Whatever's Cool With Me

Performer: Dinosaur Jr.
Producer: J Mascis
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Includes the single, "Whatever's Cool With Me", and 7 b-sides. It's typical of J. Mascis' too-cool-for-school diffidence that he released the best song of his career as a stand-alone single (an item which hasn't been common since the mid-'70s) instead of putting it on a more-easily-promotable album. It's also entirely in character for that song to be a catchy pure pop tune covered in squalls of corrosive feedback, with lyrics about chronic indolence sung in a just-out-of-bed monotone. For all its tongue-in-cheek qualities, it sounds like the most personal, autobiographical song of Dinosaur Jr's career. Finally, it's all too typical that after crafting such a masterpiece, Mascis filled the CD single with seven tossed-off pieces of filler--including three noisy live tracks--none of which are actually bad, but which don't measure up at all to the standard of the title track.

Formed in Amherst, Massachusetts during the mid-1980s, Dinosaur Jr. crafted punky, ramshackle songs that featured J. Mascis' sleepy vocals and meandering, feedback-drenched guitars. After a series of well received indie releases, culminating with 1988's BUG, bassist Lou Barlow departed to form Sebadoh, and the band (Mascis and drummer Murph) signed with a major label. In 1991, the group released their masterpiece, GREEN MIND, an album that displayed a poppier, dreamier sound. However, Dinosaur Jr. was essentially a Mascis solo project by this point, and although Murph and other musicians appeared on subsequent albums, Dino Jr. remained a Mascis-driven vehicle until he officially went solo in the late '90s.

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