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| From | Dan Taylor <editor@hungovergourmet.com> |
| Subject | Re: the 1000 albums to hear before you die |
| Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:04:46 -0500 |
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Glad to see 'New Day Rising' get its due. Seems like most of these
lists include 'Zen Arcade' which, while sprawling and brilliant in
spots, isn't the start-to-finish masterpiece that is 'New Day
Rising'. I still remember walking to class and listening to my buddy
Frank's radio show. He was the first to drop the needle on the record
over our station's airwaves and he chose the title cut... I think I
cut my next class so I could go to the station and hear the whole thing.
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Dan Taylor / editor@hungovergourmet.com
THE HUNGOVER GOURMET
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On Nov 20, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Stewart Mason wrote:
> Hüsker Dü
> New Day Rising (1985)
> of hardcore bands, but their roots went back further, into music
> considered verboten under punk's scorched-earth doctrine:
> songwriters Bob Mould and Grant Hart were Beatles and Byrds fans.
> New Day Rising saw them merge their hardcore past and their
> penchant for 60s rock. The album blazes with a gospel-like fervour,
> the work of a band with a point to prove. The torrential results
> reflect the amphetamine-fuelled blur in which it was recorded. It's
> not merely the velocity, but the number of ideas: the title track's
> frazzled psychedelia, the jaunty swing of Books About UFOs,
> Celebrated Summer's surges from wistful acoustic lament to full-
> throated roar. By harnessing the aggression of hardcore to a pop
> sensibility, New Day Rising would ultimately change the face of
> American rock music, setting a course that led via the Pixies to
> Nirvana. Hüsker Dü wouldn't survive to see it. In 1988, they split
> in appalling circumstances: their manager committed suicide, and
> Hart, incorrectly diagnosed as HIV positive, had become a heroin
> addict.
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