JawbreakerBest Jawbreaker Albums Ranked
8.3
Avg Score
6
Opinions
5
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Jawbreaker's catalog across 5 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 8.3/10. The top-rated Jawbreaker album is 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994) with a 9.6/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Dear You and Bivouac. The discography on Wavelength spans 1989 to 2002.
24 Hour Revenge Therapy
“The reissue of Jawbreaker's 1993 classic serves as a reminder that, regardless of how it's framed or reframed, the music on 24 Hour Revenge Therapy offers some of the best examples of punk music crammed with emotion. These are life-changing songs that still give goosebumps. It's curious to see how this sound's been picked up and softened by the bands that came after—there's echoes of it, certainly, but nobody's nailed Jawbreaker's snarling mixture of tender and tough since.”
Bivouac
“The 1992 sophomore album from the Bay Area punk trio found them transitioning from the poppier sound of 1990's Unfun to something darker, grittier, more experimental, and even smarter. This remastered 20th Anniversary reissues appends a couple of bonus tracks to Jawbreaker's ragged call to arms.”
Unfun
“Influential San Francisco punk band's bracing 1990 debut full-length is remastered and, on digital versions, paired with the 1989 Whack & Blite EP.”
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“*"Hey, at least I don't sound like a hoarse Mickey Mouse and you can't really tell if I'm on key or not."* With enthusiastic testimony like that, it must mean another medium-popular 90s nth-wave punk band is releasing their vinyl/comp odds and ends! Which they are! They being Jawbreaker! And putting aside for a moment the usual collector-fleecing aspect of these anthologies (said obsessive having”
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