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

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According to the Domino website, their version of Last Exit will have a second disc. Having tantalized me with this tidbit, Domino then fail to publish the tracklisting of the second disc (they are consistent; they've not listed what's on the Ulrich Schnauss bonus disc, either). Does anyone have info about the tracklisting of the second disc?

― paul c (paul c), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus, you guys sure are enthusiastic bout these fellas.
Could anyone drop me a track in my inbox? I'm curious.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, MoM = Mouse on Mars = I R an idiot (but even more excited about this show).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"Teach Me How to Fight" is really amazing. It's the most New Order-y and the chorus synth line sounds a bit like "Elegia".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Great interview, http://www.usounds.com/mt/archives/000309.html

― Frenchie, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost:
...and of course the chorus-ed bass toward the end.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link

er, sorry, in THIS emailbox. if you could please.
Thanks ever so.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 August 2004 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm very happy this tour is coming to my humble town.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 August 2004 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"Elegia"

I love that song..

― hector (hector), Thursday, 26 August 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I like these guys. One or both of them went to my University, but I think it was years after me. A couple of Hamilton boys making good, it's nice to see.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 26 August 2004 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link

forksclovetofu - there are still hi-quality audio streams on the site if you need to hear some.

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 26 August 2004 06:05 (nineteen years ago) link

v. good j-boyz q&a:

http://www.zoilus.com/documents/in_depth/2004/000148.shtml

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

sorry zem, but this is really really good.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Congrats Junior Boys - "Birthday" is on Sander Kleinenberg's new Renaissance mix This Is Everybody Too - which should introduce the band to a whole new fanbase of prog house heads! (too be fair, Sander always seems to have been surprisingly open-minded and wide-ranging)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The US release of the album apparently has a bonus disc with all the bsides from the singles on it.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Those bastards.

I still don't know if I'm going to see them tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

they were in town on Wednesday and i couldn't get anyone to go with me :(

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

You are wise and good.

this is the line i always use when making fun of NR but until now i wasn't aware he had actually used it!

in any event, the JB are amazing

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"I'm gonna wash my hands real slow"

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

hell, I'M even a fan now. Beats Sade.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Am: do you want to go see them with me? They're playing Oct. 29 at Logan Sq. Auditorium with Mouse on Mars.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I find that this is the perfect soundtrack to going home kinda tipsy on a night bus/tram.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

that's the night after i take the gre's. we'll see how i'm feeling.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

OK!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

what will i think of mouse on mars? i always confuse them with modest mouse

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

did I tell you that Kyl1e is a now major JBz fan.. she fell for their 'slow' cover, but I'm not sure EMI would feel the same way.

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't know what modest mouse sound like either

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Mouse on Mars is generally categorized as IDM, although they've had a pretty varied career, from early ambient techno to glitchy drum-n-bass to pretty acoustic stuff. I've heard the new record once and wasn't that fond of it -- it's too spastic (although I like the single, "Wipe That Sound") -- but I just saw them do a short set at the Hideout Block Party and they totally brought all sorts of fantastic energy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Whereas Modest Mouse is a generic US alterna-rock band.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

The Moon and Antarctica is actually a pretty good album -- like taking the interesting guitar lines and fractured songs structures of their early material (but without as much shouty) and the developed melodic sensibility of their later material (but without the boring).

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

re: MOM. Here's a photo of andi from Mouse on Mars, scrutinizing the vinyl and hearing the junior boys for the first time. Did I already mention just what wonderful people MoM are..

― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm very excited about when this tour comes to mtl

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the line i always use when making fun of NR but until now i wasn't aware he had actually used it!

And now that means you were merely following in my path, like a fine cultist. Thanks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a good line, actually

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

One tries.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

definitely worth seeing live on their current tour, although being the first band of three makes it hard to work the crowd...

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

who's gonna be seeing this show in nyc? i'm showing up on time for sure.

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 4 October 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I might be up for Oct. 29th show in Chicago also. Remind me later.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

And at this point robotsinlove aka Jaymc's brother Mark and I are going to the Thursday show in LA. Anyone else up for it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

how best to hear this Kylie cover?

― BbetaA, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link

This tour must be seen. I seen em in Seattle on Friday, and Junior Boys were great live, better than I expected. Mouse on Mars were just ridiculous. One of the best dance concerts I have seen in a long time. Their live show is much more rousing and anthemic than I would have thought; more in the vain of their recent records, just taken to extreme levels of fun. Ratatat was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't think i need to hear this Kylie cover - i already know exactly how it sounds.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

...i say again,the time devoted to ratatat on the tour with MoM and junior boys would have been better put to use by j.b.'s....half an hour was definately not enough from them.

― william (william), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Only thing I've heard is the track included with the latest Uncut. Which was an interesting piece of 80s-meets-R&B (thankfully with more empasis on the former). Absolutely interested in hearing more.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

geir you are seeming entirely more sensible lately

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/coverart/up-cover_1004_juniorboys.jpg

Junior Boys on the front cover of Canadian mag: Exclaim.

In a good way the front cover looks so Melody Maker circa 1983/ 1984 or Record Mirror.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

geir you are seeming entirely more sensible lately

You've changed your mind by now, I think.

Fellow I talked to who knows something of the ILM is the guy on the left, and very friendly he was at that. A big Tim Finney fan, like all right thinking folk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't find Geir's interest in the Junior Boys all that contradictory with his tastes, given the fact that he's a big fan of 80s synth-pop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still surprised that I like this album so much. It goes against everything I stand for.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Er? How so?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

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