Chords for Husker Du and The Replacements segment from "The Minneapolis Sound" documentary.

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_ [E] _ _ We've been called everything, you know, good, bad and otherwise.
[N] _ _ _ It's already used to hearing all kinds of wild descriptions that I would have never
thought of, like post-proto-punk or post-psychedelic.
_ _ You know, just, _ you know, we _ make music, I know that.
_ _ That much I do know.
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_ Husker Du is [Eb] the only [Db] alternative to [C] people who really want to [F] experience rock and roll right now.
You want to go and [C] dance, all the dance bands now, it's all [Cm] high-tech stuff.
Big Floyd's got [E] pigs floating overhead.
Husker Du [N] interacts with the audience.
It's the only place where people can go out and really feel the music and experience what's
going on with the band.
I think they're great.
They play with a lot of heart and a lot of belief and a lot of integrity.
And I don't think you can ask for anything more than that for music.
[B] They used to be the worst band in Minneapolis.
They used to suck.
[F] I used to come and yell at them.
But now, they're one of the best, [Db] if not the best.
Why?
Because they did it all by themselves.
[Bm] They just kept on building.
They got in a van and kept touring.
_ [N] Everybody else that I've come in contact with has never ever done it by themselves.
They've always had _ somebody behind them.
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Some money [G] makers.
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] What's [N] it like playing in Europe?
_ _ _ It's sort of like playing over here in the United States.
Except you're in a different country.
_ [F] _ Good answer!
I was going to say a different planet.
_ No, it's, I don't know, a lot of times the people [E] that show up at the shows are
[F] Europeans.
_ [G] _ They're speaking a different language.
They don't want to borrow dollars.
They don't want to borrow lira. _ _
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_ There was a lot of good music going on in the late 70s.
You know, a lot of the punk rock stuff.
The new wave and the art thing and all that weird [G] stuff.
You could play any kind of [D] music you wanted, just as long as [Bm] you meant what you were doing.
_ [A] _ _ _ They still sense it all.
They still differ and still haul.
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[G] Well, I don't know why you want to_
What can I [E] say?
I think that they're really a [D] phenomenal band.
[Ab] Incredible energy. _
Both in terms of their productivity, their eagerness to stick at it,
regardless of _ how much money they make,
and their ability to write new songs.
I think their world [N] view is a little limited,
but I think Flaubert's world view is a little limited too.
_ It's nice to be on the Dean's list.
I mean, many people would say, and I think I might agree with them,
they're the best American band of the 80s.
But even that isn't saying that much.
But they're a fine pop band, you know.
He's [D] a fool.
No. No. _ _
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The general climate is real conducive to people being creative.
[E] Just the atmosphere around here, it's real [N] positive.
There isn't a lot of backbiting and stuff like that.
Nobody's pulling favorites in this town.
Nobody's really competing against _ each other,
unless it's on a real good-natured level.
It's the Midwest. _ _
We've got to be honest [C] here.
It's hard work and all that stuff.
It's really true, I think.
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It's a weird thing.
People can take this the wrong way,
but we're awfully good at what we do.
_ We're awful good musicians,
[Bb] and we're good songwriters, and we're good people.
[B] _ This is [D] what we do the best,
so this is what we work at the hardest.
_ If you're good at what you do,
and you work real hard at what you do,
you find the reward from that.
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Hello?
_ _ What?
Husker Du broke up?
_ _ Why? _ _
Uh-huh.
_ Did you talk to Warner Brothers?
[A] I mean, did they have any explanation?
[B] Artistic difference?
Yeah, they always say artistic difference.
[G] The late 70s, early 80s,
new wave [Eb] period in the Twin Cities
spawned a lot of bands
that livened up the local club scene for years.
The two bands that really made a name
for themselves nationally,
[B] and eventually signed with a major label,
are the now-defunct Husker Du
and The Replacements.
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I love their attitude.
I love the music.
You never know what they're going to do.
I liked The Replacements
[Bb] before they got [Dbm] really big.
[D] Because, I don't know,
their heads got really big or something.
[Bb] I went to their last show,
and they were [Gb] just drunk,
[Am] and they weren't any good.
If [Gbm] getting someone's attention
is the key [Gb] to being successful
in the recording industry,
I'm sure The Replacements
will have a big future
_ [B] in the recording industry,
because they're nuts.
I think I've seen them destroy more equipment _
than any other band
in the record industry.
Oh, I hate them.
_ Why?
You really want to know why?
Are any of you guys The Replacements?
No, no, no.
Because they don't know how to play guitars,
they don't know how to sing,
they don't [D] know how to do anything.
They're just guys who pick up guitars
and then all of a sudden they're famous.
I wish that would [B] happen to me.
The Replacements, you guys are sick. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ These guys have quite a [E] reputation.
A lot of people say
they're [Gb] successful in spite of themselves.
[N] I was really looking forward
to meeting these wild iconoclasts. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ The Replacements probably grew up
in a neighborhood that looked
a lot like this one,
or this one,
or maybe this one.
If one were [Em] to interview them,
[Am] they'd probably say that [E] growing up here
they felt they had the freedom
to [C] play whatever they wanted
and that this town was really supportive
[B] because nobody really cared
or something like that.
[C] Maybe we could even see some parallels with Prince.
_ [Dm] I don't [B] know.
The only parallel that I [E] can see
is that neither of them would grant me an interview.
Their lawyer says it's because they're [G] obstreperous.
[G] Obstreperous?
That's what he gets [Gb] paid for, words like that.
He gets [Em] paid by the letter.
I don't know.
I guess they just [Cm] don't like [E] TV. _ _
If Paul Westerberg
doesn't want to make a video,
we're not going to force him to make one.
We certainly wanted to make a video.
We thought it was a good way of marketing the band.
But we eventually made a video
_ on their terms. _
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_ The [Ab] visions are a lot more mature
than I think most people would give them credit for.
_ Paul writes songs
that a lot of more mature artists only wish they could write.
I think they challenge themselves.
It may have something to do with
the Minneapolis scene
_ with not being from a major city like LA
and not [N] trying to fit into certain molds
that are created
in scenes like Los Angeles and New York.
In order to play clubs out here
maybe you have to be a specific kind of group.
_ But I think they're able to
invent themselves up there
_ without any encumbrance
from big record companies
and seeing bands riding around in limousines
and stuff like that.
It's a nice place to develop.
_ _ Hopefully the [Eb] scene won't change
much so we can get more bands like [N] this. _ _