― pm, Thursday, 25 December 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
last exit is lush.
― Nik (Nik), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― pm, Thursday, 25 December 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― pm, Thursday, 25 December 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
― dr.0845, Friday, 26 December 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
It sounds like Telefon Tel Aviv with vocals except way more sparse.
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 27 December 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
― kin, Sunday, 28 December 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― nick.K (nick.K), Sunday, 28 December 2003 20:51 (twenty years ago) link
― pm, Saturday, 24 January 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 24 January 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 24 January 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― pp, Monday, 26 January 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 January 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
(haha when will more material be available? & what's this about Manitoba remixing "Birthday"?)
― etc, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link
get this straight, the junior boys are not the second coming, they are not god's gift to music (they are not even god's gift the grime mc come to that), they are NOT THAT GREAT.
also arthur russell was and is a genius, i've heard calling out of context, so unless you have as well, then either put up or shut up.
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago) link
you never explain yrself, yr just some tired old patrician.
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
i don't need to explain myself, other people pay me to do that, and i'd rather be a tired old patrician than a futureless pleb like you, so don't try it.
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link
― searchanddelete, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link
― how can you not hear the junior senior?, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link
russell nah, myopia meh, and i wouldnt go so far as ripping off but Junior Boys Influences TM like the above have been part of the propaganda since day dot, they've said as much themselves; these things don't leap out at me tho certainly not the way everyone in the world has said the same verbatim and i feel suspicious towards what sometimes looks a v artful game of flirty blogverse flattery. not that i've spent forever digesting the junior boys sound but c'mon really?
― prima fassy (bob), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago) link
― prima fassy (bob), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
the second ep isn't all that, except for "high come down" which is fucking aces (but, like, two years old now.) manitoba needs to fuck back off to indie rockdom, like, yesterday.
according to nick (and jeremy) the album is being mastered as we speak. (hee hee i heard an album track and yooooou didn't.)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
<< / my word is law >
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
I too am a bit lukewarm.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
I must hear this band.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
hey john
― jeremyg, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
ok...now pretend i wasn't ever here
― jeremyg, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
Prima are your reservations about the transparency of Junior Boys' influences or that people talk about said influences too much?
I think both are a result of - as Tom alluded to - a lot of people wanting exactly this sort of band to come into existence for a long time and either being underwhelmed or predictably overwhelmed now that it has happened. It's too tempting to look at Junior Boys and see the stylistic equation (and either be over-excited or suspicious of that) rather than the group themselves. ie. it's almost too fitting that K-Punk is their biggest cheerleader because they're like the total (mathematical) solution to his problems with the current pop landscape. The tendency is understandable but it can get in the way of whether the music is actually really good or not (I think it is).
Phoebe is unintentionally playing the same game by bringing up Arthur Russell ("my reference points for this group are more obscure and seminal than yours!" basically). I hope it doesn't stifle the group's progress with self-consciousness (Jeremy stop reading this thread now!!)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― prima fassy (bob), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link