Junior Boys have been diminishing returns for me - this album is fantastic, Is This Goodbye is pretty good, and Begone Dull Care hasn't really grabbed me, apart from a couple of tracks.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not sure that's what diminishing returns means
― cutty, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
always dug bellona the most ~ should re-listen lotta great tracks
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
More Than Real is the one I listen to most, then Teach Me How To Fight
― OCD Scrobbles (I am using your worlds), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
All of them.
― Touch of Death, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a tough one. i still enjoy this album a lot.
― Crêpe Diem (carne asada), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Bellona narrowly ahead of Birthday
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, not sure about that now I've listened to them again
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Bellona is the only track on this that I'm pretty indifferent to.
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 10 September 2009 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
high come down
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"More Than Real"
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 September 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
so i had a chance to re-listen to this today, it was better than i remember! going to vote for "High Come Down."
going to play again tomorrow.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 12 September 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
'Under the Sun' - mainly because of its hypnotic, West-End-Girls-ish quality that hooked me at first listen
Bellona is a close 2nd though
― Malcolm Money, Saturday, 12 September 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not voting in this but only b/c i can't decide. i think "birthday" was the first song to hook me. but i put "high comes down" on my best of '04 mix. and "under the sun" is so great whenever i've seen them live. and "bellona" and "teach me how to fight" are fantastic, too.
― jaymc, Saturday, 12 September 2009 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
sleeper hit on this for me is THREE WORDS. especially walking home on a dusky grey nite
― anza, Saturday, 12 September 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
High Come Down
― rentboy, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know this album very well besides "Last Exit" and "Birthday" which are both among my favorite 00's songs.. I should probably listen to the rest soon.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
You should. The earlier singles (or all the singles, I guess) are all Johnny Dark collaborations, whereas some of the stuff toward the end of the album isn't, although it's still in the same vein but doesn't have the 2-step flavor to it that Tim mentioned.
I think I still have what was supposedly the unreleased MFA remix of Bellona, somewhere...
― mh, Saturday, 12 September 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 12 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
voted "teach me how to fight" as i think i have listened to it at least 200x's.
i always feel a bit melancholy whenever i play "last exit". as an aside,nice to see nick kilroy's kin records site still online.
― drone/a/sore, Saturday, 12 September 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm I voted birthday but reading through the responses I agree that teach me how to fight is just as goodI like these polls where I can make an honest vote having heard every song
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 13 September 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I also like 'High Come Down' and 'Last Exit'I much prefer this to the newer Junior Boys cd which isn't as catchy or soul-gripping as songs like Birthday and Teach Me How To Fight
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 13 September 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
hey birthday is track 6 - another win for my favorite track # (like in that poll) :)
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 13 September 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
unbirthday is pretty great as well
― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 13 September 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
There's no way TMHTF is the best track...I like it and everything, but the first four tracks and Birthday are miles better. The songs with Johnny Dark are what make the album the classic that it is.
― Touch of Death, Monday, 14 September 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ILM otm
― bnw, Monday, 14 September 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
would definitely have voted for 'three words'. what's it doing all the way down there with 1 vote?
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"keep the new car up all night" is such a great lyric
― deaths and oil painting graphics (blank), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
I loved all Junior Boys albums from So This Is Goodbye through It's All True, but have never listened to Last Exit.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 25 March 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
cool story br0seph
― caulk the wagon and float it, Sunday, 25 March 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
musicfanatic!! give it a listen!!!
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
We had a listen to Last Exit at Record Club:
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/junior-boys-last-exit-round-34-toms-selection/
It really is a hard album to pin down. Has it stood the test of time?
― yugi ex, Saturday, 8 September 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
yes imo
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 12 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
wish some of these songs were longer.. like "more than real" or "under the sun" should have 5+ minute outros where they just vibe into the sunset.
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 April 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
isn't that how they rock 'under the sun' live, shoegaze stylee?
― j., Saturday, 12 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
yeah this is album is a classic
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 12 April 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
i will listen to this today. amazing amazing record. i think it will remain timeless?― cutty, Wednesday, September 9, 2009 1:56 PM (nine years ago)
― cutty, Wednesday, September 9, 2009 1:56 PM (nine years ago)
I think my favourites are "More Than Real" and "High Come Down", I wish they'd done more tracks in that sexy driving 2-step vein.― Tim F, Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:09 AM (nine years ago)
― Tim F, Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:09 AM (nine years ago)
― willem, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 08:44 (five years ago) link
True on both accounts (and timeless goes for most of their discography imo). I wonder what they're up to.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
2018 was a terribly difficult year made easier by great friends, family and well wishers. love to all. new music in 2019. 🖖 LLAP— GGBOY (@Juniorboys) December 31, 2018
― willem, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link