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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I saw them around 1981. I like this song, it's more melodic than their earlier stuff which I wasn't into. I felt like hardcore was ruining punk rock. I'll have to revisit their music "with better eyes".
Where they got their name from:
https://archive.org/details/youtube-tHJonU8HNyQ
Taped in 1977 but this commercial looks older, then a promo for the Dragnet 60s revival show on channel 43 in Cleveland (with fuzzy UHF reception.)
Nice! I haven't seen the specific clip – thanks for sharing!
I like their earlier pre-Zen Arcade stuff, just as well.
Overall, way less melodic and vocally harsher for sure, but there are still first bits of their later evolution, esp. on Metal Circus, with this one for instance being played live since '81:
06. Diane
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