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Husker Du releasing box set chronicling 1979 - 1983 early days (listen)

The early years of ’80s punk greats Hüsker Dü are being compiled on a new box set titled Savage Young Dü which is out via Numero Group in November. It includes the entirety of their studio recordings from 1979 – 1982, including In A Free Land, and Everything Falls Apart, plus 47 unreleased tracks, including an alternate version of their album Land Speed Record. There are 69 tracks in all, all remastered from the original analog tapes. The box set also includes a hardcover book, a “flyerography,” a “sessionography,” 40 unpublished photographs, a 12,000-word essay by Erin Osmon, and more.

Pre-orders are being taken now and those come with a bonus 7″ that features five previously unissued songs from the January 1983 Metal Circus sessions. You can listen to the whole thing right now, and check out the full tracklist and a promo trailer for the box set, below.

Meanwhile, former Du singer/guitarist Bob Mould has a few West Coast dates coming up in October. Those are listed below.

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Hüsker Dü – SAVAGE YOUNG Dü (CD) tracklist:

Disc 1

Do You Remember?
Sore Eyes
Can’t See You Anymore
Picture Of You
The Truth Hurts
Do The Bee
Nuclear Nightmare
All I’ve Got To Lose Is You
Chinese Rocks
Uncle Ron
Data Control
Insects Rule The World
You’re Too Obtuse
Outside
Sexual Economics
What Went Wrong
Statues
Amusement
Writer’s Cramp
Let’s Go Die
Walk With The Wounded
Industrial Grocery Store
Disc 1, Tracks 17-18 released as Reflex Records single A REFLEX, 1980
Disc 1, Tracks 19-20 released on Numero Group single NUM704, 2013

Disc 2

Drug Party
Call On Me
Termination
I’m Tired Of Doing Things
Stick It To Me
Wheels
All Tensed Up
Don’t Try To Call
Im Not Interested
Guns At My School
Push The Button
Gilligan’s Island
MTC
Don’t Have A Life
You’re Naive
Strange Week
Big Sky
Ultracore
Let’s Go Die
Won’t Say A Word
Don’t Try It
Private Hell
Diane
Sex Dolls

Disc 3

In A Free Land
What Do I Want?
M.I.C.
Target
Signals From Above
From The Gut
Blah, Blah, Blah
Punch Drunk
Bricklayer
Afraid Of Being Wrong
Sunshine Superman
Signals From Above
Everything Falls Apart
Wheels
Target
Obnoxious
Gravity
Do You Remember?
Travel In Opposite Car
It’s Not Funny Anymore
Real World
Out On A Limb
It’s Not Fair
Disc 3, Tracks 1-3 released as In a Free Land EP – New Alliance Records NAR 010, 1982
Disc 3, Tracks 6-17 released as Everything Falls Apart – Reflex Records REFLEX D, 1983
Disc 3, Track 18 released on Everything Falls Apart and More – Rhino Records R2 71163, 1993

EP: Extra Circus

Heavy Handed
You Think I’m Scared
Won’t Change
Is Today The Day?
Standing At The Sea

Bob Mould – 2017 Tour Dates
Oct 07 Cal Jam San Bernardino, CA
Oct 20 Doug Fir Lounge (Solo Electric) Portland, OR
Oct 21 The Crocodile (Solo Electric) Seattle, WA
Oct 22 Rickshaw Theatre (Solo Electric) Vancouver, Canada