Why is everyone not going totally bonkers about the junior boys?

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what is making plans for nigel?

― Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

I must hear this band.

And now I am. Hey, very spiffy! Jess's lurv for them is well justified in my eyes. :-) Yay big empty spaces blocked off by beats and things.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link

haha zemko why do you deny yr eshun heritage

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

yes big empty spaces are good.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link

'i'm in a wide open spaaaace...'

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

Actually much as I like the singing so far -- and it's not really suggestive specifically of Arthur Russell I find, there's a quality distinguishing it and making it different I'm trying to pin down here -- the arrangement that's captured my ears most effectively is "Unbirthday," lack of vocals and all. Something to do with the use of static (which definitely ain't 1986).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

'i'm in a wide open spaaaace...'

that's Coloma not the JB'z

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 January 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone else heard their Kylie cover?

― stopsss, Monday, 9 February 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

how'd you know about that? it's true... there is a 'Kylie' cover, only it's not quite finished yet.

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 9 February 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

what track?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 9 February 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

'Slow'

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

GOD BLESS THEM

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 9 February 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Hehehe. I am intrigued.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link

there's a story behind it that I won't go into, but I suspect their real reason for doing it was to appease me.

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 9 February 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

ha the most calculated kylie song of all!

ok ok i'm keeping shtoom from now on til i hear some more

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

(indie spacek! ok ok shhh)

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

That's great because I've been putting Birthday on mixtapes next to Slow for the last couple of months! Perhaps they should try Andre 3k/Kelis' "Millionaire" next...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

don't hold your breath prima, I'm not plugging it for radio, you'll have to wait till I post it on the KIN site

― nick.K (nick.K), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

see second review: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0405/040204_music_cdreviews.php

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 9 February 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

"england's junior boys"? I thought they were Canadian?

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 9 February 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

"high come down" would fit on the jc chasez record so well...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

are they really Canadian? fuck, that's my edit mistake.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

(and the treble pulses sound like the hook from "forgot about dre" with the missing parts put back in and then swapped like a utah housewife)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

They're from Hamilton, Ontario? Or was it Halifax, Nova Scotia?

One of the two.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

ha the most calculated kylie song of all!

oh yes/oh dear?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

Hamilton.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

"High Come Down" is~~n't~~ very good.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

You are mad.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, I salute you for being reserved an all the HYPE! threads, but it's a great song, by far the best thing they've done, IMO.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

yeah it is great - i have changed my mind - hence the scorethru. i just love Last Exit too much.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago) link

oops, didn't notice that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

So does anyone actually have the Kylie cover??

― stopsss, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.electrokin.com/images/tempimages/buslrg.jpg

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

finally heard the junior boys and i love "last exit" like a lot of the folks here it seems...that fennesz remix is stunning as well.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

okay, so, the album. it's 4/10 stuff on the singles, and 6/10 stuff i've heard before (but you might not have.) but still...wow. the last three tracks are their feyest, their most "80s", and possibly the most problematic for those who have glommed onto them as the "meeting place between timbaland and john foxx blah blah", including muggins here (they're really pushing the blue nile "bad good taste as aesthetic strategy" in the last track). album of the year, so far, by far. (and yes, i know it's still feb.)

and, no, i will not be sharing it.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 15 February 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

i hear more two step than timbaland in their tracks, but whatever. so when is it coming out?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Monday, 16 February 2004 01:30 (twenty years ago) link

Hey no fair!!!

"they're really pushing the blue nile "bad good taste as aesthetic strategy" in the last track"

Somehow Jess this is the most exciting thing you could have possibly said about this album. Ironic that the band hadn't heard of them when we started tossing around the reference point.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 February 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

I am content to wait patiently. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 February 2004 06:39 (twenty years ago) link

yes it's nice to wait isn't it?

Nick that photo is great, it looks like a model.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago) link

sorry tim, i was sworn a blood oath by nick and told i would be banned from gabba otherwise.*

*this part may be a lie.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:46 (twenty years ago) link

as for the blue nile/last track thing, one word: saxophone.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 February 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago) link

KIN002 has shipped and will be reaching stores from the 23 February. If you can't find it in a store that ought to be stocking it, let us know. I've been fielding emails about where people can buy it, try these on-line shop. Forced Exposure is carrying it in the etates.

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 19 February 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

Boomkat are sending them out, I got my copy a couple of days ago. I love "Under The Sun" - is it me or has it got the same (not quite bass) guitar line as the Scissor Sisters' version of "Comfortably Numb"?

― Mike (mratford), Thursday, 19 February 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

can anyone work out the lyrics to the third line of "birthday"? "(something something something something) anyway"?

"You've gone and then you missed my birthday,
Youve gone and left me on my own,
I'm hard to take, it's cool, so, anyway..."

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

I think that's right, isn't it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

do you love them?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

I'm reserving judgment because I only have the "Birthday" EP. My immediate response is of the "nice/but" variety (as in "nice, but what exactly is the big deal?").

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

the lyrics are quite clear on the manitoba remix.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

Have only just noticed, there's a company selling Junior Boys Ringtones - here.

Meanwhile there's a few updates on the site: notes by K-punk and Piers Martin, and some reviews, one from the Village Voice no less.

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

It would I am alone in thinking they are completely average, but sound brilliant when remixed. "Un-birthday" is very good too. But their own production is just a bit twee, really.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago) link

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