
In my locker in high school, taped up between a record store display poster of Bleach and a portrait of Michael Stipe that I drew in art class, was the (actual CD) cover of Hüsker Dü’s 1984 tour de force Zen Arcade.
The cover’s image was of a photocopy of a photograph of an auto salvage yard, which drummer/vocalist Grant Hart filled in with colored pencil. Hart, singer/guitarist Bob Mould, and bassist Greg Norton are gray silhouettes, moving within this odd landscape almost as separate entities, lost in their own worlds.
