Grant Hart is one of my biggest influences in drumming. His speed, precision, and ability to stutter a beat, invert it, and simultaneously sing on top of it all just blows my mind. The only drummers that I consider to be his peers would be Brendan Canty from Fugazi and George Hurley from The Minutemen. I hope that when he passed away, his soul became pure percussive energy that lives on within the playing of all drummers.
Well put, totally on point! And yeah like Flapjack Texas said, his soul/spirit is living on -- if not within all drummers at least a helluva LOT. Karma is with the Huskers... love is all around us ;}
@@joedoomsdaypio4374 I always wondered about it too... then i saw a video of them playing live where he has Fender amps stacked on top of Marshall -- I went, "aahhhh, that makes so much sense "
just get as much as you can from the music and lyrics don't worry about any thing else just enjoy and if you ever play music do one of their songs help pass the flag
I looked up hardcore punk in the dictionary and there is a picture of Metal Circus. But seriously, this album roars so hard it generates lightning anytime it's played on a turntable.
this may not be the "best" HD album but it'll always be my fave. that SOUND, damn. it's like the Angel Gabriel and Lucifer and why the hell not the 4 Horsemen forming a punk band and burning the studio down on their 1st recording attempt...
@JonJones...I think they broke ground ...and finally content......reality show content...before reality shows exsisted...ie...John Walsh and all the crime shows....real life story telling in a time of empty and bloated AOR lyrics....#WeInventedGrungeAndDidItBetter
Thank you for adding this! They came through Detroit during their Warehouse tour when I was in high school. They did a signing at Sam's Jams, a used-record shop in Ferndale, MI. I brought this along on vinyl for them to sign. I still have it.
As a kid I would play with matches. Usually in the cellar with certain friends around. My parents would find remnants and admonish me, and I probably lied---to no avail... In another cellar far, far away the Huskers were playing with acetylene torches, and lit the way to a better tomorrow... They were really playing with fire. & Very few do.
Been a year since I listen to Dü, don’t know where they were the previous 15 but I’m so happy I found out about them now rather than later!! BEST BAND EVER
I used to love everything after this, but this has really grown on me in the past few months. Such mastery of chords, relevant lyrics. Mould is one of my favorites, along with John Doe, ever.
My fave by far. I love the non-partisan, libertarian pov. That is what makes it stand apart from other, contemporary works which are dated and forced to seem relevant. A timeless piece of perfection from the great masses of Gen X. Our 'Nirvana.' Actual Nirvana? Fellow Düdes in high school whose garage band made it big. WHO'D'VE THUNK, RIGHT??? That's how important this band is to Rock n Roll. Them and Bad Brains.
Their songs just got remade over and over and over... True originators man. I have been listening to these guys through so many other bands for most of my entire life.
Zen arcade lirycs are pure poetry, saved my life when I was a young guy, best hardcore band ever. I saw Mould solo concert in Rome maybe 2007 circa.. Was fantastic.. I miss Grant and his Never talking to you again😢
I was 12 when i got this on tape from a dude at my local half-pipe. 42 years its later still banging, american hardcore is an art form that will survive this dystopian nightmare........
My review on Allmusic written July 16, 2017. 5 Stars Metal Circus is my favorite Husker Du LP, and that is quite a statement given they have several outstanding records in their catalogue. This album offers my favorite Husker Du tune ever, "First Of The Last Calls". This song is a hardcore masterpiece. Other great hardcore songs include the first track "Real World" and the follow-up "Deadly Skies". Husker Du brought a unique melodic-ism to hardcore, especially later in their career. While this started on the great Everything Falls Apart, it was perfected on Metal Circus. Sure, Zen Arcade is regarded as their best album, and it probably is. And New Day Rising is an absolute classic. But Metal Circus is pure hardcore with the Husker Du groove which makes it my favorite. Bob Mould and Grant Hart put in first rate performances but notice Greg Norton's bass playing on this LP. It is special. Essential.
+gringopig Me too! (& you know something? ...The main guitar riff almost sounds like a horn section arrangement for a Sinatra single!) IT. IS. SO. UPBEAT! FUCKING SWINGIN' !!
no one seems to be mentioning “out on a limb” and just how insanely gonzo the guitar kicks in several times. blissfully shredding! not a weak track anywhere, And they could’ve easily made it a full LP With some of the better tracks on “extra Circus” that came out recently, especially the original version of standing by the sea which later came out on zen arcade
I turned on the NEWS and Do I remember i DU REMember one December in the year 2001 I read in a magazine something to be learnt today a call from Nirvana about The "American Second Edition".
@@JohnDoe-le7ml as a 16 year old I can agree that they are relevant now but I don’t know for the 80s since I wasn’t there:0 (but I agree from what I know)
If you value just speed and noise agreed. I think they developed . The final track from the final album (WSAS) is the monumental "you can live at home" which has noise and passion but at heart is melodic . Typical of GH's brilliant song writing and composing
Keith Bate I like the way they developed too and the different song-writing styles of Mould and Hart definitely contributed to a more mature sound in the later albums (although I personally think GH had a bit of a song writing blip on 'Flip your Wig'....not his best offering). Having said that, I think Zen Arcade is their best album. A punk masterpiece.
BOSIE321 Were they really punk Bosie ? have always liked ZA but I prefer the more mature WSS. For me the final couple of mins of the final track "you can live at home" are monumental. Mould and hart shouting at each other as the group imploded for good. Love GH's recent (2013) album in particular "morning star" brilliant
Keith Bate Well this and their first album is what I would class as Hardcore Punk. Zen Arcade had it's fair share of Hardcore tracks too (mostly written by Bob), songs like 'I'll never forget you', 'Pride' 'Broken Home' etc. but I think they carved out a new style with New Day Rising which was their own style.
BOSIE321 The reason I put a ? to the punk comment was I am UK based and in 1977 saw the Sex pistols, White riot tour May 77 (clash/Buzzcocks/slits etc) , penetration, the saints, x ray spex, adverts' and later magazine, the only ones , simple minds, S and the banshees, Ramones etc etc. Husker Du did not sound anything like these bands. There was a metal vibe to the early music which of course was frantic like some of the early punk bands mentioned. Just saying and I did prefer the later H DU to the early stuff. By the way i was never a Punk. more a "biker" and because of this I was already dressing in Straight jeans and wearing a lewis leather motor- bike jacket in 1976. made me look punky in 77 !
I will never forget seeing these boys live in DC. I Think it was the Newton Theatre ?? Maybe Wilson Center ?? Been awhile. Great show, even better stage diving lol
I feel like Real World would really fit with all the recent Black Bloc protest in response to Trump recently. It's just pathetic looting and destruction of private property. Great EP. Way better than Everything Falls Apart and a nice intro for anyone wanting to get into Hüsker Dü
I agree. It's a perfectly relevant song for the people who don't want to be a foolish Trump supporter OR a foolish rioter, but instead in the middle. I say fuck both Liberals and Conservatives. Go your own way.
Greg Norton’s bass is the glue that holds Husker Du songs together
Grant Hart is one of my biggest influences in drumming. His speed, precision, and ability to stutter a beat, invert it, and simultaneously sing on top of it all just blows my mind. The only drummers that I consider to be his peers would be Brendan Canty from Fugazi and George Hurley from The Minutemen. I hope that when he passed away, his soul became pure percussive energy that lives on within the playing of all drummers.
It did
Well put, totally on point! And yeah like Flapjack Texas said, his soul/spirit is living on -- if not within all drummers at least a helluva LOT. Karma is with the Huskers... love is all around us ;}
and hell yeah George Hurley!!!
He died recently
Grant, more than any drummers of thr time, knew how to swing. It created the sound you hear now.
This band means the world to me.
1337owers Ich couldn't agree with you more. Best band of all times.
Since 88, hasnt changed
Same here man.
yup...
One of the greatest releases in hardcore history. Doesn't get any better than this.
that guitar tone, its from another planet, so good
Like rats on guitar strings.
Awesome!
Gold
It took me 20 years to figure out....3 pedals...
Chorus into distortion into chorus...
More treble!! I got a fevah!
@@joedoomsdaypio4374 I always wondered about it too... then i saw a video of them playing live where he has Fender amps stacked on top of Marshall -- I went, "aahhhh, that makes so much sense "
If this isn't a masterpiece I don't know what is.
JOHN VALVEGOD candy apple grey
First of the Last Calls is mind-blowing
the band that cured me from my elitist 60s centered hippiesque blues stance. with metal circus and zen arcade.
greatest guitar tone of all hardcore
RIP Grant.
This and EVERYTHING FALLS APART are my two favorite Husker albums. Short and sweet.
Those are my favorite ones too.
Everything Falls Apart was the first album of theirs that I heard.
God this band was phenomenal, just a total powerhouse of rawness, intelligence and melody.
@@JoeyKincaid-u9m Oh yeah, one of the great power trios.
@@richalderson6069Intense. Beyond Intense. Sheer velocity
It sucks finding a band 30 years after they broke up
Same. I thought they're a 70s rock band
Better to have found this gem, I found them 30 years ago
No pal. It's a Bless...find new music that means somethig it's the meaning of life.
just get as much as you can from the music and lyrics don't worry about any thing else just enjoy and if you ever play music do one of their songs help pass the flag
Saw the Specials on SNL, luckily they had broken up, thus saving me from a life of SKA.
These guys were playing with fire...
I looked up hardcore punk in the dictionary and there is a picture of Metal Circus. But seriously, this album roars so hard it generates lightning anytime it's played on a turntable.
I saw them the week this came out.
I am jealous
Where?
@@grahamyoung3433 The Channel in Boston with the Minutemen.
@@revisionscreenprinti Absolute class :)
@@revisionscreenprinti I'm so jealous! That was long before I was born.
Buying this record back in 85 was a life changing event and the first Du record I ever heard.
Me too! June ‘85!
One of the rawest bands today and forever !
this is their best record imo
this may not be the "best" HD album but it'll always be my fave. that SOUND, damn. it's like the Angel Gabriel and Lucifer and why the hell not the 4 Horsemen forming a punk band and burning the studio down on their 1st recording attempt...
This might be the best UA-cam comment ever.
Brilliant comment. Throw god and jesus in there whipping their dicks out for harambe and you've got the holy trinity.
ITS MY FAVORITE TOO
I was a Teenager when I heard it the first time. The abstract solo in Diane showed me, where to go with my guitar skills.
Wow... feels like returning home. The dysfunction still fits.
really the most powerful album of all time
Dan Airth yes it really is. Many years it still has the powa!
correction ep. but the rest is right.
Except for Diane
that subject matter is powerful enough for you?
@JonJones...I think they broke ground ...and finally content......reality show content...before reality shows exsisted...ie...John Walsh and all the crime shows....real life story telling in a time of empty and bloated AOR lyrics....#WeInventedGrungeAndDidItBetter
One of the best albums ever put together . I love the Huskers!!!
Diane is one of the best songs ever made
Wrong... So. Damn. Wrong........
It is THEE BEST song ever made! 😉
@@FilthTribeFTP Loser
One the greatest EPs of the 80s.
Thank you for adding this! They came through Detroit during their Warehouse tour when I was in high school. They did a signing at Sam's Jams, a used-record shop in Ferndale, MI. I brought this along on vinyl for them to sign. I still have it.
yea I saw them play at traxx in 1985 it was great
Eric Johnson that's a memory
@@oliverhawthorn5252 am go to army
@@oliverhawthorn5252
Un 1985 am go to army regret dont see thé band.rip gh
Love this since i 1st heard it. 54 yr old from PHX AZ
I’ll be 54 in July. Heard this first in ‘85!
@@chrisfrancz hope yer well today, mate.
As a kid I would play with matches. Usually in the cellar with certain friends around. My parents would find remnants and admonish me, and I probably lied---to no avail... In another cellar far, far away the Huskers were playing with acetylene torches, and lit the way to a better tomorrow... They were really playing with fire. & Very few do.
my biggest regrets are never seeing HUSKER DU AND BLACK FLAG AT A PUNK GIG!
I'm fortunate enough, and old enough, to have seen both bands multiple times, and opened for Dü once!
@@andylane3739 what
Been a year since I listen to Dü, don’t know where they were the previous 15 but I’m so happy I found out about them now rather than later!! BEST BAND EVER
I used to love everything after this, but this has really grown on me in the past few months. Such mastery of chords, relevant lyrics. Mould is one of my favorites, along with John Doe, ever.
Got this when it came out. One of my favorites.
The words to the opening track are relevant today.
Especially to all of us posers
My fave by far. I love the non-partisan, libertarian pov. That is what makes it stand apart from other, contemporary works which are dated and forced to seem relevant.
A timeless piece of perfection from the great masses of Gen X. Our 'Nirvana.' Actual Nirvana? Fellow Düdes in high school whose garage band made it big. WHO'D'VE THUNK, RIGHT???
That's how important this band is to Rock n Roll.
Them and Bad Brains.
Bob's just shredding w/that Ibanez Flying V through this whole EP....& then the shimmering overdubs, like 'Diane' and 'Out on a Limb'....F ME!
Drinking beer and playing this over and over and again and again... oh man it's so GREAT and holy sh!t that GUITAR TONE.
Their songs just got remade over and over and over... True originators man. I have been listening to these guys through so many other bands for most of my entire life.
When you can hear the Therapy? Version of Diane in your head while also listening to the original it’s like a symphony...
such an underrated release, easily overlooked since it came right before zen arcade
the most underrated band of the world
yes.
Love the harmonics in 'Its Not Funny Anymore.' Great band!
I felt my rage melt away. I always loved this music
This brings back so many memories.
I remember being so young blasting this and candy apple grey out in the middle of nowhere with my friends
Zen arcade lirycs are pure poetry, saved my life when I was a young guy, best hardcore band ever. I saw Mould solo concert in Rome maybe 2007 circa.. Was fantastic.. I miss Grant and his Never talking to you again😢
Had this on cassette back in the early 80's
Damn i miss meaningful music
Fuck. Real World has the most gnarliest guitar riff I've heard in a long time
+Nick Aguilar
Eddie Van Halen MUST also love this track (because it is one of the best ever~)
+GotLotsaFaith and the thing is that guitar riff is almost 35+ years old.
+John Doe Oh Jeezus fuk, so it is! Aarrrgh!
America's greatest garage band
I was 12 when i got this on tape from a dude at my local half-pipe. 42 years its later still banging, american hardcore is an art form that will survive this dystopian nightmare........
My review on Allmusic written July 16, 2017. 5 Stars
Metal Circus is my favorite Husker Du LP, and that is quite a statement given they have several outstanding records in their catalogue. This album offers my favorite Husker Du tune ever, "First Of The Last Calls". This song is a hardcore masterpiece. Other great hardcore songs include the first track "Real World" and the follow-up "Deadly Skies". Husker Du brought a unique melodic-ism to hardcore, especially later in their career. While this started on the great Everything Falls Apart, it was perfected on Metal Circus. Sure, Zen Arcade is regarded as their best album, and it probably is. And New Day Rising is an absolute classic. But Metal Circus is pure hardcore with the Husker Du groove which makes it my favorite. Bob Mould and Grant Hart put in first rate performances but notice Greg Norton's bass playing on this LP. It is special. Essential.
Real World,Deadly Skies,and Diane are my favorites
My god it’s sof*cking good! Timeless.
A punk (if I have to use that term) masterpiece
One of best EP´s ever. I prefer this over Zen Arcade E-V-E-R-Y D-A-Y.
Coming around to think that this is better than Zen, New or Flip. Kinda perfect.
Great Record!!! One of The Best in Punk Rock/Hardcore...
Possibly my favourite record of theirs.
Lifeline. My favorite.
+gringopig
Me too! (& you know something? ...The main guitar riff almost sounds like a horn section arrangement for a Sinatra single!) IT. IS. SO. UPBEAT!
FUCKING SWINGIN' !!
+GotLotsaFaith going to listen again with this in mind
Same. Hardest core ever
no one seems to be mentioning “out on a limb” and just how insanely gonzo the guitar kicks in several times. blissfully shredding! not a weak track anywhere, And they could’ve easily made it a full LP With some of the better tracks on “extra Circus” that came out recently, especially the original version of standing by the sea which later came out on zen arcade
long live HÜSKER DÜ. Germany greetings.
Zen Arcade, Metal Circus, Everytings falls apart.....best band ever, imho 👍
IMHO This & Everything Falls Apart are their best.
ehrlich gesagt. ich höre auch wieder die einstützenden neubauten, wobei göhte-index läuft mir am hintern vorbei. brett-hart, finde ich gut.
So great album, so alive, so true etc and its really helps ... Not sounds similar but its kinda garage days re-revisited ...
No words just LOVE 😍😍😍😍😍😍
i dont know why i like this album so much
I turned on the NEWS and Do I remember i DU REMember one December in the year 2001 I read in a magazine something to be learnt today a call from Nirvana about The "American Second Edition".
simply AWESOME.
A pity Diane wasn't released as a single at the time. It has so much hit potential, could have been massive in the independent Charts then.
R.I.P. GRANT!!!!!!!!!!!THANX !!
No wonder where AVAIL took their influences
I have always considered this their transitional album.
the words still value!
+Jesper edberg nielsen the lyrics to "Real World" are even more relevant today than they were in the 80s
@@JohnDoe-le7ml as a 16 year old I can agree that they are relevant now but I don’t know for the 80s since I wasn’t there:0 (but I agree from what I know)
Brilliant band, I miss those days.
Real world gives me chills everytime
Love Husker Du, interviewed 2/3rds of the band, was meant to see Grant play this August but the tour fell through.
I still have the vision of mind when this album came out...
RIP Grant Hart
beautiful
Husker Du's best
If you value just speed and noise agreed. I think they developed . The final track from the final album (WSAS) is the monumental "you can live at home" which has noise and passion but at heart is melodic . Typical of GH's brilliant song writing and composing
Keith Bate I like the way they developed too and the different song-writing styles of Mould and Hart definitely contributed to a more mature sound in the later albums (although I personally think GH had a bit of a song writing blip on 'Flip your Wig'....not his best offering). Having said that, I think Zen Arcade is their best album. A punk masterpiece.
BOSIE321 Were they really punk Bosie ? have always liked ZA but I prefer the more mature WSS. For me the final couple of mins of the final track "you can live at home" are monumental. Mould and hart shouting at each other as the group imploded for good. Love GH's recent (2013) album in particular "morning star" brilliant
Keith Bate Well this and their first album is what I would class as Hardcore Punk. Zen Arcade had it's fair share of Hardcore tracks too (mostly written by Bob), songs like 'I'll never forget you', 'Pride' 'Broken Home' etc. but I think they carved out a new style with New Day Rising which was their own style.
BOSIE321 The reason I put a ? to the punk comment was I am UK based and in 1977 saw the Sex pistols, White riot tour May 77 (clash/Buzzcocks/slits etc) , penetration, the saints, x ray spex, adverts' and later magazine, the only ones , simple minds, S and the banshees, Ramones etc etc. Husker Du did not sound anything like these bands. There was a metal vibe to the early music which of course was frantic like some of the early punk bands mentioned. Just saying and I did prefer the later H DU to the early stuff. By the way i was never a Punk. more a "biker" and because of this I was already dressing in Straight jeans and wearing a lewis leather motor- bike jacket in 1976. made me look punky in 77 !
This Is So Good!
I will never forget seeing these boys live in DC. I Think it was the Newton Theatre ?? Maybe Wilson Center ?? Been awhile. Great show, even better stage diving lol
I feel like Real World would really fit with all the recent Black Bloc protest in response to Trump recently. It's just pathetic looting and destruction of private property. Great EP. Way better than Everything Falls Apart and a nice intro for anyone wanting to get into Hüsker Dü
I agree. It's a perfectly relevant song for the people who don't want to be a foolish Trump supporter OR a foolish rioter, but instead in the middle. I say fuck both Liberals and Conservatives. Go your own way.
The best
love all 18:53 minutes
I wish I were 18 again listening to this for the first time... it's not funny anymore...
am sorry for u. am 43 and it s always amazing and tons of other punk hard core indipendent rock bands
lifeline. so pure.
this is brutal punk-rock
21 peeps mistook the thumbs down for the repeat button. Ha...
Great EP, Husker-Du rules:).
Diane
The Best Ever!
I'm a bad nerd, so Track 4 sounds like "... drink, drink in the bad lands, liquid bread for the poor..."
Thank you!
masterpiece
you're welcome!
Power!!!!!!
Cool EP, Husker Du Rules:).
Rama: Thank you for the upload!!
Thanks.