Was there ever a better music scene than Minneapolis in the 1980s? Unmoved by consciously punk fashion or hardcore dogma, Husker Du, The Replacements, and Soul Asylum played by their own loudfastrules. The trio's shut-up-and-play 'tude would yield no less than 20 great el pees and capture the fandom of folks like George "Norm" Wendt, Johnny "Jump Street" Depp, and Winona"Five Fingers" Ryder.
This Milwaukee quartet's latest milks the unspoiled glasses of Everything Falls Apart, Let It Be, and While You Were Out for every delicious drop. "We're A Basement Band" ("We're falling down the stairs tonight/Scuff mark -- do I look alright?/Our ill-kept secret's out for all to know/I'll try not to fall out the window"), "My Side Of The River" ("You told me to live on the right side/You said, 'Be extra careful in the night time'/I said I wanted to see from the outside/Of the cage you put me in for a lifetime"), and "Alienation II" ("What do you do when you run out of words/And a million dictionaries couldn't help the way you feel?") counter the girly necklaces of once-great Twin/Tone pillagers (Goo Goo Dolls) with brass knuckles. The Machines and Gimantis from Massachusetts should tag-team and pelt Rzeznik with tomatoes. They'll make him wish he'd deV8ed from submitting songs to red-stained motion pictures.
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