Numero Group announces Hüsker Dü box set, 1985: The Miracle Year

Numero Group has announced a new box set of music from Hüsker Dü, featuring live recordings from one of their most productive years, 1985, which saw them release both New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig. Due out on November 7, 1985: The Miracle Year features live recordings from The First Avenue in Minneapolis, and is described as “perhaps the highest fidelity recordings of the band’s lauded SST era,” as well as 20 other live tracks. Hear part one of The First Avenue show below.

We featured Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade in our Treble 100 series.

Hüsker Dü 1985: The Miracle Year tracklist:

SIDE A
1. New Day Rising
2. It’s Not Funny Anymore
3. Everything Falls Apart
4. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
5. I Apologize
6. If I Told You
7. Folklore

SIDE B
1. Every Everything
2. Makes No Sense At All
3. Terms Of Psychic Warfare
4. Powerline
5. Books About UFOs
6. Broken Home, Broken Heart
7. Diane

SIDE C
1. Hate Paper Doll
2. Green Eyes
3. Divide And Conquer
4. Pink Turns To Blue
5. Eight Miles High

SIDE D
1. Out On A Limb
2. Helter Skelter
3. Ticket To Ride
4. Love Is All Around

More Miracles
SIDE E
1. Don’t Want To Know If You’re Lonely
  2. I Don’t Know For Sure    
3. Hardly Getting Over It    
4. Sorry Somehow
5. Eiffel Tower High    

SIDE F
1. What’s Going On
2. Private Plane    
3. Celebrated Summer    
4. All Work And No Play    

SIDE G
1. Keep Hanging On
2. Find Me    
3. Flexible Flyer
4. Sunshine Superman
5. In A Free Land    
6. Somewhere

SIDE H
1. Flip Your Wig    
2. Never Talking To You Again
3. Chartered Trips    
4. The Wit And The Wisdom    
5. Misty Modern Days