Word: husker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...referring to a last-second, game-tying TD catch by Matt Davison against Missouri in '97 that came after a Husker player's foot kept the ball alive. Nebraska won in overtime...
...referred to may have been Meatloaf fans whose votes had the year before propelled an actor and a sycophant into the White House. More likely, however, "some people" was a reference to the punk rock community. Enamored of the mile-a-minute thrash of Jodie Foster's Army and Husker Dus's Land Speed Record, many early '80s punk rockers were hostile to Bad Religion simply because the band dared to cut melodious punk songs. And while the melody lines of early Bad Religion tunes were subsumed in chunky drum work, deliciously mediocre production and sheer velocity, the punk rock...
...band's spiky style. The core members of Nirvana, lead singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Chris Novoselic, teened together in Aberdeen, Wash., and teamed up to form Nirvana in 1987 (drummer David Grohl signed on later). Both were fans of the brooding postpunk musical musings of Husker Du, as well as of the shameless theatricality of Kiss. Nirvana's first album, Bleach, was recorded in three days at a cost of $600 and, when distributed by an enterprising local label called Sub Pop, made the band's members stars on the underground circuit...