Saw them last night, and they sounded great.
Literally knew only one song of theirs before yesterday, from a mixtape someone made me long ago. But now I've been listening to that song (not played last night) over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2o-qQk_EU
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Ha I was reading your comment PaulTMA and thinking of that gig as evidence, and then I saw you posted the vid which I'm pretty sure I'm in
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
def saw them at Maxwells ('88?) when they didn't have the "Jr"
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Their cover of just like heaven slays
― No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
Absolutely Ross, love the random cut too
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah!
― No angel came (Ross), Friday, 20 July 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
I consumed an awful lot of US indie rock as a schoolkid at the turn of the nineties and I'm increasingly thinking D.Jr stand up better than anything else I bought at the time. I didn't anticipate this. I largely tuned out after Where You Been, but the overwhelming bulk of their output to that point is good-to-great. Even Green Mind is at least 60% decent. I'm very gradually absorbing the post-reunion records...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 21 July 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
I mean they put out a lot of stuff, and for a few albums were getting increasingly better then j/they kinda fizzled out no?
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 July 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
I loved Bug and YLAOM the most but 'lost track' of them when the re-recorded The Wagon wasn't as good as the Sub-Pop single. I guess they have made some other good albums.
J Mascis And The Fog (with Ron Asheton) live was better than any Dinosaur Jr. gig I'd seen.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Saturday, 21 July 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
Well I mean yeah. It’s fuckin Ron Asheton.I’ve seen Dino Jr maybe like three times and it was always good. Friend of mine said he saw them once and J would hit THAT pedal and things went into totally painful/nauseating levels of tone and volume. Didn’t experience that for better or worse.
― circa1916, Saturday, 21 July 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link
Are there many better “reunion” albums than Beyond?
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Saturday, 21 July 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
I think the most recent one is really, really great.
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Saturday, 21 July 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/a-25-year-old-dinosaur-jr-song-is-a-hit-in-japan-nobody-knows-why/
good for the Dinos, time to book Budokan
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 February 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
That’s really weird
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
Does anyone from Pitchfork post here? It's the background music for the credits of "Gachinko Fight Club" on TBS.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 February 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
I think you could email them that
― Evan, Friday, 8 February 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
i emailed a correction to an Unthanks review once and they never replied but they did fix it pretty quickly.
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Friday, 8 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
congrats to up and coming SoundCloud rapper D1NO$$$AUR JR.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 February 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
ha this is a great story! I don't even know that song though
― calumy (rip van wanko), Saturday, 9 February 2019 04:54 (five years ago) link
Pitchfork has updated to mention Gachinko Fight Club, citing this tweet:
I know the answer @pitchfork .A linkage this song with Japan is obvious. “Over Your Shoulder” was used in popular TV show called “Gachinko Fight Club” hosted by TOKIO, famous male band/talents. On Feb. 6th, TOKIO’s current TV show “TOKIO KAKERU” seems picked up former member of https://t.co/DfBD7xCYEU— 鈴木貴歩 #EnterTechの提唱者 (@SuzukiTaka) February 8, 2019
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 February 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link
(Annoyingly, the P4k article still says "Nobody knows why! The answer isn't obvious at all!" while acknowledging "Oh yeah, some people have said it's this TV show.")
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 February 2019 05:59 (five years ago) link
(that's the magic of editing their posts after publishing)
Here's the clip if anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMIXtjk6Do&feature=youtu.be&t=759
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
oh shit, forgot this embed code hates timestamps, c/p:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMIXtjk6Do&t=759
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
So did the TV show inspire viewers to seek out the original song; or is it charting simply due to being played in background of that widely-streamed scene (and machine-recognized for copyright/royalties purposes)?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
It was a very dramatic moment to a memorable scene and it brought back a lot of memories for people who watched it the first time around. The replay went viral on ameblo & FC2 blogs, plus there are a ton of Youtube comments asking for the ID on various clips, also on Yahoo.jp chiebukuro (like Yahoo! answers but less babbies formed & more utility).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 9 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
It’s a pretty beautiful song.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 9 February 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
I've been listening to Dinosaur Jr. quite a bit lately. They were sort of a second tier interest to me when I was a teenager, but for some reason I've been enjoying returning to them more than many other bands from that era.
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 9 February 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
the P4k article still says "Nobody knows why! The answer isn't obvious at all!"
The world is a very confusing country
― sbahnhof, Monday, 11 February 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
"They Always Come" is such a great song... but then around halfway through it morphs into this even better song. Feel like Bug is so much better than I remember everytime I throw it on.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
yeah that's my favorite one
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 05:30 (four years ago) link
Heh I wouldn't say I like it more than YLAOM, but Bug feels super-slept on in comparison. The highs on Bug (for me: "They Always Come" & "No Bones" esp.) are as high as any of their albums. Not sure how dictator-y J was by this point but both Lou & Murph's performances are incredible.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 March 2020 01:00 (four years ago) link
My wife gave me a print with "sometimes I don't thrill you sometimes I think I'll kill you just don't let me fuck up will you cos when I need a friend it's still you" for my birthday a couple of years ago
I put that song on at her memorial last Saturday
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 6 March 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
beautiful
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 6 March 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
xps no I meant that's my fave Dino Jr song!!! so perfect. as an album yeah Living... is better
― sleeve, Friday, 6 March 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Ahhh, yeah I'm with you haha.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 March 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link
(Col. Poo, extremely sorry to hear of your loss, not trying to glance over that...)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 6 March 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
awww & \m/ Col. Poo
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 6 March 2020 06:33 (four years ago) link
Brilliant
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 March 2020 06:44 (four years ago) link
<3 Col Poo. Freak Scene is such an immense, personal song
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Friday, 6 March 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link
yeah CP I shoulda commented on that as well, so excellent
― sleeve, Friday, 6 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
Was kinda hoping this revive was for some concrete news on the new album. But glad to see it nonetheless.
I was listening to the Day of the Dead comp last night and the Kurt Vile cover of "Box of Rain" that features a Mascis solo came on and I realize that I can't think of many rock songs that wouldn't be immediately improved by a J solo. Hell, if Aerosmith wanted to re-record Just Push Play with Mascis playing every solo I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 6 March 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
if they hadn't stopped playing 'i don't wanna go there' i'd still be listening to it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 March 2020 06:15 (four years ago) link
^^^
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 January 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
woooo! https://www.dinosaurjr.com/news-blog/2021/1/15/custom-dinosaur-jr-collaboration-with-j-skis
― StanM, Monday, 18 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
That is rad.
― DJI, Monday, 18 January 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
That is awesome. I remember Head coming out with Motorhead skis a while ago, I'm still kicking myself I didn't get those. Bands should do this a lot more.
― Siegbran, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
still such an amazing lead guitarist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IS9RUpv40
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
This is their best LP in a few.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 24 April 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
Can't think of another band who phone in their best music like they do
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 24 April 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
I like the new album but fuck this wasn't I thread I expected to open and burst out crying.
It's still on the wall though:
https://i.ibb.co/JmmLsfv/IMG-20210424-030210461.jpg
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link