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I should preface my comment by saying that I started getting into first wave hardcore in 1985--or *right* before the time it basically ended.

With whatever preposition or subordinating conjunction I could choose to introduce this from there, I'd say that in hindsight Hüsker Dü were more important of their time than in retrospect. They do have their greatest hits, no doubt. "Makes No Sense At All" and "Data Control" and "Hare Krsna" and the twin things about Reoccurring and Dreams and "Statues" and TBH I love the Mary Tyler Moore theme. But they were so *overdriven* it sounds out of place now, and you can hear it on New Day Rising most.

The songs that had melody a lot of times were cloying with it, and the fast stuff like on Land Speed Record was oh so obviously missing it. And I have never been so disappointed with a record than I was with Warehouse Songs and Stories. And that it was a double album?

Sometimes it clicked. without question. But not that much?

No disrespect because they were important at the time. Can't deny it. They were featured in Our Band Could Be Your Life for a reason.

But looking back, it's like their early work says 'this band is gonna get great' and their later work kind of says 'they're not what they were, but this band WAS once great." And you know? Maybe they actually never were.

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