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Hüsker Dü and the Replacements: Euphoric… Urgent… Raucous… Drunk
by: Andy Gill
Minneapolis: It must be something they put in the water.
As well as dominating the post-Thriller black pop market—via Prince and his acolytes (Sheila E, Appollonia Six, the Time, Jill Jones, Madhouse) and the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis production stable (the SOS Band, Janet Jackson, Lisa Lisa and Full Force)—Minneapolis has also, over the past few years, been largely responsible for some of the very best contemporary white rock music. And nowhere is this more graphically illustrated than in Hüsker Dü’s Warehouse (Songs & Stories) and the Replacements’ Pleased to Meet Me.
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by: Andy Gill
published: May 7, 2008
in column: Classic Vantage
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