Hüsker Dü - 1985: The Miracle Year (2025)

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Date: Nov. 6, 2025

Hüsker Dü - 1985: The Miracle Year (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.03 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 306 MB
2:10:38 | Hardcore Punk, Punk Rock | Label: Numero Group

You'll never know what the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 CE sounded like. Nor can you hear a recording of the first real cannon blast, which probably occurred in 13th century China. Fortunately, technology had advanced sufficiently by 1985 to capture another of history's important explosions: Hüsker Dü onstage at the peak of their powers. That year would have been momentous enough for the Twin Cities trio if it had ushered in either the band's third album, New Day Rising, or its equally essential follow-up, Flip Your Wig. The fact that the band banged them both out in '85 neatly underlines this archival live document's subtitle, The Miracle Year. Having fully matured from their hardcore punk beginnings without losing any of their intensity, the Hüskers were on fire in 1985, and this is where you hear the flames crackling.

The first section fully documents Hüsker Dü's January 30 show (just two weeks after the release of New Day Rising) at Minneapolis's famed First Avenue club. It's a wonder that the venue's stage wasn't incinerated by the time Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton got through with it. Tunes like "I Apologize" and "Books About UFOs" were (almost literally) hot off the presses at the time, and you can feel all the force and freshness behind their mix of punky momentum and power-pop hooks. The frenzied fury of "Divide and Conquer" and moody melodic moves of "Green Eyes" were still several months away from making their recorded debut, but Hüsker Dü treated the crowd to an intoxicating glimpse of the near future by trotting them out that night.

Part two of the package fills out the story with 20 more live-in-'85 tracks from gigs around the country (and a few in Europe). Soon-to-be signature tunes like "Celebrated Summer" and "Private Plane" were not yet underground anthems, but Mould's barnstorming riffs and the rocket-fueled propulsion of the Hart/Norton rhythm team were already rattling the rafters.

Both halves of The Miracle Year allow a deeper look into Hüsker Dü's musical makeup via the band's brilliantly deployed cover tunes. Whether they were reimagining the swooping psychedelia of The Byrds' "Eight Miles High" as a nuclear air strike or revving Donovan's flower-power groover "Sunshine Superman" up into a manic surf-punk stomp, the Dü did it their way, for every second of every show. That's what put them at the core of the American indie rock revolution, and it's what makes this collection more than just a nostalgic artifact from a magic moment. © Jim Allen

Tracklist
Disc 1
1. New Day Rising (02:25)
2. It’s Not Funny Anymore (01:54)
3. Everything Falls Apart (01:51)
4. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (02:47)
5. I Apologize (03:29)
6. If I Told You (01:52)
7. Folklore (01:34)
8. Every Everything (01:48)
9. Makes No Sense At All (02:39)
10. Terms Of Psychic Warfare (01:50)
11. Powerline (02:17)
12. Books About UFOs (02:22)
13. Broken Home, Broken Heart (01:50)
14. Diane (04:03)
15. Hate Paper Doll (01:51)
16. Green Eyes (02:46)
17. Divide And Conquer (03:51)
18. Pink Turns To Blue (02:17)
19. Eight Miles High (04:35)
20. Out On A Limb (01:56)
21. Helter Skelter (04:55)
22. Ticket To Ride (02:13)
23. Love Is All Around (02:51)

Disc 2
1. Don't Want To Know If You're Lonely (03:17)
2. I Don't Know For Sure (02:17)
3. Hardly Getting Over It (05:12)
4. Sorry Somehow (04:02)
5. Eiffel Tower High (02:56)
6. What's Going On (03:52)
7. Private Plane (03:16)
8. Celebrated Summer (04:35)
9. All Work And No Play (07:21)
10. Keep Hanging On (03:27)
11. Find Me (04:09)
12. Flexible Flyer (02:52)
13. Sunshine Superman (01:57)
14. In A Free Land (02:54)
15. Somewhere (02:24)
16. Flip Your Wig (03:07)
17. Never Talking To You Again (01:22)
18. Chartered Trips (03:42)
19. The Wit And The Wisdom (03:42)
20. Misty Modern Days (04:21)
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