Hüsker Dü and the Year 1985
Hüsker Dü’s final two long players for the SST imprint, New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig, were both issued in 1985. It would be a year later that Candy Apple Grey was released through Warner Brothers, marking the Hüskers’ major label debut. And while there would be a slight sonic shift overall, the difference between “Plans I Make,” the last song on New Day and the first track on Flip delineates the group’s increasingly fractured approach to song craft.
