JGJR wrote:It isn't just Dear You. they play a lot of stuff from 24HRT, too, and it's also considered groundbreaking, influential, etc. (I think they've both held up rather well). But yeah, I agree. I'd love hear more earlier stuff, too. I'm going tonight. I just hope they play "Sluttering" and anything from the first few records.
Oh yeah....they played plenty of 24 Hour, and I do understand it also has a historical place in underground rock and they drew plenty of the setlist from it as well. I happen to love 24 Hour Revenge in a way that I just don't connect with Dear You. I feel 24 Hour is a much better record than Dear You and in light of the time it was made, i.e., post-Blake's throat surgery, it has a depth that just couldn't be faked. Unlike Dear You, 24 Hour was very much hailed at the time. I remember a whole lot of backlash against Dear You when it came out for a variety of reasons, and I was definitely a part of that backlash. I feel it's only posthumously did that record become this highly influential record far beyond the bounds of any of their other records. And it's only in recent times that I've come to appreciate it as well.
For me, though, Unfun and Bivouac, for different reasons, are far more groundbreaking records than either 24 Hour or Dear You and, look, a band can play what it wants. I saw Jawbreaker near the end after Dear You came out and I knew they weren't going back to the early part of the catalog too much. Heck, I saw them just after Chesterfield King came out and even back then they only played two songs from Unfun.