HUSKER DU ZEN ARCADE 2LP ORIG 1985 Sugar Mould Nova Mob Replacements Pixies SST

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Hüsker Dü ?– Zen Arcade
Label:  SST Records ?– SST 027
Format:  2 × Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country:  US
Released:  Jul 1984
Genre:  Rock
Style:  Hardcore, Punk
Tracklist:
A1 Something I Learned Today Written-By – B. Mould 1:58 A2 Broken Home, Broken Heart Written-By – B. Mould 2:01 A3 Never Talking To You Again Written-By – Grant Hart 1:39 A4 Chartered Trips Piano – Bob, Grant Written-By – B. Mould 3:33 A5 Dreams Recurring Written-By – B. Mould, G. Hart, G. Norton 1:40 A6 Indecision Time Written-By – B. Mould 2:07 A7 Hare Krsna Performer [Did All The Stuff] – Grant Written-By – B. Mould, G. Hart, G. Norton 3:33 B1 Beyond The Threshold Written-By – B. Mould 1:35 B2 Pride Written-By – B. Mould 1:45 B3 I'll Never Forget You Written-By – B. Mould 2:06 B4 The Biggest Lie Written-By – B. Mould 1:58 B5 What's Going On Piano – Grant Written-By – G. Hart 4:23 B6 Masochism World Written-By – B. Mould, G. Hart 2:43 B7 Standing By The Sea Piano – Grant Voice [Yell] – Spot Written-By – G. Hart 3:12 C1 Somewhere Lyrics By [Words] – Grant Written-By – B. Mould, G. Hart 2:30 C2 One Step At A Time Piano – Bob Written-By – B. Mould, G. Hart 0:45 C3 Pink Turns To Blue Written-By – G. Hart 2:39 C4 Newest Industry Piano – Bob Written-By – B. Mould 3:02 C5 Monday Will Never Be The Same Piano – Bob, Grant Written-By – B. Mould 1:10 C6 Whatever Written-By – B. Mould 3:50 C7 The Tooth Fairy And The Princess Performer [Did All The Stuff] – Bob Written-By – B. Mould 2:43 D1 Turn On The News Bass – Bob Written-By – G. Hart 4:21 D2 Recurring Dreams Written-By – B. Mould, G. Hart, G. Norton 13:47
Companies:
Copyright (c) – Cesstone Music Phonographic Copyright (p) – SST Records Recorded At – Total Access Recording Studios Mixed At – Total Access Recording Studios Mastered At – Greg Lee Processing – L-17380
Credits:
Artwork – Fake Name Graphx Bass, Backing Vocals – Greg Norton Drums, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Piano – Grant Hart Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Piano – Bob Mould Photography By [Cover Photos] – Mark Peterson Producer, Engineer – Hüsker Dü, Spot
Notes:
©1984 Cesstone Music (BMI)  ?1984 SST Records  Recorded & mixed at Total Access, Rondo Beach, CA, October 1983  All songs ?© Cesstone Music (BMI)  Whoever wrote the songs sings it, except for track C1  Track D2 is live-done track, no overdubs or funny stuff  Everything on the record is first-take, except for A1 & C4, which started too fast  We all throw chairs during track B2  There were only two out-takes from these sessions, "Dozen Dreams" and "Some Kind Of Fun"  The whole thing took about 85 hours, the last 40 hours straight for mixing  Carducci wants another album already, but not another double LP 
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Matrix / Runout (Etchings Side A): SST-2-027-A, L-17380, K disc, FALLING, SHIRLEY - EVERYTIME I SQUARE OFF AGAINST SOMEONE'S GOD Matrix / Runout (Etchings Side B): SST-2-027-B, L-17380, I SPEND THE REST OF THE NIGHT (OR DAY) HALLUCINATING Matrix / Runout (Etchings Side C): SST-2-027-C, L-17380, AND NOW IT IS THE VISIONS OF A JOYOUS HELL... Matrix / Runout (Etchings Side D): SST-2-027-D, L-17380, ...WITHIN THE CIRCUITS THAT MAKE PAC-MEN DIE AND VESSELS DISINTEGRATE
Legendary and influential punk/hardcore trio which formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in 1979. Hüsker Dü (which means "Do You Remember" in Danish and Norwegian) mixed pop and punk music and consisted of guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton and drummer Grant Hart. They started out as an aggressive hardcore thrash band before challenging that genre's restrictions and expanding to other musical formats. After releasing a string of innovative, but commercially unsuccessful albums Hüsker Dü split in 1988 due to Grant Hart's alcohol and drug problems and suicide of band's manager David Savoy Jr., who was considered an important part of the band. Bob Mould went on to form Sugar, while Grant Hart formed Nova Mob with both of them disbanding respective groups in the mid 90s and going only with solo projects . Greg Norton is no longer in the music business, and he became a successful restaurant owner.
The members of Hüsker Dü desired to escape the restrictions of the hardcore genre. In an interview with Steve Albini for his Matter column in 1983, singer and guitarist Bob Mould told Albini: "We're going to try to do something bigger than anything like rock & roll and the whole puny touring band idea. I don't know what it's going to be, we have to work that out, but it's going to go beyond the whole idea of 'punk rock' or whatever." The following year, Hüsker Dü recorded the double album Zen Arcade in 45 hours for the cost of $3,200. Zen Arcade is a concept album 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. Zen Arcade received critical praise and significant mainstream music press attention, ending up on several year end best-of lists; it also helped expand the band's audience beyond the punk community. In his review for Rolling Stone, David Fricke described Zen Arcade as "the closest hardcore will ever get to an opera ... a kind of thrash Quadrophenia."In 1989, Zen Arcade was ranked #33 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. SST erred on the side of caution and initially pressed between 3,500 and 5,000 copies of the album, but the record sold out a few weeks into the band's tour to support the record. The album remained out of stock for months afterward, which affected sales and frustrated the band.
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