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| The Living End | 
 enlarge | Artist: Huesker Due
Label: Rhino Encore
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 168806
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45582
UPC: 081227992668
EAN: 0081227992668
ASIN: B0018DPC74
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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 Yes, I was there... July 10, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was at the Living Room in Providence, RI for this show. It was only a few months earlier in Boston that the group played one of the best and strangest sets I've ever seen. They played the entire Warehouse album, cover to cover, with only When Pink Turns to Gray (Zen Arcade) as an encore. The band was nearing the end. This final tour was for the fans. It was a tour to leave on a high note. The Living Room concert was pure pleasure. The band was tight and made everyone's ears bleed that night. This album is a strong approximation of that show. It's a strong live album, even though the high end tops out a bit much and all you're left with is a shrill ache in your ears. Well, that's what a good Husker Du concert should leave you with anyway. They were a great band. This is a good epitaph.
Wish I was 10 years older July 26, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The first Husker Du album I heard was Warehouse. Loved the album, bought it right away. This live album is far beyond Warehouse, or any Husker Du studio album for that matter. It's about the only thing that makes me wish I was older, just so I could have seen them live. I own several live albums from different artists, and none of them compare. This is the best live album I have ever heard. The Huskers blister through over 75 minutes of sonic fury (like that one?--I did) seemingly without pausing to breathe. Highlights include (but are not limited to) "New Day Rising", "Ice Cold Ice", "It's not Funny Anymore", "Terms of Psychic Warfare", "Divide and Conquer", "Celebrated Summer", "Data Control", and a great cover of "Sheena is a Punk Rocker." A must have for fans of alternative and punk rock, and anyone else who wants some energy out of what they listen to.
 Husker Du live!!! December 7, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Plainly stated, much (most?) of what is heard over the airwaves these days simply wouldn't exist without the influence of Husker Du. I've always regretted that I didn't descover these guys until years after their breakup; but at least now I've got this excellent document to remind me of what was! The Huskers (Bob Mould-guitar,voc., Grant Hart-drums,voc., Greg Norton-bass,voc.) are presented here in their final tour at the peak of their powers. From the opening power-mantra of 'New Day Rising" to the three & a half minute visceral rush of "Standing in the Rain" to the frantic, un-hinged renderings of "Friend, Your Gonna Fall" & "Devide and Conquer", the band's intensity never falters. The album closer, a rabid cover of the Ramone's "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" actually approaches the intensity of "da brudda's" original!
This is what a live album should sound like January 27, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The versions of many of the songs here are so powerful that they crush their lo-fi studio versions. Which is an almost impossible accomplishment. "Celebrated Summer", "New Day Rising", and "Keep Hanging On" roar like a buzzsaw, and Mould and Hart's singing throughout is even more anguished and exhausted than on the originals. "Hardly Getting Over It" is re-invented as a slow,hard electric cry of desperation. So many live albums fall into the "canned" sound that renders even the best live bands impotent. This album cuts as sharp as anyone would hope it would.
Great CD from one of the 80' best bands! February 4, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The previous review enjoys no merit beyond the fact that it is a string of words. Although I do not entirely agree with the song selections, this album captures the essence of Husker Du live. Listen to Bob Mould singing with reckless abandon on Celebrated Summer or the pounding rendition of Terms of Psychic Warfare. I was lucky enough to see them many times throughout the 80's, I also have a large collection of live recordings but this a great CD and a DEFINATE starting point, along with Zen Arcade, for anyone just getting into the band. Some people only like the live versions of the songs on this CD when exposed to the studio CDs for the first time. While not one of the best live cd's of all time, it shows the Huskers at their very best but, unfortunately, at the very end
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