RE: (TV) #9 in "Best Debuts" list

[Murray Ramone <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

I 100% agree with all of what rex says



I wonder what a properly remastered cd of the sst stuff would sound like if
they could all ever agree to it ? the dodgey mp3s of zen arcade sound much
better to me than the vinyl thats languishing in the corner of the room right
now ever did, and I remember having to take back my first copy of flip your
wig because it was so jumpy - the guy in the record shop advised me to just
swap it for new day rising because he thought it was brilliant too, but I
didnt have much cash and didnt want to take the chance !. Could this really be
24 years ago ?

> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:41:08 -0800
> Subject: Re: (TV) #9 in "Best Debuts" list
> From: rexbroome@gmail.com
> To: tv@obbard.com
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Murray Ramone
<murrayramone@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> >
> > for me I've always thought they peaked at flip your wig - but that was
the
> > first one I heard, not that long before I saw them at potterow but I'm
> > pretty
> > sure that whatever was the first one that I heard (with the probable
> > exception
> > of everything falls apart) would be the 'defining' one for me because
> > they've
> > all got something amazing going on
> >
>
> "Flip" is my favorite, and I'd roughly say that, as with the Replacements,
> the real goldmine is the last two indie records and the major label debut.
> Lots of people argue that "Zen Arcade" is the hands-down winner (it's not)
> and that "Warehouse" is a real letdown (it's not).
>
> I find it absolutely impossible to communicate the awesomeness of the
> Huskers to anyone who wasn't there. That "hard pop indie sound" was made so
> slick and big by yr Foo Fighters and yr Green Day that if that's what
you're
> used to, the production on the Huskers records sounds thin, kind of not
even
> loud. I don't hear it that way-- it's still a blaring wall of awesome to
> me-- but I guess youngsters do. The best I can do is tell them to listen to
> Sugar and pretend Husker Du was produced that way. (Same goes for Mission
> of Burma, really: kids can't hear these records any more. Almost
> literally.)
>
> -Rex
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