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Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All [EP]

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Walking around with your head in the clouds.
The Greatest Track in the History of Rock
UNBELIEVABLE!
Simply the most amazing vocal...
Little known but much loved classics

Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All [EP]
Hüsker Dü
Manufacturer: Sst Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000M6I
Release Date: 1991-11-01

Tracks:

Eight Miles High
Masochism World
Makes No Sense At All
Love Is All Around

Customer Reviews:

Walking around with your head in the clouds........2006-10-15

This CD features the a-sides and b-sides of two Hüsker Dü singles. "Eight Miles High" is a good cover version of the classic Byrds song. "Masochism World" is a poorly recorded live version of a song from Hüsker Dü's third album. "Make No Sense at All" is a great original song by the group. "Love is All Around" is a good version of The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song, which could have been great if the group had learned the second verse, instead of just repeating the first verse.

The Greatest Track in the History of Rock.......2006-08-17

What do you get when you shove oceans' full of adrenaline, melancholy, anger, joy, yearning, nihilsm, optimism, surrender, ecstasy all into one 45 rpm single? A rock explosion that has never been surpassed. In the summer of 1984 I had dropped out of school, moved to the East Village, NYC, and started playing guitar in some crappy band. All the neighborhood record-store and rock band hipsters, who rarely looked for music produced outside New York and London, were talking about the band from Minneapolis and their incredible cover of "Eight Miles High." I loved it too, played it a thousand times at maximum volume, but never would have thought a track so raw would hold up over time. Twenty years later it actually sounds ten times better. An unbelievably great achievement.

UNBELIEVABLE!.......2005-12-21

Husker Du's version of "Eight Miles High" is amazing! The screaming, agonized vocals of Bob Mould combined with the thundering bass and drums of Greg Norton and Grant Hart make this a must buy for any Husker Du fan.
Mould sounds like he is being tortured as he does an amazing rendition of the Byrd's psychedelic classic, and the crushing feedback and distortion of his guitar is truly a stunning achievment! Mould's vocals are a combination of angst, pain and horror as you can almost feel his soul being melted away as you listen to "Eight Miles High."
The rest of the songs are good as well, but the CD is worth the price just for the title track.

Simply the most amazing vocal..........2005-12-05

The cover of Eight Miles High is a MUST for any Husker Du, Bob Mould or fan of rock that you didn't hear on the radio in the 80's. Mould's vocal is so strained with emotion that I'm not sure, even after listening to it for many years, whether it's conveying his pain or pleasure. It's simply amazing. Just thinking about overwhelms me with nostalgia for the mosh pits, goth chicks and the after hours club dancing of my mis-spent punk rock youth. I like the other songs too, but seriously, I hardly ever play them. When I need an electrifying jolt of pure emotion, I just slap this on my CD player and hit 'repeat 1'...

Little known but much loved classics.......2005-08-12

Very happy to see these re-released. Everyone should own these and sing along.

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