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

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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

...

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always heard it the way Tim has. sounding better than ever in the Auckland winter &c.

― etc, Monday, 18 July 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

release date. ep. ANSWERS!

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Supposedly they've got an "Another Birthday" EP coming out. With another Fennesz remix, one by Matthew Dear, and some other stuff I know absolutely nothing about.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

evidently Christgau is NOT going bonkers about the Junior Boys. In his new extra laptoppy consumer guide he gives them a dud. They probably sound too much like posh eighties.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

why does anyone think that xgau's opinion is worth a shit again?
-- Gear! (speed.to.roa...), July 19th, 2005.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

has anyone heard the junior boys' remix of 'fumbling towards ecstasy' by sarah mclachlan?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AA3002/qid%3D1124118592/sr%3D1-6/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F6/002-4506223-3591203

― manuel (manuel), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow! Go Junior Boys!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm kind of sad that I emailed Domino and a few other email addresses and still haven't heard back about this supposed upcoming EP.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

sarah mclachlan - fumbling towards ecstasy (junior boys rmx)

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=22RKZC0LJLMPC0AKNJDCH7I9OJ

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks for posting that manuel. it's terrible!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 September 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i was dissapointed

― manuel (manuel), Saturday, 17 September 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link

haha. this is like one of thoes times your friend goes, "this tastes like shit, try it" and you do out of curiosity

― Jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 17 September 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link

actually most of the fault lies with the song itself (i've never heard sarah m. before and hopefully never will again) but i still don't like what the jb's have done here.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 September 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link

where MFA bellona already? argh!!

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 17 September 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah honestly there's no way i'm gonna get excited about a sarah mclachlan remix

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 17 September 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

hey, that mfa mix is now floating around.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

muerto from above?

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

What difference does it make? That EP still hasn't seen the light of day.

...
*groan*

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

there is a sound on 'last exit' (just betw. the intro and the vocal's entrance), a little synth fall, that is straight out of the goonies, I swear.
-- cozen (coze...), June 27th, 2004.
not 'last exit', I meant 'birthday'.

-- cozen (coze...), June 27th, 2004.

Haha, I pulled this album out to compare with the new one and it was driving me crazy trying to remember where this sound was from.

― splates (splates), Sunday, 11 June 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://assets.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/26911.x-news-juniorboysdeadhorse-sm.jpg

― jaxon, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:45 (seventeen years ago) link

jaxon, what's that?

― modestmickey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

remix ep. 5 tracks. out in april

― jaxon, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

boo. thanks.

― modestmickey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems like the second album didn't have the same staying power as Last Exit. More consistent perhaps, but nothing as impeccable as the 4-5 highlights of the debut lp.

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 1 March 2007 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

no way, the second album is if anything even more sublime! the chorus of 'the equalizer' ranks up there with anything on the first album.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 1 March 2007 09:13 (seventeen years ago) link

2n album much greater.

― jed_, Thursday, 1 March 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, assuming this is the final tracklist and not just the promo:
In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix)
FM (Ten Snake Remix)
Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)
Double Shadow (Kode 9 Remix)
FM (Marsen Jules Remix)

That MFA remix from the first album was never released officially, right? :/

― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

another vote cast for second album much better

― modestmickey, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgOMG

― lex pretend, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Props for getting Ten Snake on the case!

― Tim F, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The Tensnake mix is the only good one. possibly the songs are just too close to me now but the Hot Chip and Carl Craig Mixes made me think they had missed the point of the songs or never understood them. the CC one gets better after a pretty awful intro but it's fairly rote. The Kode 9 mix doesn't even have Jeremy on it except for one second at the end - you could read tat one second blip of him as an insult - but it does have bleedin' spaceape moanin all over it.

― jed_, Saturday, 3 March 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

actually the Kode 9 one does have some jeremy buried under all the layers and it is a decent tune if not the remix i wanted.

― jed_, Saturday, 3 March 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

The "itunes session" version of "under the sun" might be my favourite thing by the boys ever. it is its own Studio remix! total disco shoegaze, even moreso than maurice fulton's ost & kjex remix. tim, get on this.

― jermainetwo, Thursday, 19 July 2007 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link

the album has been re-released with all of that itunes session and all the remixes on a bonus disc. must get!

― haitch, Thursday, 19 July 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link

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