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

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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)

cutty thx for making me SICK.

― ddb, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, you love stars. faggot!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

junior boys are sexier tho.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

'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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean you don't?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"last exit" is by far my favourite track on the record.

btw, nick, i am so SO sorry. soon i promise.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

assuming this isn't a trick question which you say it isn't nick, my early interpretation is about losing somebody to someone else, despite a long relationship and dedication to them and the frustration at the situation etc. bellona is the roman godess of war so the conflict idea follows. perhaps the subject is the same individual as in 'more than real'

but maybe i'm on the wrong lines all together.

― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm amazed at how much i like this album - over the last few years i've tried to get into junior boys stuff other than 'birthday', but it's never really grabbed me. i've listened to the album quite a lot over the last week, though, and it's really becoming quite a compulsion.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 21 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i will join you in your particular bellona reppage, adam.

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

just interested in hearing what other people think of it, I had an early history of skipping the track. i used to dismiss it because of the impression it gave me, without ever listening or thinking about it much.

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 21 May 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Bellona" stood out, especially on the original sampler ep, as an oddly bouncy number partly due to the house beat (I think I initially thought of it as v. Jurgen Paape-like). Not to mention that with the more groove-focused 2-step tracks like "I'm So Into You" that were on there it felt like the furthest edge of JB's song/groove spectrum, whereas on the album it rubs shoulders with the v. song focused "Teach Me How To Fight". Frontloading it near the beginning was a good idea I think, because it makes it seem less of a diversion.

Still trying to work out what to say about this album that isn't essentially a reiteration of my earlier comments on the group.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 21 May 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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