Without a Sound is the sixth studio album by alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Dinosaur Jr

Dinosaur Jr

Dinosaur Jr. is an American alternative rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984. Originally called Dinosaur, prior to legal issues that forced the group to change their name, the band disbanded in 1997 until reuniting in 2005...

, released on August 23, 1994. It is the first Dinosaur Jr. album not to feature Murph on drums, who is replaced by vocalist and guitarist J. Mascis. It is also their most commercially successful album, peaking at number 44 on the Billboard Top 200. "Feel the Pain

Feel the Pain

"Feel the Pain" is a single by alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. from their 1994 album Without a Sound. The song is a playable track in Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour.The music video was directed by Spike Jonze....

" was the only single released from the album, and it reached number 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks

Modern Rock Tracks

Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...

 chart, becoming one of their biggest hits. Mascis later admitted that his father's death affected his writing and performance on this album, and he took three years to deliver the next Dinosaur Jr LP, 1997's Hand It Over.

"Feel the Pain" is a playable track in both Guitar Hero World Tour

Guitar Hero World Tour

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and Rock Band 2

Rock Band 2

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video games.

Track listing

All songs by J Mascis.

Personnel

• J Mascis
  J Mascis
  J Mascis is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur Jr.. In 2011, he was ranked in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.- Biography :...
  
   - Drums, Guitar, Producer, Keyboards, Vocals
• Thalia Zedek
  Thalia Zedek
  Thalia Zedek is an American singer and guitarist. Active since the early 1980s, she has been a member of several notable alternative rock groups, including Live Skull and Come...
  
   - Vocals
• Mike Johnson
  Mike Johnson (bassist)
  Mike Johnson is an American songwriter and bass guitarist. He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon and played in Eugene, Oregon punk band Snakepit from 1984-1989. He replaced Lou Barlow in Dinosaur Jr in 1991 and played with the band live and on its recordings from 1991 to 1998. Concurrently he...
  
   - Bass, Vocals
• John Agnello - Engineer, Mixing
• Danny Kadar
  Danny Kadar (producer)
  Danny Kadar is a producer, engineer, and mixer living in New Orleans. While growing up in New York, Danny first began as a student photographer studying at Pratt Institute he would then later decide to go into the music industry with his own band at the time. After being in the studio Danny would...
  
   - Assistant Engineer
• Mark Miller - Assistant Engineer
• Brian Sperber - Assistant Engineer
• John McLaughlin - Assistant Engineer
• Bryce Goggin - Assistant Engineer
• Bill Emmons - Assistant Engineer
• Joe Pirrera - Assistant Engineer
• Bob Ludwig - Mastering
• Woody Jackson - Paintings
• Roger Mayer - Sound Effects

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1994	The Billboard 200	44

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1994	"Feel the Pain"	Modern Rock Tracks	4

Trivia

• Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze
  Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...
  
   directed the music video for the single "Feel the Pain". J Mascis is shown playing a dangerous game of urban golf
  Urban golf
  Urban golf is a game, derived from the original game of golf, in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole or at a specified target using various clubs.Urban golf is currently becoming popular across the world in many varying formats...
  
   in NYC..

• J Mascis
  J Mascis
  J Mascis is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur Jr.. In 2011, he was ranked in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.- Biography :...
  
  said he had a hard time writing the album because his dad had died around the time they were making the album.