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San Francisco, United States (1988 – 1996)
Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band, from 1988 to 1996. They had their roots in San Francisco, CA, 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 emocore sound built on 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.”
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 emocore sound built on 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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Save Your Generation
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Fireman
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Chemistry
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Oyster
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Jet Black
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Million
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Indictment
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I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
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The Boat Dreams from the Hill
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Ashtray Monument
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Do You Still Hate Me?
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Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault
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fussballspiele wrote:
wasn hier los
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thiag-o wrote:
PLEASE REMAIN SEATED. YOUR NUMBER IS COMING. DO NOT QUESTIONS THESE COMMANDS: JUST WALK THE DOG. BE A BUMP ON A LOG. WATCH TV UNTIL YOU'RE BLIND.
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Cawnur wrote:
consistently awesome, one of my favorite bands ever.
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healedseas wrote:
Listening to these guys again after a looooong time
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ProfaneMethane wrote:
Joeyjoejoe17 wrote: 15 days ago that's quite bad punk, thoug I like Punk in general. this is simply boring View Profile | Leave Joeyjoejoe17 a shout coming from someone with 213 hoobastank plays, fuck.
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bookworm_ wrote:
I just wanted to say that. Funny, I hadn't really noticed this song until I recently saw that Jack Kerouac documentary film, and recognised his voice in the song. Fantastic.
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alexbigman wrote:
condition oakland > any jawbreaker song
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FCPSITSGEPGEPGE wrote:
I went to a party last night, what sick things I saw...
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fingertonose wrote:
I wanna be a pretty one.
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ninjablaster wrote:
v fake shouter
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notoriousdit wrote:
This band is boring. Glad they broke up.
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alainvegaman wrote:
Shirt is such a good track.
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pezhead27 wrote:
24 Hour Revenge Therapy ♥
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wolf_marine wrote:
High school in the 90s. Lots of memories. One of the best bands ever, if you don't get it, oh well.
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AusRotten wrote:
24 Hour Revenge Therapy is the best. Kill Your Idols used to do a fucking incredible cover of Do You Still Hate Me?
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alphagravitas wrote:
Jawbreaker was a popular San Francisco, CA
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Nickandroff wrote:
Unfun.
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Jimmert wrote:
teach us, master of punk.
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Joeyjoejoe17 wrote:
that's quite bad punk, thoug I like Punk in general. this is simply boring
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Bammy_Rabbit wrote:
Bivouac ♥
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