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Hüsker Dü
New Day Rising
(SST, 1985)
The post-hardcore power trio's best long player.
I still remember that bright spring Saturday afternoon in 1985 when I first heard New Day Rising. I'd bought it in Probe Records on Button Street in Liverpool and I think I was served by grumpy Bob Parker, guitarist with vastly underrated Scouse psych goblins, the Walking Seeds. But now I was back home, Final Score was on, with the sound down, mum had just made the "lazy Saturday tea" of pork and salad baps, dad was reading the paper, and my older brother was studying the lyric sheet. None, I think, were prepared for the glorious, soaring bank of discount drums and razor guitars and the repeated screaming of "New day rising!" that was the opening title track. My brother was 32 back then, I was 17. He and his best friend Alan (who had one of the best psych record collections on Merseyside - some feat) were inevitably professorial in their overseeing of my early attempts to assemble a cool record collection of my own. So dad cleared his throat, mum stayed in the kitchen, but half way through Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill, amidst the blissed-out electric storm, and Bob Mould and Grant Hart's screamed chorus harmonies, I'm sure I heard by brother murmur his assent. Listening to it again today (ten years older than my brother was then) I can understand why. For all its confrontational hardcore attack, NDR remains a joyous album, and still retains that bracingly bright feel of summer light on still-cold days. Whether it's Greg Norton's walking bass intro and the woah-ho-ho! backing vocals on Terms Of Psychic Warfare or Grant Hart's joyous teenage love song, Books About UFOs (the only example of honky-tonk piano ever being put to good use on a rock song) New Day Rising remains an album of euphoric, giddy pleasure, the most fun you can have while still sticking it to The Man.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 11/02/2010
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Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig (SST, 1985)
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I love this record but would still put Zen Arcade as their best album
Posted by Owen at 6:07 PM GMT 11/02/2010 Report Abuse
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I love this record but would still put Zen Arcade as their best album
Posted by Owen at 6:22 PM GMT 11/02/2010 Report Abuse
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I was also 17 the first time I heard New Day Rising. From that moment, Husker Du was MY band. They were also my first concert a few years later at RPM in Toronto. I managed to talk to Grant Hart for a couple of minutes. The track "Celebrated Summer" is still a favourite.
Posted by Mike Rawding at 11:53 PM GMT 11/02/2010 Report Abuse
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I was also 17 when I first heard New Day Rising at my buddy Neil's house. I Apologize and Celebrated Summer were standout tracks. From that moment on, the Huskers were MY band. Seeing them live in '87 at RPM, Toronto was my first concert. A golden moment!
Posted by Mike Rawding at 11:56 PM GMT 11/02/2010 Report Abuse
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still gets a regular run out in my house.
great stuff indeed.
is everyone commenting 42 - yeah - me too - weird
Posted by himself at 12:57 PM GMT 15/02/2010 Report Abuse
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Any one of Husker Du's albums could be my favourite, New Day Rising is still as exhilarating now as when I first heard it.
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