Husker Du was his creative peak. His 90's guitar driven band Sugar was also excellent. Haven't heard his latest effort though.

Mould's last 2 albums, "Body Of Song" and the half rock/half electronic side project Blowoff, were really great. Really looking forward to his new one.

Huge fan of everything up to the Bob Mould album. After that it's pretty sketchy although I did like some of Body of Song.

Warehouse Songs and Stories, Copper Blue and Workbook are 3 of my favorite albums of all time.

By the way he's a friend of Dorothy, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Who the hell is Dorothy? It's ok for a gay guy to have friends who are girls!

:lol:

Since he probably gets paid every time The Daily Show airs (Mould wrote the theme), he might not need to work all that much.

Remember when he came on The Daily Show to talk about writing the theme and then sang Little Drummer Boy with Craig Kilborn?

Totally agree. Been a big fan of Mould since Husker Du days (although, like Replacements, I enjoy their more accessible albums when they left the near-total thrash sound of the early SST days to become more varied & melodic...and more accomplished as songwriters/musicians from "Flip Your Wig" onward. Like almost all of Bob's solo & Sugar stuff...some gems can aslo be found on B-Sides & some benefit albums.

Don't mind artists experimenting with electronicia (U2, REM, & others also dabbled in it), but it seems to rarely come off as well as they had hoped. Seems to be an especially hard genre to cross over into...imagine Dylan trying to do it as opposed to, say, his country phase (Nashville Skyline, John Wesley Harding, etc.). IMHO, they should just incorporate some of this sparingly into the style they're more comfortable doing, or should do some extensive core audience testing before releasing full CDs of this stuff.

Or maybe should just record it as a vanity project for their own personal enjoyment & not release it on their label. Maybe offer it to fan club members.

Have any of these electronic experiments (from non-electronic artists) ever done well commercially?

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Bob Mould has a new album, "Beauty And Ruin" coming out on June 3. His last, "The Silver Age" is my favorite of his solo albums, so I am pretty excited about this one.

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Why, yes, yes I do remember that.

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Wow, a six-year bump? (Note: I plan on doing this same post in this same thread every six years.)

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how about a 2 year bump instead of waiting 6 .......

his new release "Patch The Sky" is absolutely top notch

55 f'n years old and putting kids making guitar driven music these days to shame

just wish I didn't buy the iTunes version as the download I burned seems really muddied


and yes, Modulate was kind of a weird diversion for him ..... I remember getting to work the record (disti) and was just happy to be selling a Mould project .... got to set up a Tower in store with him for that release and meet him .... was very nice

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Yeah, he is nice. He seems to play Austin gigs pretty often, so I've driven up a couple of times to check him out in the last few years. He is cool about chatting up fans and signing shit.

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Another new.Mould album coming out in February. His last few have been great. The title track:

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