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Hey, this is not really a new topic or even news, but i just noticed that today (or rather yesterday, the 5th of February) marked the tenth (10th!!!) anniversary of the German release date for "Where you been". Do you feel as "old" as I do…? I wonder how often I have listened to that record over these 3600+ days… oh, and of course: fires in places where you don’t want them suck, and, yeah, I hope Ozzy will send a card!
I remember it well,Feb 93:I had a class off from high school(or maybe the flu)and was listening to the college station,the dj(a huge Ramones fan
) came on and said now we`re going to play the new Dino album,he played Out There and Start Choppin;I bought the album not long after that.oooohhh…i just remembered a "radio incident", too: since WHERE YOU BEEN was, I think, the "best selling" Dinosaur album it also spawned a bunch of hit singles, and I still remember the first (and actually only) time I ever heard a Dinosaur jr song on German mainstream radio. It was a "Hot 100" Charts show and the DJ introduced it as "Start CHOPIN" (making it sound like somebody was about to push the "start" button on a french composer…)
Speaking of Ramones: J actually said something like "Dee Dee died…it’s so sad" once…i originally bought it on tape and i played it so many times it eventually warped
but it was no wonder really b/c that 1st summer it came out i think my friends and i played it every single day w/o fail … so whenever i think of it i think of bakingly hot summer days and road trips to the beach at watch hill in RI and that sort of thing … nice… i have another copy now on cd and i guess it had been a year or so since my original tape finally bit the dust and when i bought my new copy and somehow the whole album just seemed so much slower than i had remembered … that was kind of weird … but anyhow … it’s a great album from beginning to end …
where you been was the first dino cd I bought. I discovered dinosaur through my older sister. she had "dinosaur" and "ylaom" on cassette pluss whatever’s cool with me on cd.. I bought "wyb" around 94-95 I think.. I also bought a pair of etnies skateshoes the same day…
Rambleon-tapes sometimes play faster then they should,that`s problably why the cd sounds slower;I have alot of stuff taped from my old tape deck that plays slower on my newer tape deck,it`s annoying but I`ve gotten used to it.
Yes, the fact that this album is now ten years old has not escaped me. I find it rather depressing. I started buying albums on a semi-regular basis in 1991. Now that was 12 years ago. It just makes me feel old when I have albums from then that I bought back then. I guess that is just a new experience for me. For example, had I bought an album in 1995 that was released in 1985, the album may be ten years old, but I wouldn’t have had it for ten years. I’m not really that old.
But as for "Where You Been", that was the first Dinosaur Jr I bought, after I saw the video for ‘Start Chopin’ on 120 Minutes. It was pretty much instant love and I quickly acquired everything else in the catalog. When I listen to that album it still makes me think of Yellowstone National Park because that is where we went in the summer of ’93. Well, we went other places too, but for some reason listening to WYB in Yellowstone stuck more than it did in other places, even though I played the hell out of it. I really like that about music–how hearing an album years later can take you instantly back to somewhere you were when you listened to it in the past. Kind of like smell…
I was thinking about Where You Been the other night — while listening to it on the ancient Discman that I used to play it on after I first bought the album — and I found myself still sticking to the same thoughts I’ve always had about it.
I think "Out There" is the best song ever. I’ve thought so for the past seven years — I may always think so. The next six songs of the album — everys single one of them — are amazing as well. But I don’t see why "Hide" and "I ain’t sayin’" — while good songs — are on it. I don’t think they even come close to the level of the other songs. Using two of the album’s B-sides, I therefore suggest the following tracklist for a revolutionary reissue of Where You Been, to make it the Best Album Ever:
1) Out There
2) Start Choppin’
3) What Else Is New
4) On The Way
5) Not The Same
6) Get Me
7) Drawerings
8) Keeblin’
9) Turnip Farm
10) Goin’ Homei remember skipping school to go to the mall to buy the tape. i got detention for it, but i was able to listen to the album on my walkman during detention.
The album ruled back when it came out and still rules. Get Me followed by Drawerings is the best one-two punch of all time. Those tunes are meant to be together."anthony" wrote:The album ruled back when it came out and still rules. Get Me followed by Drawerings is the best one-two punch of all time. Those tunes are meant to be together.Amen to that.
My friend and I both went out and bought that fantastic album and I seem to remember listening to that and Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream for like the whole rest of that year. Ahhh the nostaligia!!
Ten years makes me feel old, but that album makes me happy; so all is well.
Top to bottom, classic.
Get Me got me.
Out there could be best opener, wait Freakscene, the Wagon?
Every Album is so darn good. I’m glad to sound off on this great body of work.
keep them coming J
Yeah, that’s crazy…..ten years. I’m 24 now so hell, I was 14 then. I miss those days when good music came out on a frequent basis. New music is not the same. That CD got me into Dinosaur Jr, but my all time favorite is still the first Dinosaur Jr CD. I think that J. and Lou should do a reunion tour.
Ben
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