Whatever's Cool with Me

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|rev1=AllMusic

|rev1score={{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/whatevers-cool-with-me-mw0000270373 |title=Whatever's Cool with Me - Dinosaur Jr. |last=Raggett |first=Ned |website=AllMusic |access-date=2018-04-26}}

|rev2=Christgau's Consumer Guide

|rev2score={{rating-Christgau|neither}}{{Cite book |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |chapter=Dinosaur Jr. |chapter-url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=dinosaur+jr |date=2000-10-15 |publisher=Macmillan Publishing |isbn=9780312245603 |language=en |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/christgausconsum00chri_0 }}

|rev3=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3score={{rating|2|5}}{{cite book|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|author-link1=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}}

|rev4=Spin Alternative Record Guide

|rev4score=5/10{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-bfuAAAAMAAJ |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |last=Weisbard |first=Eric |last2=Marks |first2=Craig |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |isbn=9780679755746 |language=en |author-link=Eric Weisbard}}

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The St. Petersburg Times deemed the release "an eight-song EP full of cacophonous noise and hectic delight."{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Dave |title=Dinosaur roams again |work=St. Petersburg Times |date=24 Jan 1992 |department=Weekend |page=22}} The Hartford Courant called it "a searing EP."{{cite news |last1=Catlin |first1=Roger |title=UMass turf yields rocking Dinosaur |work=Hartford Courant |date=11 Feb 1993 |department=Calendar |page=15}} The Seattle Times wrote that the EP showcases "the Dinosaur at its most irresistibly rapacious, the irreverent noisemakers The Replacements would have been if they hadn't turned into The Knack."{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=David |title=Dinosaur Jr., 'Whatever's Cool with Me' |work=The Seattle Times |date=January 2, 1992 |page=H3}} Trouser Press opined that "only the brisk and tight 'Not You Again', in which Mascis marvels woefully at 'the mess I made again…how do I do it?,' displays the kind of small effort it takes to elevate slack rubbish into slacker art."{{cite web |title=Dinosaur |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/dinosaur/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=15 February 2023}}

;CD Maxi-Single (Sire Records Company)

1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
2. "Sideways" - 4:14
3. "Not You Again" - 2:32
4. "The Little Baby" - 2:11
5. "Pebbles + Weeds" - 5:25
6. "Quicksand" (David Bowie, additional lyrics by J Mascis, contains the main guitar riff from "Andy Warhol") - 4:34
7. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
8. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16

;12" Vinyl (Warner Music UK Ltd.)

Side A

1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
2. "Sideways" - 4:14

Side B

1. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
2. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16

;CD, Maxi-Single (Blanco Y Negro, Warner Music UK Ltd.)

1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
2. "Sideways" - 4:14
3. "Thumb (live)" - 7:45
4. "Keep the Glove (live)" - 3:16

;7" Vinyl (Blanco Y Negro)

1. "Whatever's Cool With Me" - 4:34
2. "Sideways" - 4:14

"The Little Baby", "Pebbles + Weeds", and "Quicksand" are the B-sides from "The Wagon" single released in 1991.

• J Mascis: vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, vibraphone
• Mike Johnson – bass guitar
• Murph – drums

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Category:1991 EPs

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