Without A Sound is the disappointing one in my book(though it certainly is`nt awful),Hand It Over was a comeback.
How could you not like Alone?It`s one of J`s best solos.Never Bought It rules,I`m Insane makes me headbang the walls and damn I like trumpets Sure Not Over You is a classic miss ya song,listen to the fucking strings in Can`t We Move This Along,… I could go on.It might not be J`s strongest work but the songs do stick after you give it a chance.

its a different, and extremly under-appreciated record. it doesn’t have the sheer brilliance like some of their albums, but fuck, they’re good songs.

with WAS J was moving towards this mature pastoral pop sound (some say Boring…, but to me it sounds like he put more time into the lyrics on that one) but then Hand it Over was kind of goofy in comparison, a lot more fun. I’m insane, never bought it, mick, i know yr insane, getting rough, and gotta know are all gold in my book. I think the only week track is Loaded but that has some cool guitar sounds at least. I think J uses the falsetto voice a little too much on that album, so maybe that’s what’s turning our boy here off?

that being said, i like to speculate where J’s sound would have evolved to if the fan and critical reception to Without a Sound would have been better. Maybe he’d be making albums like Neil Young’s Prarie Wind now?

Funny how opinions differ……I think "Loaded" is one of the best songs he’s ever written. For a long time it was the only one I really liked on the album, but now I regard the album as a whole pretty highly, even though there’s something tired-sounding about it.

Can’t we move this and Mick rule. Though it isn’t my favorite dinosaur record, its still pretty good. Give it another chance I bet in the end it will grow on you.

That’s because Sire fucked the band after WAS didn’t perform up to the expectations set by WYB. Hell, the label dropped them when they were 2/3 the way through a second leg of touring the US for HIO, and they had to drag their asses through the remaining shows with that weighing on them. Nice, huh? I saw the second-to-last show on that tour, which was the second-to-last Berz/Johnson show ever, and they still killed it, but after they played Feel the Pain the crowd started to thin, and by the time they came back for an encore there were probably only about 30 people left out of the 300 or so that the show started with. A friend I went with, who didn’t really know much about Dino at the time, still talks about the look of dismay and disbelief on George’s face when he looked out at the place and saw how few people stuck around for the encore. The curse of having a radio hit, I guess — the sheep who only follow what the radio deems "popular" have no interest in the other 99% of a band’s music. The late-’90s were a rough time for a lot of those bands who experienced a momentary spike in popularity after the Nirvana phenomenon — if they didn’t fall apart because of horrible drug problems, they got unceremoniously booted by the majors for not selling enough.