{"product_id":"825764125024","title":"HUSKER DU – 1985: THE MIRACLE YEAR - CD •","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC: 825764125024 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLabel: NUMERO GROUP \u003cbr\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: November 7, 2025\u003cbr\u003eIn stock items ship within 48 hours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more? Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the highest fidelity recordings of the band’s lauded SST era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking at 1985 through the dynamic lens of independent DIY music, mid-decade, there was a year-long succession of leaps by Hüsker Dü, each building on the powerful and undeniable sprint from the scrappy punk institution SSTto the artistic empathy of Warner Bros. As observers began to catch on, testimonials came from many quarters, including the New York Times, which recognized the band as “the best to have emerged from the hardcore scene.”  Consistent with such praise, Hüsker Dü revealed a heightened creative pace rarely, if ever, seen in any musical era. Before or since. After blowing the doors off the burgeoning alt-rock movement with Zen Arcadethe previous July, the band dropped New Day Rising just six months later on January 14, 1985, and then never stopped chasing the Hidden Beach sunrise that adorned that album’s cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn January 30, 1985, Minneapolis reached -11° at show time, marking 19 points of mercilessly dropped mercury from the day’s 8° apex. The 1500 attendees inside First Avenue, however, wouldn’t be needing so much as a T-shirt, let alone the nearest fiberfill parka: from the first blinding moments of “New Day Rising,” it was clear that Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton had arrived intent on setting every molecule in the room alight. Their setlist displayed a night-long cascade of fireballs chosen from Everything Falls Apart, Metal Circus, Zen Arcade, and New Day Rising, and five new songs that would reappear later on Flip Your Wig. They also made several nods to the band’s rock forbears, with a ballistic take on The Byrds’ “Eight Miles High,” a turbulent spin on The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” featuring Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner, a pop-punk remake of “Ticket To Ride, ” and closing with their signature cover of Sonny Curtis’s Mary Tyler Moore theme “Love Is All Around.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidering the late-January 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive, it has to be reckoned as a kind of subordinate miracle that the 1985 First Avenue tapes survived at all. They deliver peak Dü at full gallop through already beloved material, still years shy of fully cementing their status as a blueprint for the alternative rock skyscraper to come. This box set celebrates these tapes, strikingly perhaps the highest fidelity Hüsker Dü recordings ever produced during the band’s lauded SST years. “When I think of that time,” Greg comments, “it was three guys doing what they loved, having fun, and basically showing other people that you can be true to yourself, true to your music, and not have to bow down to fashion or expectations to make something really great.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACK LIST:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"list-unstyled\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eJanuary 30th, 1985 at First Ave (Sides A-D)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eNew Day Rising\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eIt’s Not Funny Anymore \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eEverything Falls Apart\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA4\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eThe Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA5\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eI Apologize\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA6\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eIf I Told You\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eA7\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eFolklore\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eEvery Everything \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eMakes No Sense At All\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eTerms Of Psychic Warfare\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB4\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003ePowerline\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB5\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eBooks About UFOs\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB6\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eBroken Home, Broken Heart\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eB7\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eDiane\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eC1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eHate Paper Doll\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eC2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eGreen Eyes\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eC3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eDivide And Conquer\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eC4\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003ePink Turns To Blue\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eC5\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eEight Miles High\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eD1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eOut On A Limb\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eD2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eHelter Skelter\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eD3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eTicket To Ride\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eD4\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eLove Is All Around\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eE1\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eDon't Want To Know If You're Lonely (11-3 SLC)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eE2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eI Don't Know For Sure (11-3 SLC)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"artist\"\u003eE3\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"title\"\u003eHardly Getting Over It (11-3 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