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Land Speed Record - 2025 Repress

    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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    Metal Circus - 2025 Repress

      Recorded and released in 1983, at the peak of their hardcore punk period, where speed, rage and intensity still ruled, but with increased melodicism seeping-in, especially on Grant Hart’s songs. Seven tracks of sonic perfection (with three other outtakes used for compilation contributions, and Standing By The Sea put on hold till appearing on Zen Arcade, half a year later) featuring Bob Mould guitar work at its speed-driven, open-stringed, best.

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      Real World (2:27)
      Deadly Skies (1:50)
      Its Not Funny Anymore (2:12)
      First Of The Last Calls (2:48)
      Lifeline (2:19)
      Diane (4:42)
      Out On A Limb (2:39)

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      New Day Rising - 2025 Repress

        New Day Rising is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü. It was released in 1985 through SST Records. The album continued the move away from the fast hardcore punk of the band's earliest releases toward slower and more melodic material.

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        New Day Rising
        Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
        I Apologize
        Folk Lore
        If I Told You
        Celebrated Summer
        Perfect Example
        Terms Of Psychic Warfare
        59 Times The Pain
        Powerline
        Books About UFOs
        I Don't Know What You're Talking About
        How To Skin A Cat
        Whatcha Drinkin'
        Plans I Make

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        Flip Your Wig

          Spot, SST's house producer who manned the boards for 'Zen Arcade' and 'New Day Rising', didn't produce 'Flip Your Wig', Hüsker Dü's second album of 1985, and the difference is immediately noticeable. Everything on 'Flip Your Wig' is cleaner and brighter than on its two immediate predecessors, which is appropriate, considering that Bob Mould and Grant Hart have only increased their debt to 60s pop. The hooks and melodies are on the surface, right from the kick-start call-and-response of the title track. On paper, it might sound as if Hüsker Dü have watered down their hardcore ideals, but it doesn't play that way. 'Flip Your Wig' is pop played as punk, as if this is the only time these songs could ever be heard. Which means Hart's love song "Green Eyes" and Mould's pure pop single "Makes No Sense at All" are delivered with the same rage and passion as Mould's blistering "Divide and Conquer" and Hart's "Keep Hanging On," or the pair of surging, neo-psychedelic and noise-wracked instrumentals that close the album. 'Flip Your Wig' would be a remarkable record on its own terms, but the fact that it followed 'New Day Rising' by a matter of months and Zen Arcade by just over a year is simply astonishing.

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          Flip Your Wig 2:33
          Every Everything 1:56
          Makes No Sense At All 2:43
          Hate Paper Doll 1:52
          Green Eyes 2:58
          Divide And Conquer 3:42
          Games 4:06
          Find Me 4:05
          The Baby Song 0:46
          Flexible Flyer 3:01
          Private Plane 3:17
          Keep Hanging On 3:15
          The Wit And The Wisdom 3:41
          Don't Know Yet 2:14


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