The Felled Trees Collective, consisting of members from Thrice, Samiam and No Motiv (also featuring appearances from Texas Is the Reason, Knapsack, Beat Union and numerous other bands), covered the album in its entirety on its 20th anniversary. Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. I knew after getting Green Mind reissue that I couldn’t pass this one up even though already had a nice sounding original. Where You Been’, their fifth record, emerged in 1993, at the height of enthusiasm for grunge and the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of. i will say too that in the run in wax on side A there is a noticeable hum that should not be there, this does not occur on the B, C and D sides however, maybe this is just my pressing?

Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Barlow’s exit, to form lo-fi bards Sebadoh, was followed by a contract with major label imprint Blanco Y Negro, and a fourth album (1991’s Green Mind) that sired an unlikely underground hit in The Wagon. s textbook construction of over-driven ear-worms would go on to strike chords with many later alt-90s guitar heroes.All the while, Mascis' army of guitars is placed in service of his breaking heart, and the sound is majestic and moving.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Over the years I have collected some of those exclusive CD releases, but now I have many of those songs all in one here, and on vinyl, wow. Mascis reacted at the time, "We're just making records and, I mean, every one sold more than the last one. Similarly the verbal spaghetti spilling over 'Hide' pre-dates Jeff Magnum's [sic] similar drawl on ‘ In the Aeroplane Over The Sea’ by a fair few years. Their first three albums had stirred hardcore, psychedelia, noise, country and metal into a blurry and glorious mess of sludge-pop, switching from melody to noise with the stomp of a pedal.They've stopped sounding the way they did on Bug, but they've built on the same basic premise and kept those very recognisable guitar sounds. For those of you who know what I'm referring to, the amazing 10 min live version of "What else is new," from the Japanese "Feel the Pain" live EP is included. Robert Christgau was less positive, finding that "somehow his axe and his voice sing the same tune, momentarily transmuting his self-pity into simple sadness". Released to unanimously positive reviews, and containing many tracks that would become staples and fan favourites, “Where You Been” continued Dinosaur Jr’s global ascent, being issued simultaneously across the US, Europe, Australasia, Asia and South America.

About as quiet as I can ask for and the discs are as flat as an IHOP pancake on a Sunday after church service. But given the outstanding quality of the packaging and song selection for the bonus tracks, I don't mind so much in this case. Michael Azerrad, writing for Rolling Stone, was similarly positive, writing that "their second major-label album [. The song "Start Choppin'" was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U. And it's also got possibly the most consistently great collection of tracks on any DJ album, with the exception of possibly Bug and Green Mind.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. With his fondness for extended guitar-play, his country-soaked rock crunch, his cracked and sweet vocals, Where You Been identified Mascis as hewn from the same stone as Neil Young before him. I don't know if they make a conscious effort to change, but I suppose they'd be really bored by now if they always sounded the same. Released as grunge was at its height, 1993’s Where You Been hazily evaded any Nirvana-esque commercial crossover (it peaked at number 50 in the Billboard charts), but was a ragged masterpiece that found a fine new voice for the band.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. On previous albums, the singer's relationship with the world outside seemed about as emotionally developed as a 13-year-old's. have announced plans to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Where You Been, their influential 1993 grunge album and fifth full-length overall.s greatest commercial success up to that point, reaching number 50 in the US and number 10 in the UK.