dinosaur jr.

a long time since one of my friends first got ahold of a dinosaur jr. lp – you’re living all over me. i spun the crap out of that record. it still pops into my head sometimes even without hearing it. brings back the best memories of lazy, hazy days of school’s-out summers, outdoor festivals at thunderbird stadium. ahh.. there’s just something about the thrashy noise wash put right up against the quiet vocals sung for the singer alone.

we didn’t know at the time (we didn’t know much, really), but apparently dj are seen as originators to indie rock.

mp3s of Little Furry Things and The Lung are up on Press Random at the moment.

listening to these now, i can hear the loud instruments being held back in the mix, so the vocals don’t have to be compressed at all, they can just exist in their own quiet little bedroom. there’s a really lo-fi sound overall, leaving lots of gaps in frequencies, and a general fuzziness. i get a melancolic twinge, but a happy one, everytime i listen to it. i’ve been humming this stuff for three days straight now, even the wah-wah’ed guitar wash parts. And that scream!

there is also a huge archive of live shows/bootlegs at freesofree.net. the sound on most of the older recordings is terrible, but there is a load of stuff on there to peruse, and i’ve only just started to poke around.

~ by superburner on October 5, 2006.