Well, I’m about off to go to a concert that I may or may not know enough of the music to really enjoy myself. It will be a great time, assuredly, but I have not been keeping up with Bob Mould as much as I probably should have over the years since his divorce from Hüsker Dü, a band that played a pivotal role in my youth. Hüsker Dü was one of two bands frequently cited by the next generation of “punk” music as having an outsized influence on their sounds. The other frequently-mentioned influencers were the Hüsker’s local “rivals”, The Replacements.
Nirvana, Green Day, and nearly every grunge band from the 90s will mention Hüsker Dü as an influence on why they wrote songs like they did.
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