Say Something Nice About Jamiroquai

Well, it's something.

However, assuming you or your opponent first bingos out for "IROQUAI", a legit word pertaining to a Native American Tribe, placing the tiles in the bottom or top right corners of the board with the word ending on the triple word score so that the Q is on the double word (a not too shabby 78 points plus 50 bonus for using all your tiles = 128 points), it's then merely a matter of adding a J, A and M before, covering the central triple word score, bringing in another 90 points. Hate that hat, like those numbers.

I was thinking more of an improbable set-up whereby the board has words running down from A7, A11 and A14, beginning with 'A', 'O' and 'A' respectively, and you happen to find yourself with JMIRQUI on your rack. Run it across from A6 to A15, and you pick up 392 points.

(Btw, I'm not sure even 'Iroquai' is permitted).

well good. went to see them at wembley area (?!?!) cos ex girlfriend loved it, at least they played the old stuff but it was awful.

i think its astonishing that people will still buy the same product aftyer 8 yrs of stright up acid jazz. i mean, no ones buying any incognito records any more, are they?

damn right. AND i like the high llamas, but nor the beach boys...burn him at the stake etc.

actually i'll make a thread about this.

Todd

That's not a lead in, that's the nice thing I have to say about Jamiroquai...

I like their albums a bunch load and the new one is just as good.

i love 'return of the space cowboy', always liked that the first lyric on the album was

everything is good
and brown

???

bump 4 gr80, late great, balls, brimstead, etc

on it bro

why does ILX get all Jamiroquaied out late of an evening?

definitely something to be said for the 'quai from EOPE through 'funk odyssey'. i hear the new one is possibly v good? if no one knew what jay kay looked like i suspect they'd have a much higher rep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb05jhh6K_8

I know that objectively this is horrible, but they are such pros, especially the bass dude, and it's so good timey that if you don't like this you and I will be forever strangers

I was listening to KISSTORY the other night, and for 3 hours it was heavy hit after heavy hit. Then return of the space cowboy came on and I'd retained enough goodwill to not hate it completely.

can't be done

My dad's bumped into this guy at a few old car shows and says he's alright (I still think he's a cunt though).

(Jay Kay, not my dad I mean)

a huge favourite w/ W11 drug dealers early-mid 1990s (jay kay, not nickb's dad i mean)

wiki on the cosmic girl video:

The F40 was provided by the Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, who drove in the video as well.

i love 'return of the space cowboy'

Oh, I like that album a lot, too.

They invented the phrase "interplanetary good vibes" which is kinda cool in its own way.

why are they (considered) so bad and hat(t)ed?

hats

i only know that one song and i'd like to keep it that way.

these are the "get lucky" guys, right? Sweet jam.

Buffalo Man is the name of the silhouette character featured on most of the covers of Jamiroquai's releases. It was created by Jay Kay between 1992 and 1993. It is based on the Minotaur from the Greek fable 'Theseus and the Minotaur'. Jay Kay stated "I really identify with Theseus. In fact, I'd say I am the most similar person to Theseus to come out of Stretford in the past 50 years."

what a pro. still got it.

why are they (considered) so bad and hat(t)ed?

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd like to know this too.

I didn't know they were hated. In my city everybody loves some random jamiroquai in the house party playlist. They're one of the few 90s artists my generation my generation doesn't frown upon.

Wrote twice by mistake.

Anyone taking them seriously is bound to hate them.

I once heard a friend describe them as the 90s Steve Miller band.

They're excellent, I have nothing but love for these cats.

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

The first two albums were huge among the Phish crowd in my high school, but no one else. Didn't like the third quite as much and so just did my best to ignore all the hype around Virtual Insanity. Amazed that somehow they had a multiple sports-car ownership kind of success.

vocal hating on the 'quai is a sure sign of a dreadful bore

Like the world needed two red hot chilli peppers.

Yup. Maybe it's a reflex in the UK tho.

(that was an xp)

The best thing about Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender.

most people who really hate Jamiroquai like boring shit anyway so

ah i see rtc already made that point for me

Big fan here.

big hater here

sorry, i mean hatter

Someone is playing Jamiroquai at the party I'm at right now. It seems to be the least polarizing selection so far. I guess people seem to find them innofensive, that could be a good thing if you don't really know what to play?

He obviously likes Stevie Wonder... which is something nice in anyone.

Haha. You called Jamiroquai "unique jazz". Awesome.

(You have heard this thing they call "Jazz", right?)

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:44 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know, when Jamiroquai were at their peak, I was working at a Sam Goody and one of my co-workers played them all the time. One day an older black man came up to me:

What's this? Kinda sounds like...
-Stevie Wonder?
I was gonna say "Jazz".

This was followed by a somewhat awkward navigation away past the R&B and Jazz sections and over to the Pop/Rock section where Jamiroquai was shelved to show him the CD. I really don't know what kind of jazz people listen to that sounds like Jamiroquai.

Jamiroquai is filed in acid jazz at amoeba. I guess some of their stuff could also be slightly similar on occasion to mid-late '70s disco funk jazz.

yeah, but i mean most acid jazz acts didn't sound very jazzy to me either.

yeah acid jazz was confusing as hell

The first two albums were huge among the Phish crowd in my high school, but no one else.

― how's life, Thursday, August 29, 2013 1:16 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's really strange, bc my friends who tipped me off to jamiroquai were these big phish/blues traveler/widespread/big head todd/medeski martin and wood fans. did they tour with phish at some point maybe?

No, but they had didgeridoo and a percussion section. Aligns more with the parking lot aspects of jam band movement.

i think they toured with Galactic at some point, and maybe were on the H.O.R.D.E. lineup.. plus they have "jam" in their name. and their logo is a viking hippie dude. *shrug*

huh, reading now that Galactic started in the late 90s so I'm probably wrong on that count.. carry on

ha. was rereading s reynolds' takedown of (his version of) mod/soulboy attitudes from 99 and it ends on an interesting question

And here's the truly perturbing twist---quite often it's been the "pale theory boys", the studenty, art-school, pretentious twats that your mods and soul-boys love to mock--who are not only the first to grasp the new cutting edges of black music (I'm thinking here of your Cabs, New Orders, Mark Stewarts) but who even occasionally have reciprocal influence back on black music (DAF and Throbbing Gristle with the Chicago house pioneers; Pop Group deeply shaping members of Massive Attack, etc). Standing to one side of this fruitful dialectic of funklessness and refunktification, the mod/soulboy types condemn themselves to irrelevance and redundancy. Can you imagine any black musician being inspired by, or finding some re-deployable element worth stealing in, the music of Kirk De Giorgio, Jamiroquai, or the Style Council?

he couldn't have seen tyler the creator coming!

but also this is generally a thing for jamiroquai isn't it. tyler isn't alone in that regard but - if the story of him rebuking the 'prat in the hat' utterance from an interviewer when pressed on his fav artists is anything to go by - in the uk it's still at least somewhat greeted with the insipid 'cool american r&b and hip hop people like naff uk pop lol wut?' that has gone with the phil collins/coldplay respects in the past.

as for saying something nice about jamiroquai myself... supersonic RULES. it sounds like super_collider! lots of other great tunes too