alejandroid Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 its hard to not get bummed while i listen to them, but lance was seriously a great songwriter. dude put out something like 30 7"s at least, and a number of LPs. just wish i had the chance to see them, lance seemed like such an awesome dude if i woulda met him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamitekid Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 j church is an amazing band. and I think they had closer to 60 7"'s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 actually it was around 52-53 7"s. I'n not 100% sure but i think my first split was the 50th released 7" overall and after that was the Tank split, the Plungers split and with Sound on Sound... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted August 7, 2008 Author Share Posted August 7, 2008 maybe it was just 30 7" splits i was thinking of. i remember counting em up awhile ago, and a whole lot of splits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddieruckus Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 thread backed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 maybe it was just 30 7" splits i was thinking of. i remember counting em up awhile ago, and a whole lot of splits. yeah the discography on the j church website makes my brain hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shauncitrus Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I was a Cringer fan during their later days and when J Church started I was an instant fan. Lance had the perfect formula for writing melodic punk songs. Back in 1996, or was it 1997, J Church was coming thru Western Canada. At the time i lived in a punk house in Calgary, and we did shows in our basement. J Church had a 18+ bar show booked but i convinced them to play our house as well , and it is the best show i ever had the honor of putting on! I had my favorite local band Showdown 76 play (along with other friends Viceroy) and since the drummer of J Church and their roadie were in the band A Minor Forest we had them play a few songs (minus a guitar player). We crammed our tiny little basement with so many people! The band sounded better at that show than all the other times i saw them, and they let me help them write the set list in my kitchen. I miss Lance so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itchykorean Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I didn't get to see Lance much or catch many live shows (even when he moved down to Texas) but Lance totally ruled! I had always wanted to put out a rekid by JChurch and then one day, I received the songs and artwork in the mail. I was totally stoked. The rekid was supposed to be a split 7 inch with a Hong Kong band but that sorta fell thru so we asked The Tank if they wanted to be on the flipside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 i'm bummed i didn't even know about em until horror of life came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 J Church was fucking awesome.. Even though we would play shows with them or i'd see him at a J Church show i never really spoke to him for years. Then one day he popped up at my work. After asking him what the fuck he was doing in my line, he told me that he had moved here with his gf etc etc... since then we'd talk when he was in the area and stopped by to tell me about shows.. Swell guy he was..It was sad hearing about him pass. It hit the Austin community pretty hard, as everyone and their mother knew Lance... J church will always be in my memory or on my record player at least once a week.... always was, is, and will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouncingsoles123 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I got into them about 2 months ago and have been picking up stuff like crazy. I love this band to death. I am going to take a pic of my small collection for this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I've always hear such good things, where's a good place to start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 the horror of life is a pretty solid album, society is a carniverous flower has a killer bside that rivals nofx's the decline, and the a-side is awesome too, nostalgic for nothing's got a lot of their classic ones, its an old singles collection and one of my favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouncingsoles123 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Nostalgic for Nothing is my favorite too!!! Horror of life is good too. I just got Society the other day. THAT B SIDE IS KILLER!!! I also think the Precession of Simulcara 10" is pretty killer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 J church are one of those bands you really can start anywhere...i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouncingsoles123 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Agreedish? They really can vary on sound, but it's all fucking solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kouka Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I've always hear such good things, where's a good place to start? wow, that's the golden question.. i either own or have heard 99% of their output and I would tell you either "Camels, Spilled Carona.." or "Quetzalcoatl". p.s. Check my wants list.. I used to be obsessive in the mid/late '90s about collecting their stuff and am now trying to finish it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shauncitrus Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 I've always hear such good things, where's a good place to start? Nostalgic for Nothing is a great collection of early singles, also "camels and spilled Coronas" is a collection of singles. These 2 records contain some of my favorite songs. Another favorite record is Arbor Vitae. The reality is though that you could start anywhere in J Church's catalog and be stoked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 man, spilled corona, thats a great one too. goddamn, lance could write a song about anything, unlike me who couldn't even write a song about sitting in my room haha. the dude could write a song about not being able to write songs! seriously one of the greatest punk songwriters, fuck any songwriter to ever live. RIP lance, you may be gone, but your music lives on. i'd blast horror of life if everyone wasn't sleeping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawbroken Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 what an awesome band, shame that i got into them too late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 excuse my last post for being really drunk, but i love this band. i'll pour one for you lance. stumble home drunk in the middle of the night, i try to walk where it is light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburbanargyle Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Unfortunately got into them too late, and I don't know how I slept on them for so long. I just bought a bunch of J Church 7"s at Insub Fest from the Don Giovanni guy, which brings me up to 31 of their 7"s! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 J Church has a weird, weird back catalog and every record I've bought is great, not only for the good song writing, lyrics, etc...but because I usually have absolutely no idea what that record is going to sound like. They all sound like J Church, but some of em don't at the same time(in a good way) So since it's very difficult to find everything, slowly buying their albums, comps, EPs, etc...is like a whirlwind of you never know where you're gonna stop or what you're in for. That's the extra little thing I loved about them. Not too long ago somebody was talking about the 'Cat Food' LP on here and I had just recently got that one too, and where I was at least expecting it to fall on the twee-pop side of Lance's taste, given the title, the artwork and putting it on and it's super fast and "heavier" (than usual older JC stuff) I was just like, well goddamn, Lance you're still surprising me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlovecolouredx Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 one of state class famous band but their music are world class.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandroid Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 J Church has a weird, weird back catalog and every record I've bought is great, not only for the good song writing, lyrics, etc...but because I usually have absolutely no idea what that record is going to sound like. They all sound like J Church, but some of em don't at the same time(in a good way) So since it's very difficult to find everything, slowly buying their albums, comps, EPs, etc...is like a whirlwind of you never know where you're gonna stop or what you're in for. That's the extra little thing I loved about them. Not too long ago somebody was talking about the 'Cat Food' LP on here and I had just recently got that one too, and where I was at least expecting it to fall on the twee-pop side of Lance's taste, given the title, the artwork and putting it on and it's super fast and "heavier" (than usual older JC stuff) I was just like, well goddamn, Lance you're still surprising me. yeah thats exactly how i feel, he's all over the place, but its always great. also some of the best lyrics in punk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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