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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 22-MAR-2005

Track Listing

1. Little Fury Things
2. Kracked
3. Sludgefeast
4. Lung
5. Raisans
6. Tarpit
7. In a Jar
8. Lose
9. Poledo
10. Just Like Heaven
11. Little Fury Things [Video][Multimedia Track]
12. Just Like Heaven [Video][Multimedia Track]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17656 in Music
• Brand: DINOSAUR JR
• Released on: 2005-03-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Still Sounds Great
YLAOM still stands out as one of the best underground/alternative/progressive/college-music/whatever albums from the mid-late 1980's. My taste in music has changed considerably since that time, but, unlike many other--well, loud--recordings from the period, I always gravitate back towards YLAOM and the follow-up BUG, both of which are awash in crazed screeching feedback but somehow sustain a sense of melody at times. As for the remastering, it's excellent. The levels were so low on the old SST CD version that you had to bump the volume all the way up when listening. Merge has cleaned up and amplified everything, although it still keeps that low-fi sound that's part of the production.

5 star album... 1 star reissue.
Merge really dropped the ball on their reissues of the first three Dinosaur Jr. CDs.

For whatever reason, the era appropriate "Show Me The Way" was replaced with "Just Like Heaven", which was recorded two years later. "Just Like Heaven", as well as all the b-sides from the single, would fit better as bonus tracks for Bug.

Don't get me wrong, the album tracks are as good as they ever were. It's just that a reissue of this landmark album deserves better attention to detail.

Sludgefest Sounding Greatness
This is where Dinosaur Jr. shined! It is back in print, thanks J, and Merge. Yes. It was trouble to find this before this reissue and this is an essential to Dinosaur fans or 80s Psychedelic Post-Punk fans of SST bands(what label do we file these wonderful bands under?) Check out the other reissues also.

Little Fury Things opens the album beautifully with the wah pedal and screams...yet it turns out to a great pop tune with nice sounding vocals backing up J. The album sound is loud and guitar-driven obviously by Mascis! He plays the guitar with passion and lots of energy and great solos. He's probably one of the most original, passionate guitarist to come along. He mumbles the vocals though. Murph is a good drummer and he's back with tour with Dinosaur Jr. Lou is an interesting bassist and there's something different about his bass playing, but it rings good on all of the early Dinosaur Jr. albums. He also takes lead on two Dinosaur songs on here. One of them is "Poledo", which is completely lo-fi and kind of interesting. It runs a little long though and tends to be just weird noise in some parts, but it's all done on his own and there may be ukulele in the song.

The best songs are the intense "The Lung"(played on the Late Late Show" recently), the ultra heavy "Sludgefest",the single "Little Fury Things", the poppier "In a Jar", the downcast "Tarpit", the bonus track Cure cover "Just Like Heaven", and "Poledo" stands out.