New Album Stuff

[simmons]

there is a lot of seventies/eighties rock riffin’ on this album. plus the usual folk/country style.
I like crumble a lot too. the refrain reminds me of a song on Hand it Over, "Mick". probably the same chords. same as the solo on "Back before yugo".
great album. Wonder what songs will be played live. J only has two hands for his guitar, but he can switch between riffs and solo and chords like he does on Barlows LOOSE. ALLRIGHT.
Go buy the album.

[hypoluxa]

"anthony " wrote:

I love the new album, I’ve been listening to it non-stop. Every song to me is excellent.
Almost Ready and Pick Me Up are my two stand-out favorites.

On the Japanese version, there’s two bonus songs
12. Yer Son ?Bonus Track?
13. Tiny Town ?Bonus Track?

Must find these songs!

[readyourmind]

Does anyone know if "Tiny Town" — one of the bonus tracks on the Japanese version — is a Dead Milkmen cover? If so, that would rule. I cannot imagine what it would sound like . . .

[veinal_anomaly]

i think Beyond is the album that should have come right after Green Mind (or maybe even Bug). right from the start with "Almost Ready" it reminded me of their earlier work, stylistically. the music is so much more textured, layered, and compelling than the last three albums (don’t get me wrong, i really enjoyed all of Dinosaur’s work). i have already listened to the album three times, and i think it’s not bold to say it will be one of my favorites. i also think it sounds amazing with Barlow back, "Back to Your Heart" a beautiful, standout track. the gut-wrenching, underground sound of Dinosaur is finally back.

[AGAP]

from the guardian…

Quote:

But a handful of bands have successfully transferred their live reunion momentum into the studio. Take That are one. Another, it seems, are Dinosaur Jr. In 2005, the US indie rockers toured with their original line-up for the first time since 1989. In May, they’re releasing the album Beyond. Two tracks are available now at pitchforkmedia.com. Almost Ready is a rousing college rock stomper, which proves the band can still match full-tilt guitar noise with J Mascis’ breezy melodies. Even better is the pretty, countrified twang of the bittersweet We’re Not Alone. Forty-something slacker rock never sounded so good.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2045413,00.html”>http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic … 13,00.html

[mariana gonçalves]

it sounds pretty good to me.
i guess it’s enough.

[hertz32]

Ive been listening to it non-stop for past few weeks and have to say its my favorite album of the year, but then again Ive been looking forward it since the day I heard it was in the works. I cant wait to see them in may playing these songs live, especially Lightning Bulb and What If I Knew. I pre-ordered the Japaneses’ version to get those bonus tracks.

[ammaringnyc]

"veinal_anomaly " wrote:

i think Beyond is the album that should have come right after Green Mind (or maybe even Bug). right from the start with "Almost Ready" it reminded me of their earlier work, stylistically. the music is so much more textured, layered, and compelling than the last three albums (don’t get me wrong, i really enjoyed all of Dinosaur’s work). i have already listened to the album three times, and i think it’s not bold to say it will be one of my favorites. i also think it sounds amazing with Barlow back, "Back to Your Heart" a beautiful, standout track. the gut-wrenching, underground sound of Dinosaur is finally back.

It is definately not more textured and layered. It is more bare bones. There are only like 3 guitar tracks on any given song with no wah or really anyother effects except on 2 songs. The fog albums had tons of guitars, keyboards, many more layers and bug had like 8 guitar tracks,

[AGAP]

don’t forget you’re listening to a leaked version…

great review here…http://jbreitling.blogspot.com/2007/04/review-dinosaur-jr-beyond-mp3.html”>http://jbreitling.blogspot.com/2007/04/ … d-mp3.html

[crazycloud]

yr right there AGAP … i imagine those are the demos from the sound of some of the tracks… i enjoyd it a lot… a great jam album to play in the car, or i, pod. or working class stereo… a real unexpected treat, after all these years….. pick me up is such an epic track it boggles my mind.

[hertz32]

That makes excited if the version i have isnt the final one.

[crazycloud]

i dont think you ever get the full version of an album when you just download the mp3.s. … you dont get the packaging, the graphics, the bonus tracks… the same kind of feel from mp3’s, as you do from getting the album in the store… plus dinosaur jr. cd’s all have cool graphics on them anyways.

[weezerfreak942]

but like, if those arent the final cuts then how come its the same version of Been there all the time, like EXACTLY the same?

[mind_glow]

It always sound much better putting a cd in a real stereo than just click on something in the PC. Maybe it’s my brain, but it sounds better…

[AGAP]

didn’t they officially release some tracks…

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Columnists/Griwkowsky_Fish/2007/04/15/4023539.html”>http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainmen … 23539.html

best grunge album ever :-

gotta love that pearl jam deal, definitely agree

*edited out a certain extinction reference*

Quote:

Dinosaur Jr. Beyond

How does an album receive full marks? It has to be electrifying. Inspiring. Well-written. Historically interesting – even if only imagined to be so from some future date.

The Dinosaur Jr. comeback is all these things, without imagining anything. It’s a popped time capsule that fully embraces J Mascis’s early punk roots, his vocal love of Neil Young and his influential trip through grunge, back in the days when Nirvana opened for them and some forgotten hippy band named Dinosaur sued the Jr. onto the band’s name.

Best of all, Beyond lives up to its name, reuniting the band’s original cast not seen together since the late ‘80s but bringing us something new. Age and silver hair calm us all down, thankfully: the grudges are over.

And so all of a sudden, we have one of the best grunge albums ever made. In the year 2007? Aw, why the hell not? Sonic Youth keeps doing it. More on them in Old School.

Thanks to Mascis’s recent work in Witch, there’s some fine metal guitar that sneaks in, more than Dinoheads might be used to. But what’s really striking about the album is how well just being good-natured, eager and passionate without trying too hard still sounds better than so much of so-called “modern rock.â€

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