
They are said to have ‘discovered’ their band name more or
less by themselves, during their first rehearsals. One of the songs on their
earliest setlist was Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads. Their version of that
number rambled a bit, mainly because the band members had no command of the
French part of the text (which really isn't all that hard: ‘qu’est-ce que c’est?’ or keskasay,
meaning ‘What is that?’).
This part of the text was filled in
à l'improviste with all kinds of foreign terms that the band members could reproduce
successfully. One of those terms was Hûsker Dû (originally written with accents
circonflexes or ^), which is Norwegian (or Danish) for 'Do you remember?'.
Hûsker Dû was a kind of Memory board game, first brought out on the Scandinavian market
by games manufacturer Pressman around 1950. The description at that time said it
was a game in which it is possible that children trump adults. About as exciting as a game of Ludo or Parcheesi, say.
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