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Whatever's Cool with Me is an EP by the American band Dinosaur Jr.[1][2] It was released on Sire Records in 1991.[3] It contains the "Whatever's Cool With Me" single and the European single of "The Wagon". The band supported the EP by touring with My Bloody Valentine.[4] "Quicksand" is a cover of the David Bowie song.[5]

Whatever's Cool with Me
EP by
Dinosaur Jr
Released1991
GenreAlternative rock
LabelSire
ProducerJ Mascis
Dinosaur Jr chronology
Fossils
(1991) 		Whatever's Cool with Me
(1991) 		Where You Been
(1993)

A music video for the song "Whatever's Cool With Me" was shot at J Mascis's home in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was directed by Jim Spring and Jens Jurgensen. The EP sold more than 40,000 copies in its first six months of release.[6]

Whatever's Cool with Me is the first Dinosaur Jr. recording to feature bassist Mike Johnson.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [7]
Christgau's Consumer Guide [8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music     [9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide5/10[10]

The St. Petersburg Times deemed the release "an eight-song EP full of cacophonous noise and hectic delight."[11] The Hartford Courant called it "a searing EP."[12] The Seattle Times wrote that the EP showcases "the Dinosaur at its most irresistibly rapacious, the irreverent noisemakers The Replacements would have been if they hadn't turned into The Knack."[13] Trouser Press opined that "only the brisk and tight 'Not You Again', in which Mascis marvels woefully at 'the mess I made again…how do I do it?,' displays the kind of small effort it takes to elevate slack rubbish into slacker art."[14]

Track listing

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CD Maxi-Single (Sire Records Company)
  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14
  3. "Not You Again" - 2:32
  4. "The Little Baby" - 2:11
  5. "Pebbles + Weeds" - 5:25
  6. "Quicksand" (David Bowie, additional lyrics by J Mascis, contains the main guitar riff from "Andy Warhol") - 4:34
  7. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
  8. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16
12" Vinyl (Warner Music UK Ltd.)

Side A

  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14

Side B

  1. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
  2. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16
CD, Maxi-Single (Blanco Y Negro, Warner Music UK Ltd.)
  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14
  3. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
  4. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16
7" Vinyl (Blanco Y Negro)
  1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
  2. "Sideways" - 4:14

"The Little Baby", "Pebbles + Weeds", and "Quick Sand" are the B-sides from The Wagon single released in 1991.

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ McLeese, Don (6 Feb 1992). "Punk guitar heroes blaze trails". Onward. Austin American-Statesman. p. 6.
  2. ^ Wood, Sam (7 Mar 1992). "Dinosaur Jr at the Trocadero". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. D5.
  3. ^ Thompson, Dave (2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 333.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Jim (5 Mar 1992). "Intense MBV, bracing Dinosaur". Arts & Film. The Boston Globe. p. 78.
  5. ^ Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 87.
  6. ^ Bourie, Richard (February 23, 1992). "Fans making tracks to see Dinosaur Jr". The Republican. Springfield. p. G1.
  7. ^ Raggett, Ned. "Whatever's Cool with Me - Dinosaur Jr". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  8. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000-10-15). "Dinosaur Jr.". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 9780312245603.
  9. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958.
  10. ^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780679755746.
  11. ^ Hall, Dave (24 Jan 1992). "Dinosaur roams again". Weekend. St. Petersburg Times. p. 22.
  12. ^ Catlin, Roger (11 Feb 1993). "UMass turf yields rocking Dinosaur". Calendar. Hartford Courant. p. 15.
  13. ^ Thompson, David (January 2, 1992). "Dinosaur Jr., 'Whatever's Cool with Me'". The Seattle Times. p. H3.
  14. ^ "Dinosaur". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
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