First Listen: Hüsker Dü, 'Savage Young Dü'

At the bottom of this article you'll find the first of three discs from Savage Young Dü, the extensive reissue project of Hüsker Dü's early catalog due out in November from Numero Group. You can find disc two here and disc three here.

It's tough to think of a rock band as storied and ferocious as Hüsker Dü that has been as poorly served by its recording history. The majority of the eighties punk-pop-noise-hardcore trio's work — featuring not one but of the field's best singer-songwriters, in guitarist Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart, along with bassist Greg Norton — came out on the Long Beach, California U.S.-punk standard bearer, SST Records, where the band's recordings were supervised by the label's in-house producer Spot. The producer achieved . . . muddy results. "Spot was a lousy engineer," says Ken Shipley of Chicago reissue label the Numero Group. "They didn't have the money to make their records sound