Husker Du 'Savage Young Du' - Box Set 2017 USED GOOD+
$
130
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Description
From Pitchfork Review:
Comprised of 69 chronologically sorted tracks, most live and 47 previously unreleased, Savage circumvents the nightmarish parsing of rights from SST and Warner Bros. by focusing on raw recordings from the band’s formative years in the Twin Cities between 1979 and 1982. Beyond heralding the band’s youthful prolificacy with a book including archival photos, a comprehensive band history, and the provenance of every salvaged track, the box set offers a slight revisionist tweak to the band’s generally accepted narrative arc as a Very Fast, Very Intense Hardcore Band That Evolved To Slow Down A Little And Write More Nuanced Songs. Even in unvarnished recordings, some of the earliest tracks here—the innocent teen angst of Hart’s “Can’t See You Anymore” and “Sore Eyes,” the handclap-abetted “The Truth Hurts,” and Mould’s studio outtake “Writer’s Cramp”—show an attention to and ease with pop songcraft that later became a hallmark. Hart’s Thin Lizzyish demo “All I’ve Got To Lose Is You” could have been one of their most beloved songs had anyone known about it.
Set is in great condition. Discs have superficial scuffing, probably caused by the snug cardboard sleeves. I've noticed this with a lot of reissues and box sets using 180g vinyl. Everything's too thick and too stiff.
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