Ear Bleeding Country: The Best Of

This is a solid overview of Dinosaur Jr's body of work. It's pretty well balanced although some may say there should have been more songs from the indie albums. But since I have the first three already I felt like it was a plus that it offered a healthy dose of the major-label era period. The welcome inclusion of the two Mascis solo cuts gives a richer picture of what Dino Jr is all about.The sound on the early cuts is noticeably cleaned up on this disc. In particular on "Repulsion." Rhino tinkered with sound. It's higher fidelity, but that's only a relative term. There's only so much one could do in that department. Some fans may prefer the murky soup of the original early LPs. I like both. I for one am curious to hear the recent remasters now to see how they compare.

This new double CD reissue is the t*ts! A whole fan picked with their latest single. On Cherry Red Records available on vinyl and double CD for 2018. A reduxe, if you will...Great compilation x2 for 2018. Warning: the vinyl is just the standard version like the 1st CD but white colored whitch is a plus. Plug into Ear Bleeding Country reduxe 2018!

Love this album immensly..will ship directly through amazon next time instead of their companied affliates due to the addressing in my name and below it stating or current resident.. thanks for the free gift amy!! Youre welcome current resident!

it was okay, but not my cup of tea.

From there inception as a post hardcore sonic terrors until the end as grunge survivors, 'Ear Bleeding Country' Dinosaur Jr's best of covers a great deal of territory. Full of great tracks, some classic some merely good, the one thing you should take away from listening to this collection is that J Mascis, boy could he play guitar. A generation of who were brought up on grunge owe that guitar sound to J, one of the few originals of the last 25 years.What this fails to do however is give a good overview of the band. The early tense savagery of the more punk albums especially isn't really on show on this collection, and is rather under represented. However its still great fun, often thunderous, and almost reveling in a slacker ethic. Though I'm sure every fan would have come up with a different best of 19 songs, this is still as decent a starting place you'll find for the band, after which if you're interested you should get 'You're Living All Over Me' then 'Bug' then 'Greenmind' and 'Whatevers Cool With Me', followed by the rest at random. Of interest long time fans still is the pretty flower of a 'Take A Run At The Sun' which J did for a movie soundtrack, and is probably the best example of his softer sider you'll ever find.The other high lights, the first seven songs, 'Whatevers Cool With Me', 'Start Choppin', 'Feel The Pain' and 'I'm Insane'. Really just enjoy and then hopefully you'll discover the rest of what the band has to offer.

When I was in Junior High, I thought Dinosaur Jr. was it. While everyone else was absorbed in Pearl Jam and the Kurt Cobain/shotgun incident, I was rocking out to J. Mascis and co. I don't know what happened to me over the last seven or eight years, but I just sorta forget about them. I was in the store the other day and saw this sitting on the shelf and decided to pick it up after looking at the track listing.Listening to this "best of" compilation brought back as many memories as flipping through an old year-book. I just can't believe I ever lost track of this great band. Now that I'm older, I can appreciate them a lot more. It almost makes me feel nostalgiac. I generally don't care for "best of" or "greatest hits" albums that much but this is really one worth owning. I mean, with 19 tracks, it's more of an anthology. If, for some reason, or another, you missed out on this highly underrated band (or guitarist/singer/songwriter, I should say) this is where to start. Highly reccommended for anyone who claims to like "alternative" music or just good music in general.

Odlicna kolekcija pesama jednog od najzanimljivijih americkih bendova nezavisne scene. Ne znam kako i zasto, ali Dinosaur Jr. su uvek bili i ostali nezasluzeno u senci Sonic Youth i Nirvana.Ovo je kompilacija koja ce vas vratiti u vreme kada je nezavisna scena i tekako bila uticajna, a pesme poput Little Fury Things, Just Like Heaven, Whatever's Cool With Me, Out There... potsetiti na neka bezbednija vremena.

Like with most things that Rhino issues, this is a solid collection and you get a lot of music for the cost of purchase (19 tracks). For fans like me that didn't really get into Dino Jr until their MTV-era ("Out There", "Feel The Pain")it's nice to have a good chunk of material from their pre-WB indie days. Also nice is the inclusion of J Masic's solo turn on "Take A Run At The Sun" and a new track from his new band, J Masic and The Fog. All in all, if you own no Dino Jr. at all then this is a good place to start. As with any band, some great songs are missing from this "best of" but, that criticism aside, "Ear Bleeding Country" is a cool collection.

先日、MTVで“the wagon”“feel the pain”のPV観て懐かしくて即買いしてしまいました。歪みまくってるのに妙に開き直った明るさが良い!!よくグランジのハシリとか言われがちだけどこの開き直り感はメロコアのが近いじゃないかい?。例えばグリーンデイの“ドゥキー”とか。

Dinosaur Jr.のベスト版です。選曲が良く初めて聴く人には最高のアイテムです。それにしてもJ.マスシスほどギターの音色で泣かしてくれる人が他にいるだろうか？ラストのWhere'd You Go......泣ける。

I've now bought two copies of this collection of songs. The first one (not from Amazon, I think) had the end of one song and the beginning of the next track missing (can't offhand remember which). I know that both songs have a chunk missing as I have the vinyl albums that they appear on and they finish and start differently on these. I ordered a second copy, from Amazon this time and it had exactly the same fault. Neither was a particulally well recorded either. Suggests to me that there are a lot of bootleg copies kicking around that are on the umpteenth copy of the original bootleg 'master'.If, like me, you're a Mascis fan, then you'll probably enjoy this collection, but you will never get over the fear of dread you get when sudden silence kicks in followed by a song starting seconds into the tune suddenly. I thought my new cd had packed in briefly...Be warned

For the uninitiated, Dinosaur Jr are a grungy rock band with great guitar licks (reminiscent of Neil Young's Crazy Horse) courtesy of J Mascis. I was looking for a Dinosaur Jr album to fill the gap in my collection but didn't know where to start. This one did the trick. All albums (of their fist period) are evenly represented to give you a complete picture and it contains one of their high points, their version of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven", previously available only as a single. Overall, it works well as a starting point.

there is a major mixing dead spot