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- Artist: Hüsker Dü
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- Release Date: 1987
- Total Time: 68:35
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
It's cleaner and more produced than any of their records, which is one reason why many Hüsker Dü fans have never fully embraced their second double album, Warehouse: Songs and Stories. Granted, Warehouse boasts a fuller production -- complete with multi-tracked guitars and vocal, various percussion techniques, and endless studio effects -- that would have seemed out of place a mere two years before its release. However, Flip Your Wig and Candy Apple Grey both suggested this full-fledged pop production, and it's to Hüsker Dü's credit that they never sound like they are selling out with Warehouse. What they do sound like is breaking up. Although there was a schism apparent between Bob Mould and Grant Hart on Candy Apple Grey, they don't even sound like they are writing for the same band on Warehouse. But the individual songs on the album are powerhouses in their own right, as both songwriters exhibit a continuing sense of experimentation -- Hart writes a sea shanty with "She Floated Away" and uses bubbling percussion on "Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope," while Mould nearly arrives at power pop with "Could You Be the One?" and touches on singer/songwriter-styled folk-rock with "No Reservations." Warehouse doesn't have the single-minded sense of purpose or eccentric sprawl of Zen Arcade, but as a collection of songs, it's of the first order. Furthermore, its stylish production -- which makes pop concessions without abandoning a punk ethos -- pointed the way to the kind of "alternative" rock that dominated the mainstream in the early '90s. In all, it was a fine way for one of the most important bands of the '80s to call it a day. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| These Important Years | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (3:49) |
| Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (3:11) |
| Standing in the Rain | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (3:41) |
| Back From Somewhere | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (2:16) |
| Ice Cold Ice | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (4:23) |
| You're a Soldier | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (3:03) |
| Could You Be the One? | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (2:32) |
| Too Much Spice | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (2:57) |
| Friend, You've Got to Fall | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (3:20) |
| Visionary | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (2:30) |
| She Floated Away | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (3:32) |
| Bed of Nails | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (4:44) |
| Tell You Tomorrow | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (2:42) |
| It's Not Peculiar | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (4:06) |
| Actual Condition | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (1:50) |
| No Reservations | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (3:40) |
| Turn It Around | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (4:32) |
| She's a Woman (And Now He Is a Man) | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (3:19) |
| Up in the Air | Bob Mould | Hüsker Dü | (3:03) |
| You Can Live at Home | Grant Hart | Hüsker Dü | (5:25) |
