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2 weeks agoHusker Du: 1985: The Miracle Year
Hüsker Dü's "Flip Your Wig" isn't so much a song as a status update from a world before social media. The excitable opening track from the namesake 1985 album is an on-the-ground dispatch from the eye of the hype storm that engulfed the Minneapolis trio as they transitioned from SST hardcore antagonists to Warner Brothers-backed alt-rock trailblazers. The song marked the rare occasion where both principal songwriters-guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould and singing drummer Grant Hart-shared lead vocals, despite their notoriously thorny relationship.
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