Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "J" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM?

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jackson plastic
jackyl
the jai-alai savant
jet circus
j-henry
john gavanti
linton kwesi johnson*
john wilkes booze*
jo jo gunne
al jolson*
scott joplin*
montel jordan*
jordy*
josie and the pussycats (2001 movie version)
junkie xl
junkyard

* - perhaps i should have searched these first, but i didn't.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Jo Jo Gunne = half of Spirit, had some hits didn't they? In the US AND the UK.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

The UK JoJoGunne were a show band, I believe. I heard that they were abroad at the time of their one and only hit "New Orleans".

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Eh? Most confusing!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Confusing indeed. I know nothing about the show band, but the group that contained former Spirit members did indeed have a sizable US hit with "Run Run Run."

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Ignore me. I'm thinking of "Harley Quinne".

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Jordy is Ally's favorite performer of all time. (Perhaps.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

i know everyone loves linton kwesi johnson for his awesome dub sides and his awesomer politics, but i love him most for "loraine," the hilarious and catchy-as-hell love song on bass culture.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

junkie xl - the last excessive guestlist album (radio XL) had some fine electro-pop-dance tracks that out moded depeche mode, and out numan'd numan. enjoyed the sheer genre hopskotch of it for a few days, but never gone back, may have to dig it out and try that one again.

http://www.radiojxl.com/

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

The Jai-Alai Savant = The band headed by Ralph (Major Taylor) from Franklin, who should also get lots of love from ILMers, despite their absence from xhuxk's CD shelves.

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Junkie XL was/were actually even more fun in their pre-Elvis-remixing days, as an imitation Prodigy act. (The double mixes album was okay, but *Saturday Teenage Kick* is the only one I still own.)

Never heard of Franklin, Tony. Do they sound like the Police, too?

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I have a John Wilkes Booze album. They sound a bit like Causey Way, which is a good thing in my book.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

i know everyone loves linton kwesi johnson for his awesome dub sides and his awesomer politics, but i love him most for "loraine," the hilarious and catchy-as-hell love song on bass culture.
-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...) (webmail), Today 3:46 PM. (later) (link)

It always reminded me of Rik Mayall.

"When it rains, right...
I always think of YOU!
L(uh) - rain!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Franklin's last record (self-titled, on Tree records) starts to show a bit of the dub/Police sound that J-AS has, but their earlier ones are (very good, I might add) DC-influenced punky-pop (think Ignition, Holy Rollers, etc.) The "Roy is Dead" 7" (on Great American Steak Religion) is the best thing they've ever done.

― Tony Bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

John Gavanti - the no-wave opera, or just some band I've never heard of?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

John Wilkes Booze -- obscure if standard indie hard rock band for people who don't like hard rock shtick. Heard one album, something in the title about "eyes" and the "divine," anyway the civer was blue green. Couldn't get all the way through it. You're way better off listening to Jo Jo Gunne, especially the CD with the really obese naked girl on the cover.

Josie & the Pussycates, movie version -- I liked those songs. Wasn't that the Letters from Cleo singer doing it?

Jackyl -- American redneck metal, still around after the tail end of the the genre collapsed in '91. The woman who packed belongings for the moving company when I came from Pennsy to soCal saw the first CD in my collection and was thrilled. Asked if she could play it while she was boxing things and commenced to work speedily to the tune "Lumberjack," about the singer's girlfriend who could always "jack his lumber." Guy wielded a chainsaw in videos and onstage.

― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

>John Gavanti - the no-wave opera? <

Yeah. I'm not really sure where else to file it; doesn't say "Sumner Crane" on the cover or anything. Filing it under G would imply that Gavanti is the performer, which he isn't. So I decided the opera is *John Gavanti*, by an otherwise nonexistent band called John Gavanti.

And right, Josie is Letters to Cleo's lead singer. Kate Hanley, right? (I have never heard a Letters to Cleo or Hanley album, though.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

The only time I heard Letters to Cleo was when one of their songs, a minor hit, was used on some TV program I watched regularly in the early 90's or thereabouts. Maybe a little later. Very pop, I liked it.
"Pretend to Be Nice" from the Pussycats movie was excellent. More girl bands should cover it.

― George the Animal Steele, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

pour quoi ci, pour quoi ca, pour quoi c'est comme ci

pour quoi ca, pour quoi ci, pour quoi c'est comme ca

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

jamie janover
jolie holland

― Robin Samples (Robin Samples), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Jolie Holland belongs in the H's for sure! (Though not *my* H's.) (Unless Jolie Holland is a band, like Jethro Tull, who are in my J's not my T's. But it's a person, right?)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

The John Gavanti album is great. Sumner did a blues album after this called Coffin Full of Blues. Was supposed to come out on a label called Hyrax as a cassette release, but it never happened. Supposed to be really good!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I've always sort of appreciated Jackyl's lyrics, which are a little like Ted Nugent's, minus the subtlety and all. Exceptional examples being "Chief Rock-a-Ho" and "Open Invitation (I Hate You Bin Laden)."

Jai Alai Savant (at least the four-song demo I've got from a couple of years ago) are totally great. Search Ralph's story about getting mugged in Chicago.

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I was honestly just thinking about why there isn't a thread on Jan Jelinek's new album here.

I should probably do a search before I say anything though . . .

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Thursday, 1 December 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:02 (fifteen years ago)

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