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

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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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

I think that's right, isn't it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

do you love them?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

the lyrics are quite clear on the manitoba remix.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

haha, sounds nothing like it!

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

yeah. no vocals.

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

just sing it yourself when your phone goes off!

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

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

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

Where was this?

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

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

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

This was in toronto at the horseshoe tavern.

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

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-two years ago)

"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-two years ago)

Where can you buy the EPs online?

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

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-two years ago)

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-two years ago)

just imagine.

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

i just vomited my lungs into my lap

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

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-two years ago)

haha Franz Ferdinand + Pharrell Williams!!!!!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm too confused by it to laugh.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently, the real deal is now on slsk.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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

!?!

― todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

franz ferdinand is the furthest thing from this.

this album is GAY and WONDERFUL, however!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

farthest?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

How do we know the real thing, then?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― ian_k, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

(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 (twenty-two years ago)

true. but stars were from new york first.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

and boards of canada are not from canada.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

stars are more:

romantic
wistful
nostalgic

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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