Whatever's Cool with Me

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Whatever's Cool with Me
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EP by
Dinosaur Jr
Released1991
Genre Alternative rock
Label Sire
Producer J Mascis
Dinosaur Jr chronology
Fossils
(1991)		Whatever's Cool with Me
(1991)		 Where You Been
(1993)

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]

Contents

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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Christgau's Consumer Guide Rating-Christgau-neither.png [8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 5/10 [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

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.

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