Farewell Grant Hart

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Farewell Grant Hart

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Some sad news dominating the cybersphere at the moment is the death of Husker Du drummer and sometime singer songwriter Grant Hart, who passed away on Thursday 14 September at the age of 56.

In a better world, Minneapolis’s Husker Du would’ve been Nirvana, and Grant might have been Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl combined. You’d be hearing them now on Classic Hits radio amidst the Who, REM and Green Day. Husker Du were perhaps the first band on the Amercian hardcore punk scene to make melody and melancholy the equal to energy, rage and noise in their vocabulary – indeed they had everything that Nirvana had except the occasional big ‘70s rock riff, and they had it over half a decade earlier.

Whilst it was guitarist Bob Mould’s instrument and voice that usually typified the rage in Husker Du’s sound (and it did much more than that), it was Grant’s occasional turns at the mic that produced the most pleasing melodicism and warmth. Grant had a classic rock/pop voice and wrote the sort of brilliant melodies that I’m sure a Pete Townsend, Paul McCartney or Brian Wilson would acknowledge. Nowhere was that more evident than on his two of his four great songs on 1986’s Candy Apple Grey, “Don’t Know Want To Know If You’re Lonely” and “Sorry Somehow” , and the beautiful “2541” from his first solo album.

Let’s check these tracks out now, and if you want to revisit the classic album that is Candy Apple Grey, you can check it out now on Spotify here. 

“Don’t Wanna Know If You Are Lonely” 

“Sorry Somehow” 


“2541” 



-DL

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