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Husker Du Everything Falls Apart and More [1983]

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By making it simultanously more personal, more challenging and more accessible,Husker Du changed hardcore forever.Their two songwriters (guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart) packedan unlikely combination into the narrow framework of theirviolent epileptic hardcore miniatures:loud guitar that was neither passive (as in most hardcore) nor obnoxious (asin most hard-rock) but rather emotional, andcatchy melodies that came from the heart, despite all the noise.The mini-album Metal Circus (1983) upped the ante by focusing onintrospection and releasing psychedelic perfumes, and the double albumZen Arcade (1984) took punks for a ride on a merry-go-roundof fragile feelings and pensive moods. The cornucopia of poppy tunesdressed the galopping thrash foundation with both gentle and rude touchesthat ran the gamut from folk-rock to heavy-metal, while lulled byHendrix-ian glissandos as well as by raga-like scales.Punk desperation was still ubiquitous, but it was no longer expressed in theform of primal wrath. It had become a lyrical state of the soulin a pathological state of the mind.New Day Rising (1985) added sonic perfection to the idea.An epic "wall of sound" and a slower, solemn pace removed the last traces ofbrainy rebellion, while at the same time emphasizing the personalizedexperience. In a sense, Husker Du were tweaking hardcore to stand as folkmusic and speak up the affections that punks had been reluctant to admit,thus healing the denial of a generation raised on confrontation,the equivalent of what R.E.M. was doing in a more straightforward folkformat.Matured as a man, a musician and a composer, Mould became unstoppable:Flip Your Wig (1985), that betrayed his debt to the Sixties,Candy Apple Grey (1986), their least traumatic reportage,and Warehouse (1987) overflow with charming and penetratingpunk-pop vignettes.

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