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- Summary: The reissue of the former Hüsker Dü singer/guitarist's debut solo release includes a disc of B-sides and the complete performance at Chicago's Cabaret Metro in 1989.
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- Record Label: Virgin
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop/Rock
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Mar 28, 2014Workbook 25 is his masterpiece.
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Feb 28, 2014Although the mix sounds from another era, it also doesn’t sound compressed to within an inch of its life.
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Feb 28, 2014The urgency and vigor he packs into the unplugged punk of Workbook--the frequent knuckle-scraping attack of his strumming, his refusal to whisper or withhold--are what make the album a testament to tension rather than hesitance.
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Mar 7, 2014It’s easy to say this is a post-Hüsker Dü album, but the story of Workbook is a more complicated one than that, and 25 years later it still plays like a story worth hearing.
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Feb 28, 2014The collection has aged remarkably well.
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Feb 28, 2014This 25th-anniversary reissue features an accelerated and raging '89 live rendering of the album that adds a few Hüsker classics--acoustic and disarmingly tender.
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