Husker Du: Warehouse: Songs And Stories (Warner Bros)
Mat Snow, NME, 1987
THERE ARE several reasons why Id like to backtrack a decade to my teenage years, but right now I can think of none better than Husker Dus Warehouse: Songs And Stories. Even now when my taste in rock inclines increasingly away from the mainstream towards the maverick and retro-rootsy margins, this intensely traditional rock records blows my mind. Ten years ago it would have changed my life.
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