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Book SynopsisTwo and a half decades on, Jawbreaker''s
24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of Jawbreakerin their own words, the little band that could but would probably rather notis now many times greater than it was when they broke up in 1996. Like the best work of Fugazi, The Clash, and Operation Ivy, the album is now is a rite of passage and a beloved classic among partisans of intelligent, committed, literary punk music and poetry.Why, when a thousand other artists came and went in that confounding decade of the 90s, did Jawbreaker somehow come to seem like more than just another band? Why do they persist, today, in meaning so much to so many people? And how did it happen that, two years after releasing their masterpiece, the band that was somehow more than just a band to its fanscloser to equipment for livingwas no longer?Ronen Givony''s
24 Hour Revenge Therapy is an
Trade ReviewThis is an excellent book – unmissable for ‘breaker fans and with much to offer anyone who is interested in the politics of punk. * International Times *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Rainy Days Drop Boyish Wonder 2: How Can I Do This Better? 3: The Clarity of Cal to Break Your Heart 4: These Things Go Wrong So Often 5: This Is All We Want from Line 6: Our Enemies Will Laugh and Be Pointing 7: Selling Kids to Other Kids 8: It's a Long Way Down Again 9: People from Bands and Labels. The Good Ones Postscript: Hey, I Remember That Day Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes
