Husker Du were actually dynamic everymen from St. Paul, just like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Garrison Keillor and Har Mar Superstar.

Damn! I knew somebody from St. Paul would fuck up my tidy little revisionist history. Still, they're twin cities right?

Correct, St. Paul is the older and some might say less hip of the twins.

I believe that Husker Du formed when Bob, who was attending Macalester College, started buying pot from Grant who was working at a record store on Grande Ave.

That's the word and I guess I knew that. So I'm guilty of historical simplification. It's like the press saying Nirvana was a Seattle band even though they hailed from Aberdeen by way of Olympia.

Husker Du ended up a bit too poppy for my tastes but somewhere between land Speed Record and Candy Apple Gray they hit a nerve. Great fucking band.

HD were preceded to some extent by the Replacements, and were contemporaries of Soul Asylum, who started out much harder and got weaker as they attained major label status.

This was their best song, and they were definitely influential, but the whole town gets credit for the sound I think.

Minneapolis/St. Paul rocks for certain. I did a previous episode on the The Replacements. I've always been way more into the Replacements but both bands are great in their own right.

Bob Mould's solo stuff rocks too.