Dinosaur Jr.: Brilliant or crap?

yeah i should give it a little more time -- whenever one of the songs comes up on shuffle, i think it sounds surprisingly amazing.

On balance, I like it better than Beyond as far as reunion albums go.

love this record but anything from it coming up on shuffle is a brutal experience imo, like yank your headphones free brutal

maybe that's why it makes me pay attention, haha!

My beef with Farm is that there doesn't seem to be any bass on it.

I think they're a better band now than they were in the 80s/90s

I don't think D Jr ever wrote anything as good as "The Freed Pig" or maybe even "Violet Execution" but still DJR>SEB

listening to Farm now, sounds great. guitar sound might out neil young neil young.

Yep, thats a big part of why I love the album so much. Just a fantastic guitar album.

My beef with Farm is that there doesn't seem to be any bass on it.

Listening to Green Mind right now and I'm genuinely wondering if there's any bass guitar on Puke + Cry

i think the bass on a lot of those records is so fuzzed out that it might come across as another layer of guitar distortion or something.

Yeah that's what I figured. Come to think of it in the times I've seen them live there didn't seem to be any bass either, just waves and waves of loudness. Love these guys.

lol, i saw them a couple years back and barlow played a bass solo! it was while mascis was having some kind of technical trouble. lou may have been a little bit high, i'm not sure, he was acting kind of bizarre all night.

Both times I've seen them onstage Lou has seemed like the most annoying person around. J just rocked back and forth autistically.

Listening to Green Mind right now and I'm genuinely wondering if there's any bass guitar on Puke + Cry

― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Monday, August 15, 2011 12:00 PM (27 minutes ago)

Haha, this is probably correct. I think J. played almost everything on the record.

just listened to puke and cry and there is crazy bass on that song, you may be deaf. sorry.

(verses: lots of fret 7-9 hammer ons on a fender p-bass if i had to guess)

I can hear it now. It's least bass-y bass sound ever, but it's there, just about.

And at a low-ish volume, it's practically inaudible.

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/9011524335/grungebook-dinosaur-jr-ive-been-waiting-for

Neil Young cover from 1988, unused for "The Bridge" tribute album...(I love "Doom and Gloom from the Tomb" blog, it's like incredible rarities every day or so)

did u know its proprietor has posted on this very thread

Wha? Really? I guess it's not surprising, but still very cool--whomever it is, kudos to you!

haha! the new/old live album is streaming here: http://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/3259
sounds ragged, but j's guitar is out of this world.

guitar on tarpit is crizzzzzzaaaazy. and i don't use that word every day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnAGFpy6WX8

I tried really hard with this band, but not enough sixties in the music for my taste. Indie taste back then was inf. by massive 70s sounds. Guitar rock not my thing.

I'm so glad that music like this isn't the default style on college radio stations anymore.

what is it now, the national

Recent posts fuckng pissing me off. You're Living All Over Me 4eva.

otm.

What is the new/old live album mentioned by tyler?

Like, you might as well just not like Blue Oyster Cult or like, breasts or something. Seriously wtf?

this is the 1987 live recording released last november: http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=894

I tried really hard with this band, but not enough sixties in the music for my taste. Indie taste back then was inf. by massive 70s sounds. Guitar rock not my thing.

― Joey Bag of Noses (I M Losted), Saturday, August 17, 2013 12:03 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm so glad that music like this isn't the default style on college radio stations anymore.

― Dan I., Saturday, August 17, 2013 2:39 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol enjoy your shitty current "indie"

Man, I was really drunk last night.

This was OTM though:

You're Living All Over Me 4eva.

Man, I was really drunk last night.

hahaha i assumed you must be

i'm looking forward to the Dino Jr. tracks poll. i really feel like there are some great unheralded pockets of their catalog outside of the canonical stuff -- Hand It Over is so great.

I saw this chillin in someone's CD collection the other day and I got so nostalgic... I totally forgot it ever existed.
http://ring.cdandlp.com/aggp_store/photo_grande/114963480.jpg

http://ring.cdandlp.com/aggp_store/photo_grande/114963480.jpg

Man this used book store by me was having a sidewalk sale with just boxes of random ass cds on sale for a buck or less. It was just utter crap - probably more Windows 95 era game discs in the boxes than music discs and about 100 copies of each of those BMG sampler discs. Anyway, just as I was about to walk away, I spotted that one above and the JayLouMurph thing for 50 cents each. Made my week.

I believe "the national" also belong to the category of white men playing guitars

men, not slacker gods

and i'm being generous with 'men'

strong diss

and i'm trying to talk shit about both bands not hype up "the national" haha.

The only reason I mention it is that I heard Dinosaur Jr. on a college radio station the other day and it was jarring to realize that like 7 years ago 90% of the music on the same station was white-guys-playing-guitars music, and now that stuff seems to finally be out of style.

no seriously what do they play now, when i walk past the catholic school party houses they're listening to kendrick lamar

is there a name for that genre that's just all synthesizers and the vocals have way way too much reverb?

oh you mean m83

It's really wrong to aim this stuff at Dinosaur Jr., but that insufferable punk and classic rock fan "authenticity"/"this is REAL music" attitude was also present in 90s indie, and I was happy to realize that it apparently doesn't hold sway anymore.