Grant Hart Lyrics
Under stress I can't repress the moment it erupts
Hear the sound of paper drums and shredded paper voice
Got to turn up 'Keep Hanging On' as if I had a choice
Turn it up, It's too far down, until we can relate
Minnesota New Day Rising first day in the store
Take the couch at someone's house and wait around to score
Power trios with big-ass deals: you opened for it then
I can see, I can see, I can see it all with my one good eye
For a start take two Grant Harts and call me when you die
Grant Hart was the drummer and one of the singers for the classic college-rock band Husker Du. This song is obviously an expression of what Hart's music means to Ken Stringfellow and shows the irony that while "power trios with big-ass deals" (read: Nirvana) hit it big in the early 1990s, their obvious predecessors, like Husker Du and the Minutemen, languished in relative obscurity a decade before.
@Michial Speaking of that NW '90s era, Soundgarden has that song "My Good Eye Closed." Here, as Ken emphatically belts out, "I can see, I can see, I can see it all with my one good eye." Think this is as much a "power trio" diss to Nirvana and a later nod to Soundgarden?
@Michial Speaking of that NW '90s era, Soundgarden has that song "My Good Eye Closed." Here, as Ken emphatically belts out, "I can see, I can see, I can see it all with my one good eye." Think this is as much a "power trio" diss to Nirvana and a later nod to Soundgarden?
A college-rock band? Surely you jest. Husker Du was/is more than a college band. I don't know where you live but you are incorrect.
A college-rock band? Surely you jest. Husker Du was/is more than a college band. I don't know where you live but you are incorrect.
Love this song...my favorite version is the live one on Alive Before the Iceberg. Love the reference to paper drums and the shredded voice on "Keep Hanging On" (trust me, and Husker Du fan has turned it up without having a choice!). Also, cool references to the Huskers' song "Too Far Down" and the song/album "New Day Rising" in the 2nd verse. But really, the best line of the song is the closer...if you have anyone you are completely sick of and/or totally pissed at, I'd also recommend you suggest to them to "take two Grant Harts" and to "call me when you die". It doesn't get any better than the Huskers, Grant's songs are unreal, and this little tune captures that in three short verses. Love it. Oh, and the "two Grant Harts"? Tough choice, but I'd say "Terms of Psychic Warfare" and "Sorry Somehow".
Haha, I love that this song sounds like a Husker Du song too. They play a little riff between verses that sounds like the riff from Chartered Trips.