Our band could be your life: Jawbreaker
Note: I drafted this post in 2007 but as you can see I never finished it and I definitely never published it. In 2025, when Typepad shut down and I moved this entire blog to a new domain, I discovered this old post sitting here drafted. I am publishing it now as-is (backdated to 2007) to capture my notes, which are about the band Jawbreaker. It’s just a pile of thoughts, with snippets of lyrics, and honestly there’s a decent chance that I forgot about this draft and then wrote it up again (and published it) later. So this could totally be a duplicate. That said, here I go, pushing the publish button …
Unfun: Fine Day, Busy, Down,
I took my car and drove it down the hill by your house I drove so fast The wind it couldn’t cool me down so I turned it around and came back up from Chesterfield King off Bivouac
When it all comes down I can show you something you will not believe When it all comes down We’re gonna see a real masterpiece from the tense hardcore fury of Donatello off Bivouac
Seven hundred miles to play for fifteen angry men I need some sleep from Tour Song off Bivouac
This is Jennings, your anesthesist I think we’re going through the mouth from Outpatient off 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
We’re killing Each other By sleeping in Save Your Generation
Silly sugary propulsive pop punk
Fireman off Dear You
I dreamed we were still going out Had that one a few times now Woke up to find we were not It’s good to be awake
Most Jawbreaker songs are pretty much about relationships
tension, breakup, reconciliation, all the nail biting drama that goes with being friends or lovers with someone
but Dear You is this at its most condensed and concise. It’s somewhat buried in Rob Cavallo’s gigantic Corporate Rock bombastic production, with seventeen guitars and compressed drums, but the sentiments are still there and the lyrics still resonate. Still, it’s not very representative of Jawbreaker and not really how I like to remember them.
Adam and Blackball and reissues
Jets To Brazil
endgame: nirvana tour, signing with dgc, breakup
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