CLASSIC. For New Day Rising, the follow-up to their breakthrough double-album Zen Arcade, Hüsker Dü replaced concept with conciseness, concentrating on individual songs delivered as scalding post-hardcore pop. New Day Rising is not only a more vicious and relentless record than Zen Arcade, it's more melodic. A positively cathartic record, ranking as Hüsker Dü's most sustained moment of pure power.

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VINYL FORMAT. 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...   [ read more ]

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Zen Arcade is and was a "punk opera" which took Husker Du far beyond anything that they'd acheived before in sound, depth, and vision. This was "Tommy" for a new generation of kids and it holds up nicely and fiercely today. An essential punk-rock classic.

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