The members of Hüsker Dü weren’t alone in their feelings—in his Matter column that same year, Steve Albini wrote, “Wanna be the big new teen in hardcore circles? Get some other dillheads together, call yourselves Antagonistic Decline or Vicious Tendencies or Unrepentant Youth or some such thing, copy every lick from the Dischord collection and write songs about military intervention, whether you know anything about it or not, and you’re guaranteed a good review in Maximumrocknroll.”
