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

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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

someone work out how to program the mono version of the junior boys' 'birthday' into my phone!

mp3 here - http://preview.custommobile.com/mp3/40021.mp3

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link

haha, sounds nothing like it!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 13 March 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

yeah. no vocals.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 13 March 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

just sing it yourself when your phone goes off!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 13 March 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

actually regardless of the lack of vocals it still sounds nowt like it.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:16 (twenty years ago) link

So, I've heard the album...hm. I think it'll be a grower, I most certainly don't hate it, but I think it's amusing (and telling) to me that the best moments I didn't already know sound more like a reconfiguring of mid-eighties Depeche Mode instead of an alternate approach to Timbaland, if you will. The vocals also didn't stand out much for me in end. I dunno, I think I like the EPs more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

What's the tracklisting for the LP?

Saw them open for tv on the radio last night. Pretty impressive set. Some stuff was done much differently than on the ep's - could be wrong, but I think it was last exit done with a 2 guitar setup. Others, like Birthday, would be keyboards/vocals with laptops running the beats. Not too good at describing, well, hell, remembering the setups, but I do know it came off well. Leafs played like crap.

― rs, Friday, 16 April 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

Where was this?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:03 (twenty years ago) link

they're playing at mutek this june, maybe i'll go see them!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

This was in toronto at the horseshoe tavern.

― rs, Friday, 16 April 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link

tracklist, I believe

more than real
bellona
high come down
last exit
neonrider
birthday
under the sun
three words
teach me how to fight
when i'm not around

based on the live show, teach me how to fight is a gem. Many of the others leaked long ago or were mistakingly listed on soulseek as tracks on the high come down ep - not sure if the mixes on the lp will be different. Without having heard neonrider, I would say this is a VERY strong debut.

toss it in, uncork some red wine - you're practically already at third.

― rs, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

"Neonrider" is pretty much a snippet I think unless my copy is wrong (the transition to "Birthday" is rather sudden so it's hard to tell).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago) link

Where can you buy the EPs online?

― Magic City (ano ano), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

i keep meaning to post pictures from their lee's palace warmup show a few months back. i dug everything except the kylie track, which didn't seem quite there yet.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I just got this as part of an e-mail press packet on them:

"....imagine Franz Ferdinand joining forces with Pharrell Williams...."

ARAGAHFASDGAGABH.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

just imagine.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

i just vomited my lungs into my lap

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:03 (twenty years ago) link

Junior Boys Interview
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.13.04/beat/extended.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

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