re-disc-overy

Okay, I promise I'll have that last post on hope up pretty soon. But I'm a little too giddy to write anything to serious this morning, so instead I'm going to write about a rock band. (perhaps I would do well to go ahead and write the hope post while I'm in this heightened state, but we'll see.) So I found a Cd in my car that I haven't listened to in a while, so I threw that disc in and let it spin for a while. So for the past week I've been on something of a kick, and today I want to share with you my newfound love for:

Dinosaur Jr.

That's right, one of the best of the early alternative rock movement, a band most of you have never heard of becuase they refused to sell out. J. Mascis is the front man and stubborn fool who led this group of rockers straight into popular oblivion. He's got a new band now called the fog, and they preserve a lot of the same sound. Really they sound just like the older DJ stuff becuase by the time they cut the last couple of records he was all that was left of the original group.

Mascis is an interesting dude...he's the guy Kurt Cobain wanted to play drums for Nirvana, but he was too busy (and stubborn!) to join up, so Cobain got Dave Grohl instead, an Mascis remained somewhere between anomynity and integrity.

but the music is great. Sure, some of that for me is nostalgia, chilling out listening to the old grooves that drove me around high school. But for real, I think the music itself is pretty great. it's got some fine lead guitar and while Mascis isn't lined up to be on broadway, I like the guy's vocals a lot. The sound is orginial and just edgy enough to be great fun. Makes me want to go get in my car and drive with the windows down and the stereo cranking for a while.

Maybe I will.