I Need A Full Grown Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Orange" Poll

BABYEHBABYEHBABYEHYOUSURELIKETOFUCK

this is actually really hard.

WANNA DIG THAT DITCH

THE BLUES IS #1!

Russel Simins was a hell of drummer

This album >>> every other embarrassing minstrel show indie rock has churned out since.

These guys never really caught on with me like Pussy Galore (or Royal Trux)did, but it's REALLY hard to argue with a line like "TAKE A WHIFF OF MY PANT-LEG BABY BABY", or that clip from that French talk show.

preferred Extra Width

extra width is dope too.

i hadn't listened to this for years, now in retrospect it's totally kicking my ass.

this is one of those albums I haven't owned or listened to in 5 years that I've had an inkling to buy and hear again pretty much the whole time.

Incredibly hard, but the first time those strings come in on "Bellbottoms" just kills me (and another vote for "need to dig this out of the rack" post haste, by the way...)

the stooges sax solo on the end of "ditch" is so dope

Everything up to and including this albums is great. If you can stomach Jon Spencer' shtick. Which I can, and willingly do, though not for some years now. I'm not sure if it's for nostalgic reasons but this may be my favorite album after the first one.

I second Russel Simins statement. Saw him do a drum solo once over the top of an ear-splitting theremin squeal, and almost entirely rode the snare. Such a beast on that little kit.

I also second Alex In Baltimore re the minstrel shit.

Fuck I'm going to listen to this right now.

AHHHH THOSE STRINGS

"Very Rare" is the best Booker T and the MGs song not by Booker T and the MGs

greyhound

'Now I Got Worry' is the definite one

I had this, sold it, and have been in a quandry similar to AiB's whenever I think about this record (like now). Tho I think I have Now I Got Worry (bought used post-Orange sale) boxed up somewhere. I'm a dummy. (Baad might disagree, tho.)

this poll is impossible!

The correct answer is Dissect.

This album could have been recorded a little more in the red. God I'm lovin it right now, though.

my memory of this is really really hazy, but, BRENDA

saWEEEEEEEEEET BRENDA

lol at backing vocals in full grown

Who is that other guy with Beck at the end of Flavor?

I went with Brenda.

"Dang" beats "Brenda" for me by a nose because it made me want to learn to play harmonica. Also, great video that pretty much encapsultes 90s indie

Pretty sure the voice on "Flavor" that isn't Beck is Jon Spencer himself...

the "Dang" video was responsible for one of the greatest Beavis & Butthead segments of all time.

Yeah, I always thought it was JS w/ Beck at the end of "Flavor". Went with "Very Rare", a total cop out 'cuz, groovy as it is, it feels like a throwaway. The meat of the album is in stuff like "Bellbottoms", "Dissect", "Full Grown", etc. "Greyhound" remixes are awful damn good too, but maybe that's another thread.

I'm with the folks who loved this album for a while, but then just kinda gave up on it. Not sure why, and I'm not sure why I gave up on John Spencer in general. Guess the schtick just got too thick. Not that he didn't keep on writing good tunes: I love "Rocketship" offa whatever it was a couple years later.

Along with the Jesus Lizard and the Flat Duo Jets, JSBX = one of the most consistently, reliably spectacular live acts of the early 90s. At least as much for Russel Simmins as for Spencer himself.

"Ditch"

In my head the other voice was always Mike D., but I think I've got a wire crossed with that remix album or whatever that was.

HOOS would have loved these guys.

HOOS explosion! HOOS explosion!

LOL

Went with 'Dang' 'cause it's got a lotta spirit. This was tough and I too am pulling it outta the vinyl racks today.

blues x man!

"experimental remixes" >>>>>> "orange"

i'm with alex in nyc, ditch is the one that sticks in my mind, i guess maybe because "dig that ditch" is the rottenest, nastiest, smelliest, disgustingest, awesomest sex metaphor I can think of.

amazing live shows around the time of this album

i guess maybe because "dig that ditch" is the rottenest, nastiest, smelliest, disgustingest, awesomest sex metaphor I can think of

-- kenan

Except for the "awesomest" part.

i bought this record from stephen pastel, because he had it on in the shop

i had no idea who stephen pastel was, and clucked encouragingly when he said he was in a band

later that night i put this record on and my 16-year-old friend who only listened to techno asked me if that was what people called "heavy metal"

"i need a full grown woman, down on her ass"
nobody brings it live like spencer did way back. i still remember him swinging from the fire extinguisher pipes in an undergrad iowa city meat market. when the frat boy bouncers get up on stage and threatened to end the show, spencer made his way hand over hand to dance on top of the bar. sister ray, jr, for sure

i bought this on a whim, cause it had a silver j-card and a bright orange transparent cassette. wound up being the soundtrack of my life for 1994/5 and was the first thing my now-wife and i listened to. i love this fucking record. i could live without anything else by jsbx (except "big road"), but this is always going to be a favorite.

"full grown."

I followed JSBX around Florida on the Acme tour!

"Sweat" for me. Really love Experimental Remixes too, particularly the Killah Priest one.

Is he still around and stuff? Does he still put out albums? Doesn't Russel Simmins drum in some band of children now or something?

I think the last album was Damage. Unless it wasn't. After that I think he just did that side-band Heavy Trash? I haven't really followed, his albums seem to go downward after Orange. Live is a different story.
Damage had its moments, I thought. Not so keen on Plastic Fang.

What I've heard of that new In The Red thing (singles? rarities?) is pretty great.

^^^I mean his live shows. All the material he played from albums I didn't like, including some of my *least* favorite JSBX songs, absolutely killed live.

Seems to be a popular opinion that he went downhill after Orange, which to me is weird cos Now I Got Worry is my favourite JSBX album! Although yeah after that they got pretty eh. I don't think any of the albums after that are great although they're mostly okay. I thought the self-titled Heavy Trash album was pretty crap.

Oh and Dissect for this poll!

Doing a video with Winona Ryder = shark well and truly jumped.

I think it was in all Matador records contracts in the 90s that a band had to feature Winona Ryder in a video.

Or have at least one member with a "Winona" tattoo somewhere on their person.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Ahhh I couldn't choose so I just went with the last option. Anyone else pulling this bullcrap?

nobody brings it live like spencer did way back.

JSBX live on telly at 9 on a Saturday morning in 1997, after playing a show the night before

LOL at stupid cameraman who doesn't know how a theremin works and won't get the fuck out of the way.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow i thought bellbottoms would win easy

I have a cassette somewhere of boombox demos for this record that a friend gave me. Think they shared the same rehearsal space. I need to find that tape.

Oh, yeah - I vote for BELLBOTTOMS!

Weird - my 2nd choice would be "Cowboy," for sure!

Capitaine Jay Vee I WANT HEAR!

I'm surprised Sweat and Dissect rated so low, but it seems a lotta folks just pulled the same cop-out move I did.

I can't believe I missed this but probably would have voted "Ditch". Also can't believe how long it's been since i though about JSBX. I lent this to a boy I had an crush on in college and never saw it again. :-(

I was disappointed with every JSBX album I bought, but there were always two or three good-to-great songs that kept me trying another album. There's probably a killer compilation to be made from all the CDs (if I hadn't sold them.)

only one I remember from here is "Bellbottoms"

Who could forget.

Capitaine Jay Vee I WANT HEAR!

QUOTE DIS IF YOU WANT JAY VEE TO POST BOOMBOX DEMOS ALRIGHT

I gotta find that tape first.

^^^*nudges*

What is the line in "Dissect" that I always WANT to hear as "This love tastes a whole lot like chicken?" but I know is probably something else?

Jon Spencer theremin demonstration

Orange is the last one I bought. I think I got a promo of Acme which was ok, but the first three are tough to beat. It seemed like the live show started suffering around the same time although I saw some great Boss Hog performances afterward.

Seeing Spencer's first solo tour (Crypt Style) opening for Jesus Lizard (Liar tour) was really great. So stripped down and I just barely recognized him from Pussy Galore album photos. A really fantastic, hungry rock band at that time.

"Ditch" was robbed here, I feel

i got to holla up early in the morning, oh baby twitch