Hüsker Dü - 1985: The Miracle Year (4LP Boxset)

Hüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more?

Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the highest fidelity recordings of the band’s lauded SST era.

This 4xLP / 2xCD edition includes Beau Sorenson’s restoration of an entire January 30 1985 set, 20 extra live tracks from the year’s touring schedule, and a deluxe booklet detailing twelve months of history-making Hüsker Dü. What is the sound of a legend being written?

Looking at 1985 through the dynamic lens of independent DIY music, mid-decade, there was a year-long succession of leaps by Hüsker Dü, each building on the powerful and undeniable sprint from the scrappy punk institution SST to the artistic empathy of Warner Bros. As observers began to catch on, testimonials came from many quarters, including the New York Times, which recognized the band as “the best to have emerged from the hardcore scene.”  

Consistent with such praise, Hüsker Dü revealed a heightened creative pace rarely, if ever, seen in any musical era. Before or since. After blowing the doors off the burgeoning alt-rock movement with Zen Arcade the previous July, the band dropped New Day Rising just six months later on January 14, 1985, and then never stopped chasing the Hidden Beach sunrise that adorned that album’s cover.

AVAILABLE IN LIMITED EDITION EVERY EVERYTHING 4 x BLUE VINYL / STANDARD 4 x BLACK VINYL & 2 x CD

    Tracklist:
    January 30th, 1985 at First Ave (Sides A-D)
    Side A
    A1 New Day Rising
    A2 It’s Not Funny Anymore
    A3 Everything Falls Apart
    A4 The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
    A5 I Apologize
    A6 If I Told You
    A7 Folklore
    Side B
    B1 Every Everything
    B2 Makes No Sense At All
    B3 Terms Of Psychic Warfare
    B4 Powerline
    B5 Books About UFOs
    B6 Broken Home, Broken Heart
    B7 Diane
    Side C
    C1 Hate Paper Doll
    C2 Green Eyes
    C3 Divide And Conquer
    C4 Pink Turns To Blue
    C5 Eight Miles High
    Side D
    D1 Out On A Limb
    D2 Helter Skelter
    D3 Ticket To Ride
    D4 Love Is All Around
    Side E
    E1 Don't Want To Know If You're Lonely (11-3 SLC)
    E2 I Don't Know For Sure (11-3 SLC)
    E3 Hardly Getting Over It (11-3 SLC)
    E4 Sorry Somehow (11-3 SLC)
    E5 Eiffel Tower High (11-3 SLC)
    Side F
    F1 What's Going On (11-4 Boulder)
    F2 Private Plane (11-4 Boulder)
    F3 Celebrated Summer (11-4 Boulder)
    F4 All Work And No Play (10-31 Long Beach)
    Side G
    G1 Keep Hanging On (5-17 Newport, KY)
    G2 Find Me (5-17 Newport, KY)
    G3 Flexible Flyer (5-12 Washington DC)
    G4 Sunshine Superman (5-9 Hoboken)
    G5 In A Free Land (5-9 Hoboken)
    G6 Somewhere (5-15 Cleveland)
    Side H
    H1 Flip Your Wig (9-17 Frankfurt)
    H2 Never Talking To You Again (9-19 Lausanne)
    H3 Chartered Trips (9-19 Lausanne)
    H4 The Wit And The Wisdom (9-17 Frankfurt)
    H5 Misty Modern Days (10-26 Seattle)