Another album born from a tumultuous, confrontational creative relationship. Songwriters Bob Mould and Grant Hart were at loggerheads and the band disbanded during the tour for this album. The break was partly due to their animosity, and partly over drummer Hart's drug use.
Mould had reportedly told Hart that he'd never have more than half the songs on a Hüsker Dü album, and with neither writer wanting to back down, this ended up being a double album. Mould contributed 11 songs and Hart 9.
While there are some good tracks on here ("She Floated Away" being one that particularly caught my ear); their sound of melodic vocals over distorted guitar and rattling, pounding drums does tire out over the space of 20 songs. You find yourself yearning for an acoustic or clean guitar, or for them to go further into realms of heaviness. Faint criticism though, as any of these songs taken on its own would be perfectly listenable.
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