{"id":4282,"date":"2024-06-29T17:43:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2024-11-18T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T21:19:11","slug":"4282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/29\/4282\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Mould, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be the general mood I&#8217;m in at the moment but among the albums I&#8217;ve been sorting through in my never-ending organisation of my music library have been (last week) H\u00fcsker D\u00fc and (today) Bob Mould and Sugar. I originally got into H\u00fcsker D\u00fc back in in my teens in the 1980s when I saw their album <em>Warehouse: Songs and Stories<\/em> (so that must have made it 1987 when I was living in London). As I got hold of their earlier albums &#8211; <em>Zen Arcade<\/em>, <em>New Day Rising<\/em> and <em>Candy Apple Grey<\/em> &#8211; to my dismay I found that the band had split up. I remember seeing a copy of <em>Melody Maker<\/em> or <em>NME<\/em> not long after that with Bob Mould in a series of atmospheric black and white photographs promoting his new solo album, <em>Workbook<\/em>. The photos had that late 1980s\/early 1990s styling that I found pretty influential at the time: a moody, austere Victoriana that evokes a sense of melancholic nostalgia for the present.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4241\" src=\"https:\/\/rockandrollglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-07-31-07.35.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1512\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Workbook<\/em> was an album that had a tremendous impact on me and I&#8217;ve been a fan of Mould&#8217;s ever since, finding that I seem to reflect the emotional journey he&#8217;s been charting in his music (albeit about 10 years later). Equally, Mould&#8217;s post-H\u00fcsker D\u00fc band, Sugar, has been on my playlists for &#8211; wow! &#8211; 25+ years. I remember being in a party in the back of a house watching a drunken guy jumping over a fire in the garden when I heard <em>Changes<\/em> for the first time. In my head these are fresh albums that only just seem to have been recently released. As Mould sings in <em>Compositions for the Young and Old<\/em>: &#8220;Things used to be so simple, long time ago \/ Now everything is so expensive and complicated&#8221;. And, as Mould ends the same song:<\/p>\n<p>I hear the weatherman<\/p>\n<p>He says &#8220;it looks like rain for a while<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll have to stay inside<\/p>\n<p>Make peanut butter sandwiches and cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be the general mood I&#8217;m in at the moment but among the albums I&#8217;ve been sorting through in my never-ending organisation of my music library have been (last week) H\u00fcsker D\u00fc and (today) Bob Mould and Sugar. I originally got into H\u00fcsker D\u00fc back in in my teens in the 1980s when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microblog","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}