Husker Du- Zen Arcade

MaskedJackal · #1 07-26-2006, 01:28 PM

I wish I had found this album BEFORE I graduated high school, because the overall feeling of it encapsulates so much of the highschool experience. It's so full of dreary-yet-melodic-and-reflective hardcore punk. My current favorites are "Something I Learned Today," "Standing by the Sea," "Somewhere" and "Never Talking to You Again."

Thoughts?

Against Will · #2 07-26-2006, 02:01 PM

I didin't get the album until my junior year of high school, but I had had a few songs from it on my computer thanks to Napster (oh those were the days.)

"Pink turns to Blue" was my favorite, I would hum it between classes; great band, great song, great album.

Speaking of which, I haven't listened to Hüsker Dü in ages, I should dig it up.

PhR · #3 07-26-2006, 02:50 PM

Great album 'though it has some filler (but which double album hasn't?). My favourites are "Somewhere", "Chartered Trips" and "Newest Industry".

uglycicles · #4 07-26-2006, 10:31 PM

What was pretty impressive to me at the time of the release and even more so in hindsight is that a punk/hardcore band in 1984:
1) released a double-album
2) it was a concept album

Punk kid from a crappy home says goodbye to friends, heads out into the world, experiments with drugs, religion, etc., finds the world a pretty wretched place, realizes in the end it was all a dream.

Or at least that's how I understood it.