Bug

Freak Scene, Budge and a band coming apart: the last album with Lou Barlow until the reunion.
Dinosaur Jr., 1988

Released
31 October 1988
Studio
Fort Apache, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Label
SST
Producer
J Mascis
Length
35:24

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Bug was written quickly to follow You're Living All Over Me and recorded at Fort Apache with Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie. Mascis said the band was falling apart, and Barlow remembered him approaching it drained of enthusiasm. Mascis calls it his least favorite Dinosaur Jr. album, but it opens with Freak Scene, their most played song, and topped the British independent chart; NME rated it eight point nine nine nine nine nine nine out of ten. Barlow sings the closing Don't. He was out of the band within a year.

Track listing

  1. Freak Scene3:36
  2. No Bones3:43
  3. They Always Come4:37
  4. Yeah We Know5:24
  5. Let It Ride3:37
  6. Pond Song2:53
  7. Budge2:32
  8. The Post3:38
  9. Don't5:41

More from Dinosaur Jr.

You're Living All Over Me (1987), Where You Been (1993), Without a Sound (1994)

Sources

  1. Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), Wikipedia
  2. The story behind Freak Scene, Louder (2025-12-17)
  3. Q and A: Lou Barlow, Willamette Week (2011-12-13)