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Hüsker Dü
Celebrated Summer
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“Celebrated Summer” is a song by Hüsker Dü from their album New Day Rising. It was written by guitarist Bob Mould. The song was released as a promotional single given to radio stations in December 1984, along with the album’s title track, “New Day Rising.“
The song is known for its opening guitar riff, as well as its twelve-string acoustic guitar breaks towards the middle and at the end of the song. This was something that was very different for a band labeled as hardcore punk, although the song “Never Talking To You Again” from their previous album, Zen Arcade, had also been recorded with an acoustic guitar.
The lyrics of the song recall summers past with lines like “Getting drunk out on the beach or playing in a band / Getting out of school meant getting out of...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ Was this your celebrated summer ... Was that your celebrated summer ... Do you remember when the first snowfall fell ♫
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