Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely

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Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely
Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely cover
EP from Candy Apple Grey by Hüsker Dü
Released March 1986
Recorded October 1985-January 1986
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:29
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Bob Mould and Grant Hart
Hüsker Dü chronology
"Sorry Somehow"
(1986)
"Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely"
(1986)
"Could You Be The One?"
(1987)

"Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" is a song by Hüsker Dü from their album Candy Apple Grey. The song was written by Grant Hart. It was released both as an EP in the United States and as a single in the United Kingdom in March 1986. The band filmed a promotional video for the song, which garnered them some play on MTV.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] EP track listing

Side One

  1. "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (Hart)

Side Two

  1. "All Work and No Play"
  2. "Helter Skelter" (Lennon/McCartney)

"Helter Skelter" was recorded live on January 30, 1986 at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1]

[edit] UK single track listing

Side One

  1. "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" (Hart)

Side Two

  1. "All Work and No Play"[2]

[edit] Cover versions

"Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" has been covered by several different artists, including Green Day, who released it as a b-side after recording it for an MTV show titled "Influences". The Swedish rockband Fireside has also recorded a version of the song on the "Hello kids" album.