Grant Hart

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You're the Reflection of the Moon on the Water 04:15 Tools
Morningstar 04:20 Tools
Out Of Chaos 01:58 Tools
Is the Sky the Limit? 03:38 Tools
Awake, Arise! 05:16 Tools
All of My Senses 05:57 Tools
If We Have The Will 03:21 Tools
I Will Never See My Home 04:37 Tools
The Main 04:07 Tools
I Am Death 02:36 Tools
Sin 02:58 Tools
Letting Me Out 03:01 Tools
Barbara 04:16 Tools
So Far From Heaven 03:31 Tools
Shine, Shine, Shine 04:34 Tools
Golden Chain 02:41 Tools
Now That You Know Me 03:57 Tools
Charles Hollis Jones 04:23 Tools
2541 04:48 Tools
California Zephyr 02:59 Tools
Twenty-Five Forty-One 04:47 Tools
It Isn't Love 04:13 Tools
I Knew All About You Since Then 02:08 Tools
Glorious 03:18 Tools
War In Heaven 04:32 Tools
Sailor Jack 03:59 Tools
My Regrets 03:44 Tools
(It Was A) Most Disturbing Dream 04:00 Tools
Underneath The Apple Tree 03:07 Tools
The Argument 05:55 Tools
Run For The Wilderness 03:10 Tools
For Those Too High Aspiring 03:39 Tools
Schoolbuses Are for Children 05:31 Tools
You're The Victim 03:18 Tools
Anything 03:31 Tools
She Can See the Angels Coming 03:48 Tools
Fanfare in D Major (Come, Come) 03:49 Tools
Roller-Rink 04:26 Tools
Narcissus Narcissus 02:44 Tools
Reprise 01:42 Tools
Nobody Rides for Free 04:31 Tools
Think It Over Now 03:07 Tools
Run Run Run To The Centre Pompidou 03:45 Tools
You Don't Have To Tell Me Now 03:44 Tools
In A Cold House 05:04 Tools
A Letter From Anne Marie 06:00 Tools
Teeny's Hair 03:17 Tools
Remains To Be Seen 03:12 Tools
Seka Knows 04:41 Tools
Let Rosemary Rock Him, Laura-Louise 01:34 Tools
Little Nemo 07:36 Tools
Evergreen Memorial Drive 04:29 Tools
Signed D.C. 02:38 Tools
Narcissus, Narcissus 02:43 Tools
Fanfare in D Minor 03:50 Tools
Please Don't Ask 05:02 Tools
I Just Want To Make Love To You 03:06 Tools
Masters Of War 04:10 Tools
Shoot Your Way To Freedom 03:02 Tools
Come, Come 03:17 Tools
Wheels 04:06 Tools
Morning Star 03:35 Tools
Let Go 02:55 Tools
Oh! To Behold 02:07 Tools
Little Miss Information 03:26 Tools
No Promise Have I Made 02:52 Tools
Pink Turns to Blue 02:00 Tools
Ballad #19 05:00 Tools
Never Talking to You Again 01:38 Tools
Khalid 04:02 Tools
She Floated Away 02:25 Tools
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt 06:17 Tools
Admiral of the Sea 02:21 Tools
The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill 02:46 Tools
Back Somewhere 01:45 Tools
Roller Rink 04:26 Tools
Persuaded 04:29 Tools
Come Come 02:54 Tools
Ballad Number 19 03:31 Tools
Old Empire 02:55 Tools
Last Days of Pompeii 03:29 Tools
please don´t ask 03:43 Tools
Shine Shine Shine 04:35 Tools
Country Towns 00:30 Tools
Sorry Somehow 02:45 Tools
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely 02:55 Tools
All of My Senses (Edit) 03:48 Tools
Flexible Flyer 04:25 Tools
The Last Days Of Pompeii 03:45 Tools
Awake, Arise 05:16 Tools
Diane 04:53 Tools
Green Eyes 02:14 Tools
Charity, Chastity, Prudence And Hope 03:50 Tools
2451 04:36 Tools
Keep Hanging On 04:57 Tools
When's It Gonna Rain 00:30 Tools
Awake Arise 05:16 Tools
Books About UFOs 02:24 Tools
Train Ride of Life 00:30 Tools
She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man) 04:22 Tools
Over My Head 02:30 Tools
terms of psychic warfare 01:51 Tools
girl who lives on heaven hill 02:46 Tools
Books About UFO's 02:24 Tools
You're Wrong 00:30 Tools
Moisture Meter Misery 03:45 Tools
You're A Soldier 02:38 Tools
Introduction 02:35 Tools
Louise 03:39 Tools
Turn on The News 02:48 Tools
01 think it over 03:09 Tools
Out Of Chaos Reinhören 00:30 Tools
Fanfare In D Major (Come Come) 02:23 Tools
Album Introduction From Grant Hart 04:19 Tools
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven H 02:48 Tools
Is the Sky the Limit (Live on 89.3 The Current) 02:23 Tools
You're the Reflection of the Moon 04:20 Tools
It Isn t Love 04:15 Tools
it's not funny anymore 02:23 Tools
Run Run Run To The Centre Pomp 04:15 Tools
25-41 04:15 Tools
If We Have A Will 04:15 Tools
Main 03:34 Tools
For Thse Too High Aspiring 03:39 Tools
Run Run To The Centre Pompidou 03:48 Tools
Let Rosemary Rock Him, Laura-L 03:39 Tools
you´re the reflection of the moon on the water 03:39 Tools
Fanfare in D Major 03:49 Tools
Fanfare in D Major (Come, Come 03:49 Tools
wernher von braun 03:39 Tools
The Main (Acoustic) 02:53 Tools
Is the Sky the Limit_ 03:39 Tools
American Zephyr 03:39 Tools
Run Run to the Centre Pompi 03:39 Tools
Schoolbusses Are For Children 03:39 Tools
Litte Miss Information 03:49 Tools
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Grant Hart (born Grantzberg Vernon Hart, March 18, 1961 – September 14, 2017) was an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü. After the band's breakup in 1988, Hart formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar. Hart's solo career became his main focus after the dissolution of Nova Mob in 1997. Hart released a solo album, Intolerance, on which he played most of the instruments himself. As the co-songwriter of Hüsker Dü, Hart's songs (such as "The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" and "Turn on the News") received praise from critics and contemporaries. Hart's vocal style, in contrast to that of Hüsker Dü bandmate Bob Mould, was a more measured and melodic delivery. His choice of lyrical themes, which ranged from teenage alienation in "Standing by the Sea" and the depiction of a murder in "Diane," to playful story-telling in "Books About UFOs," helped to expand the subject matter of hardcore punk. Hart died from cancer on September 14, 2017. Much has been made of the volatile relationship Hart had with Husker Du guitarist Bob Mould and the band's acrimonious break-up with fans of the band spliting into two camps and searching for cutting remarks on the solo albums of both men. However, in 2004 Hart and Mould reunited at the benefit concert for Karl Mueller, the bassist for fellow Minneapolis stalwarts, Soul Asylum, who was then fighting what would turn out to be a losing battle with cancer. Hart himself would later succumb to cancer in 2017 aged 56. Grant Hart was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the youngest child of a credit union employee and a shop teacher. Hart described his family as a "typical American dysfunctional family [...] Not very abusive, though. Nothing really to complain about."[3] When Hart was 10, his older brother was killed by a drunk driver. Hart inherited his brother's drum set and records; he soon began playing in a number of makeshift bands as a teenager. At the time, Hart had little interest in contemporary rock music. Instead, he preferred to listen to film soundtracks and bought cheap compilations of hit songs from the 1950s and 1960s. Hart met Bob Mould while working at a record store. Mould, then a college freshman, would buy marijuana from Hart. At first Hart dismissed Mould as "an upstater pretending to be a Manhattanite," but the two soon became friends. Hart formed Hüsker Dü in 1979 with Bob Mould and his friend Greg Norton. The band's early material had them lumped in with the hardcore movement of the early 1980s. The bandmembers received help from their parents in their early days. In Hart's case, his mother let him use the copier machine at the credit union where she worked to make show flyers,[5] and the band added $2,000 to an existing loan at the credit union to release the band's first single, "Statues," on their own label Reflex Records in 1981. Success existed on a small scale for the band; by 1982 Hart was unemployed and relied on support from friends and family. Hüsker Dü's music became more accomplished and melodic over time. By late 1982, Hart's drumming "rushed the music along more precisely than ever" and he and Mould, who traded vocal duties, were singing more tunefully.[8] While Mould was the band's primary songwriter, Hart began writing more songs. Hart wrote two songs for 1983's Metal Circus EP, the "perversely sing-along" "Diane" and the "impassioned speed-pop gem" "It's Not Funny Anymore." Hüsker Dü's more melodic take on hardcore struck a chord with college students, and various tracks from Metal Circus, particularly Hart's "Diane," were put into rotation by dozens of campus radio stations across the US. Hart was tagged by observers as the "hippie" of the group due to his long hair and his propensity to drum with bare feet; biographer Michael Azerrad additionally noted that "the wide-eyed sincerity of his songs was far more San Francisco '67 than New York City '77," which contrasted with Mould's "incisively bitter" songs. As Hart and Mould developed as musicians and songwriters, an unspoken tension and competition arose in the band between them. Tensions were heightened when Mould demanded that starting with 1984's Zen Arcade that the band's records contain individual songwriter credits. In spite of the creative tensions, Hüsker Dü garnered critical acclaim with the release of Zen Arcade and subsequent albums. Michael Azerrad stated that by 1985's Flip Your Wig "the two songwriters were trying their level best to outdo each other, and with spectacular results" Hüsker Dü had left the hardcore genre behind, which caused some discomfort with their label at the time, SST Records. In one interview, Hart hinted that SST thought Hüsker Dü were "soft" because they stayed in motels while touring and occasionally wrote happy songs. Hart elaborated, "We don't have to convince the world that we're suffering to convince them that we're artists... There's nothing wrong with being happy." Hart designed most of Hüsker Dü's album covers. In 1986 Hüsker Dü became the first key band from the American indie scene to sign with a major label, inking a deal with Warner Bros. Records. However, tensions within the band worsened after signing with Warner Bros. Hart became addicted to heroin following the band's tour behind their major label debut Candy Apple Grey in 1986, with Hart also being incorrectly diagnosed as HIV-positive in the middle of that year. Mould and Hart were feuding openly about Hart's drug use and creative conflicts, with Hart accusing Mould of ensuring he could not have more than 45 percent of the songs on each of the band's albums. The band dissolved after a show in Columbia, Missouri in 1987. Hart was trying to quit heroin using a supply of methadone, but the bottle had leaked. Hart played the show, but Mould and Norton were concerned Hart would soon be suffering from withdrawal and thus would be unable to play the next few shows. While Hart insisted he could perform, Mould had already canceled the dates. Hart quit the band four days later. Hart has said his drug use was not the reason for the band's demise, rather, it was the tensions between the band members. Hart said, "It just became that it was easier to be around Bob if you were playing a part of Bob's game," and also said he felt Mould's songs had become increasingly "square." Mould claims that the band officially called it quits after a band meeting at Hart's parents' house where Grant's mother claimed that it would be better for her son if Hüsker Dü only performed on "weekends." Though it was often rumored during his Hüsker Dü days that he and bandmate Mould were an item (Hart is openly bisexual, Mould is openly gay, and both acknowledge taking partners on tour), both have flatly denied ever having been romantically involved. Six months after Hüsker Dü's breakup, Hart discovered that his diagnosis as being HIV-positive was incorrect. In 1988 he released the solo EP, 2541, on Hüsker Dü's former label SST. The title is taken from the address of his former band's office and rehearsal house, where the members had at one time lived. Marshall Crenshaw would later cover the title song, as would the Go-Betweens' Robert Forster. After the release of the EP, Hart went further into sobriety, recording and releasing the album "Intolerance" and the associated EP "All of My Senses" in 1989 and 1990, respectively. In late 1989, he formed a new band, Nova Mob, with Michael Crego on drums, Tom Merkl on bass, and Hart himself taking guitar duties. The band took their name from the book Nova Express by William Burroughs; it had previously been used by an unrecorded group featuring the young Julian Cope and Pete Wylie. The band released their first EP Admiral of the Sea and album The Last Days of Pompeii in 1991. The lineup later changed with Marc Retish and then Steve Sutherland on drums, and Chris Hesler on lead guitar. The band routinely toured Europe to warm reception. Nova Mob released two full-length recordings, one EP and a handful of singles. They disbanded after the last record and a final tour. Hart returned to recording as a solo artist with the release of the live album Ecce Homo in 1995 and Good News for Modern Man in late 1999. In 2005 Hart and Mould reunited at the benefit concert for Karl Mueller, the bassist for fellow Minneapolis stalwarts, Soul Asylum, who was then fighting what would turn out to be a losing battle with cancer. Hart recorded his next solo album (and first in a decade), Hot Wax in Montreal and Minneapolis, MN. Hart told Britain's Q in September 2006, "I'm working on some stuff with the Godspeed You! Black Emperor people. They've given more of themselves in a few weeks than Bob did in nine years with Hüsker Dü." In 2008, he was one of the guest singers on Lotuk, the third album of Arsenal, a Belgian band combining roots and dance music. In the summer of 2008, Hart debuted a new track Schoolbuses are for children on his Myspace site. He released Hot Wax on October 6, 2009. Intolerance was reissued on February 9, 2010 on 180-gram vinyl, and The Last Days of Pompeii was reissued with extra tracks and new mastering on December 7, 2010. In December 2012, Grant embarked on a short tour of Ireland with a new lineup, Colm O' Herlihy on guitar, Dan Walsh on drums and Simon Dargan on bass In a recent Facebook Q&A, Hart commented " I love playing with these guys. They let me make music rather than getting bogged down administrating a band's business. They make it a joy with their self starting ways" He confirmed this lineup for his upcoming European and USA dates. Most recently, Hart released the double album "The Argument", based on John Milton's Paradise Lost, on July 22, 2013, . In October 2013, documentary filmmaker Gorman Bechard (Color Me Obsessed, about The Replacements) released Every Everything, the music, life & times of Grant Hart (2013) a film about Hart which chronicles the musician's life from birth to the recording of The Argument. Told in the style of the Errol Morris film "The Fog of War," Hart is the only interview subject in the film. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.