J Church

J Church has been a band for over 10 years now going from Bay Area punk to proto-Emo to lo-fi experimental to cult status in 2000+. The music of J Church is hard to put in a nutshell as it changes from year to year. They got upbeat punk songs, fast hardcore songs, improvised experimental music, 4-track garage, lo-fi acoustic, country, noise… there’s been a lot of stuff and it’s been documented in six official full length releases (a seventh just finished) and a myriad of extra-curricular releases.
In the past, the band has recorded for Allied Recordings (Nausea, Radon, etc.), Broken Rekids (The Gits, Songs for Emma, the Tyrades), Jade Tree (Promise Ring, Lifetime), Snuffy Smiles (Minority Blues Band, I Excuse), Rugger Bugger (Thatcher on Acid, Zounds, the Mob), Damaged Goods (Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoatees, Snivelling Shits, Adam and the Ants), Honey Bear (VSS, Unwound, Young Ginns), Startreck (Refused, Loose Goats), Au Go Go (Blues Explosion, Free Kitten), Helter Skelter (Rocket From The Crypt), Vagrant (Get-Up Kids, The Anniversary), Honest Don’s (The Riverdales, The Muffs, Citizen Fish, Nerf Herder) and many more. They now live at No Idea Records.
In the past they have shared the stage with Jawbreaker, Unwound, Bis, Cornershop, Supergrass, Snuff, Dismemberment Plan, Radio 4, Propagandhi, Avail, Fabulous Disaster, Leatherface, Hot Water Music, From Ashes Rise, Rainer Maria, The Plungers, Spitboy, Green Day, Seam, Superchunk, Signal Lost, Alice Donut, Steel Pole Bath Tub, the Bevis Frond, Flying Saucer Attack, Refused, Mates of State, Rocket From The Crypt, Wool, Drive Like Jehu, the Didjits, Pegboy, Hemlock, the Red Aunts, Money Mark, Shiner, the Warmers, Cupid Car Club, Huggy Bear, Delta 72, the Dickies, Mr. T Experience, John Henry West, and loads more.

Honest Don's Records J Church “Drama Of Alienation” 9.00
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1. A Simple Gesture
2. Smell It Rot
3. Alone When She Dies
4. Undisputed King Of Nothing
5. Secrets
6. Santa Cruz
7. Parts Unknown
8. Crop Circles
9. Colors Lie
10. You’re On Your Own
11. Dramatic History Of A Boring Town
12. Static

Honest Don’s Recordings, LP 1996. The fourth ‘proper’ J Church album. When it came out there was some criticism for it being on a ‘big corporate label’, but then, that was the time of the fallout from the Green Day / Offspring explosion. The fact that the lyric sheet included a ’suggested reading list’ incorporating various anarchist and situationist tracts should have made the band’s intentions fairly clear.

No Idea Records J Church “Horror Of Life” 10.00
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1. Vampire Girl Prefers Me Alive
2. Eric Dolphy
3. Cosmonaut
4. If I Have To Dance Then I Don’t Want Your Revolution
5. The Horror of Life
6. New Ho Chi Mihn City
7. Secular Music
8. The World’s Tiniest Violin
9. Viva La Muerte
10. Unrequited
11. Flirting With the Bourgeois Dream
12. Bande A Part
13. The Ocean
14. The King
15. Tomorrow And Forever
16. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

No Idea, LP 2007. This, the seventh ‘proper’ J Church studio album, is a return to their classic three-piece line-up. The album was recorded in early 2006 but its release was delayed for a year due to Lance’s health problems.

Chunksaah Records J Church Plungers “Split” 4.00
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J Church - Who Killed Pasolini?
J Church - Psycho Mafia
The Plungers - Lost City Lover
The Plungers - Breakaway

Chunksaah Records, 7″, 2005. 500 pressed. The first in a planned series of seven split 7″s which will feature tracks from the Japanese Seishun Zankoku Monogatari album. Just as that CD was split into seven covers and seven originals, so the J Church singles will feature one of each - in this case the second track being a Fall cover. Although the other bands won’t necessarily be keeping to the same theme, New York’s The Plungers do so here, their second song being a take on Irma Thomas’ big 80s pop hit.

Underground Communique' Records J Church Sound On Sound “Split” 4.25
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J Church
1. Flirting With The Bourgeois Dream
2. Where Eagles Dare
Sound On Sound
3. When We Were The Kids
4. Old Chunk Of Coal

Underground Communique Records 7″. 2007. Hot Pink Vinyl. Another split for J Church! This time versus a Chicago band called Sound On Sound. SOS sorta sound like the Lookout Records band Monsula, but also have a pronounced influence from a lot of post-1985 DC bands. Once again both bands will present one new song and one cover song. J Church brings a demo version of a song from their new LP and a Misfits cover, and Sound On Sound delivers one original and a Billy Joe Shaver song.

Underground Communique' Records J Church Minority Blues Band “Split” 4.25
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J Church
1. Aeroplane Angel
2. Ex Lion Tamer
Minority Blues Band
3. Speak Same Old News, Sing Same Old Songs
4. My Death

Underground Communique Records, 7″, 2005. 500 on marbled orange vinyl. The second of the seven planned split singles that feature tracks from the Seishun Zankoku Monogatari CD. Both bands do an original song followed by a cover. The J Church cover was originally done by (original) New Wave leaders Wire, MBB’s second track was originally by the ’80s UK punk band Newtown Neurotics. And all this contained on one of the most glorious slabs o’ coloured vinyl that you’re likely to see.
Minority Blues Band played many shows on J Church ’s Japanese tours, hence this and their earlier split 7″. Their two albums on Snuffy Smile Records are also highly recommended. Unfortunately they split up in November 2004.

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