{"id":614706,"date":"2026-09-13T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614706\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T10:24:25","slug":"i-grew-my-hair-and-dropped-out-of-society-after-hearing-black-sabbath-j-masciss-honest-playlist-dinosaur-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/614706\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I grew my hair and dropped out of society after hearing Black Sabbath\u2019: J Mascis\u2019s honest playlist | Dinosaur Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s the first song you fell in love with?
Monster Mash by Bobby \u201cBoris\u201d Pickett. Monsters appealed to me as a kid. I found it funny, not spooky. Since I had a kid, Halloween has become the biggest holiday of the year.<\/p>\n

What was the first single you bought?
I bought Darlin\u2019 by the Beach Boys with the money I would steal from my mom. I always liked the Beach Boys. I\u00a0remember they were quite unhip for a while: I\u00a0played them at a gig around 1989 before we came on and people hated it. Now they\u2019ve become more hip again.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the song you do at karaoke?
Here Comes My Girl by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It\u2019s a little high for me but I\u00a0can usually squeak it out. My wife liked that the first time I did it, so I\u00a0guess since she likes it I\u00a0tend to keep doing it.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the best song to\u00a0play at a party?
I\u2019ve DJ\u2019d with my wife a couple of times recently, and What\u2019s She Done to\u00a0Your Mind by Rain Parade seems to be a big\u00a0hit. When I DJ I do seven-inches only, which is good for limiting things.<\/p>\n

The best song to have sex to?
Sugar Hiccup by the Cocteau Twins.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the song you inexplicably know every lyric to?
Straight Outta Compton by NWA was so awesome when it came out, I listened to it so much. It just stuck in my brain. I saw the movie they made about them but I\u2019ve already forgotten much of it. I don\u2019t remember if I liked it or not.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the song that changed your life?
The Thrill of It All by Black Sabbath was really my anthem of dropping out of society. I heard it\u00a0when I was 11 or 12 and\u00a0I grew my hair and dropped out of the popular crowd after that.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the song that gets you up in the morning?
Fight Back by Discharge. It\u2019s a peppy number to get you going.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the song that makes you cry?
I remember somebody telling me that when she\u00a0saw John Prine<\/a> once\u00a0she cried. I told her\u00a0that I\u00a0cried when [US\u00a0hardcore punk band] \u00a0Negative Approach played Can\u2019t Tell No One and she was\u00a0somehow horrified. But I\u2019d seen them when I\u00a0was a kid and then seeing them back together really touched something in me.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s the song you want played at your funeral?
Feel Like Going Home by\u00a0Charlie Rich. It just seems like the perfect funeral song. Just so sad.<\/p>\n

Dinosaur Jr\u2019s album There\u00a0Near is out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the first song you fell in love with?Monster Mash by Bobby \u201cBoris\u201d Pickett. Monsters appealed to me…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-614706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}