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Where You Been? Best album ever recorded in the history of the universe. Superior in every way to the other Dinosaur Jr. albums. The songs are better, the guitar work is better, the solo’s are longer, louder and have more melody to them, the lyrics are far better than those of earlier records, J’s voice sounds better, and the album as a whole sounds perfect. I think putting "Drawerings" after "Get Me" is not a bad move. I put it after a soft song on a compilation I made, and that didn’t work well. I find that "Get Me" can put me in the right mood for "Drawerings." I don’t see how it can "break the flow" of the album, because it sounds the same. It does not break the flow, precisely because it’s the same kind of song.
By the way, I wrote about Where You Been before on the board. I’ll bump it for those who might be interested.
Still Waiting, Still Alone
1) Out There
2) Kracked
3) Freakscene
4) Repulsion
5) Turnip Farm
6) Water
7) Get Out Of This
8) Sludgefeast
9) What Else Is New
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Quote:Cool though that J didn’t sell out by putting a previously unreleased tune on it just to sell more copies.I’m actually a bit dissapointed that J didn’t add a previously unreleased song. I’ll definitely buy the album, if only to keep my collection as complete as possible, and it would have been nice to get at least one new song.
But anyway, I love the title. Ear Bleeding Country. Yay!
All right, we gave it another listen, and here is what Samwise and I hear:
How can you tell me,
I still believe you sometime.
You don’t have to make a show of it again,
Just have to move (want?) me sometime.Alone (4x)
What’s there to tell me,
I (And?) still (…) you sometime.
I’ve gone over it and over and I’m baffled,
Can’t believe you’re using my love.Alone (4x)
Why won’t you tell me,
I still believe you sometime.
I’ve tried it oh so many ways just to get there,
And you picked now as a good time…Alone (4x)
Why won’t you tell me,
Now enough time has gone by.
Re-tell the story,
Guess I could take it this time.Alone (4x)
If you’re into Evan Dando, you might want to check out a short acoustic concert of him right here. He doesn’t seem to be too happy about his performance himself ("That wasn’t that good, that one…"), but I think he sounds great.
For some reason, it can really send the chills up and down my spine when I’m not at all sure what J is singing. Like at the end of "Forget It." It sounds something like, "Come on. You know I wanna see you. But I can only take so many hurts, are you that one that I…" And then, I just don’t know. I love that. It makes it sound like it’s too painful for J to even sing about. And that almost brings the tears to my eyes, every single time I hear the song.
I, too, often find that the album that I heard first is still my favorite of that band. So, because the debut is often the first thing you hear from a band, I think that is part of the explanation.
Besides that, I also think that there a lot of artists who just don’t have that much to say. So after their first album, they don’t have anything left to say. Bummer.
There’s nothing like a few depressing lines to do you in…
"I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more."– Pink Floyd
Son Volt is an excellent suggestion. I listened to them a lot when I was traveling through the US this summer. Also, This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about by Modest Mouse, besides having a wonderful title, is also a great album for the road. And, of course, you should start out with Where You Been. I mean, shouldn’t everything start with "Out There"?
Then, when the sun sets, and melancholy is all over your car and the lonesome, dark road – play something less loud. I suggest Leonard Cohen’s Songs from a room, Neil Young’s Unplugged, and Bob Dylan’s Another side of Bob Dylan. Of course, these won’t help much in keeping you awake. Oh, well. Being awake is overrated anyway. [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
I’ll just name one.
Dinosaur Jr. – Where You Been
The best album ever made, but hardly recognized as such.
There are more strange songtitles in pop music than people on this message board, but let’s not forget Sonic Youth’s "Slaapkamers met slagroom," which is Dutch and translates as "Bedrooms with whipped cream." Strange.
And, yeah, I’m back. Hi.
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Quote:‘too many notes’. yes that is pretty much what watt does, plus he likes to play high so clashing with the guitar. Maybe a frustrated axe man – never the best choice for a bass playerI don’t think that’s the case. As Watt has said in his diary, he’s playing what J tells him to play. This is just how J wants the bass to be played, I guess. So don’t blame Watt for the bass parts that J has written.
Plus, Watt had to learn as they went along, because the band took hardly any time to practice before they started the first tour. You got to give him some credit for doing as well as he did last year. And when I saw them in March, they were tight as hell.
Great review, Jeremiah! [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
That tv show was indeed in Holland, I think the VPRO broadcasted it a few years ago. I saw one of the episodes, but not the one where J was supposed to be in. The main idea of the show was that the musicians had to prepare a concert together, with new material. Not really a ‘reality’ show in the Survivor-sense, but more a way to show how the process of songwriting and making music can work. A pretty cool idea, but it’s not easy to make it work. Especially because they chose to put all kinds of very different musicians together.
Jasper
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