That's Entertainment: I Cried When I Wrote This Song

Dinosaur Junior has reunited! You can almost hear the rock critics hearts just a-flutterin' way down here. The genius of Mascis/Barlow, together again like Peaches 'n Herb!

This here AP story explains just how important this band is and how they Weren't Appreciated In Their Time (eyes rolling to back of noggin).

Dinosaur Jr. Reunites After 20 Years


Dinosaur Jr.'s first performances in the early 1980s were played in obscurity, the crowds numbering in the dozens, the spotlight so far away it cast no light in the tiny clubs and converted industrial spaces they rocked.

Perhaps there was a reason?

Yet, they were so talented. Together they inspired a legion of bands who went on the to sell millions of albums, even if they never did.

These were artists, they would never sully themselves with such bourgeois conceits as worrying about actually selling records.

The original lineup - together for most of three powerful, yet melodic, albums - reintroduced ideas to underground rock 'n' roll that had been torn down by punk rock and purposely forgotten. After listening to Dinosaur, the next wave of disaffected young bands were emboldened...

Emboldened to gnash their teeth in song about their parent's divorce and how the jocks picked on them in high school. That indeed was an important influence. I don't know where music would be without the angry disaffected genius template they helped establish.

There could be beauty in all that noise.

Could be, but wasn't.

Mascis' ear-ravaging guitar work...

I don't want my ears ravaged thank you very much.

"You're Living All Over Me," Dinosaur's quivering slab of alienation, angst and awkwardness released in 1987...

The three A's that any good music has.

Scene: JB has just bought a new CD. He is in his basement bar sipping a rye on the rocks and listening to the new music. His wife is upstairs cooking his dinner and tending to the child.

Wife: (calling down stairs) How's the new aquisition?

JB: I really like it!

Wife: Oh that's good

JB: Yeah, it's really AWKWARD!

Wife: Ummm....what?

While Mascis, 41, continued down the path to guitar glory, Barlow found his own success. His solo home recordings and later bands Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion are credited with starting the lo-fi and emo movements, and continue to influence hipsters of the day.

So these are the precious, artsy little dweebs that I have to thank for having to listen to Hinter and all this emo-crap they pipe in when I'm at the mall?

Thanks guys. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest every inch of your hipster frames!