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Hüsker Dü

Data Control

Release date: 1981

From Land Speed Record
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About This Track

"Data Control" is a track by Hüsker Dü, from the album Land Speed Record, released 1981. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü

Lyrics

Data Control

A nine digit number

For every living soul

That is all they talk about

At Data Control

They know everything about you

Keeping secrets is too hard

Your life is all recorded for you

In holes punched in computer cards

Data Control (digital readout)

Data Control (perforated feedout)

Data Control (microfilm files)

Data Control (1984 style)

A multinational corporation

A stockholder's dream

A nightmare of diversity

A defense system so supreme

Too technical to talk about

Too complex for layman's brains

It's enough to make you paranoid

Or drive you crazy losers sane

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Track details

From Land Speed Record

1981
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Album
Land Speed Record
Land Speed Record
Hüsker Dü
Release year
1981
  1. —Tired Of Doing Things
  2. —Ultracore
  3. —Data Control
  4. —MTC
  5. —Big Sky
  6. —All Tensed Up
  7. —Don't Try To Call
  8. —Bricklayer
  9. —Do The Bee
  10. —Don't Have A Life
  11. —Guns At My School
  12. —Gilligan's Island
  13. —I'm Not Interested
  14. —Let's Go Die
  15. —Push the Button
  16. —Strange Week
  17. —You're Naive

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton
Producer
Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton
Engineer
Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton, Steve Fjelstad
Bass
Greg Norton
Drums
Grant Hart
Guitar
Bob Mould
Vocals
Bob Mould, Grant Hart
Artwork
Fake Name Grafx
Engineered At
Blackberry Way Studios
Lacquer Cut At
K Disc Mastering, Porky’s Mastering
Lacquer Cut Engineer
George Peckham
Manufacturer
MPO (Moulages et Plastiques de l’Ouest’, Rainbo Records
Mastering Engineer
Kevin Gray (Engineer)
Mixing Engineer
Doug Remley, Steve Fjelstad, Terry Katzman, Wayne B. Case
Produced At
Blackberry Way Studios
Recording Engineer
Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton, Steve Fjelstad
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