Artist · chart history · #546 in indie & aaa artist polls
Dinosaur Jr.
Band Amherst United States Formed 1984 US rock band
Dinosaur Jr. formed in 1984 in Amherst, United States. Dinosaur Jr. has 128 chart appearances on 82 radio countdowns from 28 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Feel The Pain”, which appears on 42 lists with a best position of #16. The station that charted Dinosaur Jr. most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 39 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1994.
Dinosaur Jr. came roaring out of Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984, a trio built around J Mascis's guitar, Lou Barlow's bass and Murph's drums, and they were loud in a way that made the rest of the underground sound polite. Mascis sings like he just woke up on somebody's couch, a slack, drawling murmur, and then plays guitar like the house is on fire, waves of feedback and distortion that owe as much to '60s and '70s classic rock as to punk. Their first 3 albums came out on independent labels and made them one of the cornerstones of American alternative rock; Bug, in 1988, carried the rapturous, ragged "Freak Scene".
The band was never exactly harmonious, and eventually Mascis fired Barlow, who went off to form Sebadoh and Folk Implosion. Mike Johnson came in on bass for 3 major-label albums, and the '90s brought Where You Been, with "Start Choppin'" and "Goin' Home", and Without a Sound, with the lazy, lovely grind of "Feel the Pain". Murph eventually quit, Mascis played the drums himself, and the band folded in 1997.
Then, in 2005, the original trio buried the hatchet and got back together, and they've made 6 albums since, including Beyond, Farm and Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not. They sound as monstrous as ever.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Dinosaur Jr. on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feel The Pain | 42 | #16 | – | 1994 | |
| 2 | Start Choppin' | 24 | #45 | – | 1993 | |
| 3 | Goin' Home | 15 | #944 | – | – | |
| 4 | Freak Scene | 9 | #5 | – | 1988 | |
| 5 | Just Like Heaven | 5 | #12 | – | 1989 | |
| 6 | I Ran Away | 5 | #29 | – | 2021 | |
| 7 | I Don't Think So | 9 | #1466 | – | – | |
| 8 | Said The People | 1 | #71 | – | – | |
| 9 | Tiny | 3 | #50 | – | 2016 | |
| 10 | And Me | 1 | #11 | – | 2021 | |
| 11 | The Wagon | 3 | #29 | – | 1990 | |
| 12 | Garden | 1 | #17 | – | 2022 | |
| 13 | Get Me | 2 | #38 | – | 1993 | |
| 14 | In A Jar | 2 | #559 | – | – | |
| 15 | Watch The Colors | 1 | #36 | – | 2013 | |
| 16 | Been There All the Time | 2 | #66 | – | 2007 | |
| 17 | Out There | 1 | #349 | – | – | |
| 18 | I Ain't | 1 | #63 | – | 2022 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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