Gettin’ Rough and Gotta Know. Two amazing songs hidden at the back end of an underrated record. Not the songs that immediately come to mind when someone says Dinosaur Jr but maybe they should be. When I held you close/Felt my mind explode gets me every time.
In general I think all Dino songs are underrated a lot of the time. A lot of the press and blogs that have summed up Dino as this sort of ‘classic indie rock band’ or ‘godfathers of grunge’ seem to treat them as sort of a novelty and make reference to the volume, but there’s so much more to ’em than that, the songwriting is rarely mentioned and it is so, so good.
