Hüsker Dü

The first single Statues brought the band out in 1981 on the label Reflex Records of Terry Katzman. There the first two LPs Land Speed ​​Record and Everything Falls Apart, which were praised by critics appeared. In their many tours Hüsker Dü learned the band Minutemen know on whose label New Alliance Records, they released the single In A Free Country. After Hüsker Dü switched to SST Records, an underground record company that Greg Ginn belonged and in the following years, thanks in Hüsker Dü, should be very popular.

In 1986 the band signed a record deal with Warner Brothers Records, which many saw in the scene as a sellout. However, there were also votes against: Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth sought the advice of his band Mould as an offer from a major label got. The young leaders of Warner, who had directed the contract in the way, saw Hüsker Dü more of a status symbol rather than a hope for high sales. They wanted to encourage with this step musicians outside the prevailing mainstream rock that had received little access to distribution channels of the music industry and attention of MTV and the music press. Warner was so beyond words, unlike members of other music companies, bands such as Hüsker Dü Although much appreciated, but that they had never contracted.

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