Rating:***** (Good Shit)
produced: Spot and Husker Du
released September 1984
Four-sider concept album from this Minnesota hardcore outfit. It sounded like a stupid idea but it sounds great, the trio managing to stretch the sound without losing their vision of a hardcore world, plenty of straightforward HC, but some cuts blurring the fuzz into an almost acid-rock sound.
It’s easy to hear how this not only influenced many bands at the time of its release but also bands years later, including outfits at the end of the 80s that would help launch the sounds of the 90s. (Unfortunately, most of the bands of the 90s seemed to completely forget the lessons of this album.)
While this perhaps would have been better served if distilled down to two sides, who am I to tell Husker what to do. As it sits, it remains one of the few double albums that managed to fill all four sides without going into filler material. It’s a classic.
— winch (author of…http://www.eight-track.com/Eight_Track_Publishing.php)
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