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Boutique reissue label Numero Group have announced Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year, a live 4-LP box set that will be out November 7. It features the iconic punk trio’s entire January 30, 1985 set at Minneapolis’ First Avenue club, plus 20 more live tracks recorded throughout that year of near-constant touring.
Hüsker Dü always seemed to be an album ahead and though the First Avenue show happened just two weeks after their final release for SST, New Day Rising, they played five songs from what would be their first album for Warner Brothers, Flip Your Wig, which would come out in September of the same year. “When I think of that time,” bassist Greg Norton says now, “it was three guys doing what they loved, having fun, and basically showing other people that you can be true to yourself, true to your music, and not have to bow down to fashion or expectations to make something really great.”
The Miracle Year also comes with a deluxe booklet that details Hüsker Dü’s very busy, very prolific year. You can hear four tracks from it now: “The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill,” “I Apologize,” “If I Told You” and “Folklore.” Listen to those and check out the tracklist and box set art below.
1985: The Miracle Year:
Minnesota Miracle
SIDE A
1. New Day Rising
2. It’s Not Funny Anymore
3. Everything Falls Apart
4. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
5. I Apologize
6. If I Told You
7. Folklore
SIDE B
1. Every Everything
2. Makes No Sense At All
3. Terms Of Psychic Warfare
4. Powerline
5. Books About UFOs
6. Broken Home, Broken Heart
7. Diane
SIDE C
1. Hate Paper Doll
2. Green Eyes
3. Divide And Conquer
4. Pink Turns To Blue
5. Eight Miles High
SIDE D
1. Out On A Limb
2. Helter Skelter
3. Ticket To Ride
4. Love Is All Around
More Miracles
SIDE E
1. Don’t Want To Know If You’re Lonely
2. I Don’t Know For Sure
3. Hardly Getting Over It
4. Sorry Somehow
5. Eiffel Tower High
SIDE F
1. What’s Going On
2. Private Plane
3. Celebrated Summer
4. All Work And No Play
SIDE G
1. Keep Hanging On
2. Find Me
3. Flexible Flyer
4. Sunshine Superman
5. In A Free Land
6. Somewhere
SIDE H
1. Flip Your Wig
2. Never Talking To You Again
3. Chartered Trips
4. The Wit And The Wisdom
5. Misty Modern Days
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