Where You Been

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I don't know if they make a conscious effort to change, but I suppose they'd be really bored by now if they always sounded the same. On previous albums, the singer's relationship with the world outside seemed about as emotionally developed as a 13-year-old's. I think I expected something a lot heavier from this album; beneath the crunch of guitars is a pop album really.

There were still moments of punked-up fury to set the moshpit alight: On the Way a slamdance immolated by howling, roaring guitar, Hide a desperate dash illuminated by passages of Sonic Youth-esque skronk. Prefix magazine's Matthew Flander described it as "a classic record from the band, capturing just about every great ’90s song they had aside from “ The Wagon” and “ Feel the Pain”. Goin' Home's gentle world-weariness sounds for all the world like it could be an Eels rip-off if it weren’t for the fact that E was still just a bespectacled teenager who was into birds at this point. Some of the bonus tracks included here were exclusive to certain countries such as Japan and Australia back in the 90s, but available now for the first time on these reissues. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.Outstanding job by Cherry Red Records in my opinion for these wonderful albums that most Dinosaur Jr fans think are under appreciated. The song "Start Choppin'" was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Where You Been’, their fifth record, emerged in 1993, at the height of enthusiasm for grunge and the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of. Michael Azerrad, writing for Rolling Stone, was similarly positive, writing that "their second major-label album [.

The majestic “Get Me” is “ Layla” for the distressed-denim set (even the guitar squiggle at the end is pinched from Clapton’s “Let It Rain”). The band will play the album in full during four concerts at London’s Garage in November and seven shows at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. Released to unanimously positive reviews, and containing many tracks that would become staples and fan favourites, ‘Where You Been’ continued Dinosaur Jr’s global ascent, being issued simultaneously across the US, Europe, Australasia, Asia and South America. But Where You Been’s best moments were more considered: Not the Same – all windswept mourn, strings and tympani and Mascis’ affecting whine achieving a moving drama Billy Corgan would later imitate with The Smashing Pumpkins’ Disarm – and Get Me, the album’s standout, a simple but perfect country strum sent into the heavens by wave after wave of wracked, ecstatic guitar soloing that lent grand emotional erudition to Mascis’ mush-mouthed mumbling.Mascis explained on an interview with 120 Minutes, "It's the first time we've felt like a band for maybe six years, or something. He singled out the first two tracks as highlights and gave the album a two-star honorable mention in his '90s Consumer Guide book. Following the legendarily acrimonious bust-up between singer/guitarist J Mascis and bassist/singer Lou Barlow, Dinosaur Jr. Robert Christgau was less positive, finding that "somehow his axe and his voice sing the same tune, momentarily transmuting his self-pity into simple sadness".

i will say too that in the run in wax on side A there is a noticeable hum that should not be there, this does not occur on the B, C and D sides however, maybe this is just my pressing? That pressing is very crisp - great articulation between vocals, guitars and drums - where as this pressing seems a bit muffled. wasn’t the most unlikely band to make the jump to a major label in the ’90s (the post- Nirvana era was a weird time), but few could’ve guessed that Mascis’ group would actually sell a respectable amount of records, without substantially altering its style.erano pure alternativi al grunge , suoni stupendi, linee melodiche mozzafiato, con la voce stralunata di J Mascis ciliegina su una torta pazzesca!

Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Over the years I have collected some of those exclusive CD releases, but now I have many of those songs all in one here, and on vinyl, wow.Like many of its peers," he concludes, "Dinosaur Jr is a musical cargo cult, turning the detritus of another culture into something that can be used — and maybe even worshiped.