Happy Birthday, Bob Mould! As a Gift to You, Free Mould Live Sugar Songs

Since today is Bob Mould's birthday and Scruffy's back to reminding you about artists with Minneapolis connections, here's another reminder about his amazing new album, Silver Age, which you can listen to in its entirety here. Now that I have heard the whole thing, it's in my top albums of this year. It seems even sweeter because I seem to remember Mould saying that when Last Dog And Pony Show tour came around, it would be the last electric band tour. Now with this recent Sugar-y record, a loud electric show might still come your way.




Warning. The following video features Mould in a sensible suit. For some reason, it really messed with my image of the guy.





Here's a nice vid with Mould and Dave Grohl.





You can download Mould's live versions of three Sugar copper Blue tunes by giving up your email address. Go here.



Photo at top of post by Peter Ellenby.

Comments welcome below.

Bob Mould Covers Sugar, Decemberists Also Cover Sugar, and Bob Mould's Autobiography Sheds a Little Light

I just finished racing through Bob Mould's autobiography, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody. I was not surprised to find it was well-written, but I was happily surprised to find that Mould put the auto in autobiography; not that it was done on auto-pilot, but it was an intensely personal account. Mould isn't your typical rock star, so we aren't treated to numerous accounts of groupies and hotel-room destruction, but we are given peeks into going through punk rock as a gay man, working in the pro wrestling business, and struggling through a myriad of problems most of us never encounter. I wish he would have expanded on accounts of certain aspects of his life (such as the break-up of Husker Du), but overall, a quality read.


Bob Mould "covers" Sugar


The Decemberists cover Sugar


Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind by misterwilson

Ben Gibbard & Bob Mould - "If I Can't Change Your Mind" by TwentyFourBit.com

SUGAR Explode And Make Up by pterkrogh

Bob Mould guest stars on this Foo Fighters tune:

Dear Rosemary by Foo Fighters

Bob Mould-New #1 by janet weiss

Bob Mould - Trade by djmike81

Bob Mould - Circles (Kill The DJ Mix) by Kill_The_DJ

Husker Du-Something I Learned Today by superfrauz

New Day Rising - Hüsker Dü by Robert Bell

Husker Du - Real World by martin.carlos

Husker Du - Divide and conquer by nicesunset

Husker Du - Don't Want To Know If You Are Lon by BigFootAtWork

I believe the following live version of eight miles High was recorded at the Royal Albert Arms in Winnipeg. Sorry for the spotty sound.

Husker du 8 miles high by ybstatusquo

Buy See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody here. Buy Bob Mould music and merch here.