Everything Falls Apart is really excellent early 80’s punk: fast, punchy and loud but not screamy and it’s melodic without being emo. My top tracks are the lead track “From the Gut” with its excellent rat-a-tat-tat drum attack, the lightning-quick “Punch Drunk” and “Bricklayer,” both of which would have fit nicely onto the Suicidal Tendencies s/t album released the same year,  the hilarious punk’d up cover of Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” and the dark, angsty poli-anthemic “Target.” Bob Mould did not perform any song from Everything Falls Apart at the Backyard BBQ but he did play a couple of later Hüsker Dü numbers including “Flip Your Wig,” “Hate Paper Doll” and “Hardly Getting Over It.” It was a family-friendly event and Mould is in his 60’s so the whiplash pace and angry-young-man vibe of Everything Falls Apart probably wasn’t the best choice for the show.

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