If JFA were still together: s/d c/d?

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Ok, I'll admit that it was a Majesty Crush song that made me curious about Jody Foster's Army. I hear that they're surf punks from Arizona, and it seems that everything except for their 2000 album is out of print. Any good stuff? Anyone got any YSI that'll let me know if I should look to eBay etc.?

― js (honestengine), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

NO
ONE
CARES
ABOUT
YOUR
SHITTY
OLD
BAND

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

OH NOES IVE BEEN TROLLED

― js (honestengine), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I can't tell is n/a is quoting a JFA lyric, or he really thinks JFA is just some internet band trying to plug themselves. (Admittedly, I only knew a few JFA songs, but not enough to quote lyrics.)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

(Unless, I've been missing something and JS is an ex-member of JFA?)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

(My brain is still in "clueless" state. It's the Monday after T-day weekend. That's my excuse. Apologies in advance.)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Heh. I'm not in JFA or Majesty Crush, and never have been.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

my faveorite JFA song is "I Want" off of the mad garden ep. great trumpet! one of my 100 fave hardcore songs of all-time:

And the works arise
from dead spiders
as the world wonder why
the bright get brighter
but that's only one way
to look at it
the happy get happy
the sad sadder

Go ahead and look away
there's only one one view on things
and that's mine
so go ahead and look away
it's the only answer
only one that I could find
SO things look different
and they're the same
individual worlds
so who's to blame
and you're not reading this
they way I wrote it
so knock if youdon't
and I want

the live album is great. first album is great. buy it all and go skate something! "This one is for Jack Rabid, and he's not even fucking here, man."

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

JFA featured a Sun City Girl.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

no way!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I do remember JFA being very chummy with the Girls back in the day, and had them open for them all the time, much to the dismay of all the skaters who came to the show. I never knew any of the Girls were in in the band at any point, though -- although I wouldn't be surprised. I do hear some JFA in Sun City Girls, though, especially JFA's instrumental "Baja Surf" (or similarly titled.)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

VALLEY OF THE YAKES & S/T (UNTITLED) EP PWNZ ALL

DAN I THINK U MAY BE WRONG.....UNLESS IT WAS EARLY ON BEFORE THEY RECORDED ANYTHING????

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

maybe...I coulda sworn I read somewhere that one of them played guitar for a spell in the beginning. I know they were buddies, both on Placebo, oh just found this:

http://www.suncitygirls.com/discography/others.php

saying Alan Bishop played with JFA at some point.

Not to de-rail..but is that Paris 1942 record good? What's it like?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Scott Colbourn on meeting the SCG:

I met them in '84 on their first tour when they were on tour with JFA. The band I was in was opening up the show, and the band that was after us was the Sun City Girls. And I watched the Sun City Girls' set and I thought it was rather odd, and not really appropriate for opening for JFA. But I liked it anyway, just because it was ultra-strange. Then, after JFA played, I walked up to the bass player thinking it that it was Michael Cornelius, because I had had letters exchanges with Michael and I didn't really quite know what Michael looked like -- I saw a hazy picture at one point. So I'd just walked up to bass player and said, "Are you Michael Cornelius?" And it was actually Alan. And he turned around and he was like, "No, I'm Alan Bishop. I was also in Sun City Girls before." And we just kind of hit it off. The next thing I know, we're sitting in the bus; they're playing the Last Poets for me, and I'm playing the Gynecologists for them. It would go back and forth like that. And I just kept in touch with them after that, just being into the band. The first record hadn't come out, and I just wanted to keep in contact because I felt that I discovered a new band worthy of time.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I SIT CORRECTED.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I hear that they're surf punks from Arizona

From "Beach Blanket Bong-Out"...

SURF PUNKS WE'RE NOT! SKATEBOARDS WE DO!

...and if they were still together, they'd probably be very sad indeed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

And, really....being a surf punk from Arizona is kinda like being snowboarder from Hawaii.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.7inchpunk.com/

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

That said, they did do surfy type songs though, occasionally.

Phoenix isn't THAT far away from the coast, as least for a day trip.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Also, Hawaii often has snow-covered mountains.. granted, it ain't the Rockies nor the Alps.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

In the movie North Shore, doesn't the little surfer dude vist Hawaii from Arizona?

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

JFA is still together. If it makes them happy, I think it's alright. But I certainly wouldn't pay to see them and they were one of my favorite punker bands in the 80s.

I was in a band that played with them in Cleveland in 1995. It was a weird and sad thing. Punker re-unions are terrible, because it's ultimately music for youth.

― Alan Ormsby, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Get "We Know You Suck" CD on Alternative Tentacles, compiles their 1st EP "Blatant Localism" & 1st album, I think. That's good stuff, haven't heard anything after that.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

best band ever.

― jody fosters armoires (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

OH MY FUCKING GOD I THINK I STILL HAVE THIS CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I DO I DO I DO! Blast from the past!

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Oooh do I dig that keyboard in the middle.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I was speaking about Majesty Crush.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I absolutely hate the song that inspired this thread, btw ;) I have it on a Che records compilation. It sounds absolutely nothing like JFA.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Che records really? That's interesting.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I saw JFA back in the day and heart them muchly. It was is '84-'85 or so and oddly enough it was the first time I'd ever seen a Vox Super Continental organ

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Well I wish I could hear what the real JFA sounded like then, as I have no idea.

― Debbie Harry Was A Hippie (Deborah Harry was a Hippie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

As a former punker in Phoenix during JFA's heyday, I have to say CLASSIC! I haven't really heard anything since the Mad Garden EP, though. If memory serves, they had an instrumental cover of the DK's Police Truck that they called Pipe Truck on their untitled (I think) LP, and it pissed off someone from the DK's cos they didn't get credit or something. I have the memory of a goldfish.

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Alex was quite correct earlier with his Beach Blanket Bong-Out quote. JFA were not surf punks. Skate punks. No ocean in AZ, but plenty of concrete (including empty swimming pools).

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

I think Bishop might feature on one mid-period seven inch by them as far as recordings go, but it's at my mum's so I can't check.

The 1st LP plus more CD on Alternative Tentacles is highly recommended.

― Raw P at work, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

'Baja' sounds like fantastic Arazonian surf music to me despite being made at least one or two hundreds of miles from the west coast but i'm a Limey so what do I know about surf apart from the washpowder. However, some way cooler people than me will point to Newquay in Cornwall.

'we know you suck' still sounds good to my old ears

― hull hole (hull hole), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

They did a great cover of "Walk Don't Run," as I remember.

And the LP was called Valley of the Yakes, no?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

We Know You Suck? Ok. That's the one I'll look for.
And while I like the song that made me think of JFA, I have been told before that it sounds nothing like them...

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

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