17 March 1986 saw the first major label release for Hüsker Dü, with their fifth album Candy Apple Grey.

Not only a sonic blueprint for the upcoming alternative music wave that would take the early 90's mainstream by storm, the ever evolving hardcore underground legends showed other indie bands that it was indeed possible to go 'major' without losing integrity and creative vision.

02. Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely

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40 years ago today
Candy Apple Grey is the fifth album by the punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released March 17, 1986 and featuring the singles "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" and "Sorry Somehow".

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💀 ROUND IV - Phase 1 - match 10/14

Which one is the best Punk Rock album?

🧷 Bikini Kill, Pussy Whipped (1993)
or
🧷 Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade (1984)

➡️See pinned post on profile for the tournament rules

 Please 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗦𝗧

🎧 YOU ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO GIVES EACH ALBUM A FRESH LISTEN BEFORE VOTING

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Happy Birthday to Gregory James Norton, American musician and bassist on all of Hüsker Dü's recordings from their formation to their breakup in 1989, born on this day in 1959 in Davenport, Iowa

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