What was the last GREAT Basement Jaxx single?

lol no wonder that list looked incomplete

should have gone to discogs.com

"Samba Magic" is amazing and Kish Kash is their best album fuiud

with either of those things

I ended up loving "hush boy", after being underwhelmed for a while.

"take me back to your house" seems a bit too eager to please imo.

I've never been able to stand "Hush Boy" even slightly, talk about too eager to please.

can't believe more ppl don't love "raindrops" - u all mad

ah crap, I voted for Do Your Thing but just realised Good Luck was the correct option, oh well.

These guys fell off it Norman Cook-style. Such a shame. Tim F has a point about them trying too hard now.

I've never been able to stand "Hush Boy" even slightly, talk about too eager to please.

I see it as a throwback to a late 80s idea of eagerness-to-please, the effect of which makes it seem kinda understated if anything, whereas "Take Me Back To Your House" is like someone won a competition to make the new Basement Jaxx single.

I think I might like Crazy Itch Radio more if it rode that retro radio show vibe more wholeheartedly.

pretty much all the early EP stuff remains unfuckwithable at least. remember wondering at the time (summer 96) who was gonna be bigger - jaxx or the rhythm masters...

i went through that list above and decided i didn't really like anything past romeo except for hush boy - it's good because it's not the pop/garage format they were wearing on, but instead just a good funk / breakbeats.

and i guess irrelevent to thread topic but fly life is the only one that still gets played occasionally

lol no wonder that list looked incomplete

I maded u a present:
(everything with an A-side or later included on a singles comp*, listed by first release. Plus a few bracketed things for continuity.)
*I think

STAR / BUDDY – 1994, CG001

EP1 – 1994, JAXX001 (inc. Undaground)

EP2 – 1995, JAXX002 (inc I’m Thru With You)

SUMMER DAZE EP – 1995, JAXX 003 (inc Samba Magic)

[Samba Magic remixes released on 10” 1996, VCRADJ 14]
[single released as Summer Daze – SAMBA MAGIC – 1996, VCRT14]
[Samba Magic remixes re-released as Basement Jaxx in the Netherlands on 12” 1997, TRIP 037]

EP3 – 1996, JAXX006 (inc Fly Life)

[Fly Life remixes released 1997, 12MULTY21 / 12MULTY21X]

SLEAZYCHEEKS EP – 1996, JAXX008 (inc Eu Nao, Get Down Get Horny)

URBAN HAZE -1997, JAXX 010

Banana Kru – AUTOMATIC / SAME OLD SHOW -14 Sep 1998, BK001

RED ALERT / YO YO – 1999, JAXL 001

RENDEZ-VU / JUMP ‘N SHOUT – 1999, JAXL 002

[JUMP ‘N SHOUT, – 1999 XLT 116]

[U Can’t Stop Me remixes white label released in 1999 with BK 003 cat # - possibly intended as Banana Kru release?]

Banana Kru – RED ALERT (MIRACLES MIX) / K.O.P - 2000, BK002

BETTA DAZE - 1999, JAXX 013

CAMBERWELL EP – 2000, JAXX 015 (inc I Live In Camberwell, Camberskank)

BINGO BANGO – 3 Apr 2000, XLT 120

ROMEO – 2001, JAXL 003

WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT – 2001, JAXL 007

Banana Kru – MY NAME IZ START / CUT THIZ GROOVE – 2001, BK003

SPAN THANG EP – 19 Nov 2001, JAXX019 (inc U Took My Love)

JUS 1 KISS – 2001 JAXX020

[“Supergetoff” Get Me Off Superchumbo mixes white label – 21 Jan 2002, JAXL008]

GET ME OFF – 17 Jun 2002, XLT146

DO YOUR THING – 2002, JAXL 009

JUNCTION EP – 23 Sep 2002, JAXX024 (inc We R Computa)

LUCKY STAR – 10 Nov 2003, XLT172

GOOD LUCK – 5 Jan 2004, XLT178

PLUG IT IN – 29 Mar 2004, XLT180

CISH CASH – Jun 2004, XLR190

OH MY GOSH – 2005, XLT209

U DON’T KNOW ME – 13 Jun 2005, XLT215

[UNRELEASED MIXES EP – 12 Dec 2005, JAXX031 (two house mixes of Kish Kash album tracks and a B-side)]

HUSH BOY – Aug 2006, XLT241

TAKE ME BACK TO YOUR HOUSE – 30 Oct 2006, XLT253

HEY U – 5 Mar 2007, JAXL013

MAKE ME SWEAT – 19 Mar 2007, JAXX038

NIFTY – May 2007, JAXX042

TWERK – Aug 2008, JAXL014

FACEPAINT – Sep 2008, JAXL015

NIFTY BEATS – Nov 2008, JAXX044

RAINDROPS – 21 Jun 2009, XLT444

FEELINGS GONE – 7 Sep 2009, XLS461

MY TURN – Dec 2009 [promo, no cat?]

Jaxtrak – BRING THE ROBOTS – Aug 2010, JAXX046D (digital only)

[UNRELEASED MIXES 2 – 12 Dec 2010, JAXX048D (only proper release for One More Chance feat Lil’ Louis)] (digital only?)

DRACULA – 7 Dec 2010, JAXX050D (digital only)

fly life is the only one that still gets played occasionally

― fauxmarc, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:42 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

meaning?

he thinks they did great stuff later but he only listens to Fly Life now?

i guess. sounds more like the others are 'not played', which im pretty sure isn't true.

I used to love their Banana Kru bootlegs - still have them on 12".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKEoYhSZn0

Basement Jaxx are one of those bands that seemed to stop Mattering somehow, really abruptly. It's unfair to think that way, maybe. Some of their 2000s singles are pretty great but nothing came close to "Where's Your Head At" for me.

Ha indeed, still have those Banana Kru's as well! Always reminds of the great Thomas Bangalter reign from around that time ('Together', 'So Much Love to Give') which for some reason always seemed heavily linked, at least in my head.

I'm voting Where's Your Head At here, I gave up on these guys pretty much after Kish Kash, which I thought was mediocre at best. Their early singles (as compiled on this beast) still rule.

xp

i still hate "where's your head at", it may as well be a football chant. so uncouth

i still don't like "romeo" much either. funny that i never warmed to the big singles off rooty but everything on remedy and kish kash hits the spot 100% for me

Dunno if they ever relased a GREAT single, but "Romeo" was their last really good one.

Their early singles (as compiled on this beast) still rule.

some of it's ok but the single edit of 'fly life' is their first GREAT single. the other stuff is all kinda polite.

The Extra version is killer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ijZxlHabc

i still hate "where's your head at", it may as well be a football chant. so uncouth

― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:34 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i still don't like "romeo" much either. funny that i never warmed to the big singles off rooty but everything on remedy and kish kash hits the spot 100% for me

― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 9:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

Lex you should feel ashamed of these opinions.

No, it IS uncouth, but that's the point. No one should ever use the phrase "uncouth" in relation to pop music.

it's so...beery

he's right about the football chanty aspects of those songs. there must have been loads of jaxx-based chants in 2001.

haha i love when ilm gets multi-meta

I love the lairy thuggishness of Where's Your Head At. One of the few dance anthems that effectively doubles as a punk record.

(a) what's wrong with beer

(b) in 2001 lairy chanting house worked well. See also Par-T-One's "I'm So Crazy".

The trick is to only do it once rather than make a career of it.

a) too much beer (more than two pints) makes me feel bloated and a bit sick JUST LIKE 'where's your head at"

b) lairy chanting house has never worked for me - in fact lairy anything is pretty much a non-negotiable turn-off (except maybe WAKA style hip-hop)

lairy IRL people are the most disgusting savages

Virtually every single grime record ever made is lairy in some way, I think you're conveniently bending the definition of the word a bit.

Anyway the last GREAT Basement Jaxx single is 'Bongo Jam' by Crazy Cousinz.

i made an exception for the WAKA aesthetic!

otm re: "bongo jam" though

I sort of think of 'Where's Your Head At' as cartoonish kids TV scream rather than lairy thuggishness anyway. There's nothing particularly threatening or confrontational about it.

lex otm re: lairy football chant records - the worst

i've never been into kids' TV either. all that yelling and enforced jollity and foolishness made me smh even when i was a kid

like that thing where people get "gunged" on kids' TV shows. not acceptable behaviour

like that thing where people get "gunged" on kids' TV shows.

????

it was good when Tiswas did it. It's felt forced ever since.

It's only good if it punctures someone's pomposity, but as long as I've known kids TV to do it the guest has either been some kid or an adult that's fully signed up for it.

fecking Nickolodeon awards or whatever are the WORST

Yeah, forced is the word. 'Where's Your Head At' isn't particularly forced but I'm sure there are some teeth-clenchingly forced imitations from a similar era that I've forgotten all about. Probably by Freeform Five or someone.

idk the worst kind of pomposity is the empty kind, best punctured with words. if it's just someone who takes themselves seriously or likes things just so, that should be RESPECTED

there is basically no need for gunge in this world

^^^ this is the precise moment when the gunge chute wd open in a proper show

I definitely feel like Rooty was a defining album for people in their 30s in the US entertainment industry; tracks from that seem to pop up constantly (most recent totally lolworthy example being "Romeo" and "Do Your Thing" appearing on the same episode of "Dancing With The Stars")

A completely personal impression here but there's also a kind-of retrospective innocence to it and a lot of other pop that was released in 2001 but pre-9/11.

haven't heard Glamma Kid in aeons either

he's on the amazing new lady chann single! http://soundcloud.com/gabrielheatwave/lady-chann-glamma-kid-sticky

Seeing Bassment Jaxx DJ/perform Remedy in New York in 2000 was the moment for me. I liked Rooty okay, hated "Where's Your Head At?," and tuned out after that.

Though TBH I was definitely caught up in the event of Rooty--I cooled on it slowly.

I like that "Dracula"! I just watched the disco scene in Fright Night set to it--I should really get to work!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Definitely "Raindrops" - right up there with their best singles IMO.

"Oh My Gosh" is close enough to great I think. Resisted temptation to vote "Rendez-Vu"

― ban parappa (the rapper) (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 April 2011 17:43 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Trick poll, Basement Jaxx never had a great single.

~see u later~

Where's ya head at

without a doubt

Isn't it their only song?

and yet there are other options in the poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

search fuction proved pointless, so i'm sorry if this is a re-post. but there's a new basement jaxx single that sounds uncannily like spice girls going marimba style/tropical flavoured house :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WDeCmK9dH04

^^i'm thinking 'spice up your life'

I don't really expect Basement Jaxx singles to be any better than 'passable' nowadays but that is SO BAD.

someone was all "todd terry mixes spice girls" but i'm thinking "what if current bjork was on dfa"

Transglobal Underground remixing Shampoo more like.

what the fuck was that

The newer singles off Junto are great.

Psyched. I know I'm one of the few, but I thought Scars was solid and at least half of it was spectacular.