Pre-orders ship early November

The Numero Group has officially announced the release of Savage Young Dü, a new deluxe box set chronicling the extraordinary early years of Hüsker Dü on Friday, November 10th.

Available on four LPs or three CDs, Savage Young Dü compiles 69 tracks – 47 of them previously unreleased – spanning the Saint Paul, MN-based trio’s formative 1979 live shows to their milestone early releases via SST Records, including first singles “Statues” b/w “Amusement” (1981) and “In A Free Land” (1982), as well as 1983’s full-length debut album, Everything Falls Apart, and an alternate recording of 1982’s seminal live recording, Land Speed Record. Newly remastered from the original analog demos, board tapes, and session masters, the anthology is accompanied by a hardbound book highlighted by an epic history of Hüsker Dü, penned with full participation from founding members Grant Hart, Greg Norton, and Bob Mould, as well as 40 never-before seen photos, a remarkable collection of rare flyers, and detailed sessionography.

In addition, a limited edition bonus 7” will be available with all Numero Group mail orders while supplies last. Extra Circus collects five previously unissued songs recorded during the Christmas 1982 sessions that yielded the following year’s landmark Metal Circus. Available exclusively as a vinyl 7”, Extra Circus comes packaged in the full color sleeve designed by Grant Hart and intended for the original release of Metal Circus.

The announcement of Savage Young Dü was greeted with wide-ranging media attention, including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and NPR Music, which premiered the collection in its entirety via an extensive “First Listen” feature. “It sounds incredible,” writes NPR’s Michaelangelo Matos, “even the cruddiest source material rings through with maximal volume and clarity…The thrill of SAVAGE YOUNG DÜ is hearing three young men figuring out how to turn their dissatisfaction with the world into glorious noise in more-or-less real time.”

Special web orders include 3 CD/Book, 3 CD/Book/7″, 4 LP/Book and 4 LP/Book/7″. 4 LP Colored Edition/Book/7″ is sold out.

CD 1:

1. Do You Remember? 2. Sore Eyes 3. Can’t See You Anymore 4. Picture Of You 5. The Truth Hurts 6. Do The Bee 7. Nuclear Nightmare 8. All I’ve Got To Lose Is You 9. Chinese Rocks 10. Uncle Ron 11. Data Control 12. Insects Rule The World 13. You’re Too Obtuse 14. Outside 15. Sexual Economics 16. What Went Wrong 17. Statues 18. Amusement 19. Writer’s Cramp 20. Let’s Go Die 21. Walk With The Wounded 22. Industrial Grocery Store

CD 2:

1. Drug Party 2. Call On Me 3. Termination 4. I’m Tired Of Doing Things 5. Stick It To Me 6. Wheels 7. All Tensed Up 8. Don’t Try To Call 9. I’m Not Interested 10. Guns At My School 11. Push The Button 12. Gilligan’s Island 13. MTC 14. Don’t Have A Life 15. You’re Naive 16. Strange Week 17. Big Sky 18. Ultracore 19. Let’s Go Die 20. Won’t Say A Word 21. Don’t Try It 22. Private Hell 23. Diane 24. Sex Dolls

CD 3:

1. In A Free Land 2. What Do I Want? 3. M.I.C. 4. Target 5. Signals From Above 6. From The Gut 7. Blah, Blah, Blah 8. Punch Drunk 9. Bricklayer 10. Afraid Of Being Wrong 11. Sunshine Superman 12. Signals From Above 13. Everything Falls Apart 14. Wheels 15. Target 16. Obnoxious 17. Gravity 18. Do You Remember? 19. Travel In Opposite Car 20. It’s Not Funny Anymore 21. Real World 22. Out On A Limb 23. It’s Not Fair

Extra Circus

1. Heavy Handed 2. You Think I’m Scared 3. Won’t Change 4. Is Today The Day? 5. Standing At The Sea