Dinosaur Jr.: Brilliant or crap?

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.
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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.

oh shit i somehow just realized I'm talking about rockism haha

There is a massive part of Arcade Fire/Sigur Ros/Radiohead fandom that is all about the ''authenticity/this is REAL music'' attitude.

It's probably just easier to dismiss today.

it seems i have finally discovered the vortex of RONG

it is this thread revive

Hand It Over is so great.

a million times, yes. messy, heartbroken, dark and dippy in places, but so great.

not enough sixties in the music for my taste.

the sixties were a decade of shocking diversity and great giant leaps and accelerated evolution in a myriad of musical forms. i guess what you're saying is dinosaur don't adequately echo miles davis' shift from acoustic to electric music, right?

That guy out of The National has a beard

lets face it he means beatles pop

xp

"You got your incense and peppermints in my cinnamon girl!"
"You got your cinnamon girl in my strawberry alarm clock!"

Today's musicians really don't saying about food very much, do they?

I mean, even Dinosaur He. Was singing about raisans and turnips. Whats anybody bringing to the table nowadays?

it's been forever since i heard a good milkshake song

Bug contains so many great jams, love the record.

Maybe it's my age but I genuinely feel that they never surpassed 'You're living All Over Me" and believe me, I have purchased much DiJr since - Sebadoh, solo stuff etc.

The context of those guitar solos were truly new to my ears back then. Now they're like, "Here we go again, squall...squiggle, squeak ...." And Mascis' voice was better then? Oh and the tunes. Lyrics, i'm not too fussed.

Perhaps I should try again?

Is the remastered version of YLAOM any good?

It was definitely fresher back then in all those categories. Though I still enjoy the recent stuff too! Some really amazing songs on the first comeback album notably.

I love pretty much all their albums, but YLAOM is by a huge degree their best

For me Bug is pretty close, too.

Uh, at the risk of ruining the lovefest for their 80s stuff, I enjoy their reunion records more.

I'll get even weirder and say that I think his most recent solo album on Sub Pop ("Tied to a Star") is one of my favorite things he's done!

Soft spot for Where You Been, just because of the timing of its release.

I love both of the solo records.

YLAOM is definitely the best, bug is a close second. i can't really listen to the solo mascis "dinosaur jr" stuff anymore even though i dig recent solo mascis. the reunion stuff is perennially on my list of stuff to listen to but i never get around to it

as far as the sebadoh stuff goes i think the freed weed is all i need. winners & losers is also pretty good. whenever i think of the type of dope barlow smoked nonstop during the freed weed i imagine it is the driest brownest seeds & stems schwag ever, right? there ain't no fuckin way barlow as smoking anything kind.

Tied To A Star is excellent!

I interviewed J when the first three LPs got reissued, and he said, re: Bug: “I interviewed Ozzy Osbourne once, and he said he hated Sabotage, that it just reminded him of Sabbath recording with lawyers sat in the studio. I guess I feel the same way about Bug.” I love Post and Freak Scene, obvs, but its the lesser album of that early trilogy to me.

Stevie, do you know if Mascis is touring w/ a band here in January? Must admit, not so much into J as acoustic minstrel

Press release doesn't state clearly, though I must say I've seen J play solo before, and it was pretty remarkable.

Thanks, couldn't see any info on his website either - but you're selling me on it now (he's playing a nice venue in Glasgow)

I saw him play the Underworld circa the Fog album, on his lonesome, and he wasn't really all that unplugged - strums acoustic while singing, but then cranks a pedal and fires up for the solos. That might not be your cup of tea, but it certainly was mine!