Favourite Albums

[OriginalPosterLost]

Again, my apologies for deleting the whole album topic. [img]http://www.freakscene.net/ubb/smilies/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img] I guess I’ll just start a new one.

1) Where you been
2) Without a sound
3) You’re living all over me
4) Hand it over
5) Green Mind
6) Dinosaur
7) Bug

Jasper
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"How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not ‘the thing with feathers.’ The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to see a specialist in Zurich."

– Woody Allen

[OriginalPosterLost]

1. Bug
2. Dinosaur
3. Where You Been
4. You´re Living All Over Me
5. Hand It Over
5. Without a Sound
7. Green Mind

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[OriginalPosterLost]

My favs are

Where You Been
Bug
Green Mind
You’re Living All Over Me
Hand It Over
Without a Sound

Of course the new one will top the list soon!!!!
A

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[OriginalPosterLost]

I’m very annoyed the first thread was deleted. [img]http://www.freakscene.net/ubb/smilies/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img]

Here we go again:

1) GREEN FREAKIN’ MIND!!! And for those of yous who don’t like it — [img]http://www.freakscene.net/ubb/smilies/flipa.gif[/img] It’s kinda funny that someone mentioned the lyrics being somewhat anxious (or nervous or sumpin’ like that)…that album got me through a couple of years that were the height of my anxiousness. I got a lot of it (anxiousness that is).
2) Without a Sound — I think this CD moved up in the past week. Love that "I Don’t Think So."
3) Your Living All Over Me — Best Cover
4) Hand It Over — J breaks out the banjo. I love bluegrass (although "Gettin’ Rough" sounds nothing like bluegrass).
5) Where Ya Been — I don’t remember ever purchasing this CD. Wierd.
6) Bug — Too non-listenable. Wasn’t this the CD that had the song "Don’t"?? Sheesh. It also had "Freakscene"…one of my faves.
7) Dinosaur — See first comment for Bug.

#’s 2-5 move around almost on a monthly basis. But hey….it’s all good.

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People who don’t like Green Mind [img]http://www.freakscene.net/ubb/smilies/rocketwhore.gif[/img]

I dig the smilies.

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[OriginalPosterLost]

Huh…..looks like I might be the Bizzaro-RuBrick.

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[This message has been edited by Jebus (edited October 01, 2000).]

[OriginalPosterLost]

I ALWAYS THOUGHT ALL OF J’s LYRICS FELL INTO THE REALM OF "NERVOUS/ANXIOUS".

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[OriginalPosterLost]

1. Where You Been
2. You´re Living All Over Me
3. Hand It Over
4. Green Mind
5. Without a Sound
6. Bug
7. Dinosaur

Do You promise not to delete this one, Jasper? [img]http://www.freakscene.net/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

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[OriginalPosterLost]

this is my list

1. Your Living All Over Me (best fucking dino cd ever every song is a classic on it)
2. Dinosaur (I like every song on here including mountin man)
3. Where You Been (Great fucking album it makes you sit down feel lonely and cry, even if your friends are right next to you)
4. Without a sound (I love Feel The pain, and I dont think so a hell of a lot)
5. Bug (good cd even though there were a couple of bad songs, but the psycore "Dont" moved it up in the standings)
6. Hand It Over(its good i still listen to it about 3 times every week)
7. Green Mind (all it does is gather dust in my cd case)

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"the thrill we never know is the thrill that will get ya when you see the picture on the cover of the rolling stone"
Dr. Hook

[OriginalPosterLost]

I described Green Mind as being "nervous", but I didn’t mean just the lyrics, I ment everything about it. I think a lot of it is in J’s drumming, but it’s also in everything else.
Like the lyrics, that seem even more nervous and anxious than those on other albums (except for Dinosaur, probably, but the lyrics on Where you been, for example, I would rather call melancholic). And this is something I love about Green Mind –

"Scary things across the water,
you never know till they have their way with you."

Jasper

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"How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not ‘the thing with feathers.’ The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to see a specialist in Zurich."

– Woody Allen

[OriginalPosterLost]

my favs change every week, so here are this weeks favs: Where you been- always will be my number 1
More light
Hand it over
Green mind
Bug
Without a sound(i believe this to b j’s weakest album if there is such a thing)
Later trav

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[OriginalPosterLost]

The story I read on Green Mind is that J got nemonia (Sorry I can’t spell…) while dog sledding in Alaska with neil young!! Maybe that is a tall tale but all the songs are supposed to be in the same key because J could only sing in one key at the time. Green Mind is on the bottom of my list not because it is bad but because it literally drives me over the edge. I had to smash the cassett version of it I had!!!!$#@^%^$%#!!!

Anyway I couldn’t handle it! I have to admit I am a light wieght. That is why I like Bug. Latly I have been into stupid songs like "Keep The Glove."

I think that the records between Bug and More Light are a little fuzzy. On most of them I have trouble remembering the names of the songs unless I refer to the CD cover. This is mainly because the name of the song is not usually in the lyrics. But "More Light" is different in that respect (or at least the three songs I have heard from it…) and is like the earlier records. The song titles are almost immediatly identifyable.

I have been thinking that maybe J has made a great contribution to music as an art form. (I know, you all are saying "DUH!") I just got a book (Published in 1987) titled "The Triumph of Vulgarity." The premise seems to be that Rock music is of the common people and the common people are vulgar so this is what rock will be and what music and culture will be from now on. But us "common" folk are not only vulgar. We are human and we can be as high minded as any saint or aristocrat! We also have a sense of shame every now and again which the high minded, highly "Cultured" individule can not even comprehend. Because they are not "common" and can not be "Common." It just had not made it into music in general. Until Dino Jr. that is… Most of J (and a lot of Lou’s) songs are about shame and personal reflection on right and wrong (or our innability to even approch what is right) and express these things in a way that has become very influential. Js songs also sort of say that this is OK.

Well I don’t know if I am making any sense here… Good night!

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[OriginalPosterLost]

I don’t know about the dog sledding with Neil Young (can anyone confirm this?), but I’m sure the singing-in-one-key story belongs to Without a Sound, not Green Mind. Just listen to WAS and you’ll hear it.

I would see the song title issue exactly the opposite way. Which song title of You’re living all over me is in the lyrics? (The Lung, Show me the way, but any others?) But then, Where you been: Out there, What else is new, On the way, Not the same, Get me, Hide, Goin’ home – almost all the titles come back in the lyrics! And the same goes for Without a sound. In fact, now I think about it, I think YLAOM is the only album where the majority of the titles do not come back in the lyrics.

Jasper

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"Ever since Uma left, things haven’t really been the same. Everyone has their head down, and no one’s smiling anymore. The other day, a guy lit himself on fire and no one even cared – because Uma wasn’t around anymore."

– J Mascis

[This message has been edited by jasper (edited October 10, 2000).]

[OriginalPosterLost]

Yes, the "one-key" album is "Without a Sound". I don’t know about the sledding thing, but according to an interview I read, J was in pretty rough shape during that time. His father had died and J also had pneumonia during the making of the record. He said he had to capo all the songs up a few frets to accommodate the effects on his voice.

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[This message has been edited by rosa (edited October 10, 2000).]

[OriginalPosterLost]

i have read the dog sledding thing on another dino page, carnt think of yet but will get back to u!

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[OriginalPosterLost]

well it´s from http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wibble/dinosaur.jr/faq.html#SEC10.8

and this it what is says
Why is a lot of "Without a Sound" sung in the same key?
this is what is says:
J got sick from dogsledding across Alaska with Neil Young so when it was time to write Without a Sound, J had pneumonia and could only sing in one key, so he wrote all of the songs in the same key

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