| 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]
Whatever's Cool with Me is the first Dinosaur Jr. recording to feature bassist Mike Johnson.
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]
Side A
Side B
"The Little Baby", "Pebbles + Weeds", and "Quick Sand" are the B-sides from The Wagon single released in 1991.