The Numero Group kicked off their 200 line of titles in 2017 with Savage Young Dü, an unprecedented archival dive into the early works of Minneapolis punk trio Hüsker Dü. Fifty entries later in that chapter of the label’s discography, Numero has a new Dü title that takes a special look at what may be their most pivotal year as a band.
1985: The Miracle Year is a 2CD that chronicles the group’s biggest gambles yet, through the filter of their blistering live shows. Kicking off with a powerful 23-song local set at First Avenue not even a month into that year and following through with another 20 tracks recorded around the globe over the next nine months, The Miracle Year offers an alternate path through the year that saw the group issue third and fourth albums…
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Rescued after 40 years, Húsker Dú’s near-mythical homecoming set at Minneapolis’s First Avenue club (where much of Purple Rain was filmed) has been properly mixed and mastered at last.
At one stage, this performance was expected to emerge. The band had recorded the set to 24-track tape at the time, expecting to release it as a live album later in the year. But their star rose rapidly and priorities shifted – the tapes were shelved, pending a further look, and in 2011 when a house fire destroyed a huge portion of the Hüsker Dü archive, it was assumed to have burned. Thankfully the tapes have been saved and restored completely by Electrical Audio, so we can finally get to hear how the band were shaping up before ‘New Day Rising’ and ‘Flip Your Wig’…