![]() They started as punk-rock bands, blasting power chords and playing at such fast tempos that Husker Du's first EP, ''Land Speed Record,'' crammed 17 songs into 26 minutes the Replacements' 1981 ''Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash'' had 18 songs in 36 minutes. Over the years the musicians have, as it were, mellowed. 55405 only 1984's ''Let It Be'' is available as a cassette), while the new one, ''Tim,'' is on a major label, the Sire subsidiary of Warner Bros. ![]() The Replacements have made an album a year since 1981 the first four were for Twin-Tone Records (445 Oliver Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn. ![]() 90260 also available on cassette), of which the latest is ''Flip Your Wig'' a typical side of a Husker Du record includes seven songs. Since 1981, Husker Du has released three EP's, an LP and, in 1984-85 alone, a double album and two single LP's for the SST label (P.O. In fact, they have mapped out a new kind of American malaise they see nothing ahead but dead ends, and they hurtle toward them with a black-humored rage.īoth the three-piece Husker Du (which means ''do you remember?'' in Danish and Norwegian) and the four-piece Replacements have had prolific independent recording careers. These two bands stand in open opposition to the upscale verities of 1980's rock - they defy the docile, well-groomed, reassuring, high-image and low-content rock mainstream. Less showmanlike, but no less rebellious, are Minneapolis's two leading post-punk bands, Husker Du and the Replacements. The city's best-known performer, Prince, bends genres and breaks taboos without batting a mascaraed eyelash. Something about Minneapolis breeds rock rebels.
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