Dinosaur Jr. - "Show Me The Way" (mp3)

I couldn't justify going to Dinosaur's reunion show at the Ottobar the other night when I'm dead broke and already saw their 9:30 Club show last year, so I'll console myself by posting the only song that was on SST's original CD release of You're Living All Over Me but not on last year's Merge reissue. It wasn't on the original vinyl album is their justification, but instead of preserving the album's original incarnation by ending the CD with the suck-ass "Poledo," they merely tacked on a different cover, "Just Like Heaven," which I didn't really understand. Why the Cure but not Frampton? Why not both? Still, the SST disc is pretty much the worst sounding CD of good music I've ever heard (I guess that comes down to bad mastering or the quality of digital technology available to small labels in the late 80s), so the Merge reissue was absolutely necessary and appreciated.
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Dino used 'used' tape... since they had zero money, which may have lent itself to poor audio quality...

It's something I've grown to love!

-Mat
 
If I remember correctly, "Just Like Heaven" was an outtake from the Bug sessions a couple years later, so why in hell would Merge tack it onto You're Living All Over Me?

I agree with Mat - I spent a good year or two with an 8-track trying to replicate the dirty, muddy sound of YLAOM. I guess my tape wasn't degenerated enough!
 
nah, on the SST version the CD itself sounds like shit and mixed very low, it's definitely not just the recording methods, because the Merge version sounds much fuller and better. but yeah, it definitely is kind of lovable in its own way. I think a lot of indie/non-rich bands re-used tape pretty often back when everything was still analog; even Sonic Youth was still re-using tape as recently as Experimental Jet Set (if you listen closely you can hear bits of Sister, which they recorded over for that album).
 
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