587. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987)
















Track Listing

1. Little Fury Things
2. Kracked
3. Sludgefeast
4. Lung
5. Raisans
6. Tarpit
7. In A Jar
8. Lose
9. Poledo
10. Show Me The Way

Review

If you listened to this album with no historical context you would not believe it is from 1987, this is ahead of their time by a decade, but then it could be like something you get from an OC mixed CD. So it has its good points and its bad points.

Part of the good points is the way in which they use tape loops and weird sounds experiments in their music. And you can so see the beginnings of slacker rock that would be so extremely popular some years later. It can be very melodic or noisy as hell, but as you listen to it repeatedly the noise starts becoming coherent and it just sounds good.

All this said, the main singers voice does sound a bit trite at times, standard indie rock voice for the masses, but them musical bits do compensate for that and it isn't a voice common at the time, although it kind of reminds me of Violent Femmes at times although it is never as good. Good album


Track Highlights

1. Little Fury Things
2. The Lung
3. In A Jar
4. Poledo


Final Grade

9/10

Trivia

From Wikipedia:

In 2005, it was ranked 31 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". "Poledo" is unique from the rest of the album in that half of it is a lo-fi recording of Lou Barlow singing and playing ukulele, much like his own group Sebadoh, while the other half is a collection of sound collages and abstract noise pieces.

In 2005 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.

Little Fury Things: