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

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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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

"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 (twenty years ago)

listening to it now.

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

it sounds even more wonderful now.

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

this album sounds better today than it ever did!

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

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

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

...

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

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 (twenty years ago)

release date. ep. ANSWERS!

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Wow! Go Junior Boys!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

sarah mclachlan - fumbling towards ecstasy (junior boys rmx)

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

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

thanks for posting that manuel. it's terrible!

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

yeah, i was dissapointed

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

where MFA bellona already? argh!!

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

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

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

four months pass...

hey, that mfa mix is now floating around.

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

muerto from above?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

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

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

jaxon, what's that?

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

remix ep. 5 tracks. out in april

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

boo. thanks.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

2n album much greater.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

another vote cast for second album much better

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

Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgOMG

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

Props for getting Ten Snake on the case!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

There are three or four live Junior Boys sessions floating around as podcasts. The latest I've heard is their sonar set at http://www.youarehear.co.uk/ although I believe KEXP's podcast had them as well.

― mh, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Listening to this Johnny Dark EP (: ) !) it is a total shame that he is not in the band anymore. He is really lacking on the second album IMHO.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 21 July 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I wish it was Jeremy Greenspan, not the San Serac dude singing on Johnny Dark's new project, album soon apparently.

Under the Sun session vers. kills yes. It needs remixing into a 15 minute balearic epic though!

― Alex xy, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for posting that link!

― I know, right?, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

San Serac is like an excercise in 'what if David Bowie couldn't sing'? Maybe it will grow on me.

― Alex xy, Saturday, 21 July 2007 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

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