Husker Du got the label of "Speed Metal"...a pretty accurate description. On their final three albums ("Flip Your Wig," "Candy Apple Grey," and "Warehouse: Songs & Stories"
they moved progressively into tighter, better written songs with less emphasis on the "speed." Ironically, they gained new fans while their old ones felt betrayed...kind of like Metallica, I guess.
I still think Bob's first two solo albums are great ("Workbook" and "Black Sheets Of Rain" . His most recent, "Silver Age" (2012) is uniformly killer. All told he's had 12 post-Husker Du albums, including 3 with a new band he formed, Sugar...kind of like a power-pop version of Husker Du, for lack of a better description.
Definitely an artist worth checking out, though.
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