johnny foreigner

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starting a thread about my favorite band, who are putting out a new album tomorrow, and who hybridize late-'90s celestial emo a la american football with the twee punk energy of early los campesinos! (the bands used to be very associated with each other, less so now). in 2011 they put out a total double album masterpiece called johnny foreigner vs. everything which included atomically dense punk against piano ballads and spoken word interludes and fluttering electronics. this is the best band ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PY53SdyUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y850JqE7r7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbJNi4ibKE

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:48 (eight years ago)

I have always refused to listen to them based on the name alone.

Matt DC, Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:49 (eight years ago)

that's reasonable

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:56 (eight years ago)

also think this band is uncommonly great lyrically, every song seems to take place in the simultaneously bitter and reflective space generated by four-to-infinity drinks

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:02 (eight years ago)

gonna make this thread an unreadable series of embedded youtubes but i looooove this song's extremely brief interpolation of b.o.b.'s "airplanes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf7GyYk3NuY

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:09 (eight years ago)

bugger.
i have a pre-fame cd-ep of theirs somewhere in the archive.
its not even listed on discogs.

mark e, Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:16 (eight years ago)

wow i have not thought about this band since "eyes wide terrified," which is a serious jam

adam, Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:27 (eight years ago)

ok, i have dug deep .. the ep has clearly been eradicated from the archive.

sorry brad.

mark e, Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:57 (eight years ago)

that said, i did find another maximo park cd/album i had forgotten about ..

mark e, Thursday, 7 July 2016 19:58 (eight years ago)

aw dang i was really excited / tbh this band puts out so much material

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 July 2016 20:17 (eight years ago)

ayo mark was the ep you mentioned the first thing in this retrospective https://thealbumwall.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/backchat-johnny-foreigner-on-their-back.html

who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 8 July 2016 13:55 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y850JqE7r7Q

the best song ever written by anybody ever

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:19 (four years ago)

way more ppl on this board should be obsessed with this band, just. imo.

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:37 (four years ago)

three years pass...

https://johnnyforeigner.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-and-sea-were-part-of-me-or-i-was-part-of-them

new EP, prologue to a new album out sept 13. the songs they've previewed from the album ("what the alexei" and "orc damage") are fucking amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldLU0Jdc4k

ivy., Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:38 (eleven months ago)

three months pass...

love the new record so much i wrote about it, we'll see what happens

ivy., Friday, 13 September 2024 20:23 (eight months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-pCRJpOq0s

absolutely one of their best songs

ivy., Friday, 13 September 2024 20:24 (eight months ago)


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