Dinosaur Jr - Where you been c/d

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*belms*

I like Where You Been. I should see if I can find it. I used to really like to listen to it during long drives across the prairies.

Apart from on 'side 2' where one track starts that sounds exactly like the one just finished...

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Yeah, there's a lot of that. I think that's why it sounds like it's so long.

Of course, save for a couple of singles, they fell off pretty hard after WYB.

Anyway, all time classic for me too. I must have heard this album 200+ times.

I mean, I know a ROCK album when I hear one.

Side note: His 12-minute take on "Maggot Train" (for Mike Watt's first solo project) is just about better than anything Jeff Beck's ever done. Tastey.

WHAT the FUCK!?!?!?

I always thought Bug & Yr Living All Over Me were considered the classics. I love the noisiness & messiness. the bass was just so sludgy.. they really lost it without Lou.

I could hardly stand the big polished rawk gestures of WYB for a decade - it lacked precisely the qualities Ian describes - but it sounded surprising great a couple of weeks ago.

So it's weird liking a band for years knowing you haven't heard the "real" stuff. But blame it on post-Nirvana climates, ah guess.

Anyway, I always thought this was better than the ones before and after it--"Get Me", "Goin' Home", "What Else Is New" and the title track are great songs, and for once there are no (OK, RELATIVELY FEW) goofball lyrics to ruin the emotional aspects.

No, that was Green Mind.

I like this record - at least I did the lst time I heard it a decade ago

you know he IS quite good on the guitar

Unpopular opinion: This is the best Dinosaur Jr album

^i aint spent much time with the reunion efforts but yeah i can get on board with that

ditto, I mean I like sprawling noisy guitar jams as much as the next guy but this is the album where they really benefit from having excellent actual songs.

i prefer the 2 albums that followed it because J is an incredible drummer

J also drums on a lot of the album before this, and my favorite, Green Mind. I feel like it is usually dismissed as The Wagon and 9 other tracks but Water, Thumb, and the title track are three of the best Dino songs imo and the whole thing is solid. And The Wagon is fucking classic.

Best sounding Dinosaur album imo

ah yeah, I have a lot of love for Green Mind too. the acoustic versions of a lot of those songs on Martin + Me opened it up for me.

I know a lot of people who rate this as their favorite Dino... But it's Green Mind for me.

But I'll still take Bakesale over any of 'em.

Got You're Living All Over Me on the turntable in the living room, sitting on the front porch listening through the open window, beautiful spring day. Feeling pretty good about things right now. 😌

i tried listening to where you been yesterday but aside from choppin a lot of the other songs sounded pretty egregiously harmonically… gross. yet so 90s alt-rock-mainstream, what was goin on back then.