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I went to the Boston and Northampton shows, and my GOD!!! They were fuckin excellent!!! 2 of the best Dino shows I have ever attended!!
A pretty decent movie. I loved the Dino shirt. But I love Rachel McAdams in it even more. Damn, she’s a cutie!!
Okay, before you all jump down my throat, I downloaded the album early. I knew I was going to buy it before I knew it was leaked, but once I heard it had leaked I couldn’t help myself. I downloaded the album and MAN IS IT GOOD!!! This is Dino’s first record since Bug and is their best record since Bug!!!
Now, don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Green Mind and Where You Been, but those albums, as great as they are, are a bit uneven but Beyond is a new classic that is even throughout the entire record. J is in peak form here turning out great chord progressions, TASTY solos that make your head spin and pretty decent lyrics too. Lou’s songs are also really good here too. This makes me look forward to the Sebadoh reunion and new album. Murph is of course as passionate and heavy as ever on drums!
All around, I’d give this record 4 stars out of 5. It just barely, barely squeaks by Green Mind and Where You Been. Now I know I’m gonna catch some flack for those statements, but I firmly believe it. The songs on Beyond don’t stack up individually to The Wagon, Out There, Get Me, Start Choppin’, but Beyond is more consistent than those records with less "filler" material.
I will continue listening to this rough copy of Beyond, bet you can bet yr ass I’ll be at Newbury Comics the second they open on May 1 to be the first one to purchase this CD. Anyone who downloads it and doesn’t buy this wonderful record gets no respect from me.
And yeah, Almost Ready is a fuckin barn-burner!!!!
This should be a fuckin’ sweet record. I really cant wait until it comes out. I think I’ll just have to freeze myself in ice and wait the next few months until it’s released.
It’s about time Sebadoh got back together. I want to see them so badly. I love all their records and I have seen some of my friends bootleg tapes of them from the early-mid 90’s, but I have never had the joy of experiencing them live and in person. This will be wonderful. Can’t wait to hear the new Dinosaur Jr record either. That ought to be fantastic.
no offense to Mrs. Mascis, but I dont see what the fuss is over her. She’s probably just a normal woman who happens to be married to a very talented musician. The only reason we don’t know a lot about her is because J isn’t super famous like other rock musicians. His relative obscurity in pop culture has allowed he and his wife the proper level of annonymity and privacy that they need.
"rage:man " wrote:the "emo" bands are overly-emotional. thats the problem.True. It’s just too over the top. Too much emotion. It feels tacked on. Everybody is just riding the emo wave right now. Indie rock is getting marketed a lot more now as well. It’s starting to get really watered down. Indie rock is getting more popular to the general masses so the large music companies are signing on bands that are more accesible than the more experimental indie rockers. It’s going to get bad. I can predict that in the next five years, indie rock will suffer the same fate as grunge did in the mid 90’s.
Hand It Over just isn’t that great of a record. I love Dinosaur Jr, but that record just wasn’t up to snuff. That’s why I largely ignore their bad material (and thank God there’s very little of it) and just focus on the 95% of their great material.
IMDB.com sets J’s height at 6’1”. Pretty tall. Didn’t realize he was that tall. He looks shorter in person.
Also, the part where Kurt just comes in the back room after the gig and swings that bottle of champagen everywhere and whips it across the room. Funny shit.
The Year Punk Broke is one of my favorite music documentarties of all time. What an excellent film. I love the part where Thurston is just free styling while Kurt and Kim dance on the railroad tracks. Hilarious.
Husker Du were still really good. They may have had that emo-ish sound, but they did it right. Not like all these younger dudes today being all whiney and overly-emotional just for the sake of being overly-emotional. It’s become a fad rather than being what a person really thinks and feels. It’s become so theatrical that it has lost any emotional/artistic validity it may have once had with the bands of old.
