Budge

Two and a half minutes of straight-ahead pounding from Bug, built on Murph's drumming.
Dinosaur Jr., from Bug (1988)

Written by
J Mascis
Released
1988
Length
2:32
Album
Bug

Play on hypersongs

Budge is the seventh track on Bug. Pitchfork called it a testament to the virtues of straight-ahead pounding, and PopMatters thought it just plain brilliant, praising Murph's drumming. The band recorded it for John Peel in April 1989, around the time Barlow was leaving, and Mascis kept it in his solo sets with The Fog. The upload in the hypersongs web is the reunited trio's 2012 KEXP session at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland.

More songs by Dinosaur Jr.

Feel the Pain, Start Choppin, Kracked

Sources

  1. Dinosaur Jr., Bug, PopMatters (2005-04-07)
  2. BBC In Session, Freakscene.net
  3. Dinosaur Jr. KEXP session, Slicing Up Eyeballs (2012-10-05)