Track Listing
1. Repulsion
2. Little Fury Things
3. In a Jar
4. Freak Scene
5. Budge
6. Just Like Heaven
7. Wagon, The
8. Thumb
9. Whatever's Cool With Me
10. Not You Again
11. Out There
12. Start Choppin
13. Get Me
14. Feel the Pain
15. I Don't Think So
16. Take a Run at the Sun
17. Nothin's Goin' On
18. I'm Insane
19. Where'd You Go
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Lee Ranaldo, Tiffany Ander | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Dinosaur Jr.: J. Mascis (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, tympani, chimes, percussion); Mike Johnson (vocals, guitar, bass); Lou Barlow (vocals, ukulele, Casio, bass, tapes); Murph (drums).
Additional personnel: Tiffany Anders, Kevin Shields, Bilinda Butcher (vocals); Don Fleming (guitar, background vocals); Greg Dwinell (pedal steel guitar); Donna Guager (piccolo, trumpet); Sean Slade (mellotron); Jay Spiegel (tom toms); Lee Renaldo (background vocals).
Producers include: Dinosaur Jr., J. Mascis.
Compilation producer: Hillary Bratton.
Recorded between 1985 and 2000. Includes liner notes by Byron Coley.
Digitally remastered by Dave Donnelly (DNA Mastering Studios).
Personnel: J Mascis (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, drums, cymbals, timpani, tom tom, percussion, chimes); Mike Johnson (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Lou Barlow (vocals, ukulele, tapes); Murph (vocals, drums); Kevin Shields (vocals, tambourine); Bilinda Butcher, Tiffany Anders (vocals); Don Fleming (guitar, background vocals); Sean Slade (Mellotron); Jay Spiegel (tom tom).
Audio Mixers: Jack Joseph Puig; John Agnello; Mitch Easter; Brian Sperber.
Audio Remasterer: David Donnelly.
Liner Note Author: Byron Coley.
Recording information: Baby Monster; Bearsville Barn; Bob's Place; Capitol studios, Los Angeles, CA; Chris Dixon's House; Dreamland; Fort Apache North; Fun City; Master Control; MBV Studio; Pine Trax; Sear Sound Studios, New York, NY; Sorceror Sound; Wendell Recording Studio.
Dinosaur Jr. first emerged (as simply Dinosaur) from the Massachusetts punk scene in the mid-1980s with provoking, genre-bending-with-just-a-dollop-of-pop releases on stalwart indie labels Homestead and SST. With J. Mascis' hauntingly off-key half-growl, half-howl lurking under layers and layers of distortion, fuzz, and drone, they were locks to bend the ear of an adoring underground radio cult, but the longest of shots to garner million-selling records, let alone touch the pop charts. However, Dinosaur Jr. did all of the above, ruling college radio for almost a decade in the late-'80s and early-'90s, selling a ton of albums, even scoring a MTV Buzz bin aided Billboard pop hit in 1994 with "Feel the Pain." In true indie-rock fashion, after that hit Dinosaur Jr. faded out after one mostly forgettable final album.
The aptly named EAR-BLEEDING COUNTRY evenly collects cuts chronologically from Dinosaur Jr.'s seven albums, an EP, a single, while also including a couple tracks from J. Mascis' more subtle, yet still oddball and compelling non-Dinosaur recordings. Of special note is the inclusion of the at first glance mocking, yet in reality furiously reverent cover of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" and the Beatlesque jagged-horn-laden "I'm Insane" originally hidden on the aforementioned final album.
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