Celebrated Summer

"Celebrated Summer"
Promotional single by Hüsker Dü
from the album New Day Rising
ReleasedDecember 1984
RecordedJuly 1984 at Nicollet Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota
GenreHardcore punk
Length4:00 (A side)
2:31 (B side)
LabelSST
SongwriterBob Mould
ProducersHüsker Dü and Spot
Hüsker Dü singles chronology
"Eight Miles High"
(1984)
"Celebrated Summer"
(1984)
"Makes No Sense at All"
(1985)
Audio sample
Sample of "Celebrated Summer"
from New Day Rising
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"Celebrated Summer" is a song by Hüsker Dü from their album New Day Rising. It was written by guitarist Bob Mould. The song was released as a promotional single given to radio stations in December 1984, along with the album's title track, "New Day Rising". It was never released as a regular single.

The song is known for its opening guitar riff, as well as its twelve-string acoustic guitar breaks towards the middle and at the end of the song. This was something that was very different for a band labeled as hardcore punk, although the song "Never Talking To You Again" from their previous album, Zen Arcade, had also been recorded with an acoustic guitar.

The lyrics of the song recall summers past with lines like "Getting drunk out on the beach or playing in a band / Getting out of school meant getting out of hand" as well as its chorus of "Is this your celebrated summer? / Was that your celebrated summer?".

In subsequent live performances of the song after Hüsker Dü's breakup, Mould changed the wording of the chorus from "celebrated summer" to "celebrated summertime".