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Jawbreaker If you’re “old school” as they say, chances are you’ve heard of Jawbreaker. If you’re new to the whole concept of music One thing I should mention before I even get into the orgasmic music of Jawbreaker is that they write amazing lyrics.
RIP Jawbreaker. XROXX RATING: XXXXX (5 X's out of a possible 5 X's) Charly Hogeboom
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that doesn’t suck, maybe all Jawbreaker is to you is a shitty movie with Rose McGowan. Jawbreaker, in my humble opinion, is one of the most underrated bands of the late 80’s and early 90’s. They have a sound like no other. They basically invented the music most call emo, but without all the high pitched whining. I love Jawbreaker, so maybe I had a biased opinion going in to review this CD, but oh fucking well. Jawbreaker deserves more credit than they’ll ever receive. Oh yeah, by the way, Dear You originally came out back in 1995, but only 1,000 copies were made. Jawbreaker broke up right afterwards (Blake can currently be found in Jets to Brazil). This is the re-issue of the album with some awesome outtakes, a big lyric invested booklet with pictures, and a music video for the track “Fireman.”
They’ve probably written some of the best lyrics in all of the “anything punk related” world. With that said, Jawbreaker’s past CD’s haven’t had the best recording quality. I even heard once that all they used was two tracks for recording on their older albums. Anyhow, after the first note of the first song, “Save Your Generation,” I knew Dear You was going to be something different. It sounded so clean. A nice little change. Tracks 1 through 13 are the songs from the original Dear You album. Every song was fucking amazing. The songs were a lot catchier than Jawbreaker’s first records and Blake, the singer, sounds almost like a different person. Some songs, like “Jet Black” and “Sluttering (May 4th)” sound like the old-fashioned Jawbreaker with more of a “shebang!” to them. A lot of tracks from this disc like “Fireman,” “Chemistry,” “Oyster,” and “Bad Scene, Everyone’s Fault” were so amazingly catchy and good that I almost got a boner. The first 13 tracks start to come to an end with “Bascillica,” which has some way cool hardcore breakdowns that just lead in to my favorite song from the album, “Unlisted Track.” It was the last song on the original Dear You and I suppose was a nice little acoustic goodbye from Jawbreaker. What can I say? I’m a sucker for acoustic songs…
Listening to these first 13 songs made me wish I were cool enough back in 1995 to have listened to this when it first came out and it also made me super excited for the last five bonus tracks. They start out with one of the best written songs on the CD and definitely the most catchy, “Shirt.” (The booklet had a picture of Kurt Cobain sporting a Jawbreaker shirt. Weird, huh?) “Into You Like A Train” is a cover and is the only song on the whole 18-song disc that I didn’t care too much for. I really thought the best song out of these five little bonus songs was the heartfelt song about Blake’s sister, which is simply titled “Sister.” The album comes to an end with a re-recorded version of what was probably Jawbreaker’s biggest hit from their career, “Boxcar.” (Never heard this tune? Come on, even the Atari’s covered it.) “Boxcar” was a perfect ending to an awesome album and an awesome band.