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Sonic Youth for me are a bit too unaccessible in a limiting, pointless way (don’t kill me please - I still love them), but Dinosaur Jr., especially early albums, are amazing in the same angry early 90’s way. Dinosaur Jr was pretty much mainly J Mascis and Lou Barlow, Lou Barlow of D.I.Y-in-a-million-different-ways fame, doing the whole Lo-Fi thing with his other band Sebadoh. It doesn’t matter, none of that crap does. All that’s important is that Dinosaur Jr. albums like Bug and Green Mind and Where You Been and Dinosaur are all amazing.

Bug was the band’s third album and the last before Lou Barlow left (he came back in 2007), and it was released in 1988. My favourite Dinosaur Jr. track “Freak Scene” starts of the album, and it only gets louder and faster from there. I can only stand a very few albums that are this heavy (Sonic Youth have a few in that list actually). You can really hear the difference when Lou Barlow left, albums like Where You Been sound completely different, much less grungy and experimental, perhaps I’ll put that up soon too.

1. Freak Scene
2. No Bones
3. They Always Come
4. Yeah We Know
5. Let It Ride
6. Pond Song
7. Budge
8. The Post
9. Don’t