Hüsker Dü
Extra Circus
Numero Group

What can be said about the Hüskers? I’m not gonna try, but I am going to review one of the two releases they have up for sale, Extra Circus, which is clearly a set of extra tracks from the Metal Circus sessions that didn’t make the cut. You get five tracks from the session, the first two of which (‘Heavy Handed’ and ‘You Think I’m Scared’) rip out of the gate, and remind one of the more hardcore periods of the band, circa ‘Land Speed’ record perhaps. Track three, ‘Won’t Change’ anticipates ‘Zen Arcade’ sonically, with it’s morose melodacism. Track 4, ‘Is Today The Day” could have easily nestled in with the ‘Everything Falls Apart’ album. Finally, track 5 is an early version of ‘Zen Arcade’s’ ‘Standing By The Sea’ which, while not as polished as the final album version is still one of those Hüsker tracks that make you want to bawl your eyes out with a sense of loss that you didn’t even experience, but takes you to that place anyway. Magnificent document of some lost trakcs that any fan MUST have! 

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