Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong - let's set up a lazy zing thread about these dudes now instead of having to do it in February.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/1007830759_e5756c8196.jpg

Seriously, if you're gonna sound like Razorlight's little brothers, at least try not to look exactly like... ah forget it.

don't all these threads just end up as ppl zinging louis cuz he's rich?

Stick w/what you know.

This dude is Sigmund Freud's great grandson or something.

"I'm beggin of yer, plz don't take my mannn!"

so are they properly popular now or are you just bored dom?

He seems to be wearing his tie inside his shirt collar?

They are on the NME tour in Feb which I assume is why that month was cited

~Is the band name meant to be a Spike Milligan reference?

It's a reference to something from the 30s. They're basically another meat and veg indie band, but they talk about the 30s a bit, like The Horrors talked about the 60s a bit. It's what pop's all about, kiddies.

You know what's a good song? "Self Esteem" by The Offspring. Why don't more English bands sound like that song?

Imagine the lyrics to Self Esteem sung by Alex Turner. I wonder if you can.

Geezer was in "Peep Show"?

Apparently so.

He seems to be wearing his tie inside his shirt collar?

-- DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 14:57 (40 minutes ago) Link

this needs to be addressed

I had to review this lot "blind" a few months ago ("Lonely Buoy" being the track in question), and gave them quite a favourable write-up at the time. Are they not that good, then?

http://the-art-of-noise.blogspot.com/2007/05/5x5.html

I've never heard the band but Joe Lean sounds like a Chris Morris invention:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2215302,00.html

Looking forward to "the drummer from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong" becoming an ILX meme in five years' time

don't all these threads just end up as ppl zinging louis cuz he's rich?

would that this were true. my education merely happens to press dom's buttons, that's all.

Hey, who *doesn't* get turned on by public schoolboys

Joe, still only 24, spent several years as a member of The Pipettes

if he bagged any one of them it was well worth it.

Only 24? Wrinkly old hasbeen.

By a staggering coincidence a dude was just in my office talking about the boyfriend of one of the Pipettes, specifically how he got sacked from his job for having his fingers in the till

The next Pipettes album looks like a good candidate for a Dom Passantino Takedown review.

you can't do the puppini sisters thing again dom, they'll send you parcel-bombs made from vintage lipstick-dispensers

shocked that the first one wasn't.

lol women, amirite?

I believe the correct sentiment was 'lol puppini sisters fans', actually, but chacun a son gout.

Yeah, these guys are wack. Dude dances like Larry Grayson.

That Guardian story that Braveclub links to is fucking hilarious. The Zing Thread is written already in every single one of this guy's quotes.

But I'll save you the click-through:

"I find no problem with baring my soul to the extent that people know I want to compose for gamelan."

"the first thing I did when I got off the plane was head to Harvey Nicks and shout 'get me an amazing, fuck off pair of boots'"

"I mean, in the sense that I wanted to be grouped within this sonic aesthetic, then of course it's imperative we sound like Razorlight! I want to sound like Razorlight and the Strokes and Bloc Party. But we don't actually sound like any of them. We're broader than that. I want to make music that a tribe in Papua New Guinea can relate to."

"I hate actors. Vapid, ambitious little creatures..."

"My voice was trained when I was six, because I'd go to youth groups. That was what you did when you lived on a Brixton council estate, to keep you off the streets."

"I feel all this hype does is expose the conglomerative, sadistic nature of the music industry. Like, when I read 'this band are going to be big' I just think 'surely that's just anti the whole concept of taste and palette ?'"

"Every B-side we ever do, we're going to choose a genre that isn't us, and then have a musical theory lesson with a scholar of that genre, work out the rules and then compose a piece. It's an excuse for us to develop as composers."

"I want to promote the escape to the mind's antipodes! I want to be like silver surfers flying through space on biscuits hitting you in the tits!"

OTM. This guy is the sort of prize buffoon we haven't really seen since the arse end of Britpop. I want them to be as big as Kula Shaker.

Also, dude talks like Louis.

"Every B-side we ever do, we're going to choose a genre that isn't us, and then have a musical theory lesson with a scholar of that genre, work out the rules and then compose a piece. It's an excuse for us to develop as composers."

this one's a joke right?

Ideally in the era of Music 2.0 we'd be able to nominate a genre for them to tackle.

First up - dancehall.

2. Bassline

Someone should ask this dude if he'll ever write a spherical song

i hate this country

lol.

3. Powerviolence

4. Indie

OTM. This guy is the sort of prize buffoon we haven't really seen since the arse end of Britpop. I want them to be as big as Kula Shaker.

I realise I'm ultimately clowning myself by giving any thought to this, but our man here seems a little too much like he's playing a character to be quite as funny. Still, high hopes and that

5. funk

6. hyphy

7. Horrorcore

8. Reggaeton.

9. mnml w/them getting their lesson from Villalobos

9. mnml w/them getting their lesson from Villalobosclusterfuck 600 post ILX threads

10. Madrigal

11. Cumbia

12. baile funk. lessons from diplo, naturally

^^fuck this might actually happen.

13. Nu-metal

14. Queercore

15. DARKWAVE.

what do you do if you meet someone who likes these guys, or, say -- real example from life -- 'the mighty boosh'? it's not easy.

16. Gamelan. Oh, wait a minute...

17. power electronics a la whitehouse

what do you do if you meet someone who likes these guys, or, say -- real example from life -- 'the mighty boosh'? it's not easy.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 11:40 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I usually have sex with them

18. Interesting

19. Spoken Word

20. Music Concret

21. Generic Indie pop

dom passantino - virgin hunter

BBC7 are doing the mighty boosh at the moment (I'm not sure if it's the audio from the TV show or an earlier radio play, i suspect the former). It's still pretty good without the picture. Listen again on the link below (probably won't work for too long)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/wednesday/rams/2330.ram

-- Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 March 2005 20:21

I'd have gone with a Cutty zing there, but top work nonetheless

22. Momus music, lessons from Momus

Also, dude talks like Louis.

only so far as we've both used the word 'palette' in musical discourse! he's far closer to Doug Rocket than he is to me. his opinions are berkish and insulting. his insistence on composing for a single genre at a time is brainless. his similes are grasping and clumsy. he isn't half as eloquent as he'd like to think. i've taken the bait, haven't i?

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23. Zeuhl

24. Cardiacs

25. Its the jing-jang-g-funk era funked out with a gangsta twist.

xpost: that ain't a genre (it's a way of life), nah, PRONK is probably the closest single term.

26. "Post-rock"

PRONK

Ah 'Organ' fanzine, how I miss your unreadable screeds about crusty prog bands

*sobs* you just don't UNDERSTAND *storms upstairs*

More like Joe Lean and the Zing Zang Zong, amirite?

(Srsly. How did you guys miss that one?)

I'm hoping they do covers of "The King Kong Song", "The Ping Pong Song" and "The Ying Tong Song".

"where the cows go bong"

On The Ning Nang Nong

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the cows go Bong!
And the monkeys all say Boo!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping
And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang!
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So it's Ning Nang Nong!
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning!
Trees go Ping!
Nong Ning Nang!
The mice go Clang!
What a noisy place to belong,
Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

(Reproduced by permission of Spike Milligan Productions Ltd, sort of)

Anyone notice this Joe Lean fellow on that "Tudors" Henry VIII whatever it's called thing?

o he played Thomas Tallis didn't he! i saw a few moments of that mainly cos i'm a big Tallis fan and my sis alerted me to the fact that he was being played on tv. she fancies him rotten, tho i think that has something to do with the portrayal.

i thought thomas tallis was an ilxor?

AFAIK Tallis wasn't a pig-thick Indie ballbag tho.

Brit Indie 2007 is entirely based on The Darkness minus tunes.

he made a good likeness actually

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Thomas_Tallis.jpg

"Lamentations of Jeremiah" is the jam

Thomas Tallis = much better looking

yep and the show fucking stinks so i haven't bothered going back for more.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/11/whos_the_next_big_thing.html

MrFreeman
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November 29 10:47
London/gbr Little Man Tate of Sheffield.

Amazing sound, great songs, better and funnier than anything the Arctic Monkeys has produced....

My tip for 2008!

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did you report him?

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By a staggering coincidence a dude was just in my office talking about the boyfriend of one of the Pipettes, specifically how he got sacked from his job for having his fingers in the till

Is this some kind of modern euphemism?

The BBC website is currently canvassing music industry opinions for its annual Sound Of... poll, which predicts who will be pop's big things in the year to come. It has a pretty good track record, having foreseen Mika's success in the Sound of 2007 list, and previously tipped the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and the Scissor Sisters.

lol hubris

If I remember right, most of those "tips" were on the back of huge media coverage and a widely-reviewed album due out in January. lol Nostradamus.

Anyone here that would get behind a zing thread about The Courteneers? This is some of the worst shit ever and I have a bad feeling about their impending popularity

Heh one of my friends has been going on about them for ages, seen them live several times - he always likes all the worst Brit indie shite around, so I fully expect them to be terrible (never heard them myself).

Was he Sophie's brother in Peep Show?

Yeah.

Didn't watch Peep Show so don't get it :(

He was actually my favourite character from that last Peep Show series, which was generally shit.

Well, that's numberwang!

Dialogue driven post mod with a tingling swagger has been helping Mancunian heart-on-sleeve yelpers, The Courteeners match contemporaries such as The Rakes and The Cribs. “Acrylic” builds in the frantic and panicking pitch of Liam Fray, around the spindling jingle of guitarist Conan Moores to make you feel like you've just been thrown out of a council house party.
A trickle of arrogance seeps out like smoke from a cigarette in an enclosed place. The Courteneers' mission is to make the likes of The Twang's brief flirtation with fame, shorter than even the biggest critics expected. There are new kids town.

There isn't a sentence there that doesn't make me want to die.

Ban Mancunians from ever making music again, now.

dom hasn't heard working for a nuclear free city and has scant regard for elbow ;_;

There isn't a sentence use of punctuation there that doesn't make me want to die.

spindling jingle ftw

According to his bio, he was actually IN "Nathan Barley," which is pretty amazing. That "Creation of Chris Morris" comment upthread... hmmm....

points added for citing the Dovers, one of my my fave 60's Nuggets bands, as an influence.

And, oddly, I am picking it up in their music-- oddly, it's not merely a big pretentious load of crap.

Joe is cool, I could easily lose the Jing Jang Jong and whatever other cutlery sounds you might choose.

sorry for the two "oddly"s. I think I might have been drunk or on painkillers or something when I wrote this. Never happen again...

The Courteneers are TERRIBLE, and you horrible people are fomenting terror by implying that one day they'll be popular enough make it across the pond.

and in the spirit of terrible recent PR releases, I doubt this one can be topped:

second single on the legendary stiff records from the displacements - hand numbered and limited to 1000 red vinyl copies. kicking up a huge storm in their hometown leicester as well as neighbouring midlands cities, the displacements are a young new band with big ideas and even bigger songs. if you've been fortunate enough to witness one of their turbulent live shows you will have seen the throng of kids going suitably mental and usually one or two naked stage divers, it is the midlands!. the band have caused such a fuss in their home town of leicester, the charismatic and surprisingly charming young frontman andy has found himself to be the heart throb to many young lasses, finding it difficult to go about the town unnoticed. after the success of their debut single 'frontline hearts' this summer which sold out within 24 hours of going on sale, the displacements are about to start their biggest uk tour yet, playing 20 dates back to back, which clocks the total up to 150 live dates this year. receiving the nod of approval from bands such as the enemy, pigeon detectives and fellow leicester boys kasabian, plus boasting an arsenal of huge songs nodding towards classic rock n roll references, this is a band worth getting excited about. new single 'lazy bones' is a firm live favourite and soon-to-be dancefloor anthem. 'lazy bones' has been produced by legendary producer owen morris (oasis, verve, ash, view) and mixed by barny barnicott (the enemy, kasabian) . b-sides 'amie' and 'out of your head' have been produced by hotly tipped up and coming producer matt terry!

Looking forward to "the drummer from Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong" becoming an ILX meme in five years' time.

If the show I saw last night is anything to go by, the drummer is the only one likely to be working in one year's time, let alone five. He was quite good. The rest of them were just mind-bogglingly, almost heroically crap. By anyone's standards.

From second billing on the NME Awards Tour, to pulling in not much more than 100 mildly curious, non-committal punters at the small venue next door, even as the opening act on that tour sits at Number One on the singles charts: the game is up, chaps.

Yeah, file this lot alongside Crashland.

I'd file them alongside The Others. Remember them? Inexplicably and remorselessly hyped by C.Mc.N, despite their screamingly obvious fingernails-down-blackboard crapness.

Being in the LBZC and not remembering The Others is like a WWII historian never having heard of Kristallnacht

http://www.nme.com/news/joe-lean-and-the-jing-jang-jong/38368

http://www.unctv.org/pressroom/jfk/images/AMEX3yearoldJFKjrSalutes.jpg

Fuck a VU acetate this promo CD is gonna put my kids through college!

What would have been the best album of 08 will now be the best album of 09.

These clowns were recording in the studio next door to me a few weeks ago, one of them asked me if I knew where he could get some weed because he "suddenly felt like getting high". He looked a bit crushed when I said no, the poor dear.

almost makes the £50k their label spent on the cover of the NME look like a bit of a waste dunnit?

chapter and verse please, upt0eleven!

no chapter, no verse. front cover of the NME to the highest bidder yo.

They should just cut out the pretence and always do it that way - like steroids and 100m sprinters, but not a crap old standup comedy chestnut

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Joe-Lean-The-Jing-Jang-Jong-DEBUT-ALBUM-DELETED_W0QQitemZ200241263812QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item200241263812&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318

Keep an 'eye' on this one...

Housed in a cardboard slipcase this cd is in mint pristine condition and has never been played.

like so many other promo copies out there i'd suggest - hence the record label wobble.

According to his bio, he was actually IN "Nathan Barley,"

Indeed, he plays one of the dickheads who works at Sugar Ape

physically?

Y'what?

There must be loads of copies of this about since it gets reviewed (8/10) in this weeks NME. Which means that it must have been supposed to be out next week and the full pressing had been manufactured? Unless there's some sort've greater game plan I'm not picking up on.

MVE's going to be packed this weekend, assuming they haven't already marked copies up to £30...

It was out Aug 4 so would be promo only still I guess

Presumably, this decision would have been taken before the button was pressed to manufacture real copies.

I just wonder if the newly recorded and more representative version will appear on Vertigo, or some other privately funded, um, smaller label.

Presumably, this decision would have been taken before the button was pressed to manufacture real copies.

if not then watch the £3 pile in yer local Fopp

(eg. see second Dead 60s second album thats never been officially released due to the band splitting up prior to its release)

there were two Dead 60s?

Presumably, this decision would have been taken before the button was pressed to manufacture real copies.

Don't manufacturing costs get charged to the band normally though? Just means they get less royalties right?

if not then watch the £3 pile in yer local Fopp

Overpriced surely?

Definitely. It should be in the £1 pile next to Music From The Sweeney and Sheila B Devotion Super Hits.

xpost well, if this really was the bands decision, I'd have thought they definitely would have decided before the manufacturing started.

If they had lots of Sheila B devotion hits CDs, would they use them as Spacers?

I'll get your coat.

It's hanging outside the office

Is this available online anywhere? I want to hear an album so bad that even a band called 'Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong' think it's too embarassing to release.

"I find no problem with baring my soul to the extent that people know I want to compose for gamelan."

the band's manager, Raye Cosbert, told NME.COM that he suggested to the band that they shelve the release because they had recorded it too early in their career.

Early in your career (or "career") tends to be the best time to release a debut album. Idiots.

Tony Secunda did the same with the Move. By the time their debut album finally came out in May '68 it was kind of too late.

It's torrentable from PirateBay I think.

Roy Wood never did finish that composition for large scale gamelan orchestra

Joe Lean
Joe Lean
Joe Lean
Joe Leeeeaaaaan
I'm begging of you please don't pull your album

http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories/i/inthecityjoelean.jpg

legit lol

putting the album off some more?

http://www.jingjangjong.com/

Nothing there. At All.

jolly good

Yeah, people want to hear "Pay TV" in a recession instead.

Their debut, self-titled album was originally due to be released on 4 August 2008, however this release was scrapped as the album "didn't represent their current sound". Copies had already been sent to critics, with the likes of NME giving it 8/10. The album was never released.

In October 2009, they parted company with their record label[8]. The band split up soon after. James Craig now drums for One Night Only.

Yeah, file this lot alongside Crashland.

so wrong. the Crashland album is still great from start to finish

did any other mcnicholas era nme protegés have such a short shelf cycle? all done in ten months without an album to show for it

i don't think they were ever hyped quite as much but pull tiger tail went through similar crap iirc, but they ended up buying the album back and putting it out independently. then split up straight after.

(also a good album)