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| | New Day Rising | | | Music Artist : | | Hüsker Dü | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sst Records | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 1 to 2 days | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. New Day Rising
2. Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill
3. I Apologize
4. Folklore
5. If I Told You
6. Celebrated Summer
7. Perfect Example
8. Terms of Psychic Warfare
9. 59 Times the Pain
10. Powerline
11. Books About UFOs
12. I Don't Know What You're Talking About
13. How to Skin a Cat
14. Whatcha Drinkin'
15. Plans I Make
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Their Greatest
Submitted on: 2009-09-13 |
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| To use a jazz analogy, this album is to "Zen Arcade" as Miles Davis' "Jack Johnson" is to "Bitches Brew": a perfect distillation of a sprawling, expansive, groundbreaking previous work. This album is where this band perfectly marries noise and hooks for a whole album end-to-end. Unless you're put off by the punk-purist production (imagine what this album might have sounded like with The Offspring's producer at the boards), this is Husker Du's best and most consistent album. |
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 A good introduction to the best of 80s Indie
Submitted on: 2009-06-15 |
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| one of the most important album in the wake up of Indie music in 1980s. its this or either Zen Arcade for Husker Du. |
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A Gem... When You Can Hear It
Submitted on: 2009-05-27 |
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The fact that Husker released "New Day" less than six months after Zen Arcade is an astounding feat. This album is decidedly more upbeat and optomisitic... almost like, well, a new day rising.
When you listen carefully, almost every single track is a gem, but that's the problem: you have to listen really carefully. Many of the vocals are inaudibly buried under layers of warm guitar fuzz. Perhaps the band was afraid that the catchy, poppy melodies on this album would be seen as too much of a departure from their hardcore roots, and so they decided to "punk it up" by recording it crappily... who knows.
Anyhow, the standout tracks are "I Apologize" (which you will hum repeatedly for weeks upon first listening) "Terms of Psychic Warfare" and "Songs About UFOs." These stand out in large part due to the fact that they are recorded more clearly than the others.
Besides the unbalanced recording, my only beef is the last track "Plans I Made" - which is a loud, pointless trainwreck, much like the middle six songs of Zen Arcade (of course Zen Arcade has 21 tracks, so it's now great shakes).
Overall, this is the second best Husker album, as the shockingly melodic, upbeat pop of New Day loses a narrow race to the sheer pathos and urgency of Zen Arcade. If you're looking for a Husker album to start with, start with Zen... but buy New Day shortly thereafter. |
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genius
Submitted on: 2009-05-23 |
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| on par with sgt.pepper and loveless.zen arcade,new day rising, and flip your wig are all must haves!!!beautiful noise.superb. |
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grows on you
Submitted on: 2008-12-24 |
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| I bought this when it came out, my sophomore year of high school, on the basis of reviews only. Brought it home and found it way too noisy for my tastes. Now, 25 years later, I could listen to it every day. I Apologize and Books about UFOs gradually sucked me in. |
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