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1. This 1981 live album contained songs including a cover of a television theme. One of the concerts featured a television theme song. The cover was a provocative photo of flag-draped coffins.
What album was it?
2. The cover of this album features dogs playing in the ocean, as a photo-negative sun rises in the distance. The title song is fairly short on lyrics: the vocalist spends most of the time shouting the title over and over again. Topics in other tracks include isolation, lost youth and human eccentricity.
What album is it?
3. The album "Everything Falls Apart and More" included one track in particular that was a literal translation of the band's name. It was drawn from a board game very popular in parts of the Midwest in the 1960s.
What was it?
4. This EP collected two singles, and was one of few releases to show all three members of the group in its front cover photograph.
What was the title?
5. The cover photo of this album seems to have nothing to do with the title: there is a boot print, in what appears to be snow. It was the group's first release with a major label, Warner Brothers. The keynote track is a classic rebuke to a former lover, "Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely."
What album is this?
6. The song "Crystal" opens with the actual sound of glass breaking. Singer Bob Mould delivers most of the vocal in a ragged shout. That's fitting for the topic, which was a personal issue he grappled with for a number of years.
What was the subject?
7. Prior to the move to Warner Brothers, Husker Du recorded for a Los Angeles-based company, well-known as the home of Black Flag and many other punk bands of the day.
What was the label?
8. Husker Du liked to play offbeat cover songs. Everything from television theme songs, to Ramones classics, to '60s pop might make it into their live shows, and their studio recordings as well.
One such psychedelic song was heard on "Everything Falls Apart." What is it?
9. This EP featured five songs. Two were live, two were in-studio from the album "Candy Apple Grey." One was an extra track, "Fattie." The cover picture was a photo-reverse image of a metal bridge.
What was the name of the EP?
10. This double album is a concept release about a young man who finds freedom and great danger by leaving home. In critics' list, it is often cited as one of the best alternative albums of its decade, or even, best ever. The cover shows two people walking through a strange, multi-colored, washed-out landscape.
What is it?
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