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Zen Arcade (CD)

By: Husker Du (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Zen Arcade (CD) Album By Husker Du (Artist)
1   Something I Learned Today
2   Broken Home, Broken Heart
3   Never Talking To You Again
4   Chartered Trips
5   Dreams Reoccurring
6   Indecision Time
7   Hare Krsna
8   Beyond The Threshold
9   Pride
10   I'll Never Forget You
11   Biggest Lie, The
12   What's Going On
13   Masochism World
14   Standing By The Sea
15   Somewhere
16   One Step At A Time
17   Pink Turns To Blue
18   Newest Industry
19   Monday Will Never Be The Same
20   Whatever
21   Tooth Fairy And The Princess, The
22   Turn On The News
23   Reoccurring Dreams
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #33 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The '80s survey.
Spin - "...explodes the established boundaries of the hardcore genre..."
Q (1/96, p.152) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the sound is rough...[but] most of ZEN ARCADE is genuinely listenable....one of the great American punk albums..."
Vibe (12/99, p.164) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #11 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...Raging with metallic distress and great songs..."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/01, pp.114-5) - "...Plausibly captures the sound of a heart breaking, such is the ferocity of the performances. Songwriters Grant Hart and Bob Mould push each other to the extremes of evisceration..."

Title Note

Husker Du: Bob Mould (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, bass, percussion); Grant Hart (vocals, piano, drums, percussion); Greg Norton (bass, background vocals).

Additional personnel includes: Dez, Spot (vocals).

Recorded at Total Access, Redondo Beach, California in October 1983.

Husker Du really hit their stride on this sprawling 1984 release. ZEN ARCADE established the band as one of the leading lights on the American indie scene. The 23 songs are loosely linked to a narrative structure about a young man who leaves home, only to discover the world to be as oppressive and full of hypocrisy as home life had been. The songs show a marked increase in variety.

Along with classic Mould scream-fests ("The Biggest Lie," "Chartered Trips"), there are goosebump-inducing mini-anthems ("Whatever," "Newest Industry"), songs of eerie beauty (Hart's bewitching ode to a dead friend, "Pink Turns to Blue") and over-the-top feedback-drenched experiments like the 14-minute instrumental closer "Reoccurring Dreams." With this album, the dichotomy between Mould and Hart became clearly defined. Mould's songs are built around his explosive growl, while Hart emerges as the "poppier" one on the acoustic "Never Talking to You Again" and "Turn on the News," one of Hnsker's finest moments ever.

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