
Label: Saved By Radio
Catalog Number: SBR2541
Date Recorded: Jan 2005 (A side)
??? 2005 (B side)
Release Date: Jun? 2005
Time: 7:06
Notes: Split single tribute to Grant Hart. A-side by The
Maykings, B-side by Lorrie Matheson & the Brass
Tacks. The Maykings, from Edmonton, do a pretty
straight cover of "Keep Hanging On," with countryish
inflections. Calgary artist Matheson's cover of
"2541" is a little more off-center, and downright
gorgeous.
Contents:
(A) Keep Hanging On 3:18
(B) 2541 3:48
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Artist: Richmond Fontaine
Title: Obliteration By Time
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: El Cortez Records
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: Jan 2005
Release Date: 16 Aug 2005
Time: 62:34
Notes: Richmond Fontaine isn't a person but an alt-country
band from Portland OR in the Uncle Tupelo tradition
(but with more members and instruments). The Hüsker
cover is pretty straightforward, delivered with
minimal twang. Grant gets songwriting credit. The
packaging consists of a folded paper sleeve inside
a clear plastic envelope.
Contents:
Pink Turns To Blue 2:14
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Artist: Guz
Title: Am Go-Go Snack
Format: Album (LP/CD5)
Label: Ritchie Records
Catalog Number: RitRec 029 [Germany release]
Date Recorded: 1989-1991
Release Date: 1991 (LP)/2005 (CD)
Time: 51:30
Notes: The brainchild of a character named Olifr M. Guz,
who wrote all the songs except the three covers.
The album was remastered and reissued in 2005.
The style is a litte tricky to classify, sort of
minimalist surf-goth-punk with a retro feel. The
funereally-delivered Hüsker song is (deliberately?)
mistitled, and it's not clear (mainly because I
can't quite parse the German liner notes) if it was
included on the original LP release.
Contents:
I'll Never Talking To You Again 1:42
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Artist: Train
Title: For Me, It's You
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Columbia Records
Catalog Number: 82796 94472 2
Date Recorded: Aug-Sep 2005
Release Date: 31 Jan 2006
Time: 48:22
Notes: A placid rendition, set amongst a batch of placid
songs. The vocalist, Pat Monahan, sounds awfully
similar in style to Ryan Adams. The Bob Mould song
appears without accreditation (in fact, there are
no songwriting credits listed at all).
Contents:
If I Can't Change Your Mind 3:07
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Artist: Bugs Multiply
Title: Bugs Multiply
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Coma Gun Music
Catalog Number:
Date Recorded: 2006
Release Date: 14 Mar 2006
Time: 61:44
Notes: The "tribute" song isn't directly about Hüsker Dü
although it includes references to the band and to
"Pink Turns To Blue." Here's an attempt at the
lyrics:
Each room was carpeted pink or blue
Small velvet chairs of pink or blue
Everything backlit by black light
People sitting on the floors in pairs
The soft, fuzzy carpet creeping up their backs
All I could think is Hüsker Dü
Pink turns to blue ooo-oo-oooh
Telling everyone about your scars in you (???)
Telling everyone about your scars
The party was in ____ and it was trashed all over
Something like a tornado scene with alcohol
I think I was sitting in in the garage
There were no walls
Just some stairs going nowhere
Pink turns to blue ooo-oo-oooh
Telling everyone about your scars in you (???)
Telling everyone about your scars
All I could think is Hüsker Dü
Pink turns to blue ooo-oo-oooh
Telling everyone about your scars in you (???)
Telling everyone about your scars in you (???)
Yeah....
Telling everyone about your scars in you (???)
So, this is an indie-rock band from Asheville.
They describe themselves as a cross between Foo
Fighters and Hüsker Dü, but I hear more Minutemen
than Hüsker in their style.
Contents:
Thinking Of Hüsker Dü 4:00
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Artist: Robbie Lee
Title: Sleep, Memory
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: I & Ear Records
Catalog Number: I&E 06
Date Recorded:
Release Date: 21 Mar 2006
Time: 56:22
Notes: This is mostly acoustic stuff, sort of folky and a
little twisted. NY singer-songwriter Robbie Lee's
guitar style is reminiscent of Eugene Chadbourne's,
if Eugene had remembered to take his Ritalin. The
"Chartered Trips" cover also features what sounds
like a saxophone, and a few other instruments.
Contents:
Chartered Trips 3:52
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Artist: The Global Stage Orchestra
Title: Planet Television
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: The Wonderful Music Of
Catalog Number: WMO 90401 [NL]
Date Recorded: 45:34
Release Date: 24 Jul 2006
Time:
Notes: Ridiculously short and stunningly awful rendition
of Bob's theme song for The Daily Show, originally
performed by him, later by They Might Be Giants. CD
also includes themes from House, Lost, 24, Desperate
Housewives, several other shows.
Contents:
Dog On Fire :36
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Artist: Thomas Belhom
Title: No Border
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Ici D'Ailleurs...
Catalog Number: IDA 036 [France]
Date Recorded:
Release Date: 2006
Time: 37:31
Soft rock with acoustic guitar and lots of other
instruments, typically subdued. Occasional hints
of country and Caribbean influences, the latter in
evidence on the "Pink Turns To Blue" cover, which
is delivered in whispery, French-accented vocals
with backing vox by Kim Ohio. (The song is
attributed to "Hüsker Dü" rather than Grant.)
Contents:
Pink Turns To Blue 4:23
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Artist: Mark Davis
Title: Mistakes I Meant To Make
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Saved By Radio
Catalog Number: SBRDAVE2
Date Recorded:
Release Date: Spring 2007
Time: 35:54
Notes: Solo album (one of a pair, released simultaneously)
by Canadian alt-country artist Mark Davis, also a
key figure in the considerably more energetic
Edmonton band Old Reliable. This album is pretty,
uh, laid-back. Davis's style sounds a little like
Alejandro Escovedo and a lot like Sam Beam. The
trombone on "She Floated Away" is an interesting
idea that can't quite lift the song from the
doldrums. Selected tracks from the two solo CDs
are collected on a vinyl LP, Parts I And II, that
also includes the Hüsker cover.
Contents:
She Floated Away 2:27
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Artist: Mark Davis
Title: Parts I And II
Format: Album (12" LP)
Label: Saved By Radio
Catalog Number: Unknown
Date Recorded:
Release Date: Spring 2007
Time:
Notes: Vinyl compilation of tracks from Mistakes I Meant To
Make and its companion CD Don't You Think We Should
Be Closer? Includes the cover of "She Floated Away"
from the former.
Contents:
She Floated Away
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Artist: Various
Title: Life After Sugar: Tribute [aka LAS:T]
Format: Album (enhanced CDR)
Label: None
Catalog Number: None [Russia release]
Date Recorded: 2006-2007
Release Date: Sep 2007
Time: 63:13 (excluding video**, mp3* tracks)
Notes: International Sugar tribute project coordinated by
Muscovite Dmitry Shakhanov. The contributors are
all working musicians, mostly unsigned (Superdrag
frontman John Davis perhaps the most prominent).
Tracks are a mix of home and studio recordings.
Quality is remarkably good and overall the package
is very professional-looking. Limited pressing of
100 copies.
Contents:
Come Around (Pesci Mix) (Lane Coutell) 2:55
Tilted (Four Star Alarm) 3:49
Gift (Atomic Garden) 4:17
Company Book (I Invented You) 3:39
If I Can't Change Your Mind (Paul Carden) 4:17
The Act We Act (G.a.s. Drummers) 3:29
Eine Gute Idee (A Good Idea) (KORK) 3:30
Changes (Murdock) 5:38
Helpless (AKA) 3:17
Gee Angel (Great Dane) 4:02
Your Favorite Thing (Clockwise Stereo) 3:36
Anyone (Dylan Barry) 2:28
Granny Cool (Stewart Pack vs. Shayne Ivy) 3:27
In The Eyes Of My Friends (Janitors of Anarchy) 3:09
What You Want It To Be (John Davis) 4:00
Explode And Make Up (Violet Lyn) 5:12
Lonely Blue Dreams (Lust Penguins) 2:19
*Can't Help You Any More (Dylan Barry) 3:54
*Changes (Dylan Barry) 4:04
*Clownmaster ((Lane Coutell) 2:59
*Explode And Make Up (Lane Coutell) 4:34
**Changes (Murdock) 5:36
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Artist: Four Star Alarm
Title: Tilted/Cities In Dust
Format: 7" single
Label: Underground Communiqué Records
Catalog Number: UCR019
Date Recorded: Oct 2006
Release Date: Sep 2007
Time: 7:12
Notes: Very nice studio cover of "Tilted," the same version
that appears on the LAS:T compilation. "Cities In
Dust," the other tune on the record, is also very
good. Both tracks occupy one side; the other side
is etched. Limited edition of 500.
Contents:
Tilted 3:49
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Artist: Superdrag
Title: 4-Track Rock!!! 1992-1995 + Complete "Bender" Sessions
Format: 2xCD
Label: Superdrag Sound Laboratories
Catalog Number: SSL 0003
Date Recorded: 28 Dec 1994 (Hüsker cover)
Release Date: Late 2007
Time: 70:56/63:27
Notes: Four-track cover released on this 2-CD assortment of
Superdrag miscellany. The song may still be
available for listening at the band's MySpace page.
Contents:
It's Not Funny Any More 2:18
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Artist: Dottie Danger
Title: Уют Руин [Uyut Ruin]
Format: CD EP/Digital download
Label: Karma Mira Records
Catalog Number: km 029
Date Recorded: 2007
Release Date: Apr? 2008
Time: 12:28
Notes: Interesting cover by this hardcore band from St.
Petersburg, Russia. Song may still be available
for download here.
Contents:
Celebrated Summer 3:37
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Artist: Sportclub
Title: Catchy
Format: CD
Label: La Baraonda
Catalog Number: BAR CD 02 [Italy]
Date Recorded: Aug 2005
Release Date: 22 Apr 2008
Time: 35:37
Notes: Mid-tempo rock with hooks and vocal phrasings that
bring to mind REM, modestly embellished with dance
beats and subdued horns. Fairly laid-back cover of
"Never Talking." Five-member band from Ferrara,
Italy. All songs with English lyrics. Enhanced CD
with music video of the band performing the Hüsker
song.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 2:38
Never Talking To You Again [video] 3:02
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Artist: Mark Kozelek
Title: The Finally LP
Format: CD
Label: Caldo Verde
Catalog Number: CV007
Date Recorded: 2003 (Hüsker cover)
Release Date: 09 Dec 2008
Time: 30:30
Notes: Very nice acoustic cover of "Celebrated Summer"
delivered with Kozelek's trademark semiconscious
sweetness. The album is laid back even by his
standards (not that this is detrimental).
Contents:
Celebrated Summer 3:37
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Artist: Sport
Title: Never Talking To You Again
Format: mp3
Label: None
Catalog Number: None
Date Recorded: 2003
Release Date: 05 Feb 2009
Notes: German band's "loud" version of a Hüsker song they
often cover live. Released in mp3 format only and
available for free download here.
Contents:
Never Talking To You Again 1:52
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Artist: Scott Bishop
Title: New Lights
Format: Album (CD5)
Label: Hide Your Candy
Catalog Number: HYC001
Date Recorded: 2004-2005
Release Date: 07 Apr 2009
Time: 35:03
Notes: A longtime admirer of Bob Mould and Hüsker Dü,
Scott works the following reference into the lyrics
of "Kitten's Got Curves," a standout track on his
New Lights album:
...and talk about music from my younger days
Do you think they know who Hüsker Dü was anyways?
They can play some video games at the Zen Arcade.
Contents:
Kitten's Got Curves 4:29
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Artist: Thurneman
Title: TBD
Format: Unknown
Label: Unknown
Catalog Number:
Date Recorded: 2006?
Release Date: 2009?
Time:
Notes: Not yet recorded, let alone released, but this
Swedish hardcore band Has been playing "Signaler
Från Ovan" (Signals From Above") live and expects
to record it soon. In the meantime, there's a
version on their MySpace page available for
listening or downloading. (Jul 2007 update: track
no longer seems to be available.)
Contents:
Signals From Above
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