This new retrospective set captures the Minneapolis post-punk legends at their prime in 1985, following the release of their acclaimed album, “Zen Arcade”, a year earlier. “The Miracle Year” contains Hüsker Dü’s complete set from the legendary club First Avenue, as well as additional live cuts performed during the band’s tour that year. 1985: The Miracle Year is a previously unreleased live set from Minnesota punk trio Hüsker Dü and it is honestly absolutely brilliant. The recordings were intended for a live album but were shelved, then thought to be lost forever in a house fire, but thankfully unearthed and man alive, do they ever kick like a mule! There is something about their SST years (also Minutemen) that feel as eerily relevant as they must have done forty years ago.
This all-new 4LP/2CD edition includes Beau Sorenson’s restoration of an entire January, 30th 1985 set, twenty extra live tracks from the year’s touring schedule, and a deluxe booklet detailing twelve months of history-making music. They are wonderful things.
Hüsker Dü. Live. 1985. Need we say more? Witness the transcendent Minneapolis punk trio tearing into the most incendiary year of its existence, captured live on stage at First Avenue in perhaps the highest fidelity recordings of the band’s lauded SST era.
This 4-LP/2-CD edition includes Beau Sorenson’s restoration of an entire January 30th 1985 set, 20 extra live tracks from the year’s touring schedule, and a deluxe booklet detailing twelve months of history-making Hüsker Dü. What is the sound of a legend being written?
Considering the late-Jan 2011 fire that consumed a precious portion of the Dü archive, it has to be reckoned as a kind of subordinate miracle that the 1985 1st Ave tapes survived at all. They deliver peak Husker Dü at full gallop through already beloved material, still years shy of fully cementing their status as a blueprint for the alternative rock skyscraper to come. This set celebrates these tapes, strikingly perhaps the highest fidelity Hüsker Dü recordings ever produced during the band’s lauded SST years.
The Fat Angel Sings 