"Makes No Sense at All" is a song by
Hüsker Dü from the album ''
Flip Your Wig
''Flip Your Wig'' is the fourth album by American band Hüsker Dü, released in September 1985. It was the best-selling album to that point for the band's label SST Records, and the last they made for that label. As the band's first self-produce ...
''. Written by
Bob Mould, the song was one that Mould felt aged well. The song was released as the debut single from the album, reaching number 2 on the UK indie charts.
The song has since seen positive critical reception and has been performed live by both Hüsker Dü and Mould at his solo shows.
Background
"Makes No Sense at All" was written by Hüsker Dü singer and guitarist
Bob Mould. The track demonstrated Hüsker Dü's continued move away from their
hardcore punk roots to a more melodic, pop-influenced style. Mould said of the song,
Mould described the song as the song that the band would play if the band "knew there would only be seven minutes left before the missiles fell."
Release
"Makes No Sense at All" was the only
single
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from ''Flip Your Wig''. The single's B-side was a cover of "Love Is All Around", the theme song to ''
The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. The single was a hit on the indie circuits, reaching number 2 on the UK indie charts.
Music videos for both "Makes No Sense at All" and "Love Is All Around" were produced. These featured clips of the band and shots of
Minneapolis.
For the "Love is All Around" sequence the video has the band copying iconic scenes from the Minneapolis-based ''Mary Tyler Moore Show'' opening credit sequence, such as leaving
Dayton's and riding the
escalator and
eating at the
IDS Center.
Mould continues to perform "Makes no Sense at All" during his solo tours.
Reception
In a review on
AllMusic, the song is called "perhaps the group's greatest fusion of punk and pop...Mould had, quite simply, written one of his best melodies, capable of containing the furious energy of his guitar style while still offering a potent melodic hook that made the most of the band's psychedelic undertow."
Rob Tannenbaum of ''
Rolling Stone'' said the song "could almost be termed catchy."
Charts
References
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1985 songs
Hüsker Dü songs
Song recordings produced by Bob Mould
Songs written by Bob Mould
SST Records singles
American power pop songs