Aug 31, 2011

RhoDeo 1135 Aetix

Hello, todays Aetix moves away from New York and moves west to Minnesota to acclaim one of the best independents acts the eighties produced, Hüsker Dü Their seed would spawn but little did they know sumer of 83 when they were practicing in a church-turned-punk squat in St. Paul, Minnesota. The band fused together enough to record their breakthrough double album Zen Arcade in just 85 hours. it took the big labels another great album (New Day Rising) to notice that here was a band able to quickly translate their songs into quality recorded music. They just missed out on Flip Your Wig though they made their avances clear at that time. What followed were two acclaimed albums and the collapse of the band.

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Hüsker Dü never was more than a cult favorite. Nevertheless, their albums between 1981 and 1987 have proven remarkably influential; they provided the sonic blueprint for the roaring punk-pop hybrid that crossed over into the mainstream in the early '90s.

In 1979 the group that became Hüsker Dü formed when Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton and keyboardist Charlie Pine began playing together in Minnesota under the name Buddy and the Returnables. At the time, Mould was a freshman at Macalester College, and frequented Cheapo Discs where Hart was a sales clerk. Hart and Mould bonded over a shared love of the Ramones, and soon after enlisted Norton and Pine to form a band.

They owed their new name to a rather sloppy rehearsal of the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer". Unable to recall the French portions sung in the original ("qu'est-ce que c'est"), they began shouting any foreign-language terms they could remember, when someone said "Husker Du?", a board game that had been popular in the 1970s. The term means "Do you remember?" in Danish and Norwegian. The group added Heavy metal umlauts to complete the name. Mould reports that they liked "Hüsker Dü"'s somewhat mysterious qualities, which set them apart from other hardcore punk groups , besides they never thought of themselves as exclusively a hardcore group, and that their name was an attempt to avoid being pigeonholed. Hart, Mould, and Norton fired Pine during their first official performance, on March 30, 1979, and continued as a trio.

In the early '80s, Hüsker Dü developed a strong local following In 1981, they released their first single, "Statues," on the local label Reflex, which was quickly followed by their debut album, Land Speed Record. In 1982, they released Everything Falls Apart, their first album recorded in a studio. By this time, Hüsker Dü had begun touring the United States relentlessly, traveling across the country in a van and playing small clubs.

Hüsker Dü developed musically at a rapid pace, with Mould and Hart coming into their own as songwriters on 1984's Zen Arcade, their first album for SST Records and their critical breakthrough. Zen Arcade was a double album -- something that was completely unheard of in the underground -- that showed the band stretching out musically, writing sharper pop songs as well as lengthy abrasive instrumentals.

The group was at its peak in 1985, turning out two albums. The first, New Day Rising, was released in the spring and showed the band moving closer to concise pop songwriting while accentuating their fierce sonic barrage. Flip Your Wig, released late in 1985, featured their cleanest, most accessible production, without making any concessions to mainstream rock. Both albums received excellent reviews.During the recordings sessions for Flip Your Wig major label Warner Bros. Records approached Hüsker Dü and offered the group a recording contract, the promise of retaining complete creative control over its music convinced the band to sign with the label.

Candy Apple Grey was their first major label album, it was the first Hüsker Dü album to chart on the Billboard Top 200, but despite receiving exposure on radio as well as MTV, it could get no higher than #140. Meanwhile Mould began to clean up and Hart continued to sink further into drug and alcohol addiction. Nevertheless, they managed to write and record another double album, Warehouse: Songs and Stories. Although Warner didn't want the band to release another double record, Warehouse was released in the spring of 1987, to uniformly positive reviews.

Hüsker Dü was preparing to launch a series of concerts to support Warehouse when their manager, David Savoy, committed suicide the night before the start of the tour. Hüsker played the tour anyway but Savoy's suicide helped the inner-band turmoil reach a peak. Hart showed no signs of sobering -- he was developing a heroin addiction -- while Mould was clean. Following the Warehouse tour, the band played no more concerts for the rest of the year, which caused speculation that the group was breaking up. Those rumors were confirmed during the winter of 1987-1988, when Hart was fired and the band broke up.


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On their first studio recording, Everything Falls Apart, Hüsker Dü demonstrate a sharper sense of purpose than on their live debut, Land Speed Record, but that doesn't necessarily make the album a breakthrough. Indeed, the trio demonstrates that it's capable of powerful noise, but not songcraft -- the only song with a discernible hook is their thrashing cover of Donovan's "Sunshine Superman." Still, the band's hardcore is better than many of its contemporaries because its grasp of noise is superior. Even with the inconsistent songwriting, Everything Falls Apart rages with layers of blistering guitars and scorching rhythms that are exciting in their own right.


Hüsker Dü – Everything Falls Apart And More (83     284mb)

01 From The Gut 1:41
02 Blah, Blah, Blah 2:11
03 Punch Drunk 0:30
04 Bricklayer 0:33
05 Afraid Of Being Wrong 1:24
06 Sunshine Superman 1:56
07 Signals From Above 1:39
08 Everything Falls Apart 2:14
09 Wheels 2:07
10 Target 1:42
11 Obnoxious 0:54
12 Gravity 2:39
....and More
13 In A Free Land 2:53
14 What Do I Want? 1:14
15 M.I.C. 1:11
16 Statues 8:44
17 Let's Go Die 1:54
18 Amusement 4:57
19 Do You Remember? 1:55



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Hüsker Dü broke all of the rules with Zen Arcade. First and foremost, it's a sprawling concept album, even if the concept isn't immediately clear or comprehensible. More important are the individual songs. Without turning down the volume, Hüsker Dü try everything -- pop songs, tape experiments, acoustic songs, pianos, noisy psychedelia. They willed themselves to make such a sprawling record -- as the liner notes state, the album was recorded and mixed within 85 hours and consists almost entirely of first takes.

Hüsker Dü sound phenomenally strong and possessed, as if they could do anything. The sonic experimentation is bolstered by Mould and Hart's increased sense of songcraft. Neither writer is afraid to let his pop influences show on Zen Arcade. It's music that is informed by hardcore punk and indie rock ideals without being limited by them.

Zen Arcade and subsequent Hüsker Dü albums were instrumental in the creation of the alternative rock genre; the band would later abandon the hardcore aesthetic entirely in favor of a post-hardcore style of melodic, guitar-driven alternative rock. While not commercially successful, the influence of Zen Arcade has stretched beyond the underground music sphere, and it is frequently included on lists of the all-time best rock and roll albums and continues to have cult following.


Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (84    469mb)

01 Something I Learned Today 1:58
02 Broken Home, Broken Heart 2:01
03 Never Talking To You Again 1:39
04 Chartered Trips 3:33
05 Dreams Reoccuring 1:40
06 Indecision Time 2:07
07 Hare Krsna 3:33
08 Beyond The Threshold 1:35
09 Pride 1:45
10 I'll Never Forget You 2:06
11 The Biggest Lie1:58
12 What's Going On 4:23
13 Masochism World 2:43
14 Standing By The Sea 3:12
15 Somewhere 2:30
16 One Step At A Time 0:45
17 Pink Turns To Blue 2:39
18 Newest Industry 3:02
19 Monday Will Never Be The Same 1:10
20 Whatever 3:50
21 The Tooth Fairy And The Princess 2:43
22 Turn On The News 4:21
23 Reoccuring Dreams 13:47

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Flip Your Wig is a 1985 album by the American punk rock band, Hüsker Dü, and its last release on SST Records. By the time of this release, they had signed a major-label record deal. However, the band felt they owed one more album to SST and delivered Flip Your Wig. Perhaps owing to the expedient circumstances of its recording, Flip Your Wig is overall lighter in tone than Hüsker Dü's earlier albums. The title track and "Keep Hanging On" became staples of the band's live shows, while power pop anthem "Makes No Sense at All" was featured in a music video. Flip Your Wig would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing. Bob Mould himself has stated that Flip Your Wig is what he views as the best album Hüsker Dü ever did.


Hüsker Dü – Flip Your Wig (85      273mb)

01 Flip Your Wig 2:33
02 Every Everything 1:56
03 Makes No Sense At All 2:43
04 Hate Paper Doll 1:52
05 Green Eyes 2:58
06 Divide And Conquer 3:42
07 Games 4:06
08 Find Me 4:05
09 The Baby Song 0:46
10 Flexible Flyer 3:01
11 Private Plane 3:17
12 Keep Hanging On 3:15
13 The Wit & The Wisdom 3:41
14 Don't Know Yet 2:14

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A repost of these would be lovely, thanks.