Ear-Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr

Dinosaur Jr. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 2, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B00005Q3AM
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,713 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Repulsion

2. Little Fury Things

3. In a Jar

4. Freak Scene

5. Budge

6. Just Like Heaven

7. The Wagon

8. Thumb

9. Whatever's Cool With Me

10. Not You Again

11. Out There

12. Start Choppin

13. Get Me

14. Feel the Pain

15. I Don't Think So

16. Take a Run at the Sun

17. Nothin's Goin' On

18. I'm Insane

19. Where'd You Go

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: DINOSAUR JR.
Title: EAR-BLEEDING COUNTRY: BEST OF
Street Release Date: 10/02/2001
Domestic
Genre: PUNK

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not A Bad Place To Start, October 20, 2001

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"jbksauls" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ear-Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr (Audio CD)

Like with most things that Rhino issues, this is a solid collection and you get a lot of music for the cost of purchase (19 tracks). For fans like me that didn't really get into Dino Jr until their MTV-era ("Out There", "Feel The Pain")it's nice to have a good chunk of material from their pre-WB indie days. Also nice is the inclusion of J Masic's solo turn on "Take A Run At The Sun" and a new track from his new band, J Masic and The Fog. All in all, if you own no Dino Jr. at all then this is a good place to start. As with any band, some great songs are missing from this "best of" but, that criticism aside, "Ear Bleeding Country" is a cool collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hear the birthplace of Nirvana and 90's alternative rock., October 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Ear-Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr (Audio CD)

Dinosaur Jr mastered the quiet/loud dynamics and layered their sonic assault with acoustic guitars before Kurt Cobain became a legend and bands like Tripping Daisy .... in the alternative punchbowl. This compilation has great artwork and an excellent 11 page essay. The track listing boasts more in-depth information that the original albums, too. But the real reason to jump on board is the amazing remastering done by the wizards over at Rhino. "Repulsion" has always been a classic, but it's never jumped out of the speakers the way it does here. The early stuff has been in need of some sonic clean-up for years. Major fans will quibble about the track listing, but that's to be expected when compiling a songwriter like Mascis onto one disc. I wouldn't remove a single track... I just might add a couple personal favorites. So, embrace indie rock history... Get yourself a little Dino and see if you can make your ears bleed, raise some gooseflesh, and jam along on your air-telecaster. And Rhino, how about a remastered "You're Living All Over Me"?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Got a knack for being right!, September 26, 2005

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Sacco (here there and everywhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ear-Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr (Audio CD)

From there inception as a post hardcore sonic terrors until the end as grunge survivors, 'Ear Bleeding Country' Dinosaur Jr's best of covers a great deal of territory. Full of great tracks, some classic some merely good, the one thing you should take away from listening to this collection is that J Mascis, boy could he play guitar. A generation of who were brought up on grunge owe that guitar sound to J, one of the few originals of the last 25 years.

What this fails to do however is give a good overview of the band. The early tense savagery of the more punk albums especially isn't really on show on this collection, and is rather under represented. However its still great fun, often thunderous, and almost reveling in a slacker ethic. Though I'm sure every fan would have come up with a different best of 19 songs, this is still as decent a starting place you'll find for the band, after which if you're interested you should get 'You're Living All Over Me' then 'Bug' then 'Greenmind' and 'Whatevers Cool With Me', followed by the rest at random. Of interest long time fans still is the pretty flower of a 'Take A Run At The Sun' which J did for a movie soundtrack, and is probably the best example of his softer sider you'll ever find.

The other high lights, the first seven songs, 'Whatevers Cool With Me', 'Start Choppin', 'Feel The Pain' and 'I'm Insane'. Really just enjoy and then hopefully you'll discover the rest of what the band has to offer.