With Metal Circus, their most perfectly formed recording, Hüsker Dü moved away from an early hardcore sound to present a new kind of punk-pop marked by the brutal delivery and distortions of its sunken melodies. Hüsker Dü continued to refine their punk-pop style, finally presenting it for mass consumption on 1985’s Flip Your Wig, but that album is merely a pale and bloated shadow of Metal Circus. A number of other bands took up the punk-pop template, some with huge commercial success, but few worthy of mention.