New Day Rising

Occupation

• Bob Mould: vocals, guitar
• Grant Hart: drums, vocals
• Greg Norton: bass, vocals

New Day Rising is the fourth studio album by American alternative / punk band Hüsker Dü. It was released in January 1985. The music magazine Rolling Stone chose it in 2003 at No. 495 to its list of the 500 best albums of all time and the theme song at number 96 of the 100 best guitar songs of all time.

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" New Day Rising " was recorded even before the previous album "Zen Arcade " was published. With the album, the band combined the punk attitude of previous albums with a better and for the atypical punk epic sound and reduced the speed of the songs. The pieces come from Bob Mould and drummer Grant Hart. The songwriter recognized by the fact that the one who sang a piece that had this written. The song " I Apologize" is a reference work for the guitar playing of guitarist Bob Mould and is considered one of the best guitar anthems of the 1980s. In the play " Celebrated Summer" the band began the first time an acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. The song was distributed along with the title track of the album as a promo single in December 1984 to various radio stations.

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Reception

The Rough Guide to Rock referred to the album as a first serious mix of pop music and hardcore and notices that have been introduced with songs like " Books About UFOs " an ironic sense of humor in the lyrics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic emphasizes the melodiosity the songs and arranged the album the post-punk to. The Rolling Stone wrote the album to a certain influence on the alternative rock of the 1990s.