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.[7]
Whatever's Cool with Me is the first Dinosaur Jr. recording to feature bassist Mike Johnson. The band's prior main release was the Green Mind album (their debut on a major label). Due to their increased exposure, a sticker was appended to various editions of Whatever's Cool with Me in order to clarify that it was not a proper album. The text stated "This is not an album. One new single and 7 b-sides. Never before released in the USA."[8]
The St. Petersburg Times deemed the release "an eight-song EP full of cacophonous noise and hectic delight."[13] The Hartford Courant called it "a searing EP."[14]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."[15]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."[16]
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