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...HUSKER DU proudly announces on the inner sleeve of its new double album, Zen Arcade, that "the whole thing took about 85 hours." What's more, all but two of the songs here were recorded first-take, and the album's new owner can hope for only the worst from this Minneapolis group: muddy sound quality, sloppy playing, missed cues, lots of feedback...
...gets all this, but he also gets something else--one of the most pleasant surprises of the season. Unlike the current generation of hardcore records--including Husker Du's own, Land Speed Records--Zen Arcade successfully captures the spontaneity and the furious inspiration of an unpolished live recording, without becoming too bogged down by technical deficiencies...
WHAT RAISES Husker Du above the gaggle of hard core noise on the scene today is its deliberate shunning of the often-phony themes of that genre--anger and rebellion. Instead, they tap a feeling usually associated with less subversive types of music--pain. In "Broken Home. Broken Heart," Mould sings of the pain of a broken home; on "Whatever," of parent-child misunderstanding. Either way, his howls of anguish sound genuine, with a passion that leaves the listener thinking of Ray Charles rather than punk. Even the album's one great footstamper--Hart's "What's Going On"--stands...
Vendler said Husker Du had asked to be paid in cash...
Melendez said that the council is under no legal obligation to repay Barber, who was act ing not as their representative but as the local manager for Husker...