October 1983 at Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, California
Genre
Hardcore punk[1][2][3]
psychedelia[4]
indie rock[5]
post-hardcore[6]
Length
70:09
Label
SST (027)
Producer
Hüsker Dü, Spot
Hüsker Dü chronology
Metal Circus (1983)
Zen Arcade (1984)
New Day Rising (1985)
Zen Arcade is the second studio album by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in July 1984 on SST Records. Originally released as a double album on two vinyl LPs, Zen Arcade tells the story of a young boy who runs away from an unfulfilling home life, only to find the world outside is even worse.[7]Zen Arcade and subsequent Hüsker Dü albums were instrumental in the creation of the alternative rock genre,[8][9] and it is considered by some to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time.[10][11][12]
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^"10 ESSENTIAL HARDCORE PUNK ALBUMS". treblezine.com. April 18, 2013. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
^Cooper, Ryan (March 26, 2019). "Punk's Most Influential Albums". LiveAbout.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022. 1984's Zen Arcade, while still predominantly a hardcore record, began exploring other sounds, including jazz, psychedelia, acoustic folk and pop -– all sounds Mould still explores today.
^"Best Psychedelic Albums: 30 Mind-Expanding Records". 19 August 2021.
^Pitchfork Staff (September 10, 2018). "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 25, 2023. ...Zen Arcade was one large step for the Minnesota trio and an even larger one for then-nascent indie rock.
^Greene, Doyle (March 10, 2014). The Rock Cover Song: Culture, History, Politics. McFarland & Company. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-7864-7809-5.
^Azerrad (2001), p. 181.
^Bray, Ryan (July 26, 2014). "Two Bands, Two Records, and the Beginning of Alternative Rock". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
^Mendelsohn, Jason; Klinger, Eric (February 27, 2015). "Counterbalance: Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade". PopMatters. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
^"100 Best Albums of the Eighties". Rolling Stone. November 16, 1989. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
ZenArcade is the second studio album by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in July 1984 on SST Records. Originally released as a double album...
groundbreaking new approach that was to be seen on the band's next release, ZenArcade. The horrific murder depicted in the anguished "Diane" is based upon the...
Tokyo Studios. However, after hearing labelmates Hüsker Dü's double album ZenArcade (1984), which had been recorded a month earlier, Minutemen decided to...
Policemen in 1998 as The Zen, the band changed its name to Zen Circus, a mashup between the titles of the albums ZenArcade and Metal Circus by American...
releases ZenArcade and Double Nickels on the Dime by Hüsker Dü and the Minutemen, respectively, stretched the label's resources. While SST believed Zen Arcade...
releases toward slower, more melodic material. The band released the album ZenArcade through SST Records in July 1984, and the label's co-owner Joe Carducci...
Written by Grant Hart, it is the 17th track on their 1984 double album ZenArcade. It describes a young woman who gets addicted to drugs, overdoses, and...
January 2021. "The ZenArcade - Don't Say A Word (Official Video) - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 6 January 2021. "The ZenArcade on Instagram: "Hello...
them. Tensions were heightened when Mould demanded, starting with 1984's ZenArcade, that the band's records contain individual songwriter credits. In spite...
dynamics, going from quiet to loud and vice versa. Hüsker Dü's seminal album ZenArcade demonstrated to the band how they could place gentler material against...
process. Punch Kick Duck Zen Koi Pro Outlanders 2 Google Play Pass Xbox Game Pass GameClub Biggs, Tim (September 20, 2019). "Apple Arcade: how to jump in and...
infrequent intervals, and Leaves sits comfortably alongside Hüsker Dü's ZenArcade, The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime and Sonic Youth's Daydream...
ignored domestically. In the middle of the decade, Hüsker Dü's album ZenArcade influenced other hardcore acts by tackling personal issues. Out of Washington...
Gnarls Barkley from The Odd Couple, 2008 "Whatever", by Hüsker Dü from ZenArcade, 1984 "Whatever", by Imogen Heap from I Megaphone, 1998 "Whatever", by...
Pixies, he listened to Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Hüsker Dü's ZenArcade, The Spotlight Kid by Captain Beefheart, and I'm Sick of You, an Iggy...
co-founded. He also made a guest appearance on Hüsker Dü's 1984 double album, ZenArcade. During the mid-1990s, Cadena teamed up with George Hurley and Tom Troccoli...
but the fact that it followed New Day Rising by a matter of months and ZenArcade by just over a year is simply astonishing." Liner notes adapted from the...
Written by Grant Hart, it is the 22nd track on their 1984 double album ZenArcade. The song was never released as a single, but is considered one of their...
belief in Zen as a creed to follow in their work and lives, specifically with employees and fans. By the time PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade arrived...
interviews, the band members have cited Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine, ZenArcade by Hüsker Dü, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, early R.E.M., progressive rock...
considered to be one of the first post-hardcore albums along with Hüsker Dü's ZenArcade and Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime in the same year. Black Flag...
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