Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart

love this album

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!

plus beavis liked savory

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

I could see it being too harsh and dissonant to become a big hit

It may have been a pretty big deal but I bet it didn't outsell Nevermind, Doolittle or Repeater!

"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

otm about 68

when is indie rock fashion gonna come back around to this shit

you would say that, wouldn't you - ROBBINS

you know what's a nice obscurity from around this time? that rollkicker laydown single

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.

I got an advance cassette of the album at work and drove home in a blinding snowstorm while listening to it. What a charge.

Count me in for utter love of this album, it really is the high point of this strain of indie.

'Reel' always raises the hairs on the back of my neck.

also bears mentioning that the remaster REALLY did wonders for this record

still haven't heard it :(

summer tour

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/01/14/685046818/jawbox-announces-reunion-tour-after-a-decade-away

Nice, will be there

hell yeah

nice!

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

They were heavy, noisy, and very dissonant, but always in a way that was interesting and melodic, instead of just harsh.

25 years ago the Jesus Lizard was “indie rock”. Unsane were on Matador.

https://jrobbins.bandcamp.com

solo album

they're kicking ass on tour btw

Just saw them in bk recently myself

Seeing them in a few weeks

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

when you examined the wreck, what did you see?

huh mookie?

Glass everywhere and wheels still spinning free

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x-post-- Oh yeah "Motorist"

thanks Andy. i still revisit this album on the regular and that is what i will hear every time now.

Oh gosh, how awful

https://callumrobbins.blogspot.com/2020/11/callum-z-robbins-1272006-7222020.html

So sad.

fuck, RIP

oh man :(

That's horrific, so sad

Jesus Christ. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kNX7mt4Mo

happy 30th

great record (which '68' should somehow have made)

Loved this since it came out.

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.