The major label works of alt-rock act Dinosaur Jr. have recently been revisited by Cherry Red in a series of expanded reissues.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Amherst, Massachusetts-based trio had issued three records across the prior decade, the latter two on the seminal SST label. 1988's Bug topped the U.K. independent albums chart, after lead single "Freak Scene" reached the Top 5 of the country's indie singles chart. But creative tensions led singer/guitarist J. Mascis to fire bassist Lou Barlow, who would focus full-time on his former side project Sebadoh.

Now temporarily reduced to a duo with drummer Patrick "Murph" Murphy, Mascis recorded most of the group's next album (and first for Sire Records), 1991's Green Mind, on his own, opting for a quieter, layered sound. Eventually, bassist Mike Johnson joined as a full-time member, embarking on several tours with other upstart alternative acts like Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine and Blur. Follow-up album Where You Been, released in 1993, featured Johnson and Murph as full-blown members alongside Mascis, and also earned the group their highest chart placements yet: No. 10 on the U.K. album chart and No. 50 in America. (The single "Start Choppin" also reached the Top 5 of Billboard's modern rock chart.)

The band's last two Sire albums, Without a Sound (1994) and Hand It Over (1997), were again recorded as a duo, this time featuring Mascis with some input from Johnson; the former album featured another Top 5 modern rock hit in "Feel The Pain." Afterward, Mascis retired the Dinosaur Jr. moniker, but revived it alongside the original line-up with Barlow and Murph in 2005; the group has released four albums between 2007 and 2016. (Earlier this year, "Over Your Shoulder," a track from Without a Sound, became a surprise chart hit in Japan.)

The expansions of Green Mind, Where You Been, Without a Sound and Hand It Over are available as 2CD editions, each boasting rare B-sides, non-album tracks and unreleased live sets with each title. (2LP cutdowns, available on colored vinyl and featuring the cream of each bonus offering, are also available, as are download and streaming equivalents of the 2CD sets.) Keith Cameron of MOJO has penned liner notes for each title, drawing from new interviews with J. Mascis.

All four reissues are available now. Check out the full details and order links below!

Green Mind: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Cherry Red PCDBRED757 (U.K.), 2019)

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Disc 1: Original album (1-10, released as Sire/Warner Bros./Blanco Y Negro 26479, 1991) and B-sides and singles (11-18, ** included on 2LP edition)

1. The Wagon
2. Puke + Cry
3. Blowing It
4. I Live For That Look
5. Flying Cloud
6. How'd You Pin That One On Me
7. Water
8. Muck
9. Thumb
10. Green Mind
11. Pebbles + Weeds **
12. The Little Baby **
13. Not You Again **
14. Quicksand (Wagon Reprise) **
15. Throwdown **
16. Whatever's Cool With Me **
17. Sideways **
18. The Wagon (7" DJ Edit)

Disc 2: Live at The Hollywood Palladium - 6/14/1991 (1-12 - previously unreleased) and live B-sides (13-16, ** included on 2LP edition)

1. The Lung
2. Water
3. The Wagon
4. Keep The Glove
5. Blowing It/I Live For That Look
6. Tarpit
7. Kracked
8. Freak Scene
9. Thumb
10. They Always Come
11. Budge
12. Sludgefeast
13. Thumb **
14. Keep The Glove **
15. The Lung **
16. The Post **

Disc 1, Tracks 11-14 from "The Wagon" U.K. 12" single - Blanco Y Negro NEG48T, 1991
Disc 1, Track 15 from "The Wagon" Japanese CD single - Blanco Y Negro/WEA WMC5-272, 1991
Disc 1, Track 16-17 and Disc 2, Tracks 13-14 from "Whatever's Cool With Me" U.K. CD single - Blanco Y Negro NEG52CD, 1991
Disc 1, Track 18 from various Warner Music promotional radio compilations, 1991
Disc 2, Tracks 15-16 from "Whatever's Cool With Me" Japanese CD single - Blanco Y Negro/WEA WMC5-445, 1991

Where You Been: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Cherry Red PCDBRED757 (U.K.), 2019)

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Disc 1: Original album (1-10, released as Sire/Warner Bros./Blanco Y Negro 45108, 1992) and B-sides and singles (11-16, ** included on 2LP edition)

1. Out There
2. Start Choppin
3. What Else Is New
4. On The Way
5. Not The Same
6. Get Me
7. Drawerings
8. Hide
9. Goin' Home
10. I Ain't Sayin'
11. Hot Burrito #2 **
12. Quest (Acoustic) **
13. Turnip Farm **
14. Forget It **
15. Keeblin' **
16. Missing Link (with Del The Funkee Homosapien) **

Disc 2: BBC sessions (1-6, ** available on 2CD edition) and Live at The St. Paul Civic Center - 6/29/1993 (7-14, previously unreleased)

1. Noon At Dawn (Peel Session - 11/24/1992)
2. Hide (Peel Session - 11/24/1992) **
3. Get Me (Peel Session - 11/24/1992) **
4. Keeblin' (Peel Session - 11/24/1992) **
5. Severed Lips (Evening Session - 1/22/1993)
6. Thumb (Evening Session - 1/22/1993)
7. Tarpit
8. Budge
9. Start Choppin
10. Drawerings
11. Raisins
12. Thumb
13. Out There
14. Sludgefeast

Disc 1, Tracks 11-12 from "Get Me" U.K. CD single - Blanco Y Negro NEG60CD, 1992
Disc 1, Tracks 13-14 from "Start Choppin" U.K. CD single - Blanco Y Negro NEG61CD, 1993
Disc 1, Track 15 and Disc 2, Tracks 3 and 5-6 from "Out There" U.K. CD singles - Blanco Y Negro NEG62CD1/2, 1993
Disc 1, Track 16 from Judgment Night: Music From The Motion Picture - Immortal/Epic EK 57144, 1993
Disc 2, Track 4 from In Session - Strange Fruit SFRSCD078 (U.K.), 1999

Without a Sound: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Cherry Red PCDBRED758 (U.K.), 2019)

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Disc 1: Original album (1-11, released as Sire/Warner Bros./Blanco Y Negro 45719, 1994) and bonus tracks (12-18, ** included on 2LP edition; + previously unreleased)

1. Feel The Pain
2. I Don't Think So
3. Yeah Right
4. Outta Hand
5. Grab It
6. Even You
7. Mind Glow
8. Get Out Of This
9. On The Brink
10. Seemed Like The Thing To Do
11. Over Your Shoulder
12. Get Out Of This (No Words Just Solo) **
13. Blah **
14. I Don't Think So (Instrumental) +
15. Outta Hand (Instrumental) +
16. Get Out Of This (Instrumental) +
17. On The Brink (Instrumental) +
18. Seemed Like The Thing To Do (Alternate Mix) +

Disc 2: Live at The Brixton Academy of Music, London - 10/8/1994 (** included on 2LP edition; + previously unreleased)

1. Freak Scene +
2. Out There +
3. Get Me **
4. Not You Again +
5. Grab It **
6. Feel The Pain **
7. Little Fury Things +
8. What Else Is New **
9. Quest +
10. Thumb +
11. Sludgefeast **

Disc 1, Track 12 from "Feel The Pain" U.K. CD single - Blanco Y Negro NEG74CD, 1994
Disc 1, Track 13 from Melrose Place: The Music - Giant Records 24577, 1994
Disc 2, Track 3 from "I Don't Think So" U.K. 7" single - Blanco Y Negro NEG77X, 1995
Disc 2, Tracks 5-6 from Feel The Pain (Live Tracks) Japanese EP - Blanco Y Negro/WEA WPCR-197, 1995
Disc 2, Tracks 8 and 11 from "I Don't Think So" U.K. CD single - Blanco Y Negro NEG77CD, 1995

Hand It Over: Deluxe Expanded Edition (Cherry Red PCDBRED759 (U.K.), 2019)

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Disc 1: Original album (1-12, released as Sire/Warner Bros./Blanco Y Negro 46506, 1997) and bonus tracks (13-19, ** included on 2LP edition; + previously unreleased)

1. I Don't Think
2. Never Bought It
3. Nothin's Goin On
4. I'm Insane
5. Can't We Move This Along
6. Alone
7. Sure Not Over You
8. Loaded
9. Mick
10. I Knu Yer Insane
11. Gettin' Rough
12. Gotta Know
13. Take a Run At The Sun **
14. Don't You Think It's Time **
15. The Pickle Song **
16. I Misunderstood **
17. What We Do Is Secret - Mike Watt & J. Mascis
18. Never Bought It (Live On ABC-TV, Australia) ** +
19. Sure Not Over You (Live On ABC-TV, Australia) ** +

Disc 2: Live In Stockholm - 8/13/1997 (previously unreleased - ** included on 2LP edition)

1. Out There
2. Never Bought It **
3. Repulsion
4. Feel The Pain
5. Get Me
6. Freak Scene
7. Sludgefeast
8. Alone **
9. What Else Is New

Disc 1, Tracks 13-15 from Take a Run At The Sun U.K. EP - Blanco Y Negro NEG102CD, 1997
Disc 1, Track 16 from Beat The Retreat (Songs By Richard Thompson) - Capitol CDP 0777 7 95929 2 0, 1994
Disc 1, Track 17 from Germs (Tribute) - A Small Circle Of Friends - Grass/Gasatanka 60150-13038-2, 1996