MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS
OVER A REMARK ABLE 40-year career as a member of the bands Hüsker Dü and Sugar, and as a solo artist, Bob Mould has garnered his fair share of huzzahs and hosannas. His aggressive and highly dramatic signature guitar style was famously admired — and emulated — by bands like the Pixies and Nirvana, among others, and a number of his albums have topped critics’ polls and “greatest records of all time” lists.
All of which the 61-year-old singer-songwriter and guitarist takes with healthy doses of humility and perspective. “I think I’m the same as any musician,” he says. “I’m grateful when anyone pays attention to the work I do, let alone when colleagues or other people make such wonderful comments about it. To me, it all goes back to when I heard the first Ramones album and thought, Wow, anybody can do this. That’s no slight to the Ramones; I’m just talking about the simplicity and beauty of it. To go from that day to today, talking about ‘greatest albums of all time’ — that’s quite a leap and a stretch.”
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