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Hüsker Dü : the story of the noise-pop pioneers who launched modern rock / Andrew Earles.

by Earles, Andrew, 1973-

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Voyageur Press, 2010.

781.660922 H971e

Hüsker Dü (Musical group)

Rock musicians -- Biography.

287 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-271), discography (p. 244-269) and indexes.

Somethin' to Dü -- Real world -- New alliances -- The Reflex Records story -- What do I want -- All tensed up -- It's not funny anymore -- Coffee-table hardcore -- The producers -- Ticket to ride -- Bedding the bunny -- Some things do fall apart -- You can go home now -- Real, real world -- Dü Hüskers: the legacy -- Hüsker did.

"In the twenty-plus years since Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton dissolved Hüsker Dü, critics, musicians, and fans have constantly cited the trio as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1980s. In this long-overdue bio, author Andrew Earles interviews Hart and Norton, along with numerous players in that decade's underground, charting the band as they rise above their "loud fast rules" peers and become sonic trailblazers welding pop melodies to ear-shattering volume. Earles shows how the Minneapolis music scene, the national underground network, and the competitive dynamic between Mould and Hart (and between Hüsker Dü and other bands) forged the band's untouchable noise-pop. Earles also examines the band's alternately criticized and copied move to a major label and the quarter-century of conjecture that has clouded the circumstances of their breakup. Few bands from the original American indie movement did more to inform the alt-rock styles that breached the mainstream in the 1990s. Hüsker Dü truly was visionary. Here, finally, is the story behind their brilliance."--Back cover.

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