Dinosaur Jr Bug CD

Bug Music

List Price	$14.98 (You save $2.79)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Punk, Alternative, Enhanced CD
Label	Merge
Orig Year	1988
All Time Sales Rank	16095
CD Universe Part number	6830196
Catalog number	29545
Discs	1
Release Date	Mar 22, 2005
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Engineer	Sean Slade; Paul Q. Kolderie
Personnel	J Mascis Lou Barlow Murph
Additional Info	Remastered; Enhanced CD

Dinosaur Jr Bug Songs

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

Bug Music Review

Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

5 stars their second masterpiece
With a slightly more conventional sound than "You're Living All Over Me," I actually was slightly disappointed with this when it first came out... but then I listened to it a few times and it hooked me forever. It's even more Neil-Youngish than You're Living All Over Me, with great melodies combined with a massive, overloaded guitar sound. All the tunes are good, but Freak Scene, No Bones and Post stand out especially. It's one of the two absolutely essential Dino Jr. albums, and perhaps not coincidentally, the last with the original lineup. I have high hopes for the new album, Beyond, which will have the original J/Murph/Lou lineup for the first time in 19 years!
Submitted by mabewa (Osaka, Japan)
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