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San Francisco, United States (1988 – 1996)
Jawbreaker was a popular San Francisco, CA
punk rock band in the 1990s. They had their roots in Los Angeles, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler were students at the exclusive private Crossroads High School. The band came together when they met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988.
With Schwarzenbach on guitar and vocals, Bauermeister on bass, and Pfahler on drums, the band gained recognition in the late eighties and early nineties for their melodic yet driven sound providing the foundation for Schwarzenbach’s poignant, bleeding-heart lyrics and signature rasp.
The band’s first full-length release Unfun was put out by Shredder in 1990. On this, the band stuck close to the sound coming out of their contemporaries in the nascent pop-punk scene in their sound, with the exception of Bauermeister’s prominent bass lines and Schwarzenbach’s lyrics, at times walking the line of the melodramatic.
Unfun was followed by Bivouac on Tupelo/Communion in 1992. Bivouac proved thicker and darker - both thematically and melodically - yet served to elevate the band above a crowd of previously similar acts. This more ambitious release also artfully used pieces of found-audio, in what was becoming one of the band’s signatures, weaving it in and out of the ten minute title track, “Bivouac.”
Their third release, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, produced by the ubiquitous Steve Albini, unveiled a sparse pop-punk with more carefully crafted lyrics. This album also holds what has become arguably their best known song, “Boxcar.”
punk rock band in the 1990s. They had their roots in Los Angeles, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler were students at the exclusive private Crossroads High School. The band came together when they met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988.
With Schwarzenbach on guitar and vocals, Bauermeister on bass, and Pfahler on drums, the band gained recognition in the late eighties and early nineties for their melodic yet driven sound providing the foundation for Schwarzenbach’s poignant, bleeding-heart lyrics and signature rasp.
The band’s first full-length release Unfun was put out by Shredder in 1990. On this, the band stuck close to the sound coming out of their contemporaries in the nascent pop-punk scene in their sound, with the exception of Bauermeister’s prominent bass lines and Schwarzenbach’s lyrics, at times walking the line of the melodramatic.
Unfun was followed by Bivouac on Tupelo/Communion in 1992. Bivouac proved thicker and darker - both thematically and melodically - yet served to elevate the band above a crowd of previously similar acts. This more ambitious release also artfully used pieces of found-audio, in what was becoming one of the band’s signatures, weaving it in and out of the ten minute title track, “Bivouac.”
Their third release, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, produced by the ubiquitous Steve Albini, unveiled a sparse pop-punk with more carefully crafted lyrics. This album also holds what has become arguably their best known song, “Boxcar.”
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Dear You
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24 Hour Revenge Therapy
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Save Your Generation
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Fireman
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Chemistry
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I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
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Oyster
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Jet Black
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Million
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Ashtray Monument
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The Boat Dreams from the Hill
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Do You Still Hate Me?
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Indictment
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Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault
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Outpatient
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Shoutbox
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Bammy_Rabbit wrote:
Bivouac ♥
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acrowemerica523 wrote:
Bivouac <3
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SenriMan wrote:
Dear You is ridiculously good. I found it a few weeks ago and have been listening to it over and over. God damn.
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VasunyaX wrote:
AND I MISS YOOOOOOU!
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ninjablaster wrote:
AND I MISS YOU
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TrypTheWizard wrote:
Crucial.
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gunsofpedro wrote:
I hear Schwarzenbach likes a band called The 1st Line on Northeast Records. I checked them out, they sound great.
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PraiseChrist wrote:
Seeing the Forgetters today.
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ReformatMe wrote:
Okay, no mention of forgetters in the WHOLE SHOUTBOX? WHAT?
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OhhhNoBobby wrote:
dear you is a fucking fantastic album!
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untilwebleed wrote:
Dear You is my favourite punk-rock album ever. There, I said it. *awaits shitstorm*
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alphagravitas wrote:
Jawbreaker isn't emo. Learn how to fit music into small, narrowly-defined boxes better.
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pezhead27 wrote:
I'm pretty sure the reunion was based around the fact the band practiced together privately in light of the making of the Jawbreaker DVD. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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When_in_Roam wrote:
@aquiles, yes it is. Whatever happened to the rumors about their reunion?
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alphagravitas wrote:
Bivouac.
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Aquiles_Wy wrote:
WTF this isnt emo!!!
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T1stL wrote:
If you dig Jawbreaker (which is why you are on this page), check out The 1st Line.
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Jimmert wrote:
rabbit rabbit
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ledheadtaylor wrote:
i have it in lossless biyatch
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dyna-soar wrote:
if anyone has their stuff in 320 bitrate mp3 and could hook me up, i'd greatly appreciate it. i own most of their discog on vinyl but would love some high quality mp3's - all i can find is 192 bitrate.
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