Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism, Reference, Pop & Rock, Rock
Cover of the book Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me by Nick Attfield, Bloomsbury Publishing
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Nick Attfield ISBN: 9781441199799
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: June 9, 2011
Imprint: Continuum Language: English
Author: Nick Attfield
ISBN: 9781441199799
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: June 9, 2011
Imprint: Continuum
Language: English

Dinosaur Jr, the stereotypical slackers. Mascis, Barlow, Murph (just Murph): three early-twentysomethings still overburdened by a torpid adolescence and a disastrous dress sense. With battered guitar, bass, and kit, they carry around a catalogue of songs that betrays identities half-formed at best, schizoid at worst.

But listen. 1987, a new album, a snapshot of a moment when a furious musical intensity swung upwards and pushed their lyrics and Mascis's vocal whine far into the margins. Searing riffs, mountainous solos, and the tightest of fills – underpinned by stream-of-consciousness structures and a palette of crazed effects – steal the show. These three build a one-off sound that stirred up the hardening alternative mainstream and drove it to distraction. You're Living All Over Me: supposedly Mascis's indictment of what it was like to tour in a van with these other two misfits, but also testimony to the obsession – an itch, a disease – that the band's disengagement from their world had produced. This record cares so little it cares a lot.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Dinosaur Jr, the stereotypical slackers. Mascis, Barlow, Murph (just Murph): three early-twentysomethings still overburdened by a torpid adolescence and a disastrous dress sense. With battered guitar, bass, and kit, they carry around a catalogue of songs that betrays identities half-formed at best, schizoid at worst.

But listen. 1987, a new album, a snapshot of a moment when a furious musical intensity swung upwards and pushed their lyrics and Mascis's vocal whine far into the margins. Searing riffs, mountainous solos, and the tightest of fills – underpinned by stream-of-consciousness structures and a palette of crazed effects – steal the show. These three build a one-off sound that stirred up the hardening alternative mainstream and drove it to distraction. You're Living All Over Me: supposedly Mascis's indictment of what it was like to tour in a van with these other two misfits, but also testimony to the obsession – an itch, a disease – that the band's disengagement from their world had produced. This record cares so little it cares a lot.

More books from Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover of the book Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Selections from Horace Satires by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Sailing to the Edge of Time by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book A New Humanism by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book The Almost King by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book British Campaign Medals 1914-2005 by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Karl Popper by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Caledonia by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Puppets and Cities by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book The Traitor Game by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Don'ts for Dancers by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Fortifications of the Western Front 1914–18 by Nick Attfield
Cover of the book Getting the Buggers to Behave by Nick Attfield
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy