When you hear the phrase Husker Du, what do you think of?

[taterguy]

This:



Or this:

[messiah2012]

1. I don't know, corn?

[jobycom]

2. I usually think it has something to do with Nebraska. I guess I missed whatever part of culture

it actually refers to.

[taterguy]

4. I don't know how to post umlauts

It refers to an old Scandinavian board game or an 80s band from Minneapolis that named themselves after the game.

[jobycom]

5. Now I know, thanks.

:)

[MysticalChicken]

20. Umlauts, and other accented characters

For the umlauted ü: hold ALT and on the numeric keypad on the right side of the keyboard, type 0252.

Other accented characters:

À - ALT 0192
Á - ALT 0193
 - ALT 0194
à - ALT 0195
Ä - ALT 0196
Å - ALT 0197
Æ - ALT 0198
Ç - ALT 0199
È - ALT 0200
É - ALT 0201
Ê - ALT 0202
Ë - ALT 0203
Ì - ALT 0204
Í - ALT 0205
Î - ALT 0206
Ï - ALT 0207
Ð - ALT 0208
Ñ - ALT 0209
Ò - ALT 0210
Ó - ALT 0211
Ô - ALT 0212
Õ - ALT 0213
Ø - ALT 0216
Ù - ALT 0217
Ú - ALT 0218
Û - ALT 0219
Ü - ALT 0220
Ý - ALT 0221
Þ - ALT 0222 (I like this one better than the p for sticking-tongue-out faces: :Þ )
ß - ALT 0223
à - ALT 0224
á - ALT 0225
â - ALT 0226
ã - ALT 0227
ä - ALT 0228
å - ALT 0229
æ - ALT 0230
ç - ALT 0231
è - ALT 0232
é - ALT 0233
ê - ALT 0234
ë - ALT 0235
ì - ALT 0236
í - ALT 0237
î - ALT 0238
ï - ALT 0239
ð - ALT 0240 (I have no idea what that is.)
ñ - ALT 0241
ò - ALT 0242
ó - ALT 0243
ô - ALT 0244
õ - ALT 0245
ö - ALT 0246 (I use this one all the time when I type Lore Sjöberg's name. Google him if you don't know who he is.)
ø - ALT 0248 (Woo hoo! I can type "The Wørd" correctly now!)
ù - ALT 0249
ú - ALT 0250
û - ALT 0251
ü - ALT 0252
ý - ALT 0253
ÿ - ALT 0255

Other ALT codes will give you symbols and things. Experiment around. Make sure your NUM LOCK is on, and all codes start with 0.

[PeaceNikki]

37. Mötley Crüe can be properly depicted as well!

:thumbsup:

[unpossibles]

3. the band

but sometimes fireworks (Joe Dirt)

[KitchenWitch]

6. The band!

[MysticalChicken]

7. Thirded for the band

I like 'em.

[plcdude]

8. Nebraska

democrats.

[bamacrat]

9. I got Husker Du for Christmas when I was a kid.

[taterguy]

12. Must have been a great party

I remember them being really loud

Your parents ROCK

Unless you're talking about the board game and not the band

[DBoon]

54. yeah, and Daft Punk is playing at my house

nt

[TheBaldyMan]

10. definately the experimental band.

[HughBeaumont]

11. The most painfully overlooked band of the last two decades.

And probably one of the most self-implosive.

Wish THEY would have been what Nirvana was. Zen Arcade is the blueprint for nearly every unique thing you hear on college and alterna-radio after it. I still wonder if Spot's "production" made it what it is or made me yearn for someone to kick him out of the studio. I would have loved to hear what a Jack Endino, Steve Albini, Matt Bayles or Butch Vig could have done with this masterpiece.

[HuskerDU]

48. They don't make 'em like the Du anymore.

At least not that I've heard. Has anyone matched that Bob Mould wall of sound guitar work to this day? Damn that shit was THICK!

Ah to be a kid again back in the SST days. I still listen to all those bands religiously.

[redqueen]

13. The band, of course!

:D

[derby378]

14. Both

And yes, I had the original American version of Husker Du, made back in the 70s. Played it a lot, too.

[Breeze54]

15. I never think of it.

But now that you've mentioned it, the game was my only thought. ;)

[no name no slogan]

16. this place

http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. Yes!

Best part is, it look goooooooood.

[malta blue]

17. The band - I was in college in Minnesota

during the 80's. I've never heard of the game.

[NewJeffCT]

18. The band, of course

I have a bunch of their albums - on vinyl.

I knew they were named after the game, but I'd never really seen it before.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. As befits Minnesota, "husker du" is Norwegian for "Do you remember?"

I'm not making this up. And in the original Norwegian, it has NO umlauts. There are no umlauts in Norwegian.

[In_The_Wind]

21. er ... not that

[Left Is Write]

23. Both.

[NC_Nurse]

24. Bob Mould

[idgiehkt]

25. the 2nd one, and why aren't they as big as R.E.M.

that is what I think.

[asthmaticeog]

27. That would be because they broke up.

Given a couple more years time, I think they probably would have handily beaten Dinosaur and Nirvana to the land of no brown M&Ms.

[idgiehkt]

28. yeah but a lot of bands broke up

when I was in high school in the late 80's all you heard was Husker Du, Husker Du. Not R.E.M.

I guess what I was saying is that they are under appreciated for the influence they had. :hi:

[asthmaticeog]

31. You didn't hear REM in high school in the '80s?

Where did you grow up that had this apparent REM blackout?

As for influence, hell yeah, Hüskers way moreso than REM. :thumbsup:

[idgiehkt]

32. that's not what I meant

I meant everyone was way crazier about Husker DU than R.E.M.

[asthmaticeog]

34. Gotcha.

Where I went, Love & Rockets ruled the roost. As a Minutemen fan, I felt alienated even from the freak scene. ;)

[aquaman]

30. Yes the 2nd one....

They should be bigger than REM or Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.......

[idgiehkt]

36. I'll grant you the R.E.M.

I'm not sure about the Funky Bunch. I don't remember Husker Du being all that funky.

:rofl:

[HughBeaumont]

51. Drugs, inner band turmoil and horrible luck.

Their manager killed himself and Mould and Hart couldn't stand being around each other. Norton was the straight pacifier who grew tired of being the in-between to these two hotheads. Even as brilliant as their major label offerings were, their SST stuff, even as non-produced as it is was light years ahead of anything made at the time. Once you make that, you literally kill yourself trying to recapture that magic. The band simply imploded while REM did everything right.

IIRC, Mould and Hart were onstage and sang 2-3 songs for a Karl Mueller (late bassist for Soul Asylum) tribute.

Here's the video that seriously changed my musical life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKeH7JYE48

[taterguy]

52. Husker Du was better as a small band

All us music snobs know that their SST albums were vastly superior to anything they did for Warner Brothers :)

None of their great songs were radio friendly. Of course Smells Like Teen Spirit doesn't sound like a radio friendly song and I honestly don't know why / how it got any airplay.

[Adsos Letter]

26. Think of...?

...I dive under the couch...

:D

[otherlander]

29. I think of husky dogs.

[swag]

33. I think of Wilson Bryan Key and his dubious theories of "Subliminal Seduction"

http://www.helium.com/tm/339154/subliminal-messages-perceptible-subconscious

[Mojambo]

35. A band that I know I should like... but I don't. n/t

[Strawman]

38. My friend's melted tape of Candy Apple Grey

That melted in his cassette deck when his Camaro caught on fire down my block in high school.

[fudge stripe cookays]

55. Aaah!

Forget the car! Save the tape! :D

[mitchum]

39. I don't remember

[RushIsRot]

40. The first thing that pops into MY mind is a chainsaw. I have been

wrong before. Yup. That's Husqvarna. Oh well...

[HuskerDU]

41. Dunno

nt

[Hubert H. Hubert]

42. Don't want to know if yoü are lonely

I woüld KILL to be able to grow a stache like that

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[HuskerDU]

43. Now I remember!

I think of ME!!!:headbang:

[DS1]

44. I have no idea what Husker DU is

is it a boardgame? I really don't know.

[HuskerDU]

45. It's a board game, a band, fireworks and some jackass poster

named for the band!

[DS1]

46. Sounds popular

like someone picking the name THX1138, only far less nerdy

[HuskerDU]

47. I don't speak nerd.

But the DU rocked!

[Wapsie B]

49. Da Band

I've heard of the board game but the first thing that comes to mind with Husker DU is the band.

[2008]

50. I think of "She's A Woman And Now He Is A Man"

as a synaesthesiac, I loved the way they seemed to "layer" the sound and then compress it

[DBoon]

53. Why did they name that kids' game after the band?

You mean there is more than one Husker Du?

[HuskerDU]

56. Hey tater, did my answer in the 'explain your username'

thread trigger this one?

God weren't those early 90s bands like Nirvana just the cutting edge of coolness?! Obviously nobody had worn flannel in RnR since Fogerty and Young until they came along! And sheeesh those 80s had absolutely nothing to offer but hair bands and Boy George!

I remember being lectured by these 90s fanboys about how 'nobody even knew who the Meat Puppets were until Nirvana came along!' Gimme a fing break! Just because YOU only listen to what the suits tell ya to, doesn't mean that the rest of us do!

God I hated the early 90s. Corporate Rock Sucks! And Nirvana emptied the underground when every band playing the club circuit was suddenly on Majors. The reason I was drawn to SST bands in the first place was their defiance of the Majors and 'safe' rock-n-roll. It loses it's appeal the instant it feels manufactured for the masses.

Outsider music was suddenly on the cool kids stereos. Where does an outsider go at that point? I went straight to older punk rock, blues and roots music, early RnR. Shoot anything but what is manufactured for popularity!

[taterguy]

57. It was indirectly triggered by the Explain Your Username thread

I was looking for the pic that explains why I named myself Taterguy and I found the pic of the board game.

[HuskerDU]

58. That's a great pic!

God I miss those days. Did you like the other SST bands of the day too tater? Were you lucky enough to see any of 'em live?

[taterguy]

59. I saw the Meat Puppets in 1985

They were playing at a tiny outdoor bar and constantly threatened by thunderstorms, which was kind of appropriate.

I love the Minutemen but never got to see them. I almost went to see them when they opened up for REM on their last tour but decided that college final exams were more important. Biggest mistake of my life.

BTW, the Husker Du band photo isn't one I took, just one I found with GIS. The board game belongs to my sister whose never heard of the band.

[HuskerDU]

61. I saw a few SST shows, most notably Black Flag at a park

in my hometown just a few weeks before they broke up. Missed the Minutemen and Husker Du though.

Corndogs.org has a ton of full Minutemen shows, some good video too. There is also a link there to a Puppets site with about 15 full Pup shows too. Great Du stuff on Youtube as well. (and of course the new 'We Jam Econo' dvd) Bunch of stuff I never thought I'd get a hold of. Gotta luv that internet!

[ghostsofgiants]

60. Unnecessary umlauts.

Oh, and a pretty kickass band.