Hand It Over

{{Short description|Album by Dinosaur Jr.}}

{{for|the This American Life compilation|This American Life: Hand It Over -- Stories from Our First Year on the Air}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Hand It Over

| type = studio

| artist = Dinosaur Jr.

| cover = Hand It Over (Front Cover).jpg

| alt =

| released = March 25, 1997

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Alternative rock|hard rock}}

| length = 48:08

| label = {{hlist|Blanco y Negro|Reprise}}

| producer = J Mascis

| prev_title = Without a Sound

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = Beyond

| next_year = 2007

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |last=Thomas |first=Fred |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r256505|pure_url=yes}} |title=Hand It Over – Dinosaur Jr. |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=October 3, 2019}}

| rev6 = Los Angeles Times

| rev6score = {{rating|3|4}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-13-ca-48184-story.html |title=In Brief |last=Scribner |first=Sara |date=1997-04-13 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2018-04-26 |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}}

| rev7 = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev7score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac |url-access=registration |chapter=Dinosaur Jr.|author=P.E.|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor-last1=Brackett |editor-first=Nathan |editor-last2=Hoard |editor-first2=Christian David |date=2004 |publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780743201698 |language=en |editor-link1=Nathan Brackett |editor-link2=Christian Hoard}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine |magazine=Rolling Stone |title=Hand it Over by Dinosaur Jr. Music review|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/hand-it-over-19970310 |first=Jon|last=Wiederhorn|date=March 10, 1997|accessdate=August 31, 2011}}

| rev2 = Chicago Tribune

| rev2score = {{rating|2|4}}{{Cite news |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-04-04/entertainment/9704040261_1_j-mascis-baroque-influential-bands |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913020356/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-04-04/entertainment/9704040261_1_j-mascis-baroque-influential-bands |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 13, 2015 |title=Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over (Reprise) |last=Kot |first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot |date=1997-04-04 |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2018-04-26 |language=en}}

| rev3 = Christgau's Consumer Guide

| rev3score = {{rating-Christgau|dud}}{{cite book | url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=dinosaur+jr. | title=Dinosaur Jr. | publisher=Macmillan Publishers | author=Christgau, Robert | year=2000 | pages=82}}

| rev4 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|authorlink1=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|date=2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC|language=en}}

| rev5 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev5score = C+{{cite magazine | url=http://ew.com/article/1997/03/28/hand-it-over/ | title=Hand It Over | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=28 March 1997 | accessdate=2 May 2017 | author=Sinclair}}

}}

Hand It Over is the seventh studio album by alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr., released on March 25, 1997, on Reprise Records. It peaked at No. 188 in the United States. According to a 2007 Magnet interview with band leader J Mascis, Hand It Over is his favorite album from the group's major label period of the 1990s.{{Cite web|url=http://magnetmagazine.com/2007/04/10/dinosaur-jr-ancient-ruins-and-the-monumental-reunion/|title=Dinosaur Jr: Ancient Ruins And The Monumental Reunion|first=Eric T.|last=Miller|date=April 10, 2007}}

The band enjoyed a somewhat renewed appreciation from critics on Hand It Over. However, in the years following the band's hiatus, Hand It Over would become hard to find due to it not having the same success in sales as the band's prior two albums, Where You Been and Without a Sound, which both sported moderate radio hits in the US. Hand It Over ultimately sold 34,000 units in the US.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRMEAAAAMBAJ&q=dinosaur+jr+nielsen+soundscan&pg=PA40 |title = Billboard|date = 2007-03-03}}

"Take a Run at the Sun" was released as a single to promote the album; however, it was initially only included on the European and Australian versions of the album. The single peaked at No. 53 on the UK Singles Chart and at No. 2 on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart.{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/25434/dinosaur-jr/ |title=Dinosaur Jr. Charts |website=Official Charts Company |access-date=January 8, 2024}}