Retro Video of the Week: "Feel the Pain" by Dinosaur Jr.

This Friday, my string of insanely great concerts continues, as I'll be seeing Weezer, Flaming Lips, and Dinosaur Jr. at Allstate Arena in suburban Rosemont.  While Weezer will be playing the Blue Album in its entirety, I've already featured all three videos from that album on Retro Video of the Week, and I've also done a Flaming Lips video, but never a Dinosaur Jr. video.  So there's no time like the present!

A couple weeks ago marked the 30th anniversary of the release of Dinosaur Jr.'s sixth studio album, without a sound.  It proved to be the band's most commercially successful album in the U.S., reaching #44 on the Billboard album chart.  It also got to #7 on the Swedish album chart, #13 on the Australian album chart, #17 on the New Zealand album chart, and #24 on the UK album chart.

"Feel the Pain" was the first single off of the album, and it was their only single that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, topping out at #62.  The song also became the band's second single to reach the Top 5 of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart (going to #4), and it was a Top 40 hit in the UK (#25) and Scotland (#21).  And there a more '90s alt/grunge line than "I feel the pain of everyone / Then I feel nothing"?

The video is pretty great.  Directed by Spike Jonze, it shows the only two band members at the time -- J Mascis and Mike Johnson -- playing golf throughout New York City, occasionally using their golf clubs to knock out guys in suits.  Suck on that, Wall Street!