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The Bob MOuld offering is lyrically very mature, offering missives about being stoodf up by the lover you should've dumepd ages ago (Standing in the Rain), being stuck in a position you need to escape (Up In the Air, featuring the memorable lyric "is love another way to count the things you haven't got?"), trying to salvage a relationship (the grower Turn In Around) and Friend You've Got To Fall, an apparent attack on Grant Hart, as they did not like each other one bit by the end of the band. However, for me the best of Bob's 11 tracks are These Important Years - "revelations seem to be another way to make the days run faster anyway", the single Could You Be The One? and the lyrically interesting Bed Of Nails.
Grant Hart provides most of the louder moments, although the commercial sheen to the production keeps things a long way away from the stuff on SST. His finest pop song ever, She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man) is an extremely catchy piece which, along with the Mould tracks mentioned, makes for a fine final quarter of the album. Too Much Spice looks at the effects of overdoing life and finishing up empty and joyless, which seems rather autobiographical. There is a jazzy influence to much of his work here, especially She Floated Away and Tell You Why Tomorrow, while the rather unexciting Actual Condition attempts a 50s sound. Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope is a great opening to his set of songs, a tale anyone who's attempted to rise up from nothing can relate to.
So, how does it all ahng together? Very well. In places, the tracks appear to be rivalling each other, with similar-themed tracks side by side so as to emphasise the divided nature of the group. While a few tracks aren't up to much, they can easily be programmed out, and there's still 50 minutes of fine rock on show.
This was supposed to be the record that would break Husker Du yet it ended with them breaking up, after the suicide of their manager, David Savoy. A shame really, because this is a melodic, literate, intelligent album that manages to be sad without being depressing- and, for those that care about such things, it rocks big time.
Bob Mould acheived greater success with Sugar, but this was when he was at his creative peak. Warehouse: Songs and Stories deserves a wider audience, make yourself a part of it.
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