If you like The Hold Steady you will dig this. It has a slightly different sound (more angular, less springsteen-y) but exhibits the story telling strength Finn has made the backbone of The Hold Steady. This record and _Fiestas and Fiascos_ are my favorite Lifter Puller albums.
At the end of 1984, 240 American rock critics voted in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop poll. Writing about the results, Robert Christgau noted, "You got three Top 10 bands from Minneapolis" - Prince's Purple Rain (No. 2), the Replacements' Let It Be (No. 4), and Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade (No. 8) - "and try to make a 'sound' out of that, Mr. Bizzer." Indeed: In the Twin Cities' mid-'80s rock scene, the… more »
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