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Hüsker Dü discography

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Hüsker Dü discography
Studio albums6
EPs2
Live albums2
Compilation albums2
Singles10
Video albums2
Music videos4
Miscellaneous15

The discography of Hüsker Dü, an American punk rock band, consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, two extended plays, and ten singles. The band was formed by Bob Mould (guitar, vocals), Grant Hart (drums, vocals), and Greg Norton (bass guitar) in 1979. Their first album release was Land Speed Record, a live album released through New Alliance Records. The band released its first studio album, Everything Falls Apart on its own label (Reflex Records) the following year. Hüsker Dü signed with SST Records in 1983, and released its next three albums with that label. The Warner Music Group released the band's last two studio albums. Hüsker Dü broke up in 1987. The band released 6 albums, including two double albums, between January 1983 and January 1987.

Albums

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Studio albums

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List of studio albums with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[1]
CAN
[2]
NZ
[3]
UK Main
[4]
UK Indie
[5]
Everything Falls Apart
  • Released: January 1983
  • Label: Reflex (REFLEX D)
  • Format: LP
Zen Arcade
  • Released: July 1984
  • Labels: SST (SST 027), Aggressive (AG 0036)
  • Formats: 2×LP, CD, CS
11
New Day Rising
  • Released: January 1985
  • Labels: SST (SST 031), Aggressive (AG 0044)
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS
10
Flip Your Wig
  • Released: September 1985
  • Label: SST (SST 055)
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS
1
Candy Apple Grey
  • Released: March 1986
  • Label: Warner Bros. (9 25385)
  • Formats: LP, CD, CS
140 93 28
Warehouse: Songs and Stories
  • Released: January 19, 1987
  • Label: Warner Bros. (925 544)
  • Formats: 2×LP, CD, CS
117 97 31 72

Live albums

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List of live albums
Title Album details
Land Speed Record
The Living End
  • Released: April 7, 1994
  • Labels: Warner Bros. (936245582), Rhino (8122 79926 6)
  • Formats: CD, CS
Live Featuring J.C.
  • Released: 2008
  • Labels: Reflex
  • Formats: CD[6]
Tonite Longhorn
  • Released: April 22, 2023
  • Labels: Reflex
  • Formats: CD, LP

Compilation albums

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List of compilation albums
Title Album details
Everything Falls Apart and More
  • Released: January 1993
  • Label: Rhino (8122 71163 6)
  • Formats: CD, CS
Do You Remember?
  • Released: 1994 (promotional release)
  • Label: Warner Bros. (PRO-CD-6853)
  • Formats: CD
Savage Young Dü
  • Released: November 2017
  • Label: Numero Group
  • Formats: 4×LP, 3×CD

Extended plays

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List of extended plays
Title EP details
Metal Circus
  • Released: October 1983
  • Labels: Reflex (REFLEX G), SST (SST 020)
  • Formats: 12", 10", CS, CD
Sorry Somehow
  • Released: November 1986
  • Label: Warner Bros. (920 538–0)
  • Formats: 12", 7"
Amusement
  • Released: April 2013 (RSD)
  • Label: Numero Records (The Numero Group)
  • Formats: 2×7"

Singles

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Year Title Album Peak chart positions
UK
[4]
UK Indie
[5]
1981 "Statues" b/w "Amusement" non-album single
1982 "In a Free Land"
1984 "Eight Miles High" 22
"Celebrated Summer" New Day Rising
1985 "Makes No Sense at All" Flip Your Wig 2
1986 "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" Candy Apple Grey 96
"Sorry Somehow"
1987 "Could You Be the One?" Warehouse: Songs and Stories
"She's a Woman (And Now He Is a Man)"
"Ice Cold Ice"

Compilation appearances

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Year Compilation Song(s) Comments
1982 Barefoot and Pregnant "Target", "Signals"
1982 Kitten: A Compilation "It's Not Fair"
1982 The Blasting Concept "Real World"
1983 Underground Hits 2 "Deadly Skies"
"Lifeline"
1985 Department Of Enjoyment [NME 011] "Real World"
1985 A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse "Won't Change"
1986 The Blasting Concept Vol. 2 "Erase Today"
1986 NME's Big Four "Ticket to Ride"
1990 Duck and Cover "Eight Miles High"
1991 Never Mind the Mainstream: The Best of MTV 120 Minutes vol. 2 "Could You Be the One?"
SST Acoustic "Never Talking to You Again"
1993 Cash Cow - The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems 1965-1993 "Won't Change"
Faster & Louder: Hardcore Punk, Vol. 1 "Statues"
2000 Gimme Indie Rock, Vol. 1 "Pink Turns to Blue"
2003 All That Rock "Hardly Getting Over It"
2004 Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely"
2009 Adventureland: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely"

Music videos

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  • "Something I Learned Today" (1984)
  • "Makes No Sense at All"/ "Love Is All Around" (1985)
  • "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (1986)
  • "Could You Be the One?" (1987)

Video albums

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References

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General

Specific

  1. ^ Hüsker Dü: Awards at AllMusic. Retrieved June 24, 2008.
  2. ^ "Search - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
  3. ^ "Discography Hüsker Dü". charts.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Hüsker Dü | Artist". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  5. ^ a b Lazell, Barry (2004). Indie Hits: 1980-1999. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4.
  6. ^ Andrew Earles (15 November 2010). ""Appendix VIII: Reflex Records Discography"". Husker Du: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-1-61673-979-9.