Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, while Husker Du might oppose the punk ethos, they use a very similar musical style. With Bob Mould's blazing, distorted guitar, and his hoarse, throaty voice angrily trying to shout its way through the dense wall of sound, this sounds like a souped-up har her hybrid of punk and heavy metal. Thus, just as the punk movement revamped the rock of the 60s and early 70s while taking their inspiration from the spare, fast style form 50s rock'n roll. Husker Du in turn revamp the punk format deriving their inspiration from some of the heavy metal...
...sing any song you want but you're still the same," thus denying the idea that music can or should after people's lives. In fact, this song reveals Husker Du's message and ideals more clearly than any other on the album. Behind the fast, clean guitar line which draws the listener into the album and the waves of distortion built around it, Mould rasps out angry, intelligent lyrics which forcefully attack the violent and destructive rhetoric of punk rockers. With lines like "People don't do things like that in the real world at all," this song ultimately...
...pick up my guitar and play...
Rauch's interpretation succeeds in generalizing Yerma's dilemma into a cross-cultural experience. Rauch tones down the Spanish influences until there are only subtle suggestions of it in the delicate frill of a classical guitar and the fringed shawl that Yerma drapes over her head. And in this he excels; the villagers could belong to any village. Juan's possessive sisters to any brother and Yerma's pain to any women...
...Anna-Letmeinletme out" moves into a late '60s rave up framework. Unfortunately, the music Trio tries to imitate has a much denser guitar sound than Krawinkle is able to provide...