Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All [EP] [EP]

Hüsker Dü | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Sst Records
• ASIN: B000000M6I
• In-Print Editions: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,540 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play this song at my wake, April 14, 2005

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Suzanne Kafantaris (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All [EP] (Audio CD)

No incantation can do justice to Husker Du's phenomenal cover of Eight Miles High. I hadn't heard it in fourteen years -- my only copy was taped from a radio-show at Carnegie Mellon circa 1990. I must have listened to it thousands of times before the tape was taken by continental drift. Just now I woke up with a hum in my head and stumble-walked into cyberspace and dug around until I found a 30-second sample. Which I have been listening to, over and over, for the last twenty minutes. It's like finding a bottle with just one sip of your youth and beauty and power inside. Bob Mould's voice isn't human. The guitars are burning off all kinds of fog. My mind is blown all over again.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Apocalypse NOW!, September 10, 2002

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Christopher A. Clark (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All [EP] (Audio CD)

As definitive a single song as "Stairway to Heaven" was for Led Zeppelin, "Eight Miles High" flies so close to the sun, Bob Mould can't even make his mouth properly form the words at the halcyonic climax. "Love Is All Around" (aka the Mary Tyler Moore song) is equally definitive as the Minneapolis National Anthem (amazing the Replacements didn't think of covering it first, although Joan Jett had no qualms about borrowing the idea a few years later). Pity they didn't include their NME flexi-disk live version of "Ticket To Ride," as the Beatles were the Huskers' true precedent, Grant Hart playing soppy McCartney to Mould's malevolent Lennon, rounded out by Greg Norton's happy-to-be-here Ringo stardom, but I suppose they're saving that for the waaaay overdue 2-CD retrospective (cross your fingers for a supporting tour).

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Makes No Sense At All!, March 18, 2009

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Mark Lansing (The Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense At All (Single) (MP3 Download)

Four songs from two great singles I bought back in the day and still cherish. The live take of "Masochism World" isn't really essential, but that overdriven tear through "Eight Miles High" is pure genius, and "Makes No Sense At All" b/w "Love Is All Around" is Husker Du at their most gloriously pop-influenced. This EP would be a great buy at $3.98 or $4.98, but charging the same price for this that you'd pay for FLIP YOUR WIG, NEW DAY RISING or ZAN ARCADE (the latter a double LP!) is nothing short of ridiculous. Inspiring music, but at this price it's poor value for the money.