I know this message is 6 years way over due, but cut me some slack, I just found this post!
This was the greatest post by the way, I never thought I'd run into a JOJ shrine or primer (not sure what they're called) but I soaked up all the info and pics like a sponge in water.
Jack Off Jill was my favorite band in high school. Sexless Demon and Scars specifically. Clear hearts grey flowers came out at the tail end of high school by then for me. I still credit Jack Off Jill for directing my taste in music ever since. They're definitely the band that put me on path to find the music I liked. It eventually led me to industrial music and recently glitch. But it was JOJ was the one that introduced me to a world of sounds that I was aching for, even though I didn't know it at the time. It's funny because I had no interest in Manson, and paid it no heed that it originated as an all female band, which is rare today but especially for the 90's. You'd think one of those two facts would have caught my attention, but nope, I just dug the sound.
I found them a long time ago on a site called liveConcerts.com. All the music was in realAudio, it was the worse possible sound. But it was all streaming! First time I had seen streaming anything. That was my introduction to JOJ, a real audio concert. I then scoured the internet for more songs by them, this is early internet too, when askJeeves and AltaVista were the best search engines. So many pages were sifted through, and still even then, only 15 second .wav files were found. Girlscout being one of them, which wasn't in the real audio concert. I was so anxious to find that full song. But the album was impossible to find. For a year I searched every record store I came across, nothing. I finally found it, which I still have today. My first ebay purchase was a demo tape (yes cassette tape) of early JOJ. When JOJ disbanded I messaged a webmaster who seemed to have inside knowledge on the band, about what new projects each member was pursuing. I still have his email. Even when I deleted all my email, never that one. It must be so pointlessly out of date by now, but still got it. I wonder if that webmaster ever thinks back to his JOJ website and realizes that some crazed JOJ fan would keep his email reply forever. ha ha
Anyways, great post! It deserves more attention. And thanks! It's led me to quite-the-journey down memory lane.
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on 2015-09-08 05:11 am (UTC)This was the greatest post by the way, I never thought I'd run into a JOJ shrine or primer (not sure what they're called) but I soaked up all the info and pics like a sponge in water.
Jack Off Jill was my favorite band in high school. Sexless Demon and Scars specifically. Clear hearts grey flowers came out at the tail end of high school by then for me. I still credit Jack Off Jill for directing my taste in music ever since. They're definitely the band that put me on path to find the music I liked. It eventually led me to industrial music and recently glitch. But it was JOJ was the one that introduced me to a world of sounds that I was aching for, even though I didn't know it at the time. It's funny because I had no interest in Manson, and paid it no heed that it originated as an all female band, which is rare today but especially for the 90's. You'd think one of those two facts would have caught my attention, but nope, I just dug the sound.
I found them a long time ago on a site called liveConcerts.com. All the music was in realAudio, it was the worse possible sound. But it was all streaming! First time I had seen streaming anything. That was my introduction to JOJ, a real audio concert. I then scoured the internet for more songs by them, this is early internet too, when askJeeves and AltaVista were the best search engines. So many pages were sifted through, and still even then, only 15 second .wav files were found. Girlscout being one of them, which wasn't in the real audio concert. I was so anxious to find that full song. But the album was impossible to find. For a year I searched every record store I came across, nothing. I finally found it, which I still have today. My first ebay purchase was a demo tape (yes cassette tape) of early JOJ. When JOJ disbanded I messaged a webmaster who seemed to have inside knowledge on the band, about what new projects each member was pursuing. I still have his email. Even when I deleted all my email, never that one. It must be so pointlessly out of date by now, but still got it. I wonder if that webmaster ever thinks back to his JOJ website and realizes that some crazed JOJ fan would keep his email reply forever. ha ha
Anyways, great post! It deserves more attention. And thanks! It's led me to quite-the-journey down memory lane.