Album: Candy Apple Grey
Year: 1986
(Hart)
After the double-bummer of “Too Far Down” and “Hardly Getting Over It“, what Candy Apple Grey needed more than anything else was some uplift.
Of course the Hüskers knew this too, and in an absolutely dynamite bit of song sequencing, the dying embers of Mould’s dirge were transformed by a vicious Grant Hart drum roll into the opening sparks of “Dead Set on Destruction,” my favorite song from Candy Apple Grey.
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