Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur

Here's a record I've never actually listened to before today, I really had only listened to "Without a Sound" and "You're Living All Over Me" by the band. This, the first Dinosaur Jr. record, is not their best, but it did show a lot of promise and very evidently inspired Nirvana... not that this hasn't already been well known. I found it to hit it's stride, more or less, half way through the record with the last three tracks really being the strongest. Mountain Man is a great 80's hardcore punk song and sits perfectly in the SST records catalog. I'd have wanted to record an album as good as this when I was 20 years old.




2.5/4

Favourite track - The Leper (love the Joy Divisionesque bass line)