Nevertheless, they managed to write and record another double album, Warehouse: Songs and Stories. Although Warner didn't want the band to release another double record, Warehouse was released in the spring of to uniformly positive reviews. Hart showed no signs of sobering up -- he was developing a heroin addiction -- while Mould was clean. Following the Warehouse tour, the band played no more concerts for the rest of the year, which caused speculation that the group was breaking up.
Those rumors were confirmed during the winter of , when Hart was fired and the band broke up. Hart released a solo EP, , on SST later that year, followed by a full-length album called Intolerance a year later. After its release, Hart shook loose his addictions and formed a new band, Nova Mob. Chicago Tribune. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Q 74 : November In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian eds. London: Fireside Books. Saturday 27 June Sunday 28 June Monday 29 June Tuesday 30 June Wednesday 1 July Thursday 2 July Friday 3 July Saturday 4 July Sunday 5 July Monday 6 July Tuesday 7 July Wednesday 8 July Thursday 9 July Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July Sunday 12 July Monday 13 July Tuesday 14 July Wednesday 15 July Thursday 16 July Friday 17 July Saturday 18 July Sunday 19 July Monday 20 July Tuesday 21 July Wednesday 22 July Thursday 23 July Friday 24 July Saturday 25 July Sunday 26 July Monday 27 July Tuesday 28 July Wednesday 29 July Thursday 30 July Friday 31 July Warner Bros.
Warehouse: Songs and Stories The Living End Rolling Stone. Robert Christgau. Following the Warehouse tour, the band played no more concerts for the rest of the year, which caused speculation that the group was breaking up.
Those rumors were confirmed during the winter of , when Hart was fired and the band broke up. Hart released a solo EP, , on SST later that year, followed by a full-length album called Intolerance a year later. After its release, Hart shook loose his addictions and formed a new band, Nova Mob.
Nova Mob released their debut album, The Last Days of Pompeii, in ; a self-titled second album appeared in Norton became a chef in Red Wing. After releasing two solo albums -- Workbook and Black Sheets of Rain -- he formed a trio called Sugar in Mould broke up the band in and returned to a solo career the following year.
Warner released The Living End -- a live album album culled from Warehouse performances in -- in , a year after Rhino put together an expanded reissue of Everything Falls Apart, but that was the only release for decades. After battling kidney cancer, Grant Hart died at age 56 in September Even if their energy was viscerally punk, Bob Mould on guitar, Grant Hart on drums and Greg Norton on bass were of a certain writing calibre.
Throughout their discography six studio albums, among which two double albums , the trio has raised inside their electrical tsunami increasingly melodic compositions. In this America of the Reagan Era, these uncompromising first years offer a frenetic trio, brought up on a diet of their punk godfathers, but which already aligns politically-motivated compositions that are less simple-minded than it seems.
But even when they go from independent SST to the major Warner in , Bob Mould, Grant Hart who died of liver cancer in September and Greg Norton keep the darkness inside their three complex personalities.
Candy Apple Grey. Zen Arcade. Flip Your Wig. The Living End [Live]. There's no real reason to believe this was anything other than a last little cash-in on the part of Warner Bros. David Fricke's polished but not revelatory liner notes do contain a number of more elucidating comments from the bandmembers themselves, with Mould capturing the sense of things best: "The music was so strong, everybody got caught up in it.
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