HUSKER DU – DO YOU REMEMBER: 1985 the MIRACLE YEAR (2 CD)

Description

1985 is the year in which Hüsker Dü released two important albums, “New Day Rising” (in January) and “Flip Your Wig” (in September): the last two albums for the indie label SST Records before the controversial move to the major label Warner Bros. The live recordings restored for Numero Group by the sound engineer Beau Sorenson also date back to that period: particularly interesting is the first CD which recovers from the group’s archives an entire and incendiary concert which took place on January 30, 1985 at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis and during which the trio composed of Bob Mould (vocals and guitar), Grant Hart (drums and guitar) and Greg Norton (bass) takes pieces from “Everything Falls Apart”, “Metal Circus” and “Zen Arcade” alongside the new songs from “New Day Rising”, five previews from “Flip Your Wig” (including the future classic “Makes No Sense At All”) and overwhelming covers of the Byrds (“Eight Miles High”), the Beatles (“Helter Skelter”) and the Beatles (“Helter Skelter”). Skelter”, “Ticket To Ride”) and Sonny Curtis (“Love Is All Around”, the theme song from the famous American television program “Mary Tyler Moore Show”). The second disc collects further material recorded live during the year in Salt Lake City, Boulder, Long Beach, Newport, Washington DC, Hoboken, Cleveland, Frankfurt, Lausanne and Seattle: the setlist includes previously unreleased songs such as “Don’t Want To Know If You’re Lonely”, “Hardly Getting Over It”, “Sorry Somehow” and “Eiffel Tower High” (all included in 1986’s “Candy Apple Grey”) and the cover of Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman”. The package includes a 36-page booklet that traces the tumultuous history of the band in those fateful twelve months.

CD 1: Live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN – 1/30/1985

New Day Rising
It’s Not Funny Anymore
Everything Falls Apart
The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
I Apologize
If I Told You
Folklore
Every Everything
Makes No Sense At All
Terms of Psychic Warfare
Powerline
Books About UFOs
Broken Home, Broken Heart
Diane
Hate Paper Doll
Green Eyes
Divide and Conquer
Pink Turns to Blue
Eight Miles High
Out on a Limb
Helter Skelter
Ticket to Ride
Love is All Around

CD 2: Additional live material

Don’t Want to Know If You’re Lonely (Live at Horticulture Building, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, UT – 11/3/1985)
I Don’t Know for Sure (Live at Horticulture Building, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, UT – 11/3/1985)
Hardly Getting Over It (Live at Horticulture Building, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, UT – 11/3/1985)
Sorry Somehow (Live at Horticulture Building, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, UT – 11/3/1985)
Eiffel Tower High (Live at Horticulture Building, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, UT – 11/3/1985)
What’s Going On (Live at Blue Note, Boulder, CO – 11/4/1985)
Private Plane (Live at Blue Note, Boulder, CO – 11/4/1985)
Celebrated Summer (Live at Blue Note, Boulder, CO – 11/4/1985)
All Work and No Play (Live at Fender’s Ballroom, Long Beach, CA – 10/31/1985)
Keep Hanging On (Live at The Jockey Club, Newport, KY – 5/17/1985)
Find Me (Live at The Jockey Club, Newport, KY – 5/17/1985)
Flexible Flyer (Live at The 9:30 Club, Washington, DC – 5/12/1985)
Sunshine Superman (Live at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ – 5/9/1985)
In a Free Land (Live at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ – 5/9/1985)
Somewhere (Live at Peabody’s Down Under, Cleveland, OH – 5/15/1985)
Flip Your Wig (Live at Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany – 9/17/1985)
Never Talking to You Again (Live at La Dolce Vita, Lausanne, Switzerland – 9/19/1985)
Chartered Trips (Live at La Dolce Vita, Lausanne, Switzerland – 9/19/1985)
The Wit and the Wisdom (Live at Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany – 9/17/1985)
Misty Modern Days (Live at Gorilla Gardens, Seattle, WA – 10/26/1985)