You're Living All Over Me

Jeg har prøvd å høre på denne skiva mange ganger. Etter hvert satt litt av den: jeg kunne endelig se hvorfor Dinosaur Jr. var så hypa som de var i visse milieu. Så satt jeg på den for en uke sida og tenkte jeg skulle skrive om den, men jeg ble distrahert av noe annet. Dommen var uansett at jeg klar for å levere tilbake noise-sertifikatet mitt; melde meg ut av indie-klubben; omtalte Oasis som et shoegaze-band. Jeg hadde landa på en 3er og noen setninger om at jeg ikke forstår hypen; at de som ble inspirert av skiva gjorde det mye bedre. Men idag satt den endelig. Jeg kan høre mer enn texturene; det ligger låter her med catchy og empathiske partier som er helt på høyde med noe fra Isn't Anything, Perfect From Now On og Keep It Like a Secret, Slanted & Enchanted og Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Little Fury Things hadde allerede klart å overbevise meg fra før, men nå kan jeg nevne så mange låter at jeg står i fare for å ramse opp hele tracklisten. Jeg vet ikke hva som har skjedd, men den får få den jævla 5ern før jeg endrer mening.

Måtte høre denne et par ganger, men dette er jo bra grunge? Lydbildet er ikke så gjennomprodusert som feks Nirvana, men fortsatt veldig godt produsert. Jeg liker at det er hint av shoegaze og metal. «Sludgefeast» er en højdare. «Tarpit» og åpningssporet også. Jeg har i alle fall lyst til å høre denne plata mange flere ganger. Jeg mente også å huske at «Feel the Pain» var med i Guitar Hero? Gledelig gjenhør uansett.

Damn dette er forut sin tid ass. Nå forstår jeg hypen rundt Dinosaur Jr.!

I actually liked this one when it wasn’t just whiny bullshit. The problem was, that just didn’t really leave a lot left.

I went back and forth between a 2 and a 3 in my head while listening to this album. Parts of it were actually decent, but ultimately couldn’t get past the terrible guitar takeovers in most of the songs, and the vocals were awful.

Where do they come up with these names?? SMH. I wouldn’t say the lead singer was overly quiet in delivering the lyrics to these songs, but it sounded to me like there was a guitar competition happening on stage while this poor guy is trying to get his message across. I genuinely felt bad for him. An alternative rock album with big sounds from the guitars and drums. There is so much happening on each track that it doesn’t sound like it all goes along with one another. I’m not really a fan of this album / band due to the arrangements of the songs but I can see why this would have been popular in the 80’s as punk rock was dying off and grunge was kicking in. The cover of Just Like Heaven was the worst song on the album.

Unique, guitar-driven noise rock with a much more tuneful construction than most other music in this genre. The album jumps from style to style, changing rhythm and tempo but still bringing the same energy and attitude. It’s playful and limber and this makes it stand out. Yes, the vocals grate and it gets repetitive, but there are a lot more positives here to enjoy than most other offerings in this style.

Doesn't get more garage rock than this, you can almost smell the oil embedded in the cement and hear the bass players dad working on his project 55 Chevy in the background. This album grew on me more and more with each track. Screaming guitar, solid rythm section, just a great garage punk sound. But the vocals set it apart. They feel out of place but fit in nicely and add a melodic element that softens the edge. This would have been an entirely different album with a more traditional punk vocalist and would have been far less interesting as a result. I ended up liking this album quite a bit. I imagine this is how Neil Young would have sounded had he gone punk rock.

It was ok, I wouldn’t be rushing back to it

I love Dinosaur Jrs guitar sound and the way he uses fx. Unusually in this world J brings a classic rock sensibility to his guitar playing but unlike most classic rock and metal influenced guitarists he doesn’t just shread. He uses his skill to enhance the song with a melodic solo that fits the meaning. Virtually every Dinosaur Jr or J Mascis lp is at least 4 Stars. I personally prefer the debut or Bug to this, but it may just be that those were the two LPs that made me fall in love with Dinosaur Jr. Yesterday I had an ok lp by the Cure. Dinosaur Jr’s Cover of Just Like Heaven is the best thing the Cure have ever been associated with. It’s a bonus track here.

oh fuck yeah

Pretty good, will return to. Need better headphones for this one I think.

meh

Not really my vibe, though pretty good for what it is. I really hate that Just Like Heaven cover though. So it’s a 2.

This one's pretty cool, especially the start, I sense this is the Dinosaur (Jr) album that belongs on the list. Why on earth does Just Like Heaven end so abruptly, its so jarring. Fave Tracks: Little Fury Things, Kracked, SludgeFeast 3.8/5

Top drawer alternative rock. Five stars.

Can’t deny the staying power of the hits on this one, but it also gets repetitive to the point of parody. Every song has the potential for being a radio hit but in a cynical “throw a dart” way. The touches of R&B balladry were a welcome showcase of her vocal ability.

Zuhause, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Tolles Album!

I'm warming up to this band! At least this album. It's not just pure grungey noise, I'm actually hearing the music this time around.

this is fine, perfect for people who don’t GAF if the lead vocalist is a good singer.

Pretty interesting and grungy listen. Most of the songs I felt were "good" but some were great when they got a bit more "noise rock". Poledo was a great finisher. 3/5

Þetta er óneitanlega í áttina að því sem ég fíla. Indie rokk er vanalega hressandi en í þessu tilfelli passaði söngurinn ekki alveg við tónlistina. Þetta er pínu eins bílskúrsband frænda vinar míns. Ég get hlustað á þetta fyrir kurteisissakir en myndi aldrei borga mig inn á tónleika. Mér fannst ábreiðan af Just Like Heaven nokkuð skemmtileg þótt hún hafi endað alltof skyndilega.

Surprised to find how much I immediately liked this in all it's slam bam wham thrashing confidence. The singing and so many ways to build a guitar-riven just kept grabbing me again and again. Now I want to go back to Bug and see if it still bugs me or have I just become a Dinosaur Jr fan?

An album that I feel like I should like, but really don't! 2.5/5

I wasn't a big fan of this album. A lot of the instrumentation was cool. I really didn't like the dissonant horror vibes in some of the songs. And I definitely did not like the signing for a large majority of this album

Dinosaur JR. got down n dirty in this one, so grimey! Super interesting and different stuff, carving out their own style, that I am appreciating more after this one. Liked it way more than the other album on this list, Bug. But kind of want to revisit now. One favorite was the song Poledo, so bizarre, with the section that kept switching from major to minor chords, drawn out, hovering between notes. Creating comfort and then discomfort in the next moment, then finding the major chord, then losing it again. 7.5/10 not something I'd listen to all the time, but I respect it, and love the creativity and uniqueness.

This is overall an alright album but nothing too exciting. It was alright having it in the background, but it was a bit meh overll.

This is another good example of hearing this music being played live is a whole lot better than sticking the album on in your living room. Don’t know that is true for certain as I have never seen Dinosaur Jr live and unlikely to. But I imagine played live these songs will come to life and would make for a great experience. Just not the same on record. 2/5 29/11/25

It's not terrible but its nothing amazing either. Pretty average fare.

Awesome cut from Dinosaur Jr. very fuzzy and psychedelic.

I can see why it's on the list. The music sounded innovative for the time just dont see myself re-listening. 3/5.

Not my favorite vocals. Last song just stops

Decent. That is all

It’s opening to the local band you kinda wanna see but half was dragged by a friend core. I’m sure for the 80’s this must of been innovative but this sounds just what I hear everywhere, which makes this album feel boring and flat

Was never a fan of the Pixies, and I'm not certainly a fan of this bland guitar dominated album. That cover of Just Like Heaven was just so not great at all.

Was very noisy at the start but immediately after was good. Entertaining alt rock. Didn’t love the second to last track but all the others were enjoyable

Immemorable and kinda annoying

there are some crazy homoerotic psychosexual obsessive interband dynamics at play here so i am admittedly hearing the album through that lens but it’s good anyway. crazy noise and guitars and all that…i like j’s and lou’s voices. idk i don’t have anything intelligent to say about them. i feel like they’re the VU of the 80s in that everyone’s written about them to death so it’s not really worth it. but i like them. fav tracks: sludgefeast; raisans; in a jar; poledo

This was pleasant and I can see more now than the first time I listened how it rubbed off on future acts. I feel like I can hear pre-Pavement and Strokes in here, probably among others. I can’t say I’d return to many of these but I did enjoy it. Fav track: Kracked

Feels like the exact midpoint between new wave and grunge. Can see why this is a cult classic!

I don’t think it’s my thing, but the loud as fuck guitars feeding back was awesome

Dinosaur Jr just don’t do anything for me. Their sound feels completely flat and, honestly, a bit of a slog to get through. I kept waiting for something to grab my attention, but nothing ever did. Favourite track: Nothing stood out. Least favourite track: Pretty much everything — the whole album felt underwhelming. Album artwork: Cool cover, at least.

I love me some early grunge (proper review pending)

Not bad, but not something I would seek out on a regular basis. “In a Jar” was catchy.

Wow as a lid heard and read so much aboit them but the airplay in my country was absolute 0. This is a really good band anywhere from experimental rock to hardcore punk to alternative its a weird transition and they were in there maybe not even realizing the were movong toward something new. Im sure they influenced a lot of bands. Sonic Youth was the one who really junp started this type of noise feedback sounding rock movement but these were a great follow up band to sonic. Im definitively going to study them and have them in my good grace band.

Excellent early grunge

Enjoyed

A real punky, angsty, alternative mess. Really appreciate what these guys were doing here;there’s a mix of noisy guitar songs, clean cut indie tracks, an acoustic song (worst of the bunch sadly - “Poledo” and a wacky cover of the cures just like heaven which somehow manages to be their best song off the album. Overall, this was really interesting. My foggy brain needed some of this energy today. Will definitely check this out again. Nothing beats alternative. I find it funny how that cure cover ends so abruptly as well…

Who? Not my dead ex-husband, that's for damn sure.

The Just Like Heaven cover was the only saving grace, and even that’s a stretch.

Fantástico, e me fez questionar por que eu ainda não conhecia a banda Dinosaur Jr. Apressadamente os adicionei na minha lista de bandas que eu preciso ouvir a discografia à fundo, pois este é exatamente o tipo de som que eu gosto e que me causa obsessão. Guitarras noiosas, que às vezes constroem altos muros de som. Os vocais suplicantes e delirantes que são frequentemente sufocados, parecem sair com esforço. A sonoridade deste disco parece, simultaneamente, distante e próxima. É altamente envolvente e contagiante. Som pesado! E inegavelmente muito influente. Dá pra ouvir um pouco de diversas bandas aqui, tanto do passado quanto do futuro relativo á 1987. Se você me dissesse que esse disco foi lançado em 2007 eu acreditaria fielmente! Impressionante. Obrigado pela lista 1001, e agora estarei ocupado recomendado este álbum à todos os meus amigos fãs de rock alternativo e de shoegaze. 5/5

I enjoyed this more than expected. Some awesome raw and energised music that helped me get through my day yesterday! I'd give it another go! Calm down on the guitar effects.

This was fine - in my usual wheelhouse but just nothing really stood out and I found the vocalist a little whiney.

so so

I was surprised by how bad the vocals were.....every note sung flat....what a skill!!

Absolute banger. I had a roommate that brought home Where You Been? in '93 and I thought it was great. I saw them at Lollapalooza the same year. I've been listening to them ever since. J Mascis is a fuzz master.

Dinosaur Jr. are up there with the band I’ve seen play live the most. I got into them in their more modern era from Beyond onwards, so prefer their cleaner studio recordings over the older stuff. Still, this has to be the best of their lo-fi era with some of their all time best songs to be found on this record. My old band used to play a cover of their version of Just Like Heaven so listening to that again brought back some great memories.

always nice but I'm actually downgrading it

So the wiki article says this is regarded as a high point of rock in the 80s - which tells us just how bad rock was in the 80s. No wonder Flock of Seagulls sold so well if this was the alternative.

Nope

Decent rock, although some of the instrumentals were too screechy. Great cover of the last song.

This was an interesting blend of punky grungey type shi that you can imagine being played at a gig in someone's basement. I think I like it.

Surprised by the year this was released, sounded like 90s punk. The production quality is trash. Every song sounded pretty much the same as well.

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This one of theirs was just okay. Also the Cure cover ends way too abruptly.

Eeehhhhh - it’s perfectly ok grunge / alt / indie rock, but it’s a bit paint-by-numbers. It passed the time, but it wasn’t very exciting.

Some nice guitar and great lyrics but just way too much first and distortion and not in the fun way

I liked this a lot. Sounded ahead of its time, just like Sonic Youth's Sister, which it somewhat resembled. Raisans was my favorite track.

This would be a band that puffer probably likes and that is upsetting I have to listen to it now

I was not expecting to enjoy this album as much as I did. They had me on the shoegaze-like guitar drones and tones.

5/10

Enjoyed this and reckon I’ll enjoy it more with a few extra listens

It was music ten years before it's time

Raw and unrefined art with a meandering sense that invites the listener to experience its hidden delights

Not a big fan.

I wish I could tell young me what he was missing out on. But he would have thought this was demonic, so what does he know. Anyway, this album rips. Clearly super influential on grunge, shoegaze, and 90’s rock in general.

I had to listen to this one twice as it's so raw, but what impressed me to do so was that it came out in 1987 when I was listening to hair bands (but was also when R.E.M.s Document came out). The gall to be heavy with almost folk songwriting (see Neil Young) pretty much led straight to the grunge and 90s rock explosion. I really get a Foo Fighters vibe at times and Nirvana's Bleach at others. I like the album, but it's a bit too hard at times and songs don't particularly stick with me. Probably a 3.5 for me now, but bumping for importance.

Probably their best album? Though I love Where You Been too, and they were making great albums well into the 2000s. Sounds so good for '87, and so obviously influential over the next decades. I just get a bit of joy in my soul from the melodic fuzz of it all. And that Cure cover at the end is something else.

3/5

Proto-Grunge & Shoegaze here with heavy distortion and loud-quiet-loud noise progression, Imagine listening to this in 1987 and hearing what the future of music would be like while the rest of the soundscape was hair metal and shit.

Feels very 80s if you're into that. Otherwise not much to say, not bad though.

Obviously influential. Not my favorite Gen-X Band but probably inspired them

This album came out years before grunge got big in the 90s, but it would fit right in. A banger!

Quiet, a little indistinct but good

Interesting

Dinosaur Jr's cover of "Just Like Heaven" was one of the first songs of theirs I heard, and it didn't do much for me. I didn't get hooked til Green Mind (which was post-Lou Barlow), and even then my fandom was pretty limited. You're Living All Over Me may be considered a classic nearly 40 years later, but I probably fall more in line what Wikipedia describes as "critical indifference and low sales" to its release.

One of my proudest record store moments was buying Where You Been - I think in the very final days of the CD long box - after school from the very incongruous hipster record store existing in an alley in my extremely whitebread suburb and the owner giving me huge props for my choice. I feel like I spent a lot of minimum wage money on CDs partly to get his approval. That album was great. This is like an audition tape for that album. The guitar is unmistakeable and I am a big fan of singular guitar heroes of which J Mascis is one. Also I share the same first initial and a pretty similar last name to J Mascis and at a NYC law firm interview in 2005 the interviewer was hoping I might be him. Which is pretty unusual for an NYC biglaw partner to think.

Positivt overraska. Forrige Dinosaur-albumet jeg hørte var helt katastrofe.

3.5 I like Dinosaur Jr just fine, but again, not sure what two of their albums on this list does. They’re great, but once you hear one album from them you’re prettt much covered.

Not bad. Not as melodic as I like from them / him

More interesting than good, but sure, take my 3.

Sounds like a badly recorded demo tape for a band I'm never going to sign.

Really enjoyed this. Covering a Cure song like that , then just ending dead like that , brilliant!

What a great album. Seems slightly ahead of its time and a nice mix of grunge and shoegaze, grungegaze if you will. The more listens I gave it the more songs grew on me. Nice find and will be revisiting.

I prefer the 90s stuff by Dinosaur Jr and this seems pretty basic production that doesn’t highlight their talents entirely. However, it is a groundbreaking stuff for the time and lays the foundations for 90s alternative rock. A few really good tracks but give me, Where You Been or Green Mind any day.

Listening to Dinosaur Jr is rather like doom scrolling. You know there will be some good stuff if you keep going, but song structure is irrelevant, so you just have to tackle the whole album wading through the bad singing and unsettling low tempo random chord changes until you get a nice loud bit with an epic solo and enjoy your momentary dopamine release. Repeat album after album. Tbh I don’t massively enjoy their albums, they’re much better live, the ratio of loud bits and epic solos is much much higher.

This has done nothing to shake my conviction that grunge took the bad, basic bits of both punk and metal and created a teen catch-all genre that sounded rebellious without really being so. But anyway...this wasn't all that. This slightly shades Nirvana though, by dint of being bouncier and looser. I almost bailed halfway through, but am glad I stuck with it to the end, for the more experimental touches (one star) and their Cure cover (another star). If I ever play this again, I would probably start halfway through.

The Spotify mix of this sounded tinny as fuck. Which is a shame, as it's probably half decent when beefed up. Bloody loved The Cure cover.

eh

Fun listen, it has a couple of bangers, but otherwise not very memorable

isch mier zu lo-fi gsi

I just listened to this on my own last week. Great album of its own unique flavor; subdued in presentation, but, enthralling.

This rocks. Great album.

By now, everyone probably knows that Sonic Youth wrote "Teen Age Riot" about a world where J Mascis was President. They became fans of the band after seeing the band play in NYC a few times; that's how Lee Ranaldo ended up singing backing vocals on the opening track. But I think it's worth pointing out that SY put out two albums after befriending Dinosaur Jr. It's the third album, however - the album written and recorded in the immediate aftermath of You're Living All Over Me - that features the iconic ode to J Mascis. That's because this album is a defining statement, where the band found their signature sound after an uneven, unimpressive debut album. YLAOM is an album so beloved, and so central to every Dinosaur Jr. album that came after, that when I saw the band perform a homecoming show in the Pioneer Valley in 2014, 7 of the final 9 songs of the set were selections from it. And who was ten feet to my right the entire show? Kim Gordon herself.

Great guitar indie rock. For stoner music it makes for a great gym music

I don’t think Dinosaur Jr realized how funny of a prank cutting off Just Like Heaven would be in the digital music age. I downloaded it as an mp3 from some sketchy website and thought I got a bad file so I downloaded it from elsewhere and same thing. So I went in YouTube and sure enough that’s just how the song ends. But this was the earlier 2000s so downloading an mp3 took more than a minute, so I sat and waited for two desperate downloads before realizing I’d been played. Good stuff. Anyways, this is a good album but it’s not my personal favorite of theirs. It’s like a 3.7 for me.

Disappointed- I wanted to like it but it fell flat. Not particularly compelling

His voice is like cats on a chalkboard.

Rv

Absolute masterpiece of noise, rock, lo-fi (??!!!), scream..wow

I think this era of American alt rock holds up better than the slightly later grunge bands. I enjoyed this album well enough, although I don't think it really did anything to take me away from the best of compilation that I usually go to when I listen to Dinosaur Jr.

If you told me this came out in 1993, I’d believe you. The grunge gods clearly heard this and took notes — fuzz, angst, and all. “Little Fury Things” is a blast of melodic chaos, and the whole album feels like melody trying to claw its way through distortion. It’s raw, forward-thinking, and somehow sweet beneath the sludge. “Tarpit,” though… kind of a drag.

I have to rush this, but Dinosaur Jr were one of the best bands to ride the crest of grunge and this is their strongest album, chunks of odd noise and ecstasy embedded throughout. Returning to it, my memory of it being “Sludgefeast” plus a bunch of other stuff proved wrong: the set is richer than the albums that followed (though I think “Where You Been” is ripe for reappraisal), and more relaxed in flipping between jangly fey sections and howling amplifiers.

I don't think I've ever heard this, but it proliferated its way to the top through the day, probably even better that "Bug", my D.Jr. reference (give or take a "Freak Scene"). My teenager has a T-shirt of the album cover, evidently iconized in Hot Topic alongside the Nirvana smiley, but with a stronger case to make - 1987! Incredible.. For me, Dinosaur Jr. were always in the background, having seen them numerous times and perhaps even met J. Mascis (they were in London a lot in the early '90s), while paying them little attention (sorry, Mark!). Time to catch up now - the songwriting and guitar sounds on e.g. "SludgeFeast", "The Lung" and "Tarpit" are fabulous, and the ending of the bonus "Just Like Heaven" is perfect. More please!

Kind of fun. Harder rock than I had heard from them before.

Noise

Зазвичай я таке не слухаю. Через поміхи складається враження апокаліпсису, горору або шизофренії, а, можливо, і всього разом. Є "звичайні" відривки, що ніби повертаються, до буденності

Back then, we'd refer to them as Sonic Youth Jr. With the perspective of time, I'm amazed at how appropriate that moniker, and the derision implied by it are. They are awash in the same noisy sheen as Sonic Youth's recordings of the same time but without a hint of the substance. Sonic Youth's sound reflects a disciplined artistic process; a reimagining of harmonic structures BASED ON AN understanding and then rejection of the dominant constructs of the day. Similarly, Thurston and Kim developed unique vocal styles that are interesting to listen to. By contrast, Mascis just sounds lazy. He understands the noise, but not the sound; and his vocals present like he just shouldn't have to bother developing technique or personal style. Jesus, even Joey Ramones took his vocals seriously. If Dinosaur, Jr. contributed anything to the evolution of music - as opposed to opportunistically jumping onto the coattails of some incredible artists - I'm not hearing it.

I was surprised that this was from the 80's, it has more of a 2000's vibe to it. Crunchy buzzy early garage style indie rock in the style of aggressive Green Day and 80's punk with slightly more polish.

Ok

The only other time I've listened to this band was when I got Bug on this generator. I don't remember much about it but I gave it 2* so can't have liked it much. This however is brilliant! Really really enjoyed it, obviously won't be for everyone but the whole thing is great. Will need to go back to their other stuff to see if any of it is as good as this. Fav tracks: Sludgefeast, Raisans, In a Jar

Fairly generic guitar band. Didn’t hate it but nothing stood out

LOTS OF MEN SHOUTING, I didn’t hate it but also didn’t care for it

I didn't mind listening to it, but it didn't even Nostalgia hit me so are you going I guess not everybody got into Dinosaur Jr when they came out.

Sweet fury, hot melodies – so good. One prefers the later records, to be honest (the quality of which this rather obviously predicts) when the production got much cleaner but this is pure Mascis, just outright blazing riffs, thin wailing vocals that echo deep longings but do seem meant mainly as contrast and almost an afterthought in some ways. The opener and "Tarpit" and "Kracked" and "The Lung" and "Sludgefeast" are all strongest cuts. The retroactive addition of the Cure cover is good fun (though the scary metal scream is silly and non-additive). A friend from long ago had a good chunk of this on a playlist called "Heavenly Hardcore" and while not a precise definition (genre wise) it's utterly fitting and inspiring of pleasant memories.

Great album

If they made the guitars louder it would've been perfect

Having heard other Dinosaur Jr. music and liking a lot of noise, I had high expectations for this album, but it just didn't deliver for me.

sludgy guitar rock

I know it's a style but I just do not care for limper, dissonant singing like this. Guitar riffs are cool though

I liked this a lot more than I expected. I was worried we’d have growling and that’s about it, but there’s plenty of melody here.

Couple of pure noise moments that are the Jose Mourinho headphones meme but outside of that this is a solid album that I would definitely play again. A+ cover of Just Like Heaven.

I guess for it's era this was groundbreaking, but to me it sounds like the recordings of a bunch of amateur high-schoolers rocking out in a garage, which I guess is the point? The grunge scene that would come to be inspired by this offers better, and I don't like grunge either

This is one of those bands that I should like more than I actually do. This was ok but pretty forgettable for me, 2.5/5

Noise...

Some parts were okay. Couldn’t handle the screeching though

Not enthralling but it’s good

I really enjoyed this album. Early hardcore that might be better labeled as part of the transition from punk to grunge. And with a name like Dinosaur Jr, what’s not to like?

I mean, I know it’s a wild concept, but I feel like the singer of a band should be able to, you know… sing?

I wrote this in 2019 or 2020, on my first attempted trip through the list, and I stick by it: 5 stars. "Is it perfect? No. Does it try to be? No. Does it hit you like a wall of crushing bricks, with great melodies buried behind the Marshall stacks? YES. Perfect imperfection."

still not a huge fan, surprisingly

Some good noise

The other half of the grunge movement feels like it starts around this album, with Dinosaur Jr.'s introspective and morose sounds thematically feeding the movement. You can place indie bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth as pioneers of a type of music that fed the grunge and slacker aesthetic that loomed large in the early 90s. Truthfully, the indie and art rock movement of the late 80s would never find its mainstream fulfillment until the bubblegum pop of the late 90s gave way to the dolorous sounds of the Shins and Modest Mouse in the early oughts. However, Dinosaur Jr.'s sound, though not polished enough to make a top 100, would clearly see imitators aping the sound make a bigger splash in places like MTV: bands like Blind Melon, The Flaming Lips, Candlebox, and even Stone Temple Pilots. When it's all said and done, Dinosaur Jr. may not be for everyone, but there is a good chance it's one of your favorite band's favorite bands.

You can feel the influence dripping off this

This is not up my alley at all (too grungy, sounds like a high school band). It also ends with a cover of Just Like Heaven so bad it's almost insulting. Not every original song is every listener's cup of tea, but I respect anyone who puts themselves out there with their art. But if you're covering a song that's actually good, and do *that* to it, you fully deserve any criticism you get for it

Decent and relatively straightforward drone + grunge material.

Great. And always good to be reminded that my younger self was not smart and avoided this for no good reason.

Perfectly straddles the line of being heavy enough while still melodic

Loved the album. Shoegaze originals. For me it's a 9 out 10

80/100. Lovely noise rock record, everything is tight and a good production.

Banger of an album. Great cover of the Cure Just like Heaven

Hmm. Not for me

these guys are always cool enough. weird enough that they don’t get trapped in that bad punk bubble that i think some groups find themselves in

4 out of 5. This was a band I've always heard of but never heard, and I've been missing out. Looking forward to see if any of their other albums make it into this list.

I will not include the bonus cover of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" in this review. Let me start by stating that I'm lukewarm towards Dinosaur Jr., one of the bands responsible for creating the rough-edged jangling side of indie rock in the mid-1980s. I enjoyed a couple of tracks here and there, including "Sludgefeast" off this record. I wanted to give this album a fair shake, so what did we get on You're Living All Over Me? I will say that this album starts strong, where the strengths of this group are evident early on in the compositions. Lou Barlow's rattling basslines complement J Mascis's guitar melodies in a manner that works quite well within the loud-quiet-loud dynamic that would help define the underground indie sound. Pair that with the distorted feedback, Murph's punchy drumwork, and Mascis's cryptic lyrics that deal with faltering relationships and social restrictions, and the result is a distinct style. Perhaps the writing could have been a little stronger, and the album ends on an admittedly perfunctory note with the ukulele-led "Poledo". But as a whole, You're Living All Over Me is a pretty solid outing from a group that forged their path in indie music credibly well.

I don't know much about Dinosaur Jr (I know the song "Feel The Pain", which is not on this album, and maybe nothing else). This album's sound is like grunge/alt and it was released in 1987, so that's kind of early. In general I think their vocals are on the drony side, but otherwise the tracks are mostly pretty good (except Poledo, which is weird and hard to listen to). Interesting to learn that the band was original "Dinosaur" but had a fallout, so the band "Dinosaur Jr" splintered off.

This feels like it was ahead of its time in a way that maybe Dinosaur Jr. recorded it in 1997, built a time machine and sent it back in time a decade

My enjoyment of this was very much tied to which vocalist was singing. Despite being a trail blazer for the alt rock sound, wasn't otherwise catchy (beyond the first song and the Cure cover.)

3/10

I enjoyed this. It's really grimy, with some really nasty guitar in there. Big rocky and grungy hooks and riffs. The vocal delivery is a bit drawling and whiny, but the dirty guitars elevate it for sure.

Grunge album. Didn't love it or hate it. Crazy cover of the Cure to finish off the album - I kind of liked it.

Meh...

I can hear hear the Neil Young vibes and I can hear what Kurt Cobain would have liked but this was not for me. I’m not really a wall of sound appreciator but I can see the appeal for someone who is. I’m hoping there’s another album that comes up that’s more for me. I also super hate that Just Like Heaven cover.

Love me some Dinosaur Jr. These guys have just been cranking out solid albums forever and never seem to have gotten the props they deserve outside of their small cult following. Loud and abrasive, but still melodic and jammy. 4.5⭐️ *The Peter Frampton cover as part of the Bonus Tracks absolutely shreds, but man those vocals needed some work **I enjoyed the Just Like Heaven bonus track cover, but Goldfinger’s cover is still much better.

Didn't wow me, didn't bore me....middle of the road in my book.

Enjoyed the album especially the song just like Heaven

Alright.

Instrumentally it goes hard, some superb riffs and drums. Didn't love the vocals, but it worked. There's a raw quality I like about it. I was getting a bit of early Goo Goo Dolls, there was something else but I just can't figure out that it is. Enjoyed this one.

So good, great sound kinda combining nirvana, Radiohead, and Negative 25

A fun album but not a large amount of stand out tracks

Started strong fell off. I’ll stick to the cure thanks

"I feel the pain of the everyone, and then I feel nothing." wow, what a line. That line right there gives it an extra star. I liked this. It seemed a bit chaotic, but then I also found myself really enjoying it.

9/9/25. Found it a bit noisy and couldn't really catch on after two listens. Perhaps this one needs to grow on me and currently don't "get it." It was cool to learn about the Folk Implosion connection.

I know this is more punk than grunge, but this had to be an influence on Nirvana.

dinosaur jr isch irgendwie son bandname womer umeschwirre ghört aber ich ha nonie n song ghört. uhuere indierock für 1987. reeeecht crazy. ich glaub das isch nume uf dere liste wells ifluss uf grunge gha het. mega guet ischs nöd. so raisa s de song het bitz öpis, so die 90er nonchalance und so. aber wow ischs au eifach sloppy ufgnoh. poledo het glaub mega wölle weird sii. denn isch just like heaven nocher gad sehr entspannend so chli en song und so. bitz REM. aber das album isch würkli nöd bsunders guet. ich cha au afoch mit dem 90er abgschaltne trurige nüüt afange. two.

DAMN die schrei hani nöd erwartet okee nachane gsang ghör de grunge scho sehr usse hahaha oaaah das churz riff bi kracked isch seehr geil gsi OAHHH I like what I hear the lung isch chli punkig GITI raisans het ganz en komische aber no catchy refrain tarpit eig cool aber de schluss scho gad echli sehr ahstrengend gsi AH WEN ERINNERET MICH SINI STIMM POLEDO ISCH SOO COOL GSI BIS WIEDER DE LÄRM CHO ISCH GOPF hmm ja es isch sehr unsettling und na spannend aber s lied am ahfang hetmer besser gfalle :( SCHREIIIIIII hahaha so funny, es chunnt so unerwartet han iwie wenig z bemängle, het mega spass gmacht und sini stimm hani iwie gern hahah mega kreativs album

This annoys me. Doubly so because this is here and none of Menomena's albums are.

The godfathers of modern noise rock. If you dig The Pixies, you'll like this.

Super fun raw punk-adjacent album.

Holy moly, what a ride. I knew they existed, but im very intrigued to dig deeper after this experience. These loud and distorted guitars simply slay. Love the grungy sound. Kracked, raisans, tarpit are my faves. Enjoy the cure cover as well.

Yeah!

The vocals are horrendous. Everything else is pretty solid. I have some reservations against distortion unless it's counterbalanced by a smoother element, otherwise it just comes off as music that's deliberately obtuse and hard to approach. What exactly about this makes you want to hum it, to come back and listen to it again? The answer, in this album's case, is the almost soundscapey backing instrumental. If you can manage to tune out the vocals, which (as another reviewer identified) are consistently very out-of-tune (flat), you end up with a surprisingly gratifying set of instruments. I really like the rise and fall of textures throughout the record. In a Jar has a fresh, simplistic, punky feel, while the track immediately following it, Lose, is a muddy (yet fast), bluesy number. Sludgefeast alternates between foreboding softness and foreboding heaviness, creating an almost prog-like structure in the process. Despite being the 2nd most popular song here, I had to try pretty hard to enjoy Little Fury Things (though I got there in the end). To Mr J. Mascis: vocals don't get more in tune if you double them. But the guitar, drums, and assorted percussion are great – if a little cliché for their time. The guitar solo in the album closer, Just Like Heaven, is much better: melodic and skilful, ducking out of the ultra-distortion style into a softer, 80s-esque kind of grunginess. The end of the track is extremely sudden if you aren't watching the progress bar. Unfortunately though, there are some obviously bad songs on here too. I found myself grimacing throughout Tarpit because the singing is so horrifically bad and the instrumentation doesn't *quite* save it. Poledo sounds like early Pink Floyd mixed together with low-quality hallucinogens and a strong desire for filler material with zero musical content. At least the Floyd were had some convincing musical ideas. Poledo is a complete nothing burger. (And any review worth its salt will take this 6-minute disaster into account.) 3/5 Key tracks: Sludgefeast, In a Jar, Just Like Heaven

Okay, turns out I’m gonna love this band so I’m very biased towards them now

Liked this vibe, reminds me of shoegaze but obviously early on. Great guitar tones and sounds just not grabbing me for the songs

Like a giant, loud, musical bruise washing over me. Comfortable in a painful way. Overdriven guitar provides a lush foundation for the sensitive lyrics and singing.

Album 884 of 1089 Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987) Rating : 3 / 5 I’m familiar with the band and even have a couple of their tracks saved to my “like” list, so I went into this one knowing what to expect from their sound. While it definitely has that signature Dino Jr. style I enjoy, it just didn’t hold up to some of the other work I’ve heard from them. Still, it was a pleasant enough listen, and one I wouldn’t mind revisiting, but certainly not the best they’ve put out. They’re very much a hit-or-miss band for me, and this one landed somewhere in the middle.

Better than expected

Sounds like a skateboarding video soundtrack

Dinosaur Jr is one of those bands that I either like the track or don't. Not many middle of the road tracks for me.

Seems it’s one song

Back in my younger years this would be something id listen to.

Enjoyed listening to it, and the bonus of a cover of The Cure’s Just Like Heaven at the end was very welcome. 3.5 out of 5, but 3 seems too low so I’m going to give it a 4.

Initial thoughts were that this is a bit much, but actually mellowed out and I enjoyed it a lot

Play it loud and often, in a jar is a banger, big big big drums.

Nyttig bekjentskap. Skjønner at grungegenerasjonen ble inspirert av dette. Men klassisk eksempel på at pionerene sjelden har den beste kvaliteten. Litt tamp og kjedelig i lengden, og veldig svak vokal.

The first time I listened to this album, I honestly left with the thought that, like ... there should have been more? Like, for what I was reading was such an important and "greatest of all time" album in alternative and indie rock, and for what was apparently such an important predecessor to grunge ... I'unno, I just felt like it didn't leave me with much I wanted to comment on. In fact, I didn't even try to write a review the day I heard it. What you're reading is something I'm writing during my **second** listen-through, some days later. And for this album, I honestly think it's a good thing I gave it a second chance. Whereas with my first listen I had such high, lofty expectations, this time ... well, I could appreciate it more for what it is. And what it is is that it's a damn rockin' album. Like, my first time through, I was expecting a lot more abrasiveness. And it certainly does pop up in spots — the noise at the end of "Tarpits" is a little, y'know, "hoo boy." But the rest? I mean, jeez, this thing came out in the 80's? And '87 at that — four years before the 90's started (with the release of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single, of course)! This is some grunge-ass grunge for the 80's. With a little twist of R.E.M. in there, too, for good measure? It's not a combination I ever would've thought to hear on this album, but, yeah — it's great! Seriously, nearly my entire second listen I was just bopping my knee along to the music and feeling bad about the fact that I didn't give this album more credit. Seriously, "The Lung"? Oh, "The Lung" fuckin' **rocks**. And so does the song that opens up side two, "Raisans". I can't remember the last album my group's gotten that was tagged as "indie" (and, to be fair, this album is more alternative than indie), but seriously, this has got to be the most I've liked an indie rock album in a while. The guitars are, aaaahh, just so good and metal-adjacent and — woof, the solo on "Raisans" is **tasty**. Good shit! But if you wanna talk about expectations, then I needa quickly bring up the closer, "Poledo". At the same time, it's both closer to what I expected the album would sound like and not something I would've thought I'd hear on here. It's weird, experimental, abrasive at points ... and honestly kind of off-putting? A fellow group member of mine referred to this song as an audio creepypasta, and, yeah, that's exactly the vibe here. It's the track on here I'd say I'm honestly the most impressed by, though absolutely it'd be the one I'd skip on any future re-listens. It's just not something I'd wanna listen to on a regular basis — and I think in this case I mean that as a very good thing in this album's favor. But, yeah: that's this Dinosaur Jr. album. Once again, I'm glad I gave it a second shot, 'coz there really is a lot to love about it — and a pretty good simple reason, too. I guess I should take this album as a lesson in not letting my expectations get the better of me ... but I know I'd probably forget it by the next album I listen to. For the time, I'm just happy to know that this didn't meet mine.

Some damn good 80's alternative. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

I’m at a 4.5 that I’m going to just bump up to a 5 on account of just how fascinating “Poledo” is as an album closer. The Wikipedia page for this album made it pretty apparent this would cover a whole slew of subgenres of rock & grunge (especially shoegaze), and for 1987, this thing feels like an incredibly strong preview of the trends that would make up the early 90s. When people talk about “80s songs that sound like 90s songs”, they need to point to this album immediately. I love the way this whole thing sounds, although there is the pretty obvious elephant in the room to address, and it’s why I’m at a 4.5 that I very nearly bumped down to a 4. This thing does way too much on two specific tracks: the opening/closing guitar of “Little Fury Things”, which is a great opener otherwise, and the ending of “Tarpit”, which feels like a fucking tornado hit the studio and they just happened to be recording. Tarpit is a good track too; it feels the most like a mid-90s grunge track for almost all of its runtime, and then the last minute just decides to make your ears feel some kind of torture. It’s harsh, it’s abrasive, and it rivals that one part from the final 2 minutes of “Seasick” off of “Penance Soiree” in terms of absolutely dreadful noise to fill your ears with. However, because it’s shorter and fades itself in, almost working hand-in-hand with the melting vocals, I think it’s not as bad. It’s just a bit overtweaked. When this thing isn’t too loud for my tastes, it’s REALLY good, especially once the album hits a peak by the 1-2 punch of “The Lung” & “Raisans”, which I think have infectious energy that you can only really feel while listening to it. So much of this album fits within the DNA of R.E.M.’s style, but with the extra kick & edge that would make grunge more prevalent by the early 90s. I’m not saying our lead vocalist here is Michael Stipe or anything; he’s very shaky at points, occasionally a little off-beat, and not as confident as he could be, but he gets the job done, and usually sounds pretty solid all the same. Since the instrumentation is the star here, his vocals are just texture work, and it’s a fine texture at worst, and a pretty damn good one at best. So, what’s the hype about “Poledo” that bumps this up to a 5 for me? It’s just a fascinating track for 1987 in terms of the overall sound design. The sudden static & harsher tones that interrupt the track evoke a genuine sense of unsettling eeriness. I’ve never been jumpscared by an album like that before, I think. It feels totally cinematic in a way that hasn’t been captured by any of the previous 603 albums we’ve gotten so far, and it’s just so thematically different from the rest of the album that I can’t help but admire it. It feels like a fucking creepypasta, in the best way, down to the abrupt cutoff at the end. It’s enough to bump the whole album up to a 5 for me; just *barely*, mind you, but there’s truly no bad tracks here to my ears, just some overly harsh parts that drag the experience down a bit. I think it’s a hell of a preview for 1987, and when I was really in the groove with the album, I felt the same sort of “in sync zen state” feeling I had with bands like Nirvana, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and more, though not as potently throughout the whole thing. Regardless, I think it’s worth the bump up, and even if I didn’t bump it, I’d still highly recommend it as a progenitor to all the rock trends of the 90s, and just a fun time once you get past its harshest moments. I’m glad it’s on the list, and I enjoyed it a lot. A thumbs up from me, and a 4.5 bumped up to a 5.

This was alright. Some of the guitar work was cool. But why was the ending so abrupt? The art is cool.

Not for me and a not so good experience 2/10

Early 90s to me without knowing. Considering 1987, early “grunge/metal”. Unique sound, messy but persuasive. 3/10

Not for me

I’ve had times in the past where I listened to Dinosaur Jr. I remember hearing the _Start Choppin’_ single and bought _Where You Been_ off the back of that but didn’t delve much further. This absolutely bangs though! The sound of the alternative scene of the early 90s has seeds here for sure. That muddy, grungy sound is there but the songs burst with life and energy and the guitar work is incredible! Any of the first 4 or 5 tracks could be my fave and if the album kept up that quality it would be a 5 star. The back half isn’t quite as strong though although still very good. **Fave track:** SludgeFeast

Sludgefeast amirite. Fuzz for all!

There's something about You're Living All Over Me that just clicks. It makes you want to love it, even if you can’t quite explain why. Jammin', man!

Wouldn’t be a first pick, but I could listen to it again.

This is what I'd call grunge for sure. Not stone temple pilots or Pearl Jam. It has its place, and I think I would have liked it more when I was younger. For some reason, I've never been able to connect with Dinosaur Jr. I can see the correlation to Nirvana. It just didn't click though.

You’re cumming all over me

This album was great!!! I believe I've seen these guys be described as the pioneers of grunge. It has some really strong grunge vibes to me. I really like it. 4 stars.

No thank you. Just feels like this album brings in a cold storm front and makes it rain for days….and not in a good way. Just too heavy for me.

I mean its fine the guitar sound is very harsh, which is cool vocals are a bit weak

Man really struggled through this. Guitar tone was a real struggle, vocals were kinda low effort and energy. After one song I felt like I had heard it all. Not really punk, not really grunge, and not really for me

So influential on the coming decade. I noticed its impact on grunge the first time I Iistened but this time I really can hear its impact on shoegaze as well. This one is definitely more influential and “important” than his 90s stuff but still think I’d enjoy listening to that over this one. Just raw sludge coming at you Rating: 4.4

It’s good but it’s just…incomplete. Fragments of everything are there but the overall songwriting doesn’t build anything out of them. Random cutoff in just like heaven to end it is apt Tough 3 since I really do like this album overall but I don’t feel like it deserves a 4

I understand why this album was reviewed by others as ahead of its time. It really is a musical crossroad or traffic circle bringing in grudge, hard rock amd indie.

Proto alt-rock. Don’t really like this, but it isn’t bad bad as straight punk.

Excellent album, melodic, harsh, Kurt Cobain was listening.

I get the importance of this band you can really hear where the influence on nirvana came from but that doesn’t mean I love it, or like it much 2/5

Wild to me that this is from ‘87. Sounds squarely like a 90s grunge/noise effort. Extra points for that, despite the vocals being a bit grating

I had higher expectations seeing this came out in 1987 (so far my favorite decade), but it seems like noise. The cover of Just Like Heaven couldn't merit it an additional star. Now I'll listen to The Cure to get that out of my ears.

Well, this is the kind of music that doesn't do anything for me. I don't know what to do with it.

Ahaha it hurts my brain. Little Fury Things opens with a brain melting noise thing before it kind of segues into a alt-rock thing. J Mascis sounds like a low rent Thurston Moore. Kracked is more of that. I can see why this influenced shoegaze. Its like a combo of shitty Sonic Youth instruments AND nobody knows how to play. Somehow it works. Sludgefeast is a kind of stoner-grunge-hard rock medley. The Lung is great because instead of doing the quiet/loud thing that grunge does its a melodic/noisy thing. Way more interesting. Raisans like the title is full of unexpected and slightly annoying pitch choices. Tarpit is a bit moany. In a Jar is a bit wistful. I was about to say Poledo was out of step with the rest of the album and then it blasted me with noise and radio scans. Good Stuff. Just Like Heaven is a great take on the Cure's original. This is really good. It messes with your expectations. It occasionally gets a little bit emo or hard rock but then it'll just throw in some really shit guitar pedal fuzz or a wrong note or the left channel will cut out.

Really enjoyed this. Owned Without A Sound in the mid 90s and listened to it all the time. Never really dove into the back catalog. These guys were ahead of their time. Certainly influenced a lot of bands that followed.

Perusmeininkiä tuollasessa popahtavassa punk/grunge/garage genressä, jossa kuitenkin hauskoja saundeja paikoittain antamassa umpffia ja yllättämässä. Vokaalit ovat aika laiskoja mutta ei anneta sen haitata, kuuluu genreen paikoittain.

I am not the biggest fan of alternative rock, which features the guitar heavily. I can listen to this, but I wouldn't add any song to my playlist.

I listened to this on Friday and had some thoughts I wanted to write but never did and now I can’t remember anything specific about this. I think it felt like ot was almost pregrungie but it was heavier than the 90s “hits” that i know. It was fine.

Yes please!

Super fun album, definitely ahead of the curve

About the cover of Just Like Heaven by The Cure: THIS IS HOW COVERS SHOULD BE DONE. It is building off of the original by adding new elements, instead of being a simple copy. For example, there is the guitar wobble on the main riff, and the yelling of "YOU!". Also, the abrupt cut off after the first "YOU!" at the end of the song. Unique! I like that! I really love bands who excell at doing great covers that build on the original. For example, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Their Dear Prudence with the layered vocals saying "Deeeaarrr Prudenceee" is top tier. Also, their cover of Helter Skelter is very neat in how it starts off slow instead of fast live the original Edit Apr 22 2026: 5 --> 4

In 1987, it's clear to see how this record was ahead of its time; eschewing the clean polished guitar tones of hair and glam metal bands, dinosaur jr pushed the limits of noise with distortion, grime and sludge. The resulting record is not just ahead of its time; it's the father of many musical genres, the prognosis of grunge, screamo, noise, hardcore, shoegaze. It's hard to understand how clearly these sounds shine through in tracks like Lose which could fit on a Nirvana album, or the opener little fury things which sounds picked off of a MBV record. Dinosaur Jr manages to clear every hurdle and land as a statue to underground, noise, and the influence of indie to this day

I'm more of a Sonic Youth guy but nothing to complain about with these raucous noisy jams.

too much distortion for me to fully enjoy the music

Pretty fast pased album with good guitar mostly. A little shoegaze-y with Tarpit, but not in a bad way. Solid album

The lead guitarist can sure play that thing! Pretty heavy for the Alt rock I've listen too. Pretty sweet. I wasn't overly thrilled about the vocalist. 6/10

Now this is what this generator is for, albums that are innovative and influential. DJ are so ahead of their time it's crazy. This album rocks so fucking hard. This album holds up so well with its contemporaries (Daydream Nation, Surfer Rosa, Bleach, etc). Bonus points for being just the right amount of weird. 9/10 but I'm giving it a 5 star on here

Jennifer says that all Dinosaur Jr. sounds the same, yeah it’s all fucking awesome!

Grunge rock. Started out solid but fell apart with a few weird songs at the end.

Some parts were better than others, but I think the industrial noise kind of spoke louder than the inoffensive songs.

Weird, but I liked it

Late bloomer on the Dinosaur Jr. experience and I really enjoy this album. Proto-grunge, Lo-Fi garage rock.

Actually, this was awesome

Resulta un poco ruidoso hoy en día. Hay detalles de calidad.

Interesting sound. There are a few screeching noises that I didn't appreciate, but all in all good album.

This was an off key album that sounded familiar

i have tried many times with dinosaur jr but they just don't do it for me

Alt rock with a bunch of added noise, I just don't really get it

I just listened to The Velvet Undergroud and Nico and I mentioned how it can be a difficult listen but it was also very rewarding. I find this album to be equally difficult but with less reward. I do think the first half of the album is pretty solid without being exceptional, but I don't particularly enjoy the second half. Some of the guitar soloing is pretty badass and i dig the big crunchy guitars. Vocals don't really do it for me. I find some songs a little bit unimaginative. Favourite tracks - Little Fury Things & Kracked. 7/10

Really good, can definitely tell it was ahead of it's time, probably inspired a lot of future bands. Early punk grunge style. A bit grating at a few times though

Wygląda na to, że z grunge’u lubię tylko Nievanę. Jakieś to rozproszone było. Czułam, że to wielki zespół, słyszałam ile późniejszych zespołów się nimi inspirowało. Ale no za serce mnie to nie chwyciło. Po prostu porządny kawałek dość nowatorskiej roboty. 6.5/10 równane w dół.

Good album. A little J Mascis goes a long way.

Not loving this sound.

eh

Oh this is very much in my bag. Thank you 1001 albums for blessing me with this lo-fi classic.

Pretty good

This is not the same Dinosaur Jr. I heard in their atrocious noise rock album named Bug. I mean, You're Living All Over Me wasn't great, but they had nowhere near the same amount of noise rock. That fact alone made this album so much more palatable. I was able to appreciate Dino Jr.'s alt rock sound, somewhat. The lead singer's vocals are still the worst.

While this album arrived earlier than "Bug", another album on this project from Dinosaur Jr., I feel like this album is the better representation of the direction of alternative rock and grunge of the 90s. This is also the far more listenable album of the two. It has some great riffs and some incredible, gritty vocals. Their cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" was a mixed bag for me. Musically, it was pretty good. Vocally, he literally seemed to drone the vocals as off-key and as off-tempo as possible. The very abrupt ending of the song caught me quite off guard, too. I would say when all was said and done, there was enough to make this a 3, but barely so. The "Just Like Heaven" cover really almost pushed this into the red for me.

Interesting

This is god fucking awful.

Standout Songs: Kracked Sludgefeast Raisans Lose

Good

Older punk. Could sound better.

10/10 Ill take any excuse to listen to more Dinosaur Jr haha

Dinosaur Jr is noise first, followed by singing . I’ve wanted to be a fan of these guys for years and it’s never come to full fruition. It’s not going to happen today either. This is down the lines of Sonic Youth and not as heavy as Helmet. Crispier than Nirvana but not as commercially made. There isn’t a lack of trying with these guy. It’s just too consistent of a sound from start to finish. Like one big long opus song of garage band noise. Choice cut: Raisans

You know what's great about punk rock and alternative albums from the 80s? Many songs, under 40 minutes. Dinosaur Jr are a great band that don't get enough attention, but the influence they yield was enough to take credit for most of the 90s Alternative grunge sound. 3.5/5

If I were rating this album by its production and overall sound, it would be a 1.5/5. What a bad sounding album. However... The songwriting is great and I simply love it when punk/post-punk albums have simplistic, but brilliant guitar parts. The singing is bad, but that's a genre staple and it mostly works in this context. Overall, I didn't think I would enjoy this album when I started, because it really is a bad sounding album, but in the end, I actually enjoyed it very much. 4/5

1987. Kind of a knock off Black crows sounding band without much zest

This album was very sludge-y for me. The songs had no crispness for me. I am sure that was part of the point, but the sludge kinda drained the energy any of the songs. I was hoping for more, and I just didn't get it out of this. NEXT.

Pre-grunge and their first real kick at this new sound. It needs work. It's on this list because it's gloomy (lyrics), heavy and grungy (guitar/bass and drum sounds), a bit tonal or a bit screamy (vocals) and that's so much of what grunge alternative became. And while I liked Little Fury Things, Kracked, and Sludgefeast (which kick off the album) I started to feel like the album was repeating a bit after that. Or it dipped a bit. I don't know what the deal was with Poledo to end the album. Both Dinosaur Jr. and grunge got better as it aged.

I always like discovering bands that were precursors of bigger bands. This is grunge about four years too early. Little Fury Things immediately made me think of Nirvana. SludgeFeast immediately made me think of Soundgarden. The main dings against this album are a bit too much noise for my taste and I'm generally not a fan of slacker singing. I'd call it a 3.5 - I feel like I should round up to recognize that they were ahead of the curve, but between sloppy playing, slacker singing, and too much noise, I've got to go with the 3. Favorite tracks: Little Fury Things, SludgeFeast.

Kinda raw, but like raw carrots rather than raw cake batter

I really don't understand how people like this band. That said, I didn't mind "Poledo" and their Cure cover was OK.

Very surprised. PROS Guitar melody Of the time Bright Flow CONS Not much diversity

I'm sure this is a classic and dinosaur Jr. Is a seminal band, but I just couldn't get into this

nothing new here second division grungy stuff

nope

This album has a shitty sound, but the shitty version of just like heaven worthed the trip. 2 stars.

Noisy and beautiful. J. Mascis is creates such a balance between the two. I have the Just Like Heaven single from this album but I never knew it was the last track on the album. Beginning to End fantastic in a messy, muddy way that grips you somewhere deep in your chest and tickles your ears with a scratchy, aching voice that you can't get enough of.

Well, I loved the shit out of this album. Never heard of Dinosaur Jr. but they seem right up my alley.

incredibly easy 5 stars. incredible guitar tone and diverse song writing. i’ve heard absolutely nothing like it

It was an interesting album. Some good songs on there. I'd say 2.5 - I will round up.

Not bad!

Eh this is meh

awful

fantastic rock album with real heart.

I love all the early Dino Jr. stuff right up to Where You Been, and have been listening to these dudes since Deep Wound *probably not on this list :( These records are key components to the soundtrack of my youth. You're Living All Over Me has all the signature elements of those albums. It is scratchy, raw, and frantic, and noisy. The composition is sometimes scattered, probably the musical equivalent to the shit heaps of paper on my desk which compromises my "filing system", and all make sense to me. The whole thing is topped with an emotive vocal melancholy which is kind of the magic ingredient. These are perfectly imperfect recordings with enough fuzz to cover up the blemishes. Four stars as Bug and Green Mind are next level.

high-key sounds great, love the first track so far EPIC, PEAK ASF!!!!

Supremely average

Ok.

At first I thought, “oh, this is what Nirvana would be like if they had no charisma”. But that does a disservice to Nirvana and also doesn’t explain the weirdness of this album. It starts off terribly with the first song - thought I was in for a very rough ride at that point. Mercifully there was less terrible white noise/screaming from there on in. Which allowed me to collect my thoughts on the lead singer: - effeminacy reminiscent of the pet shop boys but without the charm - a bit like when they let a fan come up on stage and sing a song, but they’re not any good - at times sounding like they were asked to sing this all with a gun to their head having only heard it a couple of times previous The different sounds throughout this album threw me too. It all started sounding more coherent in the last few tracks then there was the bizarre outtro on the last track. All in all, a bit strange and confused. As am I after listening to it.

I keep wondering when this band will wake up. They seem on the face of it a slightly heavy band but they juxtapose that with a weak and lifeless voice over. Its very strange. Its like getting Darth Vader and replacing his voice with Mr Bean. It would make no sense to what your watching. I imagine grundgy rock with this. Like say Foo fighters or Nirvana. A better lead for this band of pretty much anyone could elevate this to something decent I would think. Wasted potential! Sludgefest I actually enjoyed it felt a little Stone Roses esk. Mainly because there was large sections with no singing! Is it just a jam session it is so confusing to listen to!? In fact I didnt realise how much I see Mr Bean in this. Large sections of absent voice on most tracks. Mumble weakness. Whatever man.

Angsty grunge for teenagers stewing in their bedrooms. I guess fairly interesting that it was quite an early example but if you are looking for this sound in the late 80's just listen to The Cure who are actually good.

This album reminds me of a particular ex girlfriend. I understand why she liked it, but understanding why someone would like something is not the same as liking it yourself.

SUCKED

It's okay, don't have much to say

I have not heard of this band or album before. I can't say I recall hearing any of these songs either! Enjoyed the rhythm and music but found the vocals hard to listen to. Glad to have been able to take a listen though!

Just a bit boring and repetitive, not much to say

Has vibes of Neil Young and Crazy Horse mixed with Sabbath heavy riffs, it's loud and trashy and loose, I enjoyed it a lot, unexpected 5 for me

This is one of those classic albums that despite being good I never really liked like other people do, people swear by this being the best noise rock or lo fi indie thing but personally it never hit for me. Some nice songs but ultimately feel forgettable after a while, not helped by the lo-fi-ness not really complementing the music, it moreso neuters it sometimws (sludgefest). I also don't care for J Mascis as a singer even if his skills moreso lie in his guitar playing. All in all a fine record but not one I like still

One of the goats

Is this grunge? I don't know. Kinda cool.