Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Best Albums - Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr

I forget what inspired me to buy this album, but I picked up the cassette sometime in the spring of 1992 and played it to death while pulling journals for researchers in the UK Chemistry library. The library was in storage while they renovated the library and my job, along with a couple of others, was to go pull journals from boxes for researches, then to re-box said journals. Trust me when I tell you that this album was perfect for that job. It's alternative noise pop at its best. It's loud, disgruntled, and tired sounding all at the same time. All of this sits atop great hooks. But this album makes this best albums list of mine because it has held up very well over time. I pull this album out it seems two or three times a year and I don't do that with very many albums that I was listening to some 17 years ago.

Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind (1991)
1. The Wagon
2. Puke and Cry
3. Blowing It
4. I Live For That Look
5. Flying Cloud
6. How'd You Pin That One On Me
7. Water
8. Muck
9. Thumb
10. Green Mind



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