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Candy Apple Grey by Husker Du
Candy Apple Grey is an album by Husker Du, released in 1986. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 8 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely”, on 4 lists with a best position of #252.
Candy Apple Grey, released on Warner Bros. in March 1986, was Hüsker Dü's fifth studio album and the Saint Paul trio's first for a major label, after they'd let SST keep Flip Your Wig. Bob Mould produced it, and as ever he and drummer Grant Hart split the songwriting down the middle, with Greg Norton on bass.
Anyone braced for the sonic hurricane of the SST years gets a surprise here. The hardcore fury hasn't vanished, but it now shares the grooves with quieter, inward-looking songs and a surprising amount of acoustic guitar, and the band's slow drift from hardcore punk into what would soon get called alternative rock is complete. Hart's two singles, "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" and "Sorry Somehow", carry the record's sweetest hooks with the amps still humming, and the latter's video got a spin on MTV. It also became the first Hüsker Dü record to reach the Billboard album chart, though it stalled at No. 140.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Candy Apple Grey on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely | 4 | #252 | – | 1991–2026 | |
| 2 | Hardly Getting over It | 3 | #659 | – | 2001–2021 | |
| 3 | Crystal | 1 | #1605 | – | 2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.