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Land Speed Record is the debut full-length record by Hüsker Dü, released in January 1982. It was recorded live on August 15, 1981, at the 7th Street Entry, a venue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The album is a fast and furious hardcore workout that bears almost no resemblance to the melodic post-hardcore that the band became known for in the mid '80s. The title has a triple meaning, referring to 1) the band's ability to play as fast as they could (there are 17 songs crammed into 26½ minutes) 2) their penchant for [amphetamine] pills and 3) the play-on-words that it is a "record," an album.

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All Tensed Up
Don't Try To Call
I'm Not Interested
Guns At My School
Push The Button
Gilligan's Island
MTC
Don't Have A Life
Bricklayer
Tired Of Doing Things
You're Naive
Strange Week
Do The Bee
Big Sky
Ultracore
Let's Go Die
Data Control
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