24 Hour Revenge Therapy [Bonus Tracks] [LP]

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Album: 24 Hour Revenge Therapy [Bonus Tracks] [LP]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Boat Dreams from the Hill	More Info...	0:02
2)	Indictment	More Info...	0:02
3)	Boxcar	More Info...	0:02
4)	Outpatient	More Info...	0:03
5)	Ashtray Monument	More Info...	0:03
6)	Condition Oakland	More Info...	0:05
7)	Ache	More Info...	0:04
8)	Do You Still Hate Me?	More Info...	0:03
9)	West Bay Invitational	More Info...	0:04
10)	Jinx Removing	More Info...	0:03
11)	In Sadding Around	More Info...	0:04

Album: 24 Hour Revenge Therapy [Bonus Tracks] [LP]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Boat Dreams from the Hill	More Info...	0:02
2)	Indictment	More Info...	0:02
3)	Boxcar	More Info...	0:02
4)	Outpatient	More Info...	0:03
5)	Ashtray Monument	More Info...	0:03
6)	Condition Oakland	More Info...	0:05
7)	Ache	More Info...	0:04
8)	Do You Still Hate Me?	More Info...	0:03
9)	West Bay Invitational	More Info...	0:04
10)	Jinx Removing	More Info...	0:03
11)	In Sadding Around	More Info...	0:04

Performer Notes

More trials and tribulations than an average episode of Melrose Place, Jawbreaker continue to explore their personal struggles on their third album, fittingly titled 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. Continuing in the Jawbreaker tradition of poetic lyrics that provide a mental image to each song, the band deal with their endeavors through music instead of wallowing in them, making this record not entirely bleak. "Do You Still Hate Me," for example, has the persona dishing out the friction of a relationship gone sour through talking to the person in question: "I wrote you a letter/I heard it upset you/How can I do this better/We're getting older/But we're acting younger." Being critiqued and ostracized from their scene during the height of their popularity was another headache singer/songwriter Blake Schwarzenbach dealt with around the time this album was released (their previous album, Bivouac, provided them with a huge cult following). This no doubt inspired the song "Indictment," which talks about not caring what anyone thinks of their songwriting ("I just wrote the dumbest song/It's going to be a singalong/Our enemies will laugh and be pointing/It wont bother me, what the thoughtless are thinking"). Providing the perfect flow of temperamental pop to go along with these stories is proof enough that 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is an acme of Jawbreaker's creative output. ~ Mike DaRonco

Professional Reviews

Alternative Press (3/02, p.96) - Included in AP's "Essential Punk Influences '02 Style" - "...[They] were once the most unpretentious punk gods around, and this set - at once gritty and tuneful, affecting yet unaffected - is living proof."

NME (Magazine) (1/26/02, p.23) - Included in NME's "Most Influential Emo Records Of All Time" - "...Possibly the best ever punk rock record about breaking up with your girlfriend/boyfriend, it combined heartfelt lyrics with aggressive punk/pop..."

Pitchfork (Website) - "If 24 HOUR REVENGE THERAPY were a book, it's the kind you'd carry around in your pocket. Jawbreaker recorded the bulk of it with Steve Albini..."