Husker Du vs the Replacements vs The Minutemen vs The Meat Puppets

DdBob

DdBob

Dogue in teh desert
What a decade for muzak eh?

Rank em by your preference....

for me I love them all and it really depends but tit for tat if I had to choose 1 I think I'd have to go Husker Du, something about their sense of melody and some of their songs. next would probably be the mats because again...melody and song craft. I think both bands were consistent through their career with Du being short lived of course as well as the Minutemen. The mats had some filler and they were longer lived so they had different eras. The Meat Puppets had a few phenominal records and being local AZ boys and a sound like nothing else but plenty of filler and agin two eras of sound. Minutemen were like Jazz musicians playing funk punk and the best pure muscians technically.

it looks like any of the bands woulda been great live.

so I'll go
Husker Du
The Replacements
Meat Puppets
Minutemen






 
I think I'll go with

1.Replacements
2.Husker Du
3.Meat Puppets
4.Minutemen

Actually, I'm not sure. I'm wavering with 1 and 2. Maybe Husker Du is #1?
 
Replacements (the songwriting wins it for me and love Bob Stinson)
Minutemen (so cool, unique for their time)
Husker Du (owned their albums before any others on the list)
Meat Puppets (last because I haven’t listened to them much)
 
Machinegunner said:
Replacements (the songwriting wins it for me and love Bob Stinson)
Minutemen (so cool, unique for their time)
Husker Du (owned their albums before any others on the list)
Meat Puppets (last because I haven’t listened to them much)
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I pictured you as a Meat Puppets guy out of the bu ch as they have a lot of psychedelia to their sound. If I remember right they recorded the whole first album high on lsd. The y of course wrote the song Nirvana made famous but here you can see how their weirdo desert Psychedelic vibe comes through


their first few albums are all classics and then they were hit and miss
The first album was hardcore psyche punk but they covered buffalo springfield and the Grateful Dead (I am a child and franklins tower)., and tumbling tumbleweeds and a couple others

this one’s from the third




Good interview

 
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DdBob said:
I pictured you as a Meat Puppets guy out of the bu ch as they have a lot of psychedelia to their sound. If I remember right they recorded the whole first album high on lsd. The y of course wrote the song Nirvana made famous but here you can see how their weirdo desert Psychedelic vibe comes through


their first few albums are all classics and then they were hit and miss
The first album was hardcore psyche punk but they covered buffalo springfield and the Grateful Dead (I am a child and franklins tower)., and tumbling tumbleweeds and a couple others

this one’s from the third




Good interview

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I know those two songs…I don’t dislike them or anything, but they’ve never really grabbed me in the same way as the Mats or Minutemen. I’ll take a deeper dive because of this thread and then I’ll be more equipped to forge a more informed opinion.
 
DdBob said:
you grew up in Wisconsin in the 80's right? Did you ever get a chance to see the Du or mats live back then ?
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sadly no - I was 15 when the 80s ended, so more of a 90s kid as far as live music goes (I did see the violent femmes once, and killdozer multiple times)
 
I never was cool enough to really get into any of these bands, though I like them everytime they come up in a playlist or college radio or whatever. With that caveat, it seems to me that the Meat Puppets are kind of in a different category from the rest of these groups. They seem more stoney, as opposed to the hard and fast-ness of the other three.
 
yabba said:
(I did see the violent femmes once, and killdozer multiple times)
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:thu:

Does lyric-writing ever get better than this? I think not! :

It was Saturday last week
I was hangin' out at Johnson's Creek
We were partyin' in my van
When we were hassled by the man

Jammin' to Foghat on my 8-track
With a case of malt liquor and a bong in back
From out of nowhere came the man in blue
I thought we were busted, but the pig was cool

The pig was cool
The pig was cool
I knew him from school
The pig was cool

We were at the Journey show
The first three songs, we were hangin' low
Then the band played "Wheel in the Sky"
Me and my bang started getting high

The dude next to me said, "Gimme a hit"
So I passed him a joint I already lit
Well, I saw his badge, I thought, "This is it"
But he just said to me, "Man, this is good shit!"

The pig was cool
The pig was cool
The pig was cool
The pig was cool

:cop::afro::thu:
 
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Motorik said:
:thu:

Does lyric-writing ever get better than this? I think not! :

It was Saturday last week
I was hangin' out at Johnson's Creek
We were partyin' in my van
When we were hassled by the man

Jammin' to Foghat on my 8-track
With a case of malt liquor and a bong in pack
From out of nowhere came the man in blue
I thought we were busted, but the pig was cool

The pig was cool
The pig was cool
I knew him from school
The pig was cool

We were at the Journey show
The first three songs, we were hangin' low
Then the band played "Wheel in the Sky"
Me and my bang started getting high

The dude next to me said, "Gimme a hit"
So I passed him a joint I already lit
Well, I saw his badge, I thought, "This is it"
But he just said to me, "Man, this is good shit!"

The pig was cool
The pig was cool
The pig was cool
The pig was cool

:cop::afro::thu:
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Definitely one of my favs (I have the 45 vinyl single in a box somewhere here). That whole album is pretty lyrically spectacular:

Right downtown next to the Kroger store
Is where my hardware store once stood
They're both gone now
Along with the rest of downtown
All the windows are boarded over with wood

We survived the arrival of the K-mart
And the Pamida that had come before
But not even they had the strength
To withstand the attack of that
Fucking Walmart store

Sam Walton promised prosperity and every-day low prices
When he brought his store to town
He only delivered unemployment
As one by one all the other stores shut down

Soon I was forced to swallow my pride
And take the only job I could score
For 28 hours a week at minimum wage
I'm the greeter out at
The Walmart store

Sam Walton has singlehandedly sounded the deathbell
For small towns across America
I learned my lesson and I'm here to tell you:
You can't trust a man from Arkansas No, you can't trust a man from Arkansas
Don't trust any man from Arkansas!
 
yabba said:
Definitely one of my favs (I have the 45 vinyl single in a box somewhere here). That whole album is pretty lyrically spectacular:

Right downtown next to the Kroger store
Is where my hardware store once stood
They're both gone now
Along with the rest of downtown
All the windows are boarded over with wood

We survived the arrival of the K-mart
And the Pamida that had come before
But not even they had the strength
To withstand the attack of that
Fucking Walmart store

Sam Walton promised prosperity and every-day low prices
When he brought his store to town
He only delivered unemployment
As one by one all the other stores shut down

Soon I was forced to swallow my pride
And take the only job I could score
For 28 hours a week at minimum wage
I'm the greeter out at
The Walmart store

Sam Walton has singlehandedly sounded the deathbell
For small towns across America
I learned my lesson and I'm here to tell you:
You can't trust a man from Arkansas No, you can't trust a man from Arkansas
Don't trust any man from Arkansas!
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man, that last verse. :cool::thu:
 
In '82-'83, I saw Husker Du several times plus Minutemen and Meat Puppets one time each.
Minutemen were okay, but didn't leave much of an impression. Meat Puppets were so high, they could barely put together any song. The drummer threw up twice.
Husker Du at the top, hands down.
 
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Chicken Man said:
I never was cool enough to really get into any of these bands, though I like them everytime they come up in a playlist or college radio or whatever. With that caveat, it seems to me that the Meat Puppets are kind of in a different category from the rest of these groups. They seem more stoney, as opposed to the hard and fast-ness of the other three.
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the Meat Puppets started off as a punk band on SST. They transitioned into a more Stoney rock band. I didnt think it was the same band when their 90s record dropped. Much like the Replacements, their first record is straight up punk, then they slowly went more pop.
 
Chad said:
the Meat Puppets started off as a punk band on SST. They transitioned into a more Stoney rock band. I didnt think it was the same band when their 90s record dropped. Much like the Replacements, their first record is straight up punk, then they slowly went more pop.
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yep the Meat puppets were like two seperate bands. Their first three albums were a mix of hardcore punk and psychedelic with country western overtones.
 
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