Weirdness Flows: Dinosaur Jr Songs Ranking List

 

11 Almost Ready

12 The Wagon

13 Watch The Corners

14 Tiny

15 Hide Another Round

16 Bulbs Of Passion

17/18 Blowing It / I Live For That Look

19 What Else Is New

20 Out There

21 Let It Ride

22 I Want You To Know

23 Repulsion 

24 Green Mind

25 Don't

26 Back To Your Heart

27 Sludgefeast 

28 How'd You Pin That One On Me

29 Raisans 

30 Kracked

31 Lose 

32 Whatever's Cool With Me

33 The Lung 

34 No Bones

35 Garden

36 Left/Right

37 Love Is...

38 The Post

39 Pieces

40 Pick Me Up

41 Lost All Day

42 Mick

43 Sure Not Over You

44 Said The People

45 I Ain't Sayin 

46 Goin Down

47 On The Way 

48 Centre Of The Universe (2016)

49 Little Fury Things

50 Goin Home

51 Drawerings 

52 Water

53 See It On Your Side

54 Tarpit 

55 Stick A Toe In

56 Pond Song

57 Forget the Swan

58 Ocean in The Way

59 Good To Know

60 Crumble

61 Cats in a Bowl

62 What If I Knew

63 Be A Part

64 There's No Here

65 Grab It

66 It's Me

67 Loaded

68 Your Weather

69 Pierce The Morning Rain

70 Seemed Like The Thing To Do

71 To Be Waiting

72 What Was That

73 Rude

74 Not You Again

75 Budge

76 Get Out Of This

77 Lightning Bulb

78 See You

79 Thumb 

80 Imagination Blind

81 Nothin's Goin' On

82 The Leper

83 Yeah Right

84 The Backyard

85 Hot Burrito #2

86 Can't We Move This

87 Whenever You're Ready

88 Blah

89 I Don't Think

90 I Walk For Miles

91 We're Not Alone

92 Never Bought It

93 Friends

94 Yeah We Know

95 Ricochet

96 Walking To You

97 Recognition

98 This Is All I Came To Do

99 Now The Fall

100 Two Things

101 Plans

102 Don't Pretend You Didn't Know

103 Take A Run At The Sun

104 The Only Other Way

105 Over It

106 I'm Insane

107 Hold Unknown

108 I Told Everyone

109 Gotta Know

110 Does It Float 

111 Gargoyle 

112 Knocked Around

113 Puke & Cry

114 Black Betty

115 Almost Fare

116 Take It Back

117 I Expect It Always

118 Even You

119 I Know Yer Insane

120 You Wonder

121 N Say

122 On The Brink

123 I Ain't

124 Gettin' Rough

125 Hide 

126 Severed Lips 

127 And Me

128 Quest

129 Over Your Shoulder

130 Turnip Farm

131 I Know It Oh So Well

132 Mirror

133 Pebbles + Weeds

134 Keep The Glove

135 Better Than Gone

136 Chunks

137 Forget It

138 Mountain Man 

139 Creepies

140 Entertainment

141 Noon At Dawn

142 Pointless

143 I Don't Think So 

144 I Ran Away

145 I Met The Stones

146 Keeblin'

147 Mind Glow

148 Muck

149 Don't You Think It's Time

150 Not The Same 

151 Sideways

152 The Little Baby

153 Throw Down

154 What We Do Is Secret

155 Houses

156 I Misunderstood

157 I Got Lost

158 Outta Hand

159 Goin' Blind

160 Poledo

161 Yer Son

162 Show Me The Way

163 Show

164 Tiny Town

165 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better

166 Lotta Love

167 Quicksand (Wagon Reprise)

168 Flying Cloud

169 The Pickle Song

170 Missing Link

171 Solo Extractions



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