For Your Own Special Sweetheart by Jawbox

For Your Own Special Sweetheart, Jawbox's third album, was the 1994 record that took the Washington, D.C., post-hardcore band off Dischord and onto Atlantic, and the jump didn't sand down a single edge. Ted Niceley, the producer best known for his work with Fugazi, keeps the guitars of J. Robbins and Bill Barbot knotted and tense, with Kim Coletta's bass prowling underneath and new drummer Zach Barocas, on his first Jawbox album, hitting with real precision.

"Savory" led the way as the first single and became the song people know them for, with "Cooling Card" behind it, while "Motorist" and "Jackpot Plus!", first heard on a Dischord single, got fresh recordings. Critics liked it; Atlantic was less thrilled with sales of around 60,000, by Coletta's count. DeSoto reissued it in 2009 with 3 bonus tracks and new cover art.

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