JAWBOX!

Jawbox is in my top-10 favorite bands of all time! I saw them loads of times back in the day. Granted, they're not near as tight as they were a decade ago, but damn, J. Robbins has been through a WHOLE LOT of bad shit since then. I wish they would tour!

 
Help me understand.

I watched all three vids, and I just don't get it. They are tight, but the stuff seems so out of tune to me.

Maybe I am not enlightened.

 
BCR Greg said:
Help me understand.

I watched all three vids, and I just don't get it. They are tight, but the stuff seems so out of tune to me.

Maybe I am not enlightened.
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It sounded out of tune because it was out of tune. Not on purpose. Why were three songs out of tune? I don't know. Maybe you should offer your services. Although I think this is it for the reunion.

Not really their finest performance, but it's fun.

 
They were out of tune. But check out either "For Your Special Sweetheart" or "Jawbox" Greg... just Google 'em. When they have not had 12 years off their instruments they are super-tight and melodic and powerful... wish they'd tuned the guitars but I suspect after 12 years of raising kids, starting businesses and gaining weight they were terrified. They acted nervous.

Here's a good video of when they was heroes.

http://www.spike.com/video/jawbox-mirrorful/2789558

 
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HSB0531 said:
theySUCK!
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You're sooo wrong, Dude....

Guys,........ just listen, it ain't John Lee Hooker for once...

This goes way back like: Helmet, Quicksand, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Dinosaur Jr and many other bands at the same time like the incredible Yo La Tengo .....

when most of you were buying f....cking Creed...or Candlebox or......

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SWEEEEEEET EEEEEEMoooooTTTTTTTiiiioooooon...........

 
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I split playing bass for 18 years, and yet I was in tune at my first rehearsal.

Were they....

Tight, maybe.

Powerfully out of tune, absolutely.

No excuse for that "performance"

cornjulio said:
HSB0531 said:
theySUCK!
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You're sooo wrong, Dude....

Guys,........ just listen, it ain't John Lee Hooker for once...

This goes way back like: Helmet, Quicksand, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Dinosaur Jr and many other bands at the same time like the incredible Yo La Tengo .....

when most of you were buying f....cking Creed...or Candlebox or......
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You're right, I was wrong.

Here, allow me to correct myself........

They REALLY SUCK! /emoticons/default_cool.png

 
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Feel better now?

Seriously I... dislike what most HFCers like but I try to politely differ (as Greg did) or follow my mom's advice about if you haven't something constructive to say...

 
I split playing bass for 18 years, and yet I was in tune at my first rehearsal.

Were they....

You're right, I was wrong.

Here, allow me to correct myself........

They REALLY SUCK!

You have no idea, do you? Better leave them guitars in the closet for another 18 years and then we'll talk...

 
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polara said:
C'mon people. JAW-F'ING-BOX!

RAWK!

Yeah.
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I saw them back in the day at the original 930 club in DC and they rocked! Definitely used dissonance, but at least that night to good effect. I can see how it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but live and in your face it came across well to me.

MarkB

 
My favorite band of this era/genre was Engine 88. The second album "Snowman" is still among my favorite discs. I think they toured with Jawbox at some point.

 
mc2 said:
My favorite band of this era/genre was Engine 88. The second album "Snowman" is still among my favorite discs. I think they toured with Jawbox at some point.
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Engine 88 did that Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, early-90s Chapel Hill-scene style of music. Cool stuff.

 
With the album being reissued, I hope it was remixed, or remastered. I had it, but there was something about it that bothered me.

Their OK, but I'd also give a mention to "Quicksand". Similar, but better all around in my opinion.

 
The vocals in the mix were pretty bad... they are better on the album that is for sure. I am a huge fan of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg, Webern, Richard Strauss. In fact, the second Viennese school is just flat out brilliant. The use of dissonance has always been a point of controversy in music... hell there were riots and fistfights at the premier of the "Rite of Spring". The guitar players in

Jawbox obviously aren't using "tone rows" and don't have complete understandings of this strange and esoteric component of music theory (I don't either! lol!) Dissonance is probably the least understood and appreciated element in modern music... it's not for everyone, but "blue notes" weren't either. All in all, a bit sloppy and the beautiful organic guitar tones that are on their records were pretty much absent from the Fallon gig.

I understand why I like the band, but I also understand how BCRGreg can think that they sucked.

Jawbox always meant great overdriven guitar sounds and AGGRESSIVE and passionate guitar playing with an emphasis on the deconstruction of the typical hard rock riff... VERY post modern and VERY artistic.

 
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