Dinosaur Jr.: Brilliant or crap?

Yeah!

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...

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?

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.

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.

Are there many better “reunion” albums than Beyond?

I think the most recent one is really, really great.

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

That’s really weird

Does anyone from Pitchfork post here? It's the background music for the credits of "Gachinko Fight Club" on TBS.

I think you could email them that

i emailed a correction to an Unthanks review once and they never replied but they did fix it pretty quickly.

congrats to up and coming SoundCloud rapper D1NO$$$AUR JR.

ha this is a great story! I don't even know that song though

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

(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.")

(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

oh shit, forgot this embed code hates timestamps, c/p:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zMIXtjk6Do&t=759

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)?

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).

It’s a pretty beautiful song.

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.

the P4k article still says "Nobody knows why! The answer isn't obvious at all!"

The world is a very confusing country

"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.

yeah that's my favorite one

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.

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

beautiful

xps no I meant that's my fave Dino Jr song!!! so perfect. as an album yeah Living... is better

Ahhh, yeah I'm with you haha.

(Col. Poo, extremely sorry to hear of your loss, not trying to glance over that...)

awww & \m/ Col. Poo

Brilliant

<3 Col Poo. Freak Scene is such an immense, personal song

yeah CP I shoulda commented on that as well, so excellent

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.

if they hadn't stopped playing 'i don't wanna go there' i'd still be listening to it

^^^

woooo! https://www.dinosaurjr.com/news-blog/2021/1/15/custom-dinosaur-jr-collaboration-with-j-skis

That is rad.

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.

still such an amazing lead guitarist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IS9RUpv40

This is their best LP in a few.

Can't think of another band who phone in their best music like they do

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

I love this damn band so much, this new one is great.

what can i say besides this is the perfect rock band and everything they do kicks ass, new album no exception

otm

I was inspired enough to finally pick up those 2019 Cherry Red reissues of the post-Jayloumurph lineup albums, mainly for all the B-side cleaning up and live shows.

i like this band whenever i hear them but do they have more than one song

that's not an insult the consistency is impressive & inspiring but do they ever go proggy or anything