Charles Thompson was listening closely to Hüsker Dü’s aggro-pop (as well as Hüsker Dü’s Scottish cousins the Jesus and Mary Chain) and would later use many of their ideas in his own band, the Pixies. In turn, a scruffy misfit from rural Aberdeen, Washington, named Kurt Cobain would hear Thompson’s band and transfer those ideas to his band Nirvana. Countless other key bands of the alternative era, from Soul Asylum to Superchunk, owe a huge debt to Hüsker Dü.
