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The band released its first studio album, Everything Falls Apart on its own label (Reflex Records) the following year. Hüsker Dü signed with SST Records in 1983, and released its next three albums with that label. The Warner Music Group released the band's last two studio albums. Hüsker Dü broke up in January 1988.
The following year, Hüsker Dü recorded the double album Zen Arcade in 45 hours for the cost of $3,200. [12] Zen Arcade is a concept album [citation needed] following a boy who leaves home to face a harsh and unforgiving world. Its artistic and conceptual ambitions were a great stretch given the purist sentiment then prevalent in U.S. punk rock.
PopMatters included the album on their list of "12 Essential Alternative Rock Albums from the 1980s", saying "New Day Rising was Hüsker Dü's first full-blown alterna-rock record. It's an album that captures a thoroughly road-tested band in its prime, one invigorated by its discovery of how to balance melody, noise, passion, and power without ...
Name Greg Norton Best known for High-flying bass player for Hüsker Dü, now leaping around stages with my new band, UltraBomb! Current city Red Wing, Minnesota Really want to be On the road ...
Flip Your Wig became SST's best-selling album at the time of its release, [17] moving 50,000 copies in its first four months. [5] By the time the album was released Hüsker Dü had signed a record deal with the major-label Warner Music Group, [18] who were keen to release the album themselves. [19]
Zen Arcade is the second studio album by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in July 1984 on SST Records.Originally released as a double album on two vinyl LPs, Zen Arcade tells the story of a young boy who runs away from an unfulfilling home life, only to find the world outside is even worse. [7]
The album was released on compact disc in 1993 as Everything Falls Apart and More, with bonus tracks including the band's first two singles, the full version of "Statues" lasting over eight minutes, and an unreleased track recorded in a St. Paul, Minnesota, basement called "Do You Remember?"
Mitch Griffin had a nice surprise for the small New York record label that tracked him down in Minneapolis, asking about a 1980 single by his old power-pop band the Jacks. The 7-inch record had ...