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

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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 (nineteen years ago) link

just imagine.

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

i just vomited my lungs into my lap

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

haha Franz Ferdinand + Pharrell Williams!!!!!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm too confused by it to laugh.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw them on Sunday night. It's 1983 New Order. This is not an unwelcome thing.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

The incomplete promo files that showed up on slsk really annoy me. I doubt that the strategy will encourage me to purchase the album. I think I skipped on buying RJD2's first album because of this.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently, the real deal is now on slsk.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

"the next Junior Boys album, inspired by Frank Sinatra's When No One Cares."

!?!

― todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

franz ferdinand is the furthest thing from this.

this album is GAY and WONDERFUL, however!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

farthest?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

How do we know the real thing, then?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

the fakes either have gaps in the middle of the songs, or they loop a section of a track halfway through and it goes on for the remainder of the track time. i'm sure a lot of people out there don't even know at first.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a beautiful record. you all really should buy it.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-b-but, it's not out yet!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

oh. well, i dont have to buy it anyway.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

OK, but i wondered if you there's a way to tell which ones are fakes without downloading them, like say track length or somethin', for those of us spending the summer on dial-up

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks for the link to the interview.

yeah, I d/led (& was so excited I burnt!) the fake album. tho it actually elicited a "i'll order it online (when I'm not flat broke)".

― etc, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

well i'm gonna buy it the minute it hits the shops!

― ian_k, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Over the past 12 months, Canadian trio Junior Boys have generated more purple prose on internet blogs than anyone except Dizzee Rascal, but they couldn't be more different. While Dizzee's innovations thwack the listener over the head, the quietly radical music on Last Exit hovers around the edges of your eardrums... ...Junior Boys' spectral vision of electronic pop is an understated, unpredictable delight.

The Guardian full text here

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 21 May 2004 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link

AMG has already given last exit four and a half stars, before a review has even been posted.

also, listed as one of the junior boys' styles on AMG:

CANADA

yes. canada has finally become their own style of music!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

(there are parts of the Stars first album that remind me of Junior Boys, so maybe it is a Canadian thang.)

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

true. but stars were from new york first.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I prefer Stars. They have better lyrics, certainly.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

and boards of canada are not from canada.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

stars are more:

romantic
wistful
nostalgic

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

cutty thx for making me SICK.

― ddb, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, you love stars. faggot!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

junior boys are sexier tho.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I really like this record. Despite having heard the majority of it before, I have a newfound appreciation for tracks like Bellona and Last Exit in the context of the album. Listening to this and that Justus Koehncke covers thing actually made me want to go and buy some New Order.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, am I going to be one of the only people here to rep for Bellona in particular?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Listening to this and that Justus Koehncke covers thing actually made me want to go and buy some New Order.

You are wise and good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

'more than real' really moves me. in a dark, stalkerpop kind of way.

i also think that new order comparisons are very lazy.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Really, why? You'd prefer something a little more "contemporary? I should add that I don't know New Order very well, so it was a comparison based on a very sketchy appreciation of their sound. Anyway, one of those Koehncke tracks has a scandalously Peter Hook-esque bassline.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

not getting on the offensive sorry. and i was talking more in general than about what you said nordic. all i really meant was that i think that there's room for a more developed analysis of their sound than simple and obvious comparisons to new order.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Probably, but it really never struck me until I heard the whole record.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

does anyone know what bellona is about? this isn't a trick question

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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