Everything Falls Apart
Hüsker Dü: 1981, Reflex Records.
Re-released by Rykodisc in 1993 as Everything Falls Apart and More.
This is the first studio album by Minneapolis speed-demons (both in sound and substance abuse) Hüsker Dü. After having independently released a single--"In a Free Land"/"M.I.C." & "What Do I Want?"--and a live album (Land Speed Record, an appropriate title) on the Alternative Tentacles lable (and subsequently released by the band's future label SST), the Hüskers expected to have landed a recording deal with hometown label Twin/Tone Records. Unfortunately for them, that deal went to their rivals, the Replacements. So, the band recorded Everything Falls Apart and released it on their own label--Reflex Records.
While it does stand as primarily a hardcore album, it shows signs--however small--of what would later become known as their trademark sound of dense layers of noise that would suddenly glide into rather beautiful melodies--particularly on the title track.
The original order went as follows:
1. From The Gut *
2. Blah, Blah, Blah *
3. Punch Drunk
4. Bricklayer
5. Afraid Of Being Wrong
6. Sunshine Superman (yes, the Donovan song)
7. Signals From Above
8. Everything Falls Apart
The reissue featured the following tracks; 9-10, 11-12, 13-15, 16-17 are singles, while 18-19 are demos.
9. Wheels §
10. Target
11. Obnoxious
12. Gravity
13. In A Free Land
14. What Do I Want? §
15. M.I.C.
16. Statues §
17. Let's Go Die
18. Amusement
19. Do You Remember? (the literal translation of "hüsker dü?" an old board game)
all songs by Bob Mould except:
* Mould/Norton
§ Hart
from Hüsker Dü's album Everything Falls Apart" (see above).
If I listened to the things that you said
everything would fall apart
If I did all the things that you do
everything could fall apart
Let's not listen to the things that they say
everything can fall apart
Let's think about our actions before we do them
everything will fall apart
I got nothing to do
You got nothing to say
Everything is so fucked up
I guess it's natural that way.
Everything falls apart
If I did all the things that you do
everything could fall apart
If I listened to all the things that you told me
everything would fall apart
Let's think about our actions before we do them
everything will fall apart
If we do all the things as we say
everything can fall apart.
I got nothing to do
you got nothing to say
everything is so fucked up
I guess it's natural that way
I got nothing to do
you got nothing to say
everything is so fucked up
I guess we like it that way
If I listened to the things that
you said everything
Nihilism.
"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold/mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"--W.B. Yeats "The Second Coming"