Listening to this new vinyl re-issue of Dinosaur Jr.'s amazing Where You Been immediately transports me back to 1993, when Dino Jr. was my favorite band in the world and an entire summer was spent playing this album nonstop. Where You Been was the perfect soundtrack to rural teenage yearning and stoned slackerdom, with more than one long night spent blasting the cassette out of a beat up boombox in the middle of some field under the stars. Then, the first time I ever got to see Dino Jr. live was on the tour for this album, and I can still say that it was one of the most ecstatic musical moments I have ever had in my life, getting blasted by J Mascis' soaring, freaked out guitar shredding in an open field with several thousand other slobs, the band looking like they were 20 feet tall on that stage, bashing out a blisteringly loud and heavy assault of indie metal anthems stretching back to Your're Living All Over Me. Total bliss. Now, while Green Mind and Bug were (and always will be) my favorite Dinosaur Jr. albums, I was still completely and totally in love with Where You Been when this came out. J.'s guitar heroics are more focused and overtly melodic here, and the riffs on this album are some of the catchiest and most accessible the band have ever executed. Songs like "What Else Is New" perfectly combine glorious indie pop with 70's rock balladry , complete with orchestral strings and pounding tympani drums, while "On The Way" leads a wah-drenched hardcore punk charge with fuzzed-to-oblivion psych leads and an obliterting pop hook. "Not The Same" closes out side 1 with a soul crushingly beautiful, reverb heavy folk rock lament with J. channeling Neil Young. "Drawerings" features the albums best moment of crushing heaviosity, with a monstrous chugging metal riff popping up suddenly in the middle of a bed of pure guitar pop. Mascis and company then plow into a wall of dense guitar noise pop/hardcore power with more scorching solos in "Hide". All of these songs are amazingly catchy, and speaker shreddingly loud, the entire album is a fucking MIGHTY blast of hardcore punk, sludgy metal, classic rock, indie pop, and country/folk. Still one of my favorite bands ever, and one of my fave albums from them. Totally essential. This re-issue is on thick, high quality 180g remastered Vinyl. Kinda pricey, yes, but those are the knocks when dealing with vinyl re-issues from a release licensed from Warner Brothers.