Poison Years
Mould's brief, post-Hüsker Dü, pre-Sugar solo career is summed up in 14 tracks. The three offerings fromWorkbook(1989) prove why that surprising disc is on more than a few desert island lists (it was acoustic and introspective, not incendiary), while the Dü-like and critically reviledBlack Sheets of Rain(1990) is leagues more impressive now that we've endured years of assembly line grunge.--Jeff Bateman