What was the last GREAT Basement Jaxx single?

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.

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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

Thuggishness in music can be good or bad just like dandyness can be. I don't understand this concept of "kids tv" we're talking about it here so I'm gonna just ignore this part of the conversation.

Unless it's like when people would get slimed on 'You Can't Do That On Television'.

looooool

xpost i think that's what he means

KMT

re: crazy cousinz, i swear the most underrated thing they ever did was their remix of booty luv's "say it"

What's up with Crazy Cousinz anyway? I haven't been following the funky house skeptics thread. Have they done anything I need to hear post-"Inflation"?

They just produced an Omarion track.

It was good I thought.

hang on what, they PRODUCED for omarion?! not just remixed?

it seems they did! well i'll be.

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it's called "forgot about love" fyi - listening now, it's...slow! and really quite nice.

Oh I heard this before (I think it must have been posted on rolling r&b). Still don't like it.

lol the first google autocomplete suggestion for omarion is "omarion gay"

Voting for Bingo Bango because I've always felt it's the under-rated high point of their career and sounds like the best intersection between their classic house influences and their UK "urban" dancefloor techniques. Plus, it was the high point of a Cream compilation I had when I was a teenager and it was really well-used in Sugar Rush.

'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.

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Audio Bullys.

oh god what was that really really gross one!

i like the way you mooooove

vomit

'bingo bango' is kinda the worst single during their years of greatness

rly hate 'do your thing' but that's partly because it became a tv staple

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.