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Title: Essential Recording?
Review: Well, maybe it's essential if you want to complete your Husker Du collection. In that case, I'd recommend buying it last. But, if you're new to this band, there are much better places to start. The performances are energetic but sloppy and the end result is a record that sounds like what most hardcore bands were doing at the time. That is to say, stupidly fast song tempos, lack of melody and structure, and "angry young man" shouting. Top it all off with bad bootleg-quality sound and you have "Land Speed Record".For a great live H.D. album, check out "The Living End", which was recorded on the "Warehouse" tour (regretably, their last). The boys had thankfully abandoned hardcore by then, but there's no shortage of passion, energy and volume, either.
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