4/20/2012

Husker Du -- "Makes No Sense at All"

From the first second of the song -- a drum fill that's over almost before you can register it -- this song charges forward in fine form, and it doesn't let up until the last second. Even the stops are full of energy. It's not the tempo -- Husker Du had much faster songs -- it's the sense of movement. Husker Du seems to have developed here the approach that would inform their music during the latter stages of their career: pop-song appeal riveted onto the punk rock framework. It was an approach that the Pixies and Nirvana would follow to great success, but Husker Du was there first.

Thanks to MTV's 120 Minutes for introducing me to this song -- and to Husker Du -- many years ago, when I was but a lad.