Warehouse: Songs and Stories by Husker Du

Warehouse: Songs and Stories was Hüsker Dü's sixth and last studio album, a double LP released by Warner Bros. on January 19, 1987, and it's the sound of the Saint Paul trio who'd come up through hardcore now writing big, bruised pop songs at full volume. The title comes from the warehouse space they rented to write and rehearse in.

Bob Mould and Grant Hart split the songwriting and the lead vocals, Mould's baritone against Hart's higher voice, with Greg Norton's bass in the middle, and the split was a sore point: Mould told Hart he would never get more than half the songs on a Hüsker Dü album. "Could You Be the One" and "These Important Years" bury bittersweet hooks under the buzz, and that more grown-up writing cost them some longtime fans. The band broke up after the tour, partly over disagreements between Mould and Hart about Hart's drug use, and after their manager David Savoy died by suicide in February 1987.

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