Hüsker Dü - Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely

Sunday, time for a classic.

"Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" is a song by HÜSKER Dü from their album "Candy Apple Grey". The song was written by Grant Hart. It was released both as an EP in the United States and as a single in the United Kingdom in March 1986. HÜSKER Dü filmed a promotional video for the song, which garnered the band some play on MTV.

HÜSKER Dü was an American punk rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist/vocalist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart. HÜSKER Dü first gained notability as a hardcore punk band, later crossing over into alternative rock. Mould and Hart were the principal songwriters for Hüsker Dü, with Hart's higher-pitched vocals and Mould's baritone taking the lead in alternating songs.

Following the release of three LPs and an EP on independent label SST Records, including the critically acclaimed Zen Arcade in 1984, the band signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1986 to release their final two studio albums. HÜSKER Dü disbanded in January 1988. Mould later released two solo albums before forming SUGAR in the early 1990s, while Hart released a solo album on SST and later formed NOVA MOB.

After the respective bands broke up in the mid-1990s, Mould and Hart continued doing solo work, the latter until his death in 2017. Norton was initially less active musically after HÜSKER Dü and focused on being a restaurateur instead. He returned to the recording industry in 2006.

Today's tune "Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely" is taken from the fifth album "Candy Apple Grey", released in 1986. It was their first major label album, though Warner Bros. "Candy Apple Grey" also marks the completion of the band's transition from hardcore punk to a more well-rounded sonic style which would later come to be known as alternative rock or college rock. As usual, Bob Mould and Grant Hart individually wrote tracks on the album. While the band's earlier, more frenetic style is still evident, "Candy Apple Grey" also features more introverted, toned-down material, including a relatively large amount of acoustic guitar.

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