Video of the Week: Husker Du on the Late Show with Joan Rivers, 1987
Here’s one of the greatest punk bands ever, Hüsker Dü, appearing on network TV on what might have been the verge of stardom, if not for the fact that the mainstream would never really be ready for their brand of hard driving pop. And of course the punk scene (or MRR at least) had decided that they were no longer hard enough. For yours truly, however, Warehouse: Songs and Stories has always been a favorite, if maybe a guilty pleasure, and I think that this rendition of “Could You Be the One?” is phenomenal. No matter what you think of them in this period, this video is pretty fascinating…
