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

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Critical reception

The '' St. Petersburg Times'' 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 "Quicksand" are the B-sides from " The Wagon" single released in 1991.

Personnel

J Mascis Joseph Donald Mascis Jr. (born December 10, 1965), better known as J Mascis, is an American musician who is the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. He has also released several albums as a solo artist a ...

: vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, vibraphone *

– bass guitar * Murph – drums

References

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