Hüsker Dü and Numero Group release deluxe box set spanning 1979 – 1983

Hüsker Dü. From left: Greg Norton, Grant Hart and Bob Mould.

Steve Hengstler/Courtesy of Numero Group

HÜSKER DÜ AND NUMERO GROUP UNVEIL SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ

DELUXE BOX SET COLLECTS SONIC ORIGINS OF ICONIC AMERICAN TRIO SPANNING 1979 TO 1983

69 TRACK COMPENDIUM INCLUDES 47 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDINGS

ALL NEWLY REMASTERED FROM ORIGINAL ANALOGUE DEMOS

BOARD TAPES AND SESSION MASTERS

FOUR LP/THREE CD SET ALSO INCLUDES HARDBOUND BOOK

FEATURING EPIC ESSAY, SESSIONOGRAPHY,

NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS, AND RARE FLYERS

FULL COLLECTION STREAMING NOW VIA NPR MUSIC

PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE FROM THE NUMERO GROUP

SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ ARRIVES ON FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER

The Numero Group has officially announced the release of SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ, a new deluxe box set chronicling the extraordinary early years of Hüsker Dü. SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ is available beginning Friday 10 November.

Available on four LPs or three CDs, SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ compiles 69 tracks – 47 of them previously unreleased – spanning the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based trio’s formative 1979 live shows to their milestone early releases via SST Records, including first singles “Statues” b/w “Amusement” (1981) and “In A Free Land” (1982), as well as 1983’s full-length debut album, EVERYTHING FALLS APART, and an alternate recording of 1982’s seminal live recording, LAND SPEED RECORD. Newly remastered from the original analogue demos, board tapes, and session masters, the anthology is accompanied by a hardbound book highlighted by an epic history of Hüsker Dü, penned with full participation from founding members Grant Hart, Greg Norton, and Bob Mould, as well as 40 never-before seen photos, a remarkable collection of rare flyers, and detailed sessionography.

In addition, a limited edition bonus 7’’ will be available with all Numero Group mail orders while supplies last. EXTRA CIRCUS collects five previously unissued songs recorded during the Christmas 1982 sessions that yielded the following year’s landmark METAL CIRCUS. Available exclusively as a vinyl 7’’, EXTRA CIRCUS comes packaged in the full color sleeve designed by Grant Hart and intended for the original release of METAL CIRCUS.

The announcement of SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ was greeted with wide-ranging media attention, including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and NPR Music, which premiered the collection in its entirety via an extensive “First Listen” feature. “It sounds incredible,” writes NPR’s Michaelangelo Matos, “even the cruddiest source material rings through with maximal volume and clarity…The thrill of SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ is hearing three young men figuring out how to turn their dissatisfaction with the world into glorious noise in more-or-less real time.”

LISTEN TO SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ VIA NPR MUSIC

Hüsker Dü is of course among the most influential and iconic bands to rise up from the hardcore punk underground, marrying Mould and Hart’s glorious songwriting with punishing noise, breakneck tempos, and unstoppable invention to create what remains a truly original vision of American music.

“We created this blistering wall of sound,” says Bob Mould, “bright white radio static with occasional melody.”

“It was like rolling down a hill aware of the bumps,” Grant Hart says, “but focusing on blowing people’s minds and completely wearing out the audience.”

“We didn’t know what hardcore was,” says Greg Norton. “We just got up there and played real fast and loud.”

For more information, please visit NUMEROGROUP.COM.

HÜSKER DÜ

SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ

(Numero Group)

Release Date: 10 November 2017

CD DISC 1

1. Do You Remember?
2. Sore Eyes
3. Can’t See You Anymore

4. Picture Of You
5. The Truth Hurts
6. Do The Bee
7. Nuclear Nightmare
8. All I’ve Got To Lose Is You

9. Chinese Rocks
10. Uncle Ron
11. Data Control
12. Insects Rule The World

13. You’re Too Obtuse

14. Outside
15. Sexual Economics
16. What Went Wrong
17. Statues
18. Amusement
19. Writer’s Cramp
20. Let’s Go Die
21. Walk With The Wounded

22. Industrial Grocery Store

CD DISC 2

1. Drug Party
2. Call On Me
3. Termination
4. I’m Tired Of Doing Things

5. Stick It To Me
6. Wheels
7. All Tensed Up
8. Don’t Try To Call
9. I’m Not Interested
10. Guns At My School
11. Push The Button
12. Gilligan’s Island
13. MTC
14. Don’t Have A Life
15. You’re Naive
16. Strange Week
17. Big Sky
18. Ultracore
19. Let’s Go Die
20. Won’t Say A Word
21. Don’t Try It
22. Private Hell
23. Diane

24. Sex Dolls

CD DISC 3

1. In A Free Land
2. What Do I Want?
3. M.I.C.
4. Target
5. Signals From Above
6. From The Gut
7. Blah, Blah, Blah
8. Punch Drunk
9. Bricklayer
10. Afraid Of Being Wrong

11. Sunshine Superman

12. Signals From Above

13. Everything Falls Apart

14. Wheels
15. Target
16. Obnoxious
17. Gravity
18. Do You Remember?

19. Travel In Opposite Car

20. It’s Not Funny Anymore

21. Real World
22. Out On A Limb
23. It’s Not Fair

EXTRA CIRCUS

1. Heavy Handed

2. You Think I’m Scared

3. Won’t Change

4. Is Today The Day?

5. Standing At The Sea