Tigers Jaw

Tigers Jaw are a five-piece pop punk/emo/indie rock band from Scranton, Pennyslvania formed in 2005. They are easily one of my favourite bands around now, and I'm pretty sure they're yours too (or will be after you click a link down below).

Tigers Jaw have really developed a sound that is their own. They take the best of what bands such as The Promise Ring, The Smiths, Superchunk, Against Me!, Descendents, Pavement, and Dinosaur Jr. were doing and  mix them all together to create this beautiful concotion of awesome. What's even better than that is that the end result doesn't sound like a hybrid of those bands, it sounds like, well, Tigers Jaw. Irresistably catchy melodies, gorgeous harmonies, beautiful lyrics, melodic guitar leads, fuzz-laden chords complimented by some keyboard playing, and a tightly interlocked rhythm section with the bass and drums, perfectly balancing complexity with simplicity. They can do sad songs, pop songs, slow songs, fast songs, lazy songs, energetic songs, and you get the point. And I almost forgot the best part: the songwriting. They just know how to write a damn good song.

 Anyway, instead of spouting shit, here's what I think is their entire discography to date. Since I can't find a whole lot of information on their history, I'm a little unsure of the earliest stuff here (prior to Belongs To The Dead). Everyting after that is fairly well-documented, and I'm pretty sure I have everything released after it. It's just the things before it. It's definitely them, though a very early incarnation. They might have been using a different name at the time, Buona Pizza (like the song), an I don't know when they changed it to Tigers Jaw. The Demo was ripped off of Myspace I believe (I didn't do it myself), Buona Pizza I know nothing about, and I'm On Your Side is a full-length, though most of the song titles are missing, with the exception of ones that appear on other releases. These three particular releases were all found in one download, which I cannot find again. So sorry for the lack of information on them. Everything else we all know and love.

The "Buona Pizza" release was a solo projects of Adam's from 2006. The two-track "Demo" was for "I'm On Your Side", which was supposed to be their Prison Jazz debut full-length in 2007, though it was scrapped and never properly released. Major thanks to Anonymous for providing this information.

Essentials: Tigers Jaw, Spirit Desire, Two Worlds

Buona Pizza (2006)

1. Superhero Halloween

2. All My Friends Are Dead

        

Belongs To The Dead (2006)

1. Danielson

2. Okay Paddy

3. Heat

4. Jet Alone

5. Stungun

6. Cannoball

7. Colorful

8. The Sun

9. It's About Killing People

10. The Times Tower Belongs To The Dead

Note: Artwork on the left is the original 2006 version, the one on the right is from the Run For Cover remaster in 2012 (though the songs in the link are not the remastered ones).

Demo (2007?)

1. Phantom Power

2. School Friends

I'm On Your Side (2007)

1. No More Coffee

2. The Sun

3. Androids 17 And 18

4. Superhero Halloween

5. Positive Life Interlude

6. Positive Life

7. School Friends

8. Phantom Power

9. Untitled

10. All My Friends Are Dead

11. Six Months

12. Power Supply

13. The Choke (Dangerous)

14. House Arrest

2008 Summer Tour EP (2008)
1. I Saw Water

2. Between Your Band And The Other Band

3. Neighbors

4. Spirit Desire

5. Sammy Davis Jr.

       

Tigers Jaw (2008)

1. The Sun

2. Plane vs. Tank vs. Submarine

3. I Saw Water

4. Chemicals (Alternate Version)

5. Between Your Band And The Other Band

6. Heat

7. I Was Never Your Boyfriend

8. Meals On Wheels

9. Arms Across America

10. Never Saw It Coming

Note: Artwork on the left is from the original Prison Jazz release in 2008, the one on the left is from the Run For Cover version from 2010 and onward.

Spirit Desire (2009)

1. Spirit Desire

2. We Are Great, There Is Only One (Tigers Jaw)

3. Crystal Vision

4. Meet Me At The Corner

Two Worlds (2010)

1. Return

2. Coil/Recoil

3. Smile

4. Two Worlds

5. Let Go/Trashed Floors

6. Test Pattern

7. Windmills

8. I Saw The Wolf

9. Buona Pizza

10. Static

11. Thank You, Noah Lowry

Balance And Composure/Tigers Jaw (2010)

1. Balance And Composure - Kaleidoscope

2. Balance And Composure - Burden

3. Balance And Composure - Twenty Four

4. Balance And Composure - Rope

5. Tigers Jaw - Lodging

6. Tigers Jaw - Jet Alone

7. Tigers Jaw - Danielson

8. Tigers Jaw - Dent

Run For Cover Acoustic Series #1 (2010)

1. I Saw Water

2. Two Worlds

3. You're The Soul

Run For Cover Acoustic Series #2 (2010)

1. Smile

2. Return

3. Let Go/Trashed Floors

The Sidekicks/Tigers Jaw (2011)

1. The Sidekicks - Little James

2. The Sidekicks - (Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

3. Tigers Jaw - Jimmy Piersall

4. Tigers Jaw - Boots 'n Hanks  

Gypsy b/w Jimmy Piersall (Alternate Version) (2011)

1. Gypsy

2. Jimmy Piersall (Alternate Version)

Chemicals (Alternate Version) (2011)

1. Chemicals (Alternate Version)

Mixed Signals Compilation (2011)

3. Distress Signal

Note: This is from Run For Cover's Mixed Signals compilation put out in 2011. You can get the full thing here

Tigers Jaw/Tiny Empires (2012)

1. Tigers Jaw - My Friend Morrissey

2. Tigers Jaw - No Mask/Haze Coffin

3. Tiny Empires - Check Out My Boneyard/Interview With A Jampire/The Dream Is Still Dead

Tigers Jaw/The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die/Code Orange Kids/Self Defense Family (2013)

1. Tigers Jaw - Fake Death

2. The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Beverly Wyatt

3. Code Orange Kids - VI (Worms Fear God // God Fears Youth)

4. Self Defense Family - Holy Trend

Off The Board: A Studio 4 Family Compilation (2013)

10. Carry You Over

Note: Full comp here

Hum (2013)

1. Hum

2. Cool

Charmer (2014)

1. Cool

2. Frame You

3. Hum

4. Charmer

5. Nervous Kids

6. I Envy Your Apathy

7. Slow Divide

8. Slow Come On

9. Soft Spoken

10. Teen Rocket

11. Distress Signal

12. What Would You Do

Studio 4 Acoustic Session (2015)

1. Hum

2. Distress Signal

3. Chemicals

4. Nervous Kids

5. Jimmy Piersall

6. Fake Death

7. Safe In Your Skin (Title Fight cover)

8. Where Am I? (Title Fight cover)

9. Never Saw It Coming

10. Carry You Over

11. Plane vs. Tank vs. Submarine

12. I Saw Water

13. Nervous Kids

Devinyl Splits No. 3 (2015)

1. Tigers Jaw - In Between Days (The Cure cover)

2. Kevin Devine - Lovesong (The Cure cover)

Spin (2017)

1. Follows

2. Favorite

3. June

4. Escape Plan

5. Blurry Vision

6. Guardian

7. Bullet

8. Brass Ring

9. Oh Time

10. Same Stone

11. Make It Up

12. Window 

Eyes Shut (2019)

1. Eyes Shut

2. Follows (Acoustic)

3. Eyes Shut (Acoustic)

4. Guardian (Acoustic)

I Won't Care How You Remember Me (2021)

1. I Won't Care How You Remember Me

2. Cat's Cradle

3. Hesitation

4. New Detroit

5. Can't Wait Forever

6. Lemon Mouth

7. Body Language

8. Commit

9. Never Wanted To

10. Heaven Apart

11. Anniversary

Old Clothes (2022)

1. Old Clothes

2. Swear

3. Reckless

4. Waltz

Tigers Jaw/Joyce Manor (2023)

1. Joyce Manor - I Sw Water (Tigers Jaw cover) (Live)

2. Tigers Jaw - Constant Headache (Joyce Manor cover)

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