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Dinosaur Jr. is an alternative rock artist from Amherst, Massachusetts, USA formed in 1984. 32 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Amherst, Massachusetts, USA · Best alternative rock albums
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Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
2016
You're Living All Over Me
1987
Sweep It Into Space
2021
Bug
1988
Dinosaur
1985
Beyond
2007
Farm
2009
Without a Sound
1994
Where You Been
1993
I Bet on Sky
2012
Green Mind
1991
Hand It Over
1997
Puke + Cry: The Sire Years 1990-1997
2024
Emptiness at The Sinclair
2021
Live In The Middle East
2021
Tried To Feel It All (Live 1994)
2020
Without A Sound (2019 Expanded & Remastered Edition)
2019
J Mascis Live at CBGB's: The First Acoustic Show
2017
Chocomel Daze
2012
Farm (15th Anniversary Edition)
2009
Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr.
2001
Hand It Over (2019 Expanded & Remastered Edition)
1997
Where You Been (2019 Expanded & Remastered Edition)
1993
Fossils
1991
Green Mind (2019 Expanded & Remastered Edition)
1991
Dinosaur Jr. is an American alternative rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984. Originally called Dinosaur, prior to legal issues that forced the group to change their name, the band disbanded in 1997 until reuniting in 2005. Guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow, and drummer Murph were the band's founding and current members; Mascis has been the group's sole continuous member. Their distinct guitar sound, characterized by high gain, extensive use of feedback and distortion, and frontman J Mascis's melodic guitar solos, was highly influential in the alternative rock movement of the 1990s. Mascis and Barlow had previously played together in a hardcore punk band called Deep Wound, formed in 1982 while the pair were attending high school in western Massachusetts. After high school, they began exploring slower yet still aggressive music such as Black Sabbath, The Replacements, and Neil Young. Mascis' college friend Gerard Cosloy introduced him to bands like Dream Syndicate, which Mascis in turn showed to Barlow. Barlow explained, "We loved speed metal...and we loved wimpy-jangly stuff". Deep Wound broke up in mid-1984. Cosloy had dropped out of the University of Massachuse…
