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Don’t think I’ ve seen this collection of reviews here before, gotta love the writers love for Dinosaur Jr
Seems FreakScenes fav album is the same as Thurston Moores
Robininstigator.com :aliensmile:
Dinosaur Jr. Bug
— Dinosaur Jr. is one of my Top Five bands ever. J. Mascis is a god to me. I love almost every single thing he has ever done because it is all so goddamn awesome. This album was the last one recorded while Lou Barlow, of Sebadoh fame, was in the band. (By the way, how lucky can you be when a band you love breaks up into two bands you love? I get giddy thinking about how lucky that was for me!) This album got me through some heavy shit in my life. It matched how I felt perfectly and still resonates deeply. I would hurt people for this album. I consider it perfect and I deem it essential. This is too damn great.Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur
— This is the self-titled debut album of Dinosaur Jr. The fellas were pretty young when when this one was made. It is pretty lo-fi. I like it a lot. I have owned it for quite a long time. If you want to see where Dinosaur Jr. begun then check this out.Dinosaur Jr. Fossils
— Fossils is a collection of singles and B-Sides released by Dinosaur Jr. It is fantastic. From the indie scene anti-anthem of "Freak Scene" to the perfect cover of The Cure’s "Just Like Heaven," This is filled with fantasticity. I made that word up. I love this. It goes from melodic guitar fuzz, to the harshness and rage of "Chunks," and it does so effortlessly, because J. Mascis is Slack beyond belief. He speaks to me directly in my brain.Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind
— This album contains the very first song of Dinosaur Jr.’s I ever heard. To this day "Thumb" is my sentimental favorite for it brought me to what I consider to be one of the greatest bands in the last 20 years. From the insta-start of "The Wagon" to the aforementioned "Thumb," this album saved my life. This is My favorite Dinosaur Jr. album and it is one of my Top Five albums ever. (The other four being Sonic Youth’s "Daydream Nation," – Pavement’s "Slanted & Enchanted," – The Butthole Surfer’s "Hairway to Steven," – and the Misfits’ "Earth A.D.")"There never really is a good time. There’s always nothing much to say. Pretty good not doing that fine. Getting up most every day." — Thumb
Dinosaur Jr. Hand it Over
— Hand It Over is great. Once again J. comes up with fantastic songs. While he may have mellowed a bit his insane guitar is still at the forefront of a massive assault on your ears. The recording quality on these later Dinosaur Jr. records is fantastic and perfect without taking away any noise, dissonance, or feedback, for which I love J. Mascis. He is the guitar god for me.Dinosaur Jr. Quest
— This album is full of live and unreleased tracks, and a couple of new ones. It is only for the collector but there is a seriously depressed version of "Thumb" that almost makes me cry, that being my sentimental favorite. Worth getting if you are a real fan.Dinosaur Jr. Whatever’s Cool With Me
— This album is really a collection of some 12" singles and half new songs. How J. Mascis manages to make all this into a masterpiece is beyond me. I fucking freak out when I hear some of these songs because they move me like few do. I mean literally move me. My nuts start shaking and my feet start rocking and… You know. It is what I listen to music for. It makes me very happy to hear this album.Dinosaur Jr. You’re Living All Over Me
— This is Dinosaur Jr.’s second album and it is a noise-fest. It is their peak as far as feedback drenched noise goes. I think it is the harshest album to come out from the late 80’s. I happen to know that this is Lee Ranaldo’s favorite album. What is weird is how the other members of Sonic Youth also hold Dinosaur Jr. albums as favorites. Kim Gordon’s favorite is the first one, "Dinosaur," and Thurston Moore’s favorite is "Bug."An Instigator Production
Jeff Tweedy(Uncle Tupelo/Wilco)`s fave is Bug as well
I don`t agree that the first Dino album is lo fi,it`s quite hi fi next to YLAOM.Yeah, definitely agree with you on Dinosaur.
Not bad for 500 bucks
Love the guys enthusiasm for all things J :aliensmile:
yeah but’what I was wondering about is the criteria for you calling one album lowfi and the other not. many people would easily call Dinosaur a lowfi album. so I don’t think you sit with the universial right to say what’s lowfi and not.
it’s all the matter of what album you compare it with, and the studioequippment available at the time and you can also compare with what’s common to use now.
You can`t measure the degree of lo fi;I was just thinking that the first Dino album sounds more hi fi then YLAOM which is strange,would`nt it make more sense to be more lo fi on your first album then on your second
if your recording on a 4 track on cheap radio shack tapes or in a studio with not state-of-the-art equipment and it might sound the same.
Lo fi means different things to different people,some albums that critics say are lo fi don`t sound lo fi to me at all.Pavement spent 10 000 bucks on Slanted And Enchanted but it sounds like 200 bucks to me
(no problem with that album or the production just confused about why spend 10 grand on something that sounds rather low budget)Slanted & Enchanted cost $10.000?!?!?!? Would never have guessed that, and what the hell did they spend that money on? Beer, tacos and betting on horses? I mean, the album was recorded in 7 days(13-20 january ’91.)
additional, the whole lo-fi/no-fi/indie labelling is kinda confusing for me, some things that I would label as lo-fi are labelled as indie or alternative by critics etc, I’m more into the right music VS wrong music
lo-fi as described by allmusic.com:
"During the late ’80s and early ’90s, lo fidelity became not only a description of the recording quality of a particular album, but it also became a genre onto itself. Throughout rock & roll’s history, recordings were made cheaply and quickly, often on substandard equipment. In that sense, the earliest rock & roll records, most of the garage rock of the ’60s, and much of the punk rock of the late ’70s could be tagged as Lo-Fi. However, the term came to refer to a breed of underground indie rockers that recorded their material at home on four-track machines. Most of this music grew out of the American underground of the ’80s, including bands like R.E.M., as well as a handful of British post-punk bands and New Zealand bands like the Chills and the Clean. Often, these lo-fi bands fluctuated from simple pop and rock songs to free-form song structures to pure noise and arty experimentalism. Even when the groups kept the songs relatively straightforward, the thin quality of the recordings, the layers of tape distortion and hiss, as well as the tendency toward abstract, obtuse lyrics made the music sound different and left of center. Initially, lo-fi recordings were traded on homemade tapes, but several indie labels — most notably K Records, which was run by Calvin Johnson, who led the lo-fi band Beat Happening — released albums on vinyl. Several groups in the late ’80s, like Pussy Galore, Beat Happening, and Royal Trux earned small cult followings within the American underground. By 1992, groups like Sebadoh and Pavement had become popular cult acts in America and Britain with their willfully noisy, chaotic recordings. A few years later, Liz Phair and Beck helped break the lo-fi aesthetic into the mainstream, albeit in a more streamlined fashion."
Yeah,it is confusing.Bands that used to be lo fi like GBV or Sebadoh later on stopped doing it.Even the Mountain Goats stopped the lo fi thing last year(not sure what the new album will sound like)and Liz Phair`s album last year is as far away from lo fi as you can get.
Yeah I don`t know what Pavement spent on during the Slanted And Enchanted sessionsI didn’t think that lo-fi and indie exclude each other. the one is about the way of the recording, the other about what kind of record label, so a band could fit to both
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