''Whatever's Cool with Me'' is an EP by the American band

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. It was released on

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in 1991. 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. "

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" is a cover of the

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song. A music video for the song "Whatever's Cool With Me" was shot at J Mascis's home in

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, and was directed by Jim Spring and Jens Jurgensen. The EP sold more than 40,000 copies in its first six months of release.

Critical reception

The ''

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'' deemed the release "an eight-song EP full of cacophonous noise and hectic delight." The ''

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'' called it "a searing EP." ''

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'' 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." ''

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'' 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."

Track listing

;CD Maxi-Single (Sire Records Company) # "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34 # "Sideways" - 4:14 # "Not You Again" - 2:32 # "The Little Baby" - 2:11 # "Pebbles + Weeds" - 5:25 # "

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, additional lyrics by J Mascis, contains the main guitar riff from "

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") - 4:34 # "Thumb (live)" - 7:45 # "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16 ;12" Vinyl (Warner Music UK Ltd.) Side A # "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34 # "Sideways" - 4:14 Side B # "Thumb (live)" - 7:45 # "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16 ;CD, Maxi-Single (Blanco Y Negro, Warner Music UK Ltd.) # "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34 # "Sideways" - 4:14 # "Thumb (live)" - 7:45 # "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16 ;7" Vinyl (Blanco Y Negro) # "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34 # "Sideways" - 4:14 "The Little Baby", "Pebbles + Weeds", and "Quick Sand" are the B-sides from The Wagon single released in 1991.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whatever's Cool with Me Dinosaur Jr. albums 1991 EPs Sire Records EPs