# Grant Hart (Husker Dü) dead at 56

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-hart-husker-du-dead-at-56/796325>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [September 14, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-hart-husker-du-dead-at-56/796325 "2017-09-14T16:38:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-hart-husker-du-dead-at-56/796325/21 "2017-09-16T02:44:23Z")

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One of my all time favorite videos, ever! It probably also had a budget of about $37.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J1sYN0PuRs4/hqdefault.jpg "Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sYN0PuRs4)

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**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-hart-husker-du-dead-at-56/796325/22 "2017-09-17T23:40:54Z")

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Shitty.  
A big, early 80s inspiration. They rolled through town in '84 and put on a blistering, _searing_ set.

> [@scabpicker](#):
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> I prefer Zen Arcade and earlier to any of his later work. But that’s not to denigrate it, the stuff that came later was still great, just in a different way.

thanks, yes.

R.I.P.

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-hart-husker-du-dead-at-56/796325/23 "2017-10-01T01:18:25Z")

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I’ve been listening to all my old Husker Du albums again, and I can’t stop coming back to _New Day Rising_. Such an amazing album.

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