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After a student referendum that showed overwhelming support for a Greatful Dead concert, the Undergraduate Council hosts a spring concert by the group Husker Du. The event loses more than $2000. A subsequent investigation reveals no fraud or thefts...
There's a certain amount of dead-end fatalism in Husker Du's songs: "Something I Learned Today" is an anthem to crushed ideals, while "Chartered Trips," the album"s most haunting song, expresses the futility of trying to escape the boredom and problems of everyday life...
...credit, though, Husker Du doesn't seem to give up hope. In "Somewhere," Hart keeps up his "search for truth" even though he only finds lies, and in "The Tooth Fairy and the Princess," he sounds a simple message of don't-give-up-no-matter-what-happens...
...little hokey, no doubt, but then this prodding message seems to have less in common with the nihilism of the punk movement than with the more expansive hippie movement of the sixties. Husker Du's true roots, as this album and their single "Eight Miles High" demonstrate, are set firmly within psychedelia. You can hear it in Mould's leads, which seem to have timewarped in from songs like the Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" or the Byrds' "Eight Miles High." You can hear it in the tinkling harmonies and the choruses of songs like "Pink Turns to Blue...
Unlike Three O'Clock or Echo and the Bunnymen, Husker Du is not just reviving psychedelia: they are revitalizing it, which, if you think about it, is kind of ironic. In the late sixties, much of the psychedelic music of the Byrds, the Beatles and Love were created through intensive and deliberate studio work. Now, 15 years later, Husker Du is bringing back the spirit and sound of psychedelia by keeping as far away from the studio as is humanly possible...