H?sker D? - Zen Arcade
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Artist: H?sker D?Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sst Records
Soundtracks:
- Something I Learned Today
- Broken Home, Broken Heart
- Never Talking To You Again
- Chartered Trips
- Dreams Reoccurring
- Indecision Time
- Hare Krsna
- Beyond The Threshold
- Pride
- I'll Never Forget You
- The Biggest Lie
- What's Going On
- Masochism World
- Standing By The Sea
- Somewhere
- One Step At A Time
- Pink Turns To Blue
- Newest Industry
- Monday Will Never Be The Same
- Whatever
- The Tooth Fairy And The Princess
- Turn On The News
- Reoccurring Dreams
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Free Music Review: Might be Heresy , But I Just Never Got Zen Arcade
Hit: 3 Stars
I'm a big fan of the Huskers and Bob Moulds solo work. That said, I've never understood the acclaim heaped on Zen Arcade. There are many good songs on this release. "Turn On the News", "Something I Learned Today","Never Talking to You Again", "Beyond the Threshold" "Pink Turns to Blue" and others are outstanding.
But there is way too much of what seems to be to just pointless filler thrash music (Hare Krishna, Pride, Reoccurring Dreams) and bizarre doodlings (The Tooth and the Fairy Princess, Dreams Reoccurring, One Step at a Time) that are either boring or just plain annoying. To me they spoil the flow of what might have been an outstanding single album.
New Day Rising and Candy Apple Grey are much more consistent and satisfying to me than Zen Arcade.
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Even when this Minneapolis trio dabbled in familiar sounds, such as the strummed folk of "Never Talking to You Again" or the Bo Diddley-style R&B of "Hare Krsna," what came out on this swirling 1984 double album was clenched, emotional, and intense. Over 23 short songs that helped define the still-thriving punk subgenre known as hardcore, leaders Grant Hart and Bob Mould screamed their alienation in the fastest language they could possibly produce. Though Mould is the more personal songwriter, lashing out at liars and (presumably) lovers, both H?sker heads come up with psycho-depression choruses like "What's going on inside my head?" --Steve KnopperThey didn't yet have terms like "alternative rock" when Minneapolis's Husker Du made their mark as one of the 1980's most influential bands. With two skilled songwriters--guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart--the genre-bending trio (bassist Greg Norton completed the lineup) juxtaposed hardcore punk speed and aggression with pop-leaning melodies. Add their uniformly thoughtful, introspective lyrics, and you've got this stunning 1984 double-length release, a semi-concept album about youthful rites of passage. It includes such memorable tracks as Mould's "Broken Home, Broken Heart" Hart's "Never Talking to You Again," and the evocative 14-minute instrumental closer, "Reocurring Dreams." --Billy Altman
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