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

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Mouse on Mars (live) fucking kick ass. Yay.

― tk, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

It's been a long time since either Timbaland or the Pet Shop Boys "sounded awesome."

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Marcello re the former have you heard "Get On Dis Motorcycle" or "Keep It Moving" or the best tracks from the last Bubba album?

That said the Timbaland tracks Junior Boys theoretically take their cues from are like five years old.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Specifically a couple of tracks from Missy's Da Real World.

Although really if you're gonna be strict about it I always thought a 2-step connection was easier to make out than a clear and distinct Timbaland connection - Steve Gurley particularly.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Tracks 2 and 3 were the only ones I wanted to keep from the last Bubba album. The rest of it sounded like Guns N' Roses melted into a banjo fondue to soundtrack reruns of CHIPS.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link

That sounds awesome though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Which were 2 and 3 again?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The ones that sounded more country. Track 2 had Ryan Pedder on vocals. Can't remember what they were called, being at work and the CD not being to hand.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

'Jimmy Mathis' and 'Comin' Round'. MC be more of a Neptunes man, right?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

MC you gotta love "Nowhere" and "Deliverance" and "Hootenanny", right?

Everyone quotes it a lot but I love that line in "Deliverance", "Solid on the surface as I crumble within/but legends are made out of vulnerable men"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

To be utterly honest, Tim, that's the first time I've seen anyone quote the line!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Wrong.

Definitely more of a Neptunes man. That Kenna album is something else, innit, even if it was recorded three years ago.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

nb: that "Wrong" was a Tim xpost.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

That Kenna album is something else, innit

Ah good! You and Dan and I can form a united front against Scott Seward on this matter. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

whoa man i don't get you guys at all. that album blows!

i've played the JBz to tons of people and given the album to one. i'm a one-man groundswell, i tell u.

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Opening for MoM only drove home the fact that they are incredibly dull live.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm really excited about this show tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

The idiotic Peter Margasak in the Chicago Reader:

Someone call Liz Phair and see if she can get him fired again.

― dlp9001, Friday, 29 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

To be fair to Margasak, I'd never really had a problem with his writing before. The descriptor "idiotic" mostly comes from stories I've heard about him from those who've worked with him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to the show tonight as well. I fully expect to get my ass knocked off by Mouse on Mars (who I've never heard before) and will demand a refund from ILM if I'm not satisfied.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd rather hear most of Timbaland's recent work than the Junior Boys, and I like the Junior Boys ok.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel safe promising you a good time, Nick.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

(Should we just meet up at the LSA, or do you want to meet somewhere beforehand? I have no other plans tonight.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, are you driving? Because we're meeting my sister and her bf at the show, and they're going to have a rental car, so if you could give us a ride to the show, then we can just ride home with them in their rental car afterwords and not have to have them follow us. Maybe we could go for a quick dinner somewhere before the show. I actually have a job interview after work today, so I'll be getting home a little later than usual.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I can give you a ride. How about you just call me when you get home from your interview?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm EXCITED TOO! WOO HOO! And John, that means you have to hang out with me too. Bwah ha ha.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

What does that mean?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

(You're just mad because I was never able to think of a celebrity you look like.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, awesome. CALL U L8TER D00D!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Rob Da Plank on The Blue Room

Apparently reckons The Junior Boys album was not released in the UK last year, but is available in the US !

Da Plank also wants the Junior Boys in for a session.

When is the next Junior Boys album due ? mentioned on

philip sherburne
http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004707.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i've no idea when the next album's due

― nick.K (nick.K), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

This stuff is awful.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

have the MFA "bellona" and the fennesz "teach me how to fight" surfaced yet?

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 19 June 2005 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link

whoa.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 19 June 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I just had a brain aneurysm. WHAT? jermaine, details!

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 19 June 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

re-reading this thread has really bummed me out.

― strng hlkngtn, Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i heard this album last night for the first time in a while and it sounded amazing!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

why strongo?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

(you don't actually have to answer that)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm depressed because i missed that tour with MoM & ratatat, why did i do that again?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

mike: apparently the "another birthday" ep is being released "soon", with an mfa remix of 'bellona' (i think it was fe zaffe that mentioned this on another thread), and a xtian fennesz touchup of "teach me how to fight"

― jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 19 June 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

So.... is there a release date on this ep? I've been checking occasionally but haven't seen any announcements.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 11 July 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm listening to the song "Last Exit" right now and I don't know if it's ever been noted before, but it's a fairly creepy little number, in a vague sort of way.

get you through the border.
keep the new car up all night.
hide you in the city.
they're watching so i'll take my time.
when the lights go out.
behind the bridge last exit.
through the highway's yellow glare.
have you been out this far?
when you think you're going,
you can change your face again.
if you think you're going.
no i'll catch you just the same.
hit the north 400.
the high beams slowly kiss the lake.
the trees are dark, it's just as well.
a fog shines off the hospital.
as the night goes past.
a silver light begins to show.
as if you could (who'd lit a call?).
your hair it starts to smell like fall.
when you think you're going,
you can change your face again.
and if you think you're going.
no I'll catch you just the same

also, Oldy over at the Voice dudded this one last week. ugh.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I always hear it as "know I'll catch you just the same", which is either a reassurance or a threat, I'm not sure.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

romantic getaway? kidnapping? who knows? it's great.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"the high beams slowly kiss the lake" is a beautiful line.

i always thought it was

and if you think you're falling.
no I'll catch you just the same.

but listening again and it is "going". i like "falling" more.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

listening to it now.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

it sounds even more wonderful now.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

this album sounds better today than it ever did!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

why does anyone think that xgau's opinion is worth a shit again?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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