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JB027 — Our Favourite Songs

This is probably the most excited we’ve ever been for a release (which is saying a lot), because it truly captures the spirit of friendship, community, and general radness that this whole website was started with. Aaron came up with this idea and then ran with it; every single song here was recorded for the express purpose of being on this compilation, a few of them even tracked by Aaron himself in our practice space. It rules. And look at that artwork, eh?

Courtesy of Mr. Aaron Zorgel:
Given that many of us spent our youth listening to punk and its associated sub-genres, we seem to be hitting an interesting stage where a lot of bands today are formed on feelings of nostalgia. More and more bands are described as “______ worship” or “throwback (genre)” or whatever. And even for bands who are trying to respectfully transcend their influences, I think it’s pretty interesting to hear them talk about their favourite bands / records. So in the spirit of giving away more free music via the Internetz, I thought it’d be cool to coax a bunch of Juicebox Recording Co. buddy bands into recording something for a cover song compilation. What we have in the end is a super fun, and telling collection of influences. And as if it wasn’t obvious / indulgent enough, the liner notes come with a blurb directly from each band, detailing why they chose to cover the song they did. It was really fun to make and pull together, and hopefully that translates. Also, let the record show that I wanted to call this compilation Pop-Punk Boner Origins but Sam wouldn’t let me.

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01. !ATTENTION! “Pathetic (Blink 182 cover)”
02. Wayfarer “Seventy Times 7 (Brand New cover)”
03. Dig It Up “Bleed American (Jimmy Eat World cover)”
04. The Decay “Insensitive (Jann Arden cover)”
05. Shit Hawk “Hybrid Moments (Misfits cover)”
06. Shared Arms “Why Does Banana Get Shotgun? (Live) (The Fullblast cover)”
07. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck “What Was Behind (The Hated cover)”
08. Stuck Out Here “Hit The Switch (Bright Eyes cover)”
09. The Roman Line “All The Best (John Prine cover)”
10. Elle XF “Anarchy Means That I Litter (Atom and His Package cover)”
11. Junior Battles “F.O.D. (Green Day cover)”

“I listened to Insensitive… it was great…” - JANN ARDEN

LINER NOTES
!ATTENTION! - Pathetic (Blink-182) Jonathon Hunter: We borrow bits and pieces from Blink 182 all the time… Can’t hurt to borrow a whole song. (myspace.com/attentionpp) WAYFARER - Seventy Times 7 (Brand New) Kyle Krische: She was punk. Well, as punk as you can be as a sixth-grader in 2001. Being eleven-years-old you don’t really know much about anything. Girls had only just come on your radar, a radar occupied at this point merely by pizza and skateboards. She had this disc-man she used to let me listen to at lunch. She also had a CD burner and a black book filled with mix CD’s decorated with band logo’s and record names that were completely alien to me. This was my first heavy exposure to the early pop-punk that would go on to shape not only my personal musical tastes but also arguably any riff, chord progression or verse I would ever go on to create. 70×7 was probably on over half of the CD’s she had. I came across it so many times I knew every word to the song before I even knew who the band was. All of Your Favorite Weapon went on to become a staple in my earlier years and it is still to this day the best record the band has put out in my opinion (sorry). This was what we could come up with. (myspace.com/iamwayfarer) DIG IT UP - Bleed American (Jimmy Eat World) Michael Rokos: Bleed American’s energy and nostalgic value made it an obvious and fun choice for us to cover. It’s like being young again, but now we’re smarter, but not really. (myspace.com/digitup) THE DECAY - Insensitive (Jann Arden) Erik O’Neill: A staple in Canadian music deserves a tribute. We wouldn’t even be a band if it wasn’t for Women & Songs 3. (myspace.com/thedecay) SHIT HAWK - Hybrid Moments (Misfits) Jonathon Hunter: Give us a moment to think about it… SHARED ARMS - Why Does Banana Get Shotgun? (Live Recording) (The Fullblast) Joey Acott: The Fullblast is Shared Arms’ favourite band. We’ve ripped them off a countless number of times, and will continue to do so until we die (or get sued). They combine extremely fast punk with heavy (and not so cliche) breakdowns, and technical melodies. We’ve been playing Why Does Banana Get Shotgun for a couple years now and chose it because we were 17 years old and thought it was the easiest song off of Contagious Movement Theory. It may be the easiest song, but after 5 years of playing it, we still can’t do it correctly. But we’re just a three piece! So leave us a lone… Dad. (myspace.com/sharedarms) MOCKINGBIRD WISH ME LUCK - What Was Behind (The Hated) Bishop Wierzbicki: I was miserable when I heard The Hated. My brother was talking about how dip-shitty & unfun it is to do a cover of a band no one has ever heard before… He’s right. But you know, 15 years later when we’re all in total obscurity I’d hope a handful of miserable kids might stumble upon something we’ve made and not find it valueless. (myspace.com/mockingbirdwishmeluck) STUCK OUT HERE - Hit the Switch (Bright Eyes) Cam Laurie: Me and Ivan were losers in high school: Ivan listened to Fall Out Boy, I had glasses. We also held a shared affinity for Bright Eyes, both expressing it constantly and embarrassingly at coffee houses through covers and nasally imitations. For some reason, we started a punk band and tried really hard to imitate Against Me! and the Clash. But we never let go of that serious dude-crush for Conor Oberst and how he jumps from commentary on the world around him to calling himself out on his own bullshit, while still keeping at least some semblance of humour about the whole big kerfuffle. And yeah, the whole band would probably still collectively shit our pants if we met him. Totally. (myspace.com/wearestuckouthere) THE ROMAN LINE - All The Best (John Prine) Pod: If I could write and perform songs with one tenth of the soul, emotional nuance and appeal that John Prine does I would consider every note of music I’ve ever played a success. And in spite of the fact that that day will probably never come, I plan to continue trying. (myspace.com/theromanline) ELLE XF - Anarchy Means That I Litter (Atom and His Package) Jeremy Mersereau: Synthesizers and punk music have almost always been like oil and water in most people’s minds. Ever since the Undertones sang about the kind of dorky people that like them in ‘My Perfect Cousin’, synths have been seen as polished, commercial (not to mention expensive) ie, everything that punk shouldn’t be. Yeah, Adam Goren might be a dork, but he’s a punk dork; the kind of guy that showed us that you could still be a real dude in the scene even while programming a sequencer. Just because you know what an LFO is doesn’t mean you have to play in a crabcore band. JUNIOR BATTLES - F.O.D. (Green Day) Aaron Zorgel: I’m not gonna lie, we had quite a bit of trouble picking a song to cover. The only other cover song that is a staple of our live set is our version of Toto’s “Africa”. As much as marimba solos have directly influenced our sound, we wanted to do something a bit more honest and meaningful to how the band sounds and what we’re about. Truth is, we all grew up on Green Day, and we can’t say that about a lot of bands. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s major key, it’s cynical, and it mentions lighting shit on fire. All the key elements to any Junior Battles song. (myspace.com/juniorbattles)

LINER NOTES

!ATTENTION! - Pathetic (Blink-182)
Jonathon Hunter: We borrow bits and pieces from Blink 182 all the time… Can’t hurt to borrow a whole song.
(myspace.com/attentionpp)

WAYFARER - Seventy Times 7 (Brand New)
Kyle Krische: She was punk. Well, as punk as you can be as a sixth-grader in 2001. Being eleven-years-old you don’t really know much about anything. Girls had only just come on your radar, a radar occupied at this point merely by pizza and skateboards. She had this disc-man she used to let me listen to at lunch. She also had a CD burner and a black book filled with mix CD’s decorated with band logo’s and record names that were completely alien to me. This was my first heavy exposure to the early pop-punk that would go on to shape not only my personal musical tastes but also arguably any riff, chord progression or verse I would ever go on to create. 70×7 was probably on over half of the CD’s she had. I came across it so many times I knew every word to the song before I even knew who the band was. All of Your Favorite Weapon went on to become a staple in my earlier years and it is still to this day the best record the band has put out in my opinion (sorry). This was what we could come up with.
(myspace.com/iamwayfarer)

DIG IT UP - Bleed American (Jimmy Eat World)
Michael Rokos: Bleed American’s energy and nostalgic value made it an obvious and fun choice for us to cover. It’s like being young again, but now we’re smarter, but not really.
(myspace.com/digitup)

THE DECAY - Insensitive (Jann Arden)
Erik O’Neill: A staple in Canadian music deserves a tribute. We wouldn’t even be a band if it wasn’t for Women & Songs 3.
(myspace.com/thedecay)

SHIT HAWK - Hybrid Moments (Misfits)
Jonathon Hunter: Give us a moment to think about it…

SHARED ARMS - Why Does Banana Get Shotgun? (Live Recording) (The Fullblast)
Joey Acott: The Fullblast is Shared Arms’ favourite band. We’ve ripped them off a countless number of times, and will continue to do so until we die (or get sued). They combine extremely fast punk with heavy (and not so cliche) breakdowns, and technical melodies. We’ve been playing Why Does Banana Get Shotgun for a couple years now and chose it because we were 17 years old and thought it was the easiest song off of Contagious Movement Theory. It may be the easiest song, but after 5 years of playing it, we still can’t do it correctly. But we’re just a three piece! So leave us a lone… Dad.
(myspace.com/sharedarms)

MOCKINGBIRD WISH ME LUCK - What Was Behind (The Hated)
Bishop Wierzbicki: I was miserable when I heard The Hated. My brother was talking about how dip-shitty & unfun it is to do a cover of a band no one has ever heard before… He’s right. But you know, 15 years later when we’re all in total obscurity I’d hope a handful of miserable kids might stumble upon something we’ve made and not find it valueless.
(myspace.com/mockingbirdwishmeluck)

STUCK OUT HERE - Hit the Switch (Bright Eyes)
Cam Laurie: Me and Ivan were losers in high school: Ivan listened to Fall Out Boy, I had glasses. We also held a shared affinity for Bright Eyes, both expressing it constantly and embarrassingly at coffee houses through covers and nasally imitations. For some reason, we started a punk band and tried really hard to imitate Against Me! and the Clash. But we never let go of that serious dude-crush for Conor Oberst and how he jumps from commentary on the world around him to calling himself out on his own bullshit, while still keeping at least some semblance of humour about the whole big kerfuffle. And yeah, the whole band would probably still collectively shit our pants if we met him. Totally.
(myspace.com/wearestuckouthere)

THE ROMAN LINE - All The Best (John Prine)
Pod: If I could write and perform songs with one tenth of the soul, emotional nuance and appeal that John Prine does I would consider every note of music I’ve ever played a success. And in spite of the fact that that day will probably never come, I plan to continue trying.
(myspace.com/theromanline)

ELLE XF - Anarchy Means That I Litter (Atom and His Package)
Jeremy Mersereau: Synthesizers and punk music have almost always been like oil and water in most people’s minds. Ever since the Undertones sang about the kind of dorky people that like them in ‘My Perfect Cousin’, synths have been seen as polished, commercial (not to mention expensive) ie, everything that punk shouldn’t be. Yeah, Adam Goren might be a dork, but he’s a punk dork; the kind of guy that showed us that you could still be a real dude in the scene even while programming a sequencer. Just because you know what an LFO is doesn’t mean you have to play in a crabcore band.

JUNIOR BATTLES - F.O.D. (Green Day)
Aaron Zorgel: I’m not gonna lie, we had quite a bit of trouble picking a song to cover. The only other cover song that is a staple of our live set is our version of Toto’s “Africa”. As much as marimba solos have directly influenced our sound, we wanted to do something a bit more honest and meaningful to how the band sounds and what we’re about. Truth is, we all grew up on Green Day, and we can’t say that about a lot of bands. It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s major key, it’s cynical, and it mentions lighting shit on fire. All the key elements to any Junior Battles song.
(myspace.com/juniorbattles)