Whatever's Cool with Me explained

Whatever's Cool with Me
Type:EP
Artist:Dinosaur Jr
Cover:200px - What Evers Cool With Me.jpg
Released:1991
Genre:Alternative rock
Label:Sire
Producer:J Mascis
Prev Title:Fossils
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:Where You Been
Next Year:1993

Whatever's Cool with Me is an EP by the American band Dinosaur Jr.[1] [2] It was released on Sire Records in 1991.[3] It contains the "Whatever's Cool With Me" single and the European single of "The Wagon". The band supported the EP by touring with My Bloody Valentine.[4] "Quicksand" is a cover of the David Bowie song.[5]

A music video for the song "Whatever's Cool With Me" was shot at J Mascis's home in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was directed by Jim Spring and Jens Jurgensen. The EP sold more than 40,000 copies in its first six months of release.[6]

Critical reception

The St. Petersburg Times deemed the release "an eight-song EP full of cacophonous noise and hectic delight."[7] The Hartford Courant called it "a searing EP."[8] The Seattle Times wrote that the EP showcases "the Dinosaur at its most irresistibly rapacious, the irreverent noisemakers The Replacements would have been if they hadn't turned into The Knack."[9] Trouser Press opined that "only the brisk and tight 'Not You Again', in which Mascis marvels woefully at 'the mess I made again…how do I do it?,' displays the kind of small effort it takes to elevate slack rubbish into slacker art."[10]

Track listing

CD Maxi-Single (Sire Records Company)
  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14
  3. "Not You Again" - 2:32
  4. "The Little Baby" - 2:11
  5. "Pebbles + Weeds" - 5:25
  6. "Quicksand" (David Bowie, additional lyrics by J Mascis, contains the main guitar riff from "Andy Warhol") - 4:34
  7. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
  8. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16
12" Vinyl (Warner Music UK Ltd.)

Side A

  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14

Side B

  1. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
  2. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16
CD, Maxi-Single (Blanco Y Negro, Warner Music UK Ltd.)
  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14
  3. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
  4. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16
7" Vinyl (Blanco Y Negro)
  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14

"The Little Baby", "Pebbles + Weeds", and "Quick Sand" are the B-sides from The Wagon single released in 1991.

Notes and References

  1. News: McLeese . Don . Punk guitar heroes blaze trails . Austin American-Statesman . 6 Feb 1992 . Onward . 6.
  2. News: Wood . Sam . Dinosaur Jr at the Trocadero . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 7 Mar 1992 . D5.
  3. Book: Thompson . Dave . Alternative Rock . 2000 . Hal Leonard Corporation . 333.
  4. News: Sullivan . Jim . Intense MBV, bracing Dinosaur . The Boston Globe . 5 Mar 1992 . Arts & Film . 78.
  5. Book: Earles . Andrew . Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 . 2014 . Voyageur Press . 87.
  6. News: Bourie . Richard . Fans making tracks to see Dinosaur Jr . The Republican . February 23, 1992 . Springfield . G1.
  7. News: Hall . Dave . Dinosaur roams again . St. Petersburg Times . 24 Jan 1992 . Weekend . 22.
  8. News: Catlin . Roger . UMass turf yields rocking Dinosaur . Hartford Courant . 11 Feb 1993 . Calendar . 15.
  9. News: Thompson . David . Dinosaur Jr., 'Whatever's Cool with Me' . The Seattle Times . January 2, 1992 . H3.
  10. Web site: Dinosaur . Trouser Press . 15 February 2023.

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