Why is this record so underappreciated on ILM? I was going to do a 'Classic or Dud' thread but FYOSS so obviously classic that there's no point asking the question. Or am I wrong?
I wrote about it here:
http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/10/31/jawbox-for-your-own-special-sweetheart-round-56-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Thursday, 31 October 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago)
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― your face comes with coleslaw (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 October 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago)
ok, I'll take the bait and say that I do indeed love this album although I like their s/t follow-up even more.
― Moodles, Thursday, 31 October 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago)
What Moodles said. Don't really know the first two albums except the songs Static (which is also very great), but I really love FYOSW en the selftitled one.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Thursday, 31 October 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago)
love this album
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago)
So, what stopped it being huge? Genuine question, it seemed to me to tick all the boxes at the time...and it still sounds great today!
― yugi ex, Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago)
plus beavis liked savory
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 October 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago)
not sure how to respond, at least in my neck of the woods the album was a pretty big deal, but maybe that was a more localized thing than i think
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago)
I could see it being too harsh and dissonant to become a big hit
― Moodles, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago)
It may have been a pretty big deal but I bet it didn't outsell Nevermind, Doolittle or Repeater!
― yugi ex, Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago)
"68" is such a jam - it's kinda crazy in retrospect that it was only a b-side
nothing against this record but i think i actually like the first burning airlines record more
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago)
otm about 68
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago)
when is indie rock fashion gonna come back around to this shit
― j., Thursday, 31 October 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago)
you would say that, wouldn't you - ROBBINS
― bentelec, Friday, 1 November 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago)
you know what's a nice obscurity from around this time? that rollkicker laydown single
― bentelec, Friday, 1 November 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago)
Nice indeed. That reminds me to buy the digital version. Saw that on Spotify, along with a bunch of DeSoto singles (and the Dischord "Jackpot Plus!"/"Motorist" single), and thought WAIT A MINUTE.
― Andy K, Friday, 1 November 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago)
I got an advance cassette of the album at work and drove home in a blinding snowstorm while listening to it. What a charge.
― Andy K, Friday, 1 November 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago)
Count me in for utter love of this album, it really is the high point of this strain of indie.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 1 November 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago)
'Reel' always raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 1 November 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago)
also bears mentioning that the remaster REALLY did wonders for this record
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 1 November 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago)
still haven't heard it :(
― Moodles, Friday, 1 November 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago)
summer tour
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/01/14/685046818/jawbox-announces-reunion-tour-after-a-decade-away
― mookieproof, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:10 (six years ago)
Nice, will be there
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:18 (six years ago)
hell yeah
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:26 (six years ago)
nice!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:29 (six years ago)
too harsh and dissonant
i think bands like this, who i loved, were part of why i went off indie rock as the 00s went on and it seemed like nobody was heavy and noisy anymore
― j., Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:33 (six years ago)
They were heavy, noisy, and very dissonant, but always in a way that was interesting and melodic, instead of just harsh.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:53 (six years ago)
25 years ago the Jesus Lizard was “indie rock”. Unsane were on Matador.
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:42 (six years ago)
https://jrobbins.bandcamp.com
solo album
― j., Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:40 (five years ago)
they're kicking ass on tour btw
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:53 (five years ago)
Just saw them in bk recently myself
― Evan, Saturday, 29 June 2019 00:54 (five years ago)
Seeing them in a few weeks
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 29 June 2019 04:53 (five years ago)
Just saw them Friday night in DC. The vocals were too low in the mix for me. I like Jawbox at their most tuneful and melodic, but the show I saw was all about the guitars ( which I like in doses but got formulaic at times). Bass player Kim C was fun to watch— arm movements, body twisting, big smile at times; contrasted with the guys nicely
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 July 2019 18:54 (five years ago)
when you examined the wreck, what did you see?
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 July 2019 19:44 (five years ago)
huh mookie?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 02:31 (five years ago)
Glass everywhere and wheels still spinning free
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 03:04 (five years ago)
It’s Adblock PlusIn which he trusts
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 03:21 (five years ago)
x-post-- Oh yeah "Motorist"
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 03:30 (five years ago)
thanks Andy. i still revisit this album on the regular and that is what i will hear every time now.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 16:18 (five years ago)
Oh gosh, how awful
https://callumrobbins.blogspot.com/2020/11/callum-z-robbins-1272006-7222020.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 November 2020 03:34 (four years ago)
So sad.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 November 2020 03:49 (four years ago)
fuck, RIP
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 13 November 2020 03:57 (four years ago)
oh man :(
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 13 November 2020 04:12 (four years ago)
That's horrific, so sad
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 13 November 2020 06:45 (four years ago)
Jesus Christ. RIP.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 13 November 2020 08:40 (four years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kNX7mt4Mo
happy 30th
great record (which '68' should somehow have made)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 February 2024 05:25 (one year ago)
Loved this since it came out.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:49 (one year ago)
ha the only jawbox i had was s/t, it's fine. i should listen then to this, as for 5 days i've been re-absorbed by quicksand, just post-hardcore on shuffle repeat. it might fit in.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:58 (one year ago)