You're Not Punk and I'm Telling Everyone: The Jawbreaker Story

Подписаться 494 тыс.

Просмотров 159 тыс.

50% 1

The early 90s was a boom time for getting rich off Alternative Rock. Due to the breakout commercial success of REM, Nirvana and Green Day, major labels grabbed any band that could approximate their sounds in the hopes of them becoming the next big thing. If there was one band that felt primed to succeed in this landscape it was Jawbreaker.
Formed in New York before transplanting themselves to California, they blended Husker Du, Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus Lizard, infused with ultra-literate lyrics that spat frustration, dissatisfaction and heartbreak. But when it was their chance to cash-in on the alt rock gold-rush, Jawbreaker lost everything. Not punk and punk in equal measures, this is the story of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy and how Jawbreaker sold out.
#jawbreaker #poppunk #musicdocumentary
Fact-checking by Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Origin: "Seven Hundred Miles to Play to Fifteen Angry Men"
08:36 24 Hour Revenge Therapy: "The Clarity of Cal to Break Your Heart"
18:24 Nirvana & Green Day: "My Enemies Are All Too Familiar..."
25:36 Dear You: "We Could Be The Next Band That You Rob"
33:41 Legacy: "Some Make Exhaustion a Mode of Expression"
Bibliography
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Dan Ozzi, 2021, DeyStrBks
24 Hour Revenge Therapy 33 1/3 Book by Ronen Givony, 2018, Bloomsbury Academic USA
Gimme Something Better by Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor, 2009, Penguin Books
Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker (2017) dir. Tim Irwin & Keith Schieron
"Ep. 47: Blake Schwarzenbach discusses Jawbreaker's 'Boxcar'" by Chris DeMakes, Chris DeMakes a Podcast, Apr 2021
"Jawbreaker - July 3, 1993 @ 924 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA (Soundboard Audio)" by BLoss_iZR39, RU-vid, Apr 2021 ( • Jawbreaker - July 3, 1... )
"Jawbreaker - May 28, 1993 @ CBGB's, NYC (Soundboard Audio)" by BLoss_iZR39, RU-vid, Feb 2021 ( • Jawbreaker - May 28, 1... )
"The Definitive Oral History of Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy" by Leor Galil, Pitchfork, April 2017
"The Oral History of Jawbreaker" compiled by Trevor Kelley, Alternative Press, September 2010
"Decoding Jawbreaker's Monumental 24 Hour Revenge Therapy 25 Years On" by Mischa Pearlman, Kerrang!, Feb 2019
"The Guide to Getting into Jawbreaker" by David Anthony, Noisey, Sep 2017
"Jawbreaker: Bivouac" by Kyle Ryan, AV Club, Nov 2006
"the last ever interview with JAWBREAKER" by Mike, Geek America, [date unknown]
"'You could shoot a gun in the air and hit a great song'-Jawbreaker discuss ‘24 Hour Revenge Therapy’" by Trevor Kelley, Alternative Press, Oct 2014
"‘Dear You’: Jawbreaker’s Emo Cult Classic" by Jeff Terich, Udiscovermusic, Sep 2023
"Jawbreaker’s Reluctant Return, 21 Years After Their Implosion" by David Anthony, Noisey, Aug 2017
"Jawbreaker: you're not punk and I'm telling everyone..." by Trevor Kelley, Punk Planet, Feb 2003
"Jawbreaker’s Blake Schwarzenbach On ‘Dear You’ And Getting Back On The Road To Tour Again" by Ian Cohen, UPROXX, Mar 2022
"Revisit SPIN’s 1994 Story on Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy" by SPIN Staff, Spin Magazine, Apr 1994
"Emo Scene, Their Fault" by Joe Gross, Spin Magazine, Feb 2004
"Jawbreaker's Adam Pfahler on the legacy of the band's most divisive album" by Dan Ozzi, Reply Alt, Mar 2022
"24 Hour Revenge Therapy Jawbreaker - Review" by Brandon Stosuy, Pitchfork, Oct 2014
"Jawbreaker Reflect on Debut Unfun" by Chris Ryan, Rolling Stone, Apr 2010
"Jawbreaker Reflect on 25 Years of Dear You, Promise “Guitar Catharsis” on Anniversary Tour" by Gary Graff, Consequence, Mar 2022
"Jawbreaker: You're Not Punk, and I'm Telling Everyone" by Melissa Fossum, Phoenix New Times, Jul 2012
"The Story Behind L.A. Band Jawbreaker's Return to Stage for 'Dear You'" by Ryan Ritchie, Los Angeles Magazine, Apr 2022
"Blake Schwarzenbach on Jawbreaker’s Bivouac and Chesterfield King reissues" by MW, Giant Robot, Dec 2012
"What Turn You On? Sufjan Stevens, Jarvis Taveniere, Blake Schwarzenbach" by Erika Bogner, Serial Optimist, August 2013
"Jawbreaker's Adam Pfahler: 'We don’t take credit or blame for what came after us'" by Stuart Williams, Music Radar, March 2019
Soundtrack
Luar - Citrine ( / luarbeats )
Jesse Gallagher - The Golden Present
Luar - Anchor ( / luarbeats )
You can also follow me here:
Twitter: / trashtheory
Facebook: / trashtheoryyt
Instagram: / theorytrash
Or support me on Patreon:
/ trashtheory

Опубликовано:

3 июл 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 527

@TrashTheory 9 месяцев назад

Every now and then I get people asking for a playlist of every song mentioned in my videos: Well here's a Spotify link for this one: open.spotify.com/playlist/5fF3DjWCue0QQ2f8lzpptN?si=ad897a608e2e478c RU-vid Music Link: music.ru-vid.com/group/PLooaZ33lSaleQDVeTOcLm9abE3QhF7lp8&si=PrCJOlYm35wkj_Un

@TheCharlesAtoz 9 месяцев назад

Hi TT, do you do interviews for other people's podcasts? Great documentaries!!

@eggsII 9 месяцев назад

I love that point about Jawbreaker v Jawbox! Even kids of the era did that! Albini likely would’ve liked Jawbox. They had that Dischord feedback/ noise thing going on… Thank you as well for identifying the idea that kids didn’t want to share their emotive connection with their underground bands. That feels true to me about that era. Is it wrong for me to shed a tear at the end of this one?

@kaydgaming 9 месяцев назад

I know you’re not American, but I’d say that Arkansas could very easily be in the Midwest.

@guglop 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for including a YTMusic playlist as well as Spotify ❤

@sleepysartorialist 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for making a YT music list. I will never use Spotify.

@brendancoots 9 месяцев назад

When I was a teenager my band opened for Jawbreaker. My cymbals were cheap and cracked because I was just a poor nobody small town kid, and Adam (the drummer) gave me one of his cymbals. They were stressed out and probably a little bummed to be playing in some tiny community center in the dunes of Northern California, but it didn't stop them from being kind and humble.

@1thess523 9 месяцев назад

Sweet! Do you still have that cymbal? Did your band record anything?

@alexpaez5924 9 месяцев назад

Dope story. Lucky.

@JCSAXON 8 месяцев назад

That’s why we play! Hope you get some more live experience out there from either side of the stage. It’s all great

@hazyeoaxn8653 8 месяцев назад

saw them couple months ago adam got me into the anniversary tour for free and gave me a free pick very down to earth guy

@Falxifer95 9 месяцев назад

The fact that Jawbreaker suffered both the soulless greed of the music industry AND the entitled toxicity of the "legit punk" horde, but managed to become one of the most influential modern punk bands and are a formative pillar of emo in spite of breaking up, and would later reunite and get all the acclaim they always deserved is nothing short of inspiring. But it is a shame they had to go through the ringer and wait decades to get it.

@otterdonnelly9959 9 месяцев назад

Blake said in ‘92, “I think scenes are very dangerous and you should do your best to destroy all scenes. Specifically your own.” Too self aware.

@beowulf1417 9 месяцев назад

"Formative pillar of emo". Spoken as a true post-90s child. Naive and clueless and finding inspiration in what is truly the bottom of the barrel.

@mikeherrera5302 9 месяцев назад

They brought a lot of it on themselves to be fair. I mean yelling on stage every night you will never sign to a major months before doing so is kinda silly

@Falxifer95 9 месяцев назад

@@mikeherrera5302they did that due to gossiping and backbiting from the "scene", the whole "Legit Punk Police" boycotting them just for accepting to tour with Nirvana is even sillier.

@joemiller7082 9 месяцев назад

Got it from both ends, really.

@erad67 9 месяцев назад

I detest how so many people don't want bands they like to actually make some money. I WANT bands I like to be successful.

@Eric_Hunt194 9 месяцев назад

This, 100%. I can't on the one hand decry Oasis for their unimaginative slop that sold millions, then on the other hand get annoyed when Pavement get rediscovered by today's generation.

@Donyourmom 8 месяцев назад

I can’t agree with bands and artist taking taking partnerships in commercials, but I don’t see a problem with bands taking bigger record deals.

@deathmetalmiri 8 месяцев назад

The problem comes in when making that money means abandoning your friends and letting some guy in a suit water down your art for radio play. It's not really a problem any more, but I completely get how it felt like a betrayal back then.

@TheRisingTide89 8 месяцев назад

I personally resonate with artists due to whats being said and how strongly i can relate to them...when i realize in an instant they can do a complete 180 and be artists id never spend time listening to, its a straight disappointment.

@ForeverGotShorter 8 месяцев назад

Albini wrote The Problem With Music back in '93 outlining all the way the majors screw artists over and it's only gotten worse since then. Most bands end up a) releasing the record their label wants and not the one they want b) in debt to the label c) breaking up or d) all of the above. Some bands (such as Jawbox), made less money on a major. Stories of label execs supplying band members with drugs (even when the artist has a serious drug problem and needs to stop) are pretty common. My definition of success is a band getting to do what they want. Defining success as making money doesn't make sense to me (especially because major label CEOs make much more money than their artists; at beast all you're doing is making someone else obscenely rich). Few bands end up like Jimmy Eat World. Most end up dropped by their label, their finished record left to sit in some file cabinet for years. Jawbreaker's story is pretty unique, all things considered. It was either sign with a major and make one more record or break up. I'm glad they signed that deal and that we got Dear You out of it. Ditto Jawbox, ditto Jimmy Eat World. But not everyone's so lucky.

@Davey-Boyd 9 месяцев назад

Punk gatekeepers, we had them in the UK too. Punk gatekeeper - what an oxymoron. They used to really effing annoy me (talking very early 80's). I was a punk and dressed like one. Whenever I met a so called punk purist I'd tell them my favourite band was ABBA and waffle on about them, talking like they were the real embodiment of pure punk. It rattled their cages. I'm currently into the Japanese punk/hard rock/metal scene, they laugh at "genres" and everyone - bands and fans - are all supportive of each other. It's a breath of fresh air.

@MicacoGames 8 месяцев назад

That bassline in "want" from the "Unfun" record is so iconic. Love Jawbreaker pure 90s punk-rock

@erik198 7 месяцев назад

Totally with you on that 🙌

@skyllalafey 9 месяцев назад

I'm so glad that as a teen in the 90s, a copy of Dear You wound up in my possession, though I had never even heard of Jawbreaker at that point. It's absolutely an album to listen to via headphones and full of teenage angst and heartache, so I'm glad to had been oblivious to the "not punk enough / sellout" kerfluffle and just enjoyed it on it's own merits.

@stuartmorley6894 9 месяцев назад

The not punk thing was such a big bag of b@llocks. A clique deciding what does and doesn't count is the antithesis of punk.

@lucag.lisickza425 9 месяцев назад

kerplunk u mean

@pulleyfm8585 9 месяцев назад

Decisions are complicated and have consequences. Major labels at the time were ruthless, if a band wasn't performing they'd drop them in a heartbeat. They also did all kinds of dirty tricks with contract language to lock a band in and force recordings to done by their engineers with the band having no real say in it, as well as messing with venues that were vital to punk taking off in the first place. Jawbreaker did a ton of damage to the punk scene indirectly and made life really difficult for bands still on indie labels to have any success. Smash came out in 94 and there's a reason it never got eclipsed in sales for indie labels. Jawbreakers music might be good but there's a reason they got the backlash they did. Even if you just look at it purely from their contribution to music it's not out of the question to say there's at least 10 records, if not 100's, that never got made because of them.

@dingdongism 9 месяцев назад

@@pulleyfm8585 It's fascinating to hear you toeing the DIY punk line from 1994. What you say about major labels treating bands like shit seems to be pretty uncontroversial, with some exceptions I guess. But then when you talk about the "damage" Jawbreaker did to the punk scene...you're passing off casual speculation and confirmation bias as an objective narration of "what actually happened". Which I'm not a huge fan of.

@pulleyfm8585 9 месяцев назад

@@dingdongism Dookie sold 20million and was 2nd for the year 1994. Smash pushed 12million and was the 11th best selling record and was on a full indie label. Tragic Kingdom had a good 95, Insomniac did alright too. Jawbreaker's struggles meant only really the already signed and fully proven bands like Green Day and the Offspring got to sell records for a minute, at least with punk. Epitaph had huge issues with distribution post 95 and were just pushing out old stuff the stores would take like kerplunk and offspring releases. At the end of the day Jawbreaker signed a really bad record deal that let the record company butcher their production. They could've stayed indie and kept control, it was their choice and when it backfired it hurt a lot of people not just the guys in the band.

@chrisodriscoll3077 9 месяцев назад

I saw them on that European tour mentioned when his voice hit the wall. Before that Dublon show they played Cork at Venue called The Village. You could seriously see him struggle through the show. The crowd got behind him though. Everyone was passing pints of lager and cider up to him inbetween songs, which in retrospect probably made it worse. They came back years later and played another show . Pure troopers.

@hkapeman 9 месяцев назад

Class! Never knew they played Cork.

@doomsdaydanceparty7646 9 месяцев назад

Got to see jawbreaker on Monday, never thought I'd ever be able to see them. I'll never forget that gig

@jameswalker7382 9 месяцев назад

hey i was at that show too!

@binxboi7156 9 месяцев назад

I was lucky to have seen Jawbreaker’s warm up show for Riot Fest and the entire 8 hour drive up to SF, I kept thinking it was a prank cause there was no way they were hours away from playing a club with a 300 peep capacity. The road to Jawbreaker reuniting is almost worthy of its own video. It’s a roller coaster of emotions.

@timkaine5098 9 месяцев назад

Dear you is a great album in retrospect even though it is often gruesomely dark for “pop punk”

@Superman22010 9 месяцев назад

Don't kid yourself you know it's an emo album.

@dingdongism 9 месяцев назад

I wouldn't call it a pop punk album at all.

@joemiller7082 9 месяцев назад

I think it’s a record that was probably made 5 years too early. If it came out in the early. 2000’s, they’d have blown up.

@joemiller7082 9 месяцев назад

⁠@@dingdongismI totally would. But it depends on what you call pop punk. There are like 10 different kinds of pop punk.

@dingdongism 9 месяцев назад

@@joemiller7082 You can consider it what you like, obviously. I think placing the pop punk label on Jawbreaker does a disservice to both the genre and the band.

@mr.fancipants6639 9 месяцев назад

I LOVED this one. Jawbreaker has always been close to my heart ever since I saw a kid in freshman algebra with Dear You on his desk in 1995. He let me listen to it for a few minutes. I rode my bike to Clark Baker music in El Centro, CA the same day, bought Dear You, and have been in love with them ever since. I paid for 24 hr Revenge Therapy and Bivouac with my paper route money. I love Jawbreaker and am super bummed I had to miss their show at RiotFest. Thank you for making this video, and thank you Jawbreaker.

@thecookreporting 9 месяцев назад

Played the hell out of this album. Also enjoyed Blake's later band Jets To Brazil

@justahumanbeing.709 9 месяцев назад

yeah Jets were great saw them live in 2000 so good.

@llenlleawch 9 месяцев назад

I'm forever in debt to Mitch Clem and his punk webcomic Nothing Nice to Say in the very early 2000s for introducing me to Jawbreaker and the whole hardcore/emo scene where I finally found my niche.

@manuelmendez6022 8 месяцев назад

Mitch wound up printing his comics, wish is still had my copy.

@andrewpegg 6 месяцев назад

NNTS was the best. I've been looking for another WWHRD sticker for a while.

@MikeDiEva 9 месяцев назад

“You’re not punk and I’m telling everyone” was the wry, knowing wink my friends and I gave one another in high school. An amazing video, as always.

@TylaStark 9 месяцев назад

as someone that probably watches six+ hours of youtube a day, you're my favorite creator to follow. i've never finished one of your videos without feeling so very warm and fuzzy inside. I love to learn, and your formatting, writing, and the audio clips you choose all help paint a picture that is just so skillfully done. I feel truly moved to go listen to whomever you've talked about. Every time. 💯

@LividImp 9 месяцев назад

Funny, I was in the punk scene in the early 90s and remember Jawbreaker from then, but their stuff wasn't doing it for me, so I just ignored it and moved on. I never heard about them getting big and making it onto a major or any of the controversy surrounding it. Didn't know they were an influence on later emo. It's weird hearing about a band you thought had faded away into local obscurity actually had enough going on to make a mini-doc about them.

@jal051 9 месяцев назад

Same. Although I admit I didn't know much about this scene. Other than Chesterfield Kings, Devil Dogs and Supersuckers I didn't listen to many American bands (of the time). I used to listen a lot of Aussie punk in the early 90s.

@LividImp 9 месяцев назад

@@jal051 The 90s was pretty hit 'n' miss. Go look at my playlists for "Underappreciated 90s Punk/Alt" for a very incomplete list of some of the better stuff that never really got big (the Devil Dogs are on there btw).

@justahumanbeing.709 9 месяцев назад

there is a proper doc about them called 'Don't break down'.

@gojakego 9 месяцев назад

I'm in a similar boat. Trash Theory's "How Emo Became Emo" video was stuffed full of my favorite 90s and early 2000s bands, but somehow Jawbreaker was totally in my blind spot. 90s me really missed out!

@Whitehorse_crimefighter 9 месяцев назад

Everything is youtube now. It's entirely possible for some shitty high school band put out a recording on youtube and it could blow up anywhere and then could be considered "highly influential" without selling anything ever

@tomlewis4205 9 месяцев назад

😮 I learned so much! I'll admit I knew nothing about Jawbreaker but Jets To Brazil's Orange Rhyming Dictionary got me through a tough period.

@buchor9455 9 месяцев назад

Schwarzenbach is honestly one of the best lyricists of the 90s, especially when you look at his work with Jets to Brazil. Dude's got a way with words that is really, really, really impressive. Big fan of Jawbreaker, big fan of Jets, big fan of all these guys. Absolutely essential parts of my late 90s musical education that I would never give up for anything.

@2P4E 9 месяцев назад

In a way he's touching and tragic. But on the other hand I can also see how someone might think he was corny and morbid.

@slack3021 8 месяцев назад

Eh he's far from the best of the 90s imo.

@2P4E 8 месяцев назад

@@slack3021 One man's magic is another's plastic

@philphil3507 8 месяцев назад

Dear You was the album that I listened to all through the second half of high school. I’m in college now so it’s not like I was around for it’s release, but it still had a huge part in giving me what I needed to start finding myself. I still have not totally found myself, and I don’t anticipate doing so for years. But on the days when depression is kicking my ass, Dear You still manages to help ground myself. “You have to learn to learn from your mistakes You can afford to lose a little face The things you break, some can't be replaced A simple rule: every day be sure you wake”

@jeffleppard8962 8 месяцев назад

Jawbreaker have saved my life on more than one occasion. Blake is a lyrical genius. Be sure to listen to all of his work. It’s truly amazing

@ForeverGotShorter 9 месяцев назад

One of my all-time favorite bands. To this day I can remember where I was when I first listened to Unfun, or Dear You, or 24 Hour… they really blew my mind. And speaking of Kerouac, Jawbreaker got me into the Beats back in the day. Anyway, I could go on, but suffice it to say that I owe a lot to messrs Schwarzenbach, Pfahler and Baumeister.

@Raitor33 9 месяцев назад

I was hoping for a Jawbreaker doc on this channel! To me Dear You is one of the best albums of the 90s. I can sing almost every lyric from memory and honestly I could care less if they “sold out”. They recorded a pretty well-written, well-produced album that is full of anthems, and that’s what matters. Great video!

@LJScott 9 месяцев назад

This was amazing! You absolutely nailed it here. Also so glad you put on spotlight on how influential they were especially with the Julian Baker cover.

@janehex 9 месяцев назад

I loved this band when I was younger back in the 90s, and was fortunate to see them many times and hang out with them as well when I was living in Olympia and Berkeley. Super friendly guys. It was a long time ago but I remember not really caring that they signed to a major label; I wanted success for them since they had worked so hard for so long. I hated that it turned into more dumb "sell out" drama, I think a lot of people were just really jealous.

@squirt.mcgirt 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video. Jawbreaker is my all time favorite band, but I also appreciated the brief Banner Pilot shout out in there - finding out about them was such a blessing because they scratch that itch for catchy, heartfelt punk rock that Jawbreaker left when they split. They're the closest thing I've found to a spiritual successor to Jawbreaker. Love them

@bashthefash420 9 месяцев назад

Banner pilot are/were underrated as fuck.

@jealousagain783 9 месяцев назад

Collapser is an absolutely incredible record. Wish more people knew about them.

@manuelmendez6022 8 месяцев назад

Springless is my jam but all their records are great.

@wilson713 3 месяца назад

It's so weird. Banner Pilot and Jawbreaker are two of my favorite bands but I never noticed the similarities until now. Especially Unfun and Banner Pilot's earlier releases

@therevrockinrollin 9 месяцев назад

Saw Jawbreaker with Seaweed. Fuck, I’m old.

@stuartmorley6894 9 месяцев назад

Kiss the bottle makes me well up every single time. I love Jawbreaker so, so much. They've been with me musically through good and bad since i was a much, much younger person.

@oxouk 9 месяцев назад

That show in Chicago for Riot Fest was Brutal. The crowd surged forward so hard I thought I would be crushed to death. It didn't let up until 4 or 5 songs in. It was the ultimate reunion and Jawbreaker deserved every minute of love that came from the soul of every person there. The next day I met Blake at the airport. He graciously signed a dozen or so records for a fan as I waited to speak with him. Our conversation was brief but meant the world to me.

@jezoye 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for this, I love Jawbreaker so much. And 2 J Church references, I'm looking forward to the J Church vid! 😊

@johnchedsey1306 9 месяцев назад

Another banger of a music doc (despite the fact I never did get into Jawbreaker). Just brings me back to the 90s when punk had so many gatekeepers and rules. It's just interesting to see what happens after people grow older and realize that the actual music being made at the time had merit, whether it was released on Septic Pig Records or Atlantic. Speaking of Wipers, there's a band that could use a Trash Theory doc! I still listen to them as much, if not more than I did back when I first heard them in the late 80s. (They were on the Rivers Edge soundtrack, right next to a bunch of Slayer tracks)

@sleepawaycamp83 9 месяцев назад

I love your videos! I would love for some videos on artists like Tears For Fears, Glassjaw, At The Drive-In/The Mars Volta, Big Star, Phoebe Bridgers or maybe even Boygenius, etc. I’d also like to see a video on the history of the Bay Area Punk scene and how much it has grown over the years. Keep up the good work, man! I really enjoy your channel! 🤘

@sonotdown998 9 месяцев назад

I used to suffer from the same confusion as Albini back in the day. Like, all the time. I still do, apparently, because I spent the first 14:30 minutes of this video wondering, “When do they move to DC?”

@alexjohnson9798 8 месяцев назад

Besides a few Soviet punk bands, I don't think anyone ever had it harder than Jawbreaker.

@cameronferguson4514 9 месяцев назад

Definitely one of the things I have in common with Steve Albini, mixing up Jawbox & Jawbreaker more than once.

@corycourtney8923 9 месяцев назад

Like, I was just saying how much I enjoy your content, and now you cover one of my favorite bands? You might be the greatest of all time.

@macfilms9904 9 месяцев назад

Another fantastic one. I'd been heavily into hardcore punk in the 80s & grunge in the 90's - 2nd wave emo and pop-punk were on my radar, but not my scenes - I'd heard of and heard Jawbreaker and I've been digging into emo (I know, I know, they all say they aren't emo) - and discovering a ton of great music there. Thanks for the deep-dive, I always learn a lot from your vids.

@ForeverGotShorter 9 месяцев назад

I love the second wave bands, I don't know if you've checked out Time Spent Driving, Elliott or Penfold, but they were part of that scene and they were criminally underrated.

@joemiller7082 9 месяцев назад

No one really liked the “emo” label. It was meant to be derogatory in the first place. Most of the bands that got called emo just thought they were punk/hardcore bands.

@joemc27 9 месяцев назад

Another absolutely killer video! I love Jawbreaker and your videos. Have you ever thought about doing one for your fellow Brits in LEATHERFACE? Talk about a band that has such a massive influence on punk rock while being criminally underrated. Something to think about...

@babyyoda3694 8 месяцев назад

Seconded

@ltlbuddha 9 месяцев назад

It is massively ironic that punk, of all genres, every had rigid rules of belonging

@ghosttownicon2761 9 месяцев назад

Gotta lot of love for Jawbreaker and glad to see them getting recognition these days. Great songs, great lyrics, and able to cover everything from poppy 3 chord wonders to more complex and intense stuff like Parabola. I always through they hit a real sweet spot in that they were hyper-melodic, but at the same time they kept just the right amount of grit and rawness of the underground with them. Also, there's plenty interviews with Jim Ward where he talks about Jawbreaker being a huge influence on him and by extension At the Drive In and Sparta.

@aussienebula8331 9 месяцев назад

These docos are fantastic. Thanx for the effort team.🤘

@RandomEye1131 9 месяцев назад

I fucking love Dear You.

@maxsmart9116 9 месяцев назад

Me too, and I was sort of anti major label back then. I made an exception for Jawbreaker though :)

@WalkingHeartAtttack 9 месяцев назад

One of my favorites! Thank you❤

@CheapSushi 8 месяцев назад

It's so striking how much "selling out" was a toxic fan base epitaph but now in 2023, Gen Z at least, doesn't seem to care much about chasing "the bag" and getting paid; not chasing opportunities is seen as dumb. There's less stigma about being yourself but wanting to make a living. Only time I've heard the same level of negativity is when an artist or group is an "industry plant". Thanks for the video. I feel bad because I never heard of this band although I was big into the emo scene in high school (the My Chemical Romance era) but I quickly moved onto the growing metallic hardcore & new deathcore Myspace scene. So I never really looked back at the progenitors of the sound.

@johnquackenbush9429 9 месяцев назад

I have an ex and some friends that listen to the watered down caricatures of Jawbreaker. Some of those bands were mentioned in this video. I tried to introduce them to Jawbreaker, but they never seemed to appreciate their greatness, or even show the slightest interest. You can lead a horse to water....

@markgaydosh4249 9 месяцев назад

As a millennial who discovered punk in the 2000s, I’d never even heard of Jawbreaker until Riot Fest. Being there was something special, seeing punks in their 40s desperate to see a band they thought they’d never hear from again. And yeah, Jawbreaker blew the roof off it.

@LividImp 9 месяцев назад

Now we go to their fund-raisers to pay for their hip reconstruction surgeries.

@markgaydosh4249 9 месяцев назад

@@LividImp I’ve seen them twice since and I will gladly help fund their medical bills lol

@LividImp 9 месяцев назад

@@markgaydosh4249 Believe me, its coming. I'm into the old school punk bands and those that have managed to stay alive are in their 50s/60s/70s, and most don't have good insurance. There's a lot of gigs to pay for chemotherapy and surgeries and such.

@cockbeard 8 месяцев назад

So glad you got to see the influences that influenced your favourite bands When we were kids we checked the "thanks" bits of cd inlays, we didn't have the algorithms chucking stuff at us There's ups and downs to both sides, but yeah still glad you got to see

@mikeymoose7253 9 месяцев назад

Cool of jawbreaker to shout out this video! The 90s really were the best for music and you’ll hear so much of it in younger bands now. I always preferred the post voice change material as Blake sounded strained before. With Jets to Brazil you have one of the best lyricists ever.

@Apocryphate 9 месяцев назад

Love the content, and the fact that you’re exposing people to Jawbreaker (and Jets To Brazil). So much artistry and soul that goes under appreciated. As a former professional writer and editor, I’d like to offer a piece of advice I received early in my career and was always grateful for: stop framing past events as things that “would” happen. They happened; address them that way.

@derrendesouza8171 9 месяцев назад

trash theory is the only channel I can't watch at 1.5 or 2x because of the music clips peppered throughout. would be a great engagement strategy if intentional though I'm certain it isn't. love these vids 🤘

@underworld-USA 9 месяцев назад

Jawbreaker has been one of my favorite bands ever since high school and i was finally lucky enough to see them a few wks ago in Cincinnati

@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336 9 месяцев назад

Man I got to see Jawbreaker live at Jabberjaw in LA with an amazing band called Slug opening some time around 92 and they were awesome. Those were the days. Thanks for bringing that memory up from cold storage.

@indefenceofthegenre 9 месяцев назад

Great retrospective as always ❤️

@terribled 9 месяцев назад

My man! A Jawbreaker vid just makes you that much more impressive.

@Cucker_Tarlson2023 9 месяцев назад

The influence Jawbreaker and Blake had on latter day emo simply cannot be overstated. If there was any justice in this world, this video would already have 500K views.

@beowulf1417 9 месяцев назад

There is *zero* objective value or worth to "emo as a whole so if there was any justice in this world it would never have been a thing🤣🤣 it's the most vacuous talentless wannabe "subculture" to ever exist and emo bands make the compositions of pop twats like Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift look like Prince 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

@bibbyboxx2219 9 месяцев назад

@@beowulf1417 Why so bitter?

@damotheman4196 8 месяцев назад

I just overstated it... Right now.. Wannafightaboutit? 😂

@Caffeine_Club 9 месяцев назад

This was a really solid recap and filled in a lot of blanks, as I didn't know the history inside and out. 👍

@atealime 9 месяцев назад

I was about to watch the other video you mentioned jawbreaker in and this popped up perfect timing

@joshuafrahm8778 9 месяцев назад

I first heard of Jawbreaker in the early 00's because of The Ataris (both the Boxcar cover, and name dropping them in Song for a Mix Tape). At that time 24hr was my favorite, but as i got older Dear You has become my favorite

@lanceforney5321 9 месяцев назад

Awesome video! I have always been a huge Jawbreaker fan but I have to say.. Jets to Brazil is the real deal. Those songs are magical.

@CoinOpTV 9 месяцев назад

Still jamming to Jawbreaker and Jets on the regular!

@raymondotterbine 9 месяцев назад

Great video... After hearing them the first time in 1993, finally got to see them at a show in Phoenix in August of 2023, 30 years later...

@brendanmeadors3099 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for making this video. Jawbreaker saved my life more than once. 24 and dear you and not to mention jtb's orange rhyming dictionary mean more to me than i know how to express..

@RichHybrid 9 месяцев назад

Wow. This was a trip man. I loved Jawbreaker back in the day. But as a kid in the north of England scene politics meant shit all to me. I just loved them. Dear You is a classic. Thank you for this video. Top work.

@loggoov 9 месяцев назад

This is what I’ve anticipated!

@shiretsu 9 месяцев назад

I've called jawbreaker my favorite band for over 10 years now. finding them was like finding kindred spirits. they make me happy, they make me sad, put them on when I'm happy, put them on when I'm sad, put them on when I feel nothing in particular. while I love each project it's impossible to not consider dear you the opus. would it have been better with slightly different production, more input from the rest of the guys, and more chris going nuts? probably - but all the performances are still insanely good. they aren't phoned in, that would have been something to really lament. I love having distance from the scene drama, something that barely existed at all when I was growing up and definitely didn't exist when I found jawbreaker in my 20s. I think we were too busy trying to salvage emo's reputation from the embarrassing myspace era and besides nobody actually needed major labels anymore thanks to the leaps in technology. funny how something so serious can become a non-issue so quickly, kind of like privacy, antiwar movements or human rights LOL anyway this is a really well done video. I'm a little bummed it wasn't around back when I was ravenously looking for stuff like this as I checked if Don't Break Down was finally released but hey now it is. I know people are going to keep discovering this band until the wheels fall off of this whole thing, this kind of documentation gives rich context and makes it all that much more rewarding here's hoping every frame a painting comes back

@stevenkoski228 26 дней назад

In the summer of ‘88 they debuted their 1st 7” Busy record. They traveled promoting it. When they got to UCONN they were booked to play for 1 week, the overwhelming fan support, held them over there for 1 month!😎.

@mjkoehler73 9 месяцев назад

Cracking video, as always

@themetalwall2 9 месяцев назад

I was there when then reunited at Riot Fest. I had no idea who they were but I was blown away from note one. I have been a huge fan ever since. I've seen them four times now.

@00zero11b 9 месяцев назад

Been listening to these guys since the 90s. Glad to see them back together and touring

@briteboy6131 9 месяцев назад

Hell yes! More channels like this need to feature Jawbreaker!!

@jsh4224 9 месяцев назад

Outstanding. My favorite jawbreaker album is all of them

@JammerAma 9 месяцев назад

The Wipers are a Portland band from Oregon

@willydee1983 9 месяцев назад

I came here to say the Same:Wipers=Portland OR

@johnchedsey1306 9 месяцев назад

@@willydee1983 We in Arizona do like to claim them since Greg Sage moved to Arizona at some point in the 90s (I think). Regardless, Wipers are one of the greatest bands no one quite remembers.

@JammerAma 9 месяцев назад

@johnchedsey1306 Greg still lives in Phoenix. And no sorry you cannot claim them lol (jk claim whatever you want) The Wipers are literally all Portland has

@johnchedsey1306 9 месяцев назад

@@JammerAma I associate Sleater-Kinney with Portland and they're awesome! Also, Powells Books, which is still the most amazing book store I've ever been in.

@JammerAma 9 месяцев назад

@johnchedsey1306 LOL, but Sleater-Kinney is literally a street in Lacey here in Washington. Ok fine if Portland can claim a piece of Sleater-Kinney, Phoenix can have a piece of The Wipers. That sounds fair to me

@MatthewHiltner 9 месяцев назад

What a nice surprise!

@TivadarLucas 8 месяцев назад

I wasn't into jawbreaker back in the 90s. It was Lucero that brought them to my attention with their cover of Kiss the Bottle, and the rest is history. Great vid.

@rebelpunx88 3 месяца назад

Just came to say thank you for the Spanish subtitles it makes it really helpful to share with my friends

@RiskyBusiness144 9 месяцев назад

Great documentary. I grew up downloading punk in the 2000s and jawbreaker was never really my thing. Now I know why they were great. Cheers.

@TracyJohnson-sp9ng 9 месяцев назад

Love that someone remembers Jawbreaker. I saw them at The Palace with Jawbox. in L.A in 1992?

@ligmaballs2022 9 месяцев назад

This is what I hate about punk, especially its fans: pulling a quote from Sum 41's guitarist Dave Baksh: "We just call ourselves rock... It's easier to say than punk, especially around all these fuckin' kids that think they know what punk is. Something that was based on not having any rules has probably been one of the strictest fucking rule books in the world." Money dictates how you live your life. Even Trash Theory puts it in his Husker Du video: punk rock save your life, but seldom did it pay the bills. I rather be unhappy and rich rather than be poor and happy.

@NatsumiTakanawa 9 месяцев назад

True. There's so many elitists and hypocrites in 'alternative' cultures.

@LividImp 9 месяцев назад

It's more complex than that. The concern isn't making money, the concern is being used by a major label to make _them_ money and/or compromising your sound for the money. If you make a million dollars putting out an uncompromised album, no one with a brain would call you a sell out. With that said, there is a streak of people in the punk scene for which nothing is pure enough for them. I once knew a guy that looked down on Warsaw (early Joy Division) for not being punk enough. You just learn to ignore those types.

@seanmckelvey6618 9 месяцев назад

The most punk thing a band can do is to do everything everyone tells them NOT to do. If signing to a major label is bad, then that is easily to most punk move you can make. Fuck the street cred, I'd rather get paid to do what I love for a living rather than travel the country in a tiny van, living off t-shirt sales and gas station food for basically fuck all reward.

@LividImp 9 месяцев назад

@@seanmckelvey6618 *"The most punk thing a band can do is to do everything everyone tells them NOT to do."* No, that's nothing more than contrarianism. Not saving all the starving artist bullshit was much better than contrarianism, because it's not far from it, but their is a middle ground of staying true to the art without selling brainless dance records. The original punks were for the most part street intellectuals and art school dropouts. If you know the references, their music is full of references to classical literature and philosophy and art. They weren't stupid people giving into the whims of a kneejerk reaction.

@quintessenceSL 9 месяцев назад

@@LividImp I'd add there's been enough history of movements getting co-opted to understand the gatekeeping mentality (although, ironically, a lot of the co-opting is done by the gatekeepers themselves), most famously in "Flower Punk", and there is a certain betrayal to people who helped before you ascended. It's essentially the same arguments used against gentrification, which, right or wrong, does have a point that with all the money sloshing around, you destroy what originally made things noteworthy in the first place.

@anthonyr.1568 9 месяцев назад

I'd love for you to make a video on The Offspring and how their 'Americana' brought what was probably thousands of kids into punk rock. I was one of them (exclusively listening to rap before that) and several of my friends too. 'Americana' lead me to their earlier albums ('Ignition' remaining my favourite) and to other SoCal bands, and from there on to Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Sex Pistols, New Bomb Turks, etc. Who knows if I'd be listening to Circle Jerks and Reagan Youth today if it wasn't for 'Americana'...

@joemiller7082 9 месяцев назад

They had an even *bigger* impact in 1994. It would basically be the same thing but on a much smaller scale.

@maxsmart9116 9 месяцев назад

Crazy, I was just thinking about Jawbreaker earlier today at work.

@jetblackstonecold 9 месяцев назад

I do flip flop between Dear You & 24 hour - condition Oakland is my favourite Jawbreaker song but…. I think dear you is my favourite album. Despite all the punk hierarchy telling us to not listen at the time, I did - it’s their best! it’s just so great!

@de132 3 месяца назад

First time i heard of Jawbreaker was NCAA Football 06, a college football game with one of the greatest soundtracks of all time for no reason. I was like 11 when that game came out and introduced me to: De La Soul, the Clash, Lush, Pixies, Guided by Voices, NOFX, Mr. T Experience, Mother Love Bone and Bad Religion. A random yearly college football video game. The next year, the soundtrack was back to being fight songs from the schools.

@Natalie-nf9vl 9 месяцев назад

as a my chem and overall music nerd, i love to talk about jawbreaker because in addition to being a great band in their own right, their fingerprints are all over my chem. in give em' hell kid, they lifted half a chorus from fireman directly, and frank quoted that same lyric later in his solo career. they also lyric check save your generation in party poison and the black parade was produced by rob cavallo, largely because he did dear you

@lewisfisher4079 9 месяцев назад

Frank also has Jinx Removing tattooed on the side of his neck

@rygi23 7 месяцев назад

The scene of their little junky van aside Nirvanas tour buses was crushing. To me, Dear You isn’t a sell out album, it’s an all time great masterpiece of music. I hope the three of them look back with smiles now about the hard road they’ve travelled and what they’ve accomplished in spite of it. When I get old I’ll still be a Jawbreaker fan.

@erik198 7 месяцев назад

Well said. Having been a fan since the late 1900’s, and still a fan at 47 years old, I suspect I’ll be playing their records til the day I kick that bucket.

@rygi23 7 месяцев назад

@@erik198 yeah I’m 48 so same vibe here. Heard Dear You in ‘99 at age of 24. Knew I was late to the Jawbreaker party but I didn’t think that should thwart an honest appreciation for the music. To this day I think they have their very own sound and Blake is one of the best lyricists ever.

@savedbythebelldeepdives 9 месяцев назад

Another fantastic video. As always, I'm leaving with more music to check out besides the main band presented.

@angelodoesthings 9 месяцев назад

I have 24 hour revenge therapy and etc on vinyl I love both of them hopefully I can get dear you on vinyl

@ChrisMcDonough 9 месяцев назад

I wound up with a copy of Bivouac somehow as a trash metalhead in 1994 and I couldn't stop listening to it. Although I thought punk was crap, those ripping guitars and that bouncy bass and that throat slicing vocals were undeniable.

@Lucky_Chase 9 месяцев назад

Folks still wear Jawbreaker shirts over here in Santa Cruz

@joemiller7082 9 месяцев назад

I have a Jawbreaker tattoo.

@omargabrielhernadez9637 9 месяцев назад

I love your videos I would love to see some videos about artists and bands from my country Mexico there are many interesting bands.

@svartendavo 4 месяца назад

i don't even have an entire year hearing Jawbreaker and they're already one of my all time favorites.

@madeforaproject 9 месяцев назад

Jawbreaker shared this on instagram 😳

@Jpm463 2 месяца назад

This took me back. Today, I felt something. Thank you!

@chrisdrake447 9 месяцев назад

Simply masterful 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@alexcaprio 9 месяцев назад

I got into Jawbreaker because of Screeching Weasel. I met Blake too back in 2013 and he was a really sweet person.

@notrachelk 9 месяцев назад

Awesome video. Unfortunately, I was hostile toward bands that sold out. I cared about the music, but not the humans performing it. It's a mentality that lends itself to the naive side of our youth. Ironically, Dear You had an impact on me that lives on to this day. I guess I didn't know Jawbreaker enough to realize I wasn't supposed to like that album. I saw Jets to Brazil at a small club in '99... if my memory serves me right, they performed a Jawbreaker song.

@ligmaballs2022 9 месяцев назад

Selling out is kind of a term used incorrectly by the hardcore punk kids. Selling out literally means doing something you wouldn't normally do in order to make money. Yeah sure Blake's voice was higher, but that was wayyyy before Dear You. 24 Hour Revenge Therapy was THE 1st post-surgery album, but information wasn't widely connected back then. I hate people attacking bands just because they signed to a major label. There's so much more to life than just their punk righteousness, something that was based on punk has one of the biggest rule books in the world.

@ultraslang 9 месяцев назад

Eh, you were just doing your part in preserving what was real. Nothing tastes as it's intended to when it's heavily watered down. You simply preferred the regular flavor over the diet, and that's what the world needs more of.

@ligmaballs2022 9 месяцев назад

@@ultraslang but when it comes to punk, that mentality and backlash to bands like Green Day is tiring to people like me

@ultraslang 9 месяцев назад

@@ligmaballs2022 unfortunately if you have any contempt for Green Day, you turned all your PR points in a long time ago and need to start going to underground shows to get back into punk, cos green day hasn't been it for over two decades at least.

@ligmaballs2022 9 месяцев назад

@ultraslang I do not have any contempt for Green Day at all because their success is well deserved and they should make their own decisions for their own band. We, as the audience, should not decide their career.

@ignacioacevedo7541 5 месяцев назад

Amo estos tipos de videos para todas las bandas que escuchado en año y que siento que merecían mas reconocimiento.

@lennyrex1 8 месяцев назад

Loved the hell out of this band growing up in my mid-20's in SLC Utah. They left a huge impact on me. And I know people hated it, but I loved "Dear You" when it first came out and its still my favorite album from them. The guitar work on "Save Your Generation" and "I love you so much its killing us both" is stunning and slamming. I would love to see them do a reunion show near me.

@jacobrheaume1 9 месяцев назад

24 hour revenge therapy…used to listen w my little sister… died of a heroin OD a year or so ago.

@thisisit333 9 месяцев назад

❤

@giantrobot_cf 9 месяцев назад

I still have the Busy 7” I bought with my lunch tips from the restaurant I used to work at in the summer of 1990. Made the bike trek home to my apartment off of Mifflin. Loved them immediately. I had the opportunity to see Jawbreaker three times, most memorable was with Bloodline at the Speedboat Cafe in St. Paul. Think it was 93-94? Hmm. Can’t remember. There was probably 30 ppl there that night. Dear You is an amazing album and it’s too bad the scene at that time was so short sided. Did also get to see Econochrist once with the Offspring in a Waukesha garage.

@J10thePerformer 5 месяцев назад

Saw them in ‘96 playing with Ween opening for Foo Fighters at the Hollywood Palladium. Jawbreaker was the first band I’d seen play live and I got caught in the eye of the mosh pit on their first song Boxcar. I’ll never forget that moment and I’ll never forget Jawbreaker. Bought Dear You that night at the merch table.