What was the last GREAT Basement Jaxx single?

single list taken from Wikipedia; I am surprised "Scars" wasn't a single (massive oversight IMO as that's one of three bearable songs from that album)

Five-star great? Plug It In.

(I don't think I've ever heard Star/Buddy - was that really their first?)

i don't necessarily remember all the later ones, but i'm pretty sure i heard them at the time of release, and definitely didn't think they were great. heavy-heartedly, "plug it in" :(

"Raindrops"

"Take Me Back To Your House" and "Hey U" are both great IMO. ("Hush Boy"... not so much)

Of the Scars singles, "My Turn" is one of the few songs from the album that I didn't outright hate but I wouldn't say it was great.

i remember thinking "oh my gosh" was ok, but not great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhXzDGcD9g

This is "Dracula"

(this is better than a good 90% of Scars, not that that is difficult)

I remember hearing Oh My Gosh for the first time and thinking that, solid though it was, they'd suddenly become ordinary. My interest evaporated in a stroke. Which surprised me, because it's not a bad song at all.

did anyone else really like Zephyr?

Scars is patchy but "Raindrops" is a top-shelf Jaxx song, loved the shit outta that one

I didn't even know Zephyr existed until I created this poll.

'Plug It In', although I have a soft spot for 'Oh My Gosh' and 'Take Me Back To You House' I'd never call them GREAT. The latter ones are terrible.

Is this an "off the bus" by another name?

Kind of? I still hold out hope that they will stop being terrible because of the song "Scars" so I wouldn't say I'm off the bus, but it's a very similar question.

this was great i thought. wasn't on an album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PU_9RB2d4I

My Turn is brilliant i think and this faithful-to-the-original remix is one of my fave remixes these last couple of years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQox6uEZAUM

this remix is hot

Crazy Itch Radio is my fave Jaxx album, which I know is atypical. Wasn't feeling Scars, though "Raindrops" grew on me, voting for that since "Dracula" isn't grabbing me on first listen.

"Oh My Gosh" is close enough to great I think. Resisted temptation to vote "Rendez-Vu"

i think i got sonned on this very board for liking 'oh my gosh'. it's aight but 'plug it in' is near enough to godhead.

http://soundcloud.com/swindleuk/spend-is-dough-ft-roses-gabore

let's be real

"Take Me Back to Your House"

"Romeo"
"Jus 1 Kiss"
"Where's Your Head At?"
"Get Me Off"
"Do Your Thing"
"Lucky Star" (featuring Dizzee Rascal)
"Good Luck" (featuring Lisa Kekaula)
"Plug It In" (featuring JC Chasez)
"Oh My Gosh"
"U Don't Know Me" (featuring Lisa Kekuala)
"Hush Boy"
"Take Me Back To Your House" (featuring Martina Sorbara)

as good a run of singles as any british band this last decade or so.

I'd go back to "Samba Magic", and that's only because I've never heard "Star/Buddy"

"get me off".. i did not feel kish kash at all

Good Luck

So exciting hearing Samba Magic, Fly Life and Red Alert in a row, plus a lot of the EP material and Atlantic Jaxx productions.

'Plug It In', although I have a soft spot for 'Oh My Gosh' and 'Take Me Back To You House' I'd never call them GREAT.

mostly this. though I like Oh My Gosh a LOT. Also liked Make Me Sweat and Zephyr (which Dan should hurry up and hear), and surprised Cish Cash isn't on the wikilist.

lol no wonder that list looked incomplete

should have gone to discogs.com

"Samba Magic" is amazing and Kish Kash is their best album fuiud

with either of those things

I ended up loving "hush boy", after being underwhelmed for a while.

"take me back to your house" seems a bit too eager to please imo.

I've never been able to stand "Hush Boy" even slightly, talk about too eager to please.

can't believe more ppl don't love "raindrops" - u all mad

ah crap, I voted for Do Your Thing but just realised Good Luck was the correct option, oh well.

These guys fell off it Norman Cook-style. Such a shame. Tim F has a point about them trying too hard now.

I've never been able to stand "Hush Boy" even slightly, talk about too eager to please.

I see it as a throwback to a late 80s idea of eagerness-to-please, the effect of which makes it seem kinda understated if anything, whereas "Take Me Back To Your House" is like someone won a competition to make the new Basement Jaxx single.

I think I might like Crazy Itch Radio more if it rode that retro radio show vibe more wholeheartedly.

pretty much all the early EP stuff remains unfuckwithable at least. remember wondering at the time (summer 96) who was gonna be bigger - jaxx or the rhythm masters...

i went through that list above and decided i didn't really like anything past romeo except for hush boy - it's good because it's not the pop/garage format they were wearing on, but instead just a good funk / breakbeats.

and i guess irrelevent to thread topic but fly life is the only one that still gets played occasionally

lol no wonder that list looked incomplete

I maded u a present:
(everything with an A-side or later included on a singles comp*, listed by first release. Plus a few bracketed things for continuity.)
*I think

STAR / BUDDY – 1994, CG001

EP1 – 1994, JAXX001 (inc. Undaground)

EP2 – 1995, JAXX002 (inc I’m Thru With You)

SUMMER DAZE EP – 1995, JAXX 003 (inc Samba Magic)

[Samba Magic remixes released on 10” 1996, VCRADJ 14]
[single released as Summer Daze – SAMBA MAGIC – 1996, VCRT14]
[Samba Magic remixes re-released as Basement Jaxx in the Netherlands on 12” 1997, TRIP 037]

EP3 – 1996, JAXX006 (inc Fly Life)

[Fly Life remixes released 1997, 12MULTY21 / 12MULTY21X]

SLEAZYCHEEKS EP – 1996, JAXX008 (inc Eu Nao, Get Down Get Horny)

URBAN HAZE -1997, JAXX 010

Banana Kru – AUTOMATIC / SAME OLD SHOW -14 Sep 1998, BK001

RED ALERT / YO YO – 1999, JAXL 001

RENDEZ-VU / JUMP ‘N SHOUT – 1999, JAXL 002

[JUMP ‘N SHOUT, – 1999 XLT 116]

[U Can’t Stop Me remixes white label released in 1999 with BK 003 cat # - possibly intended as Banana Kru release?]

Banana Kru – RED ALERT (MIRACLES MIX) / K.O.P - 2000, BK002

BETTA DAZE - 1999, JAXX 013

CAMBERWELL EP – 2000, JAXX 015 (inc I Live In Camberwell, Camberskank)

BINGO BANGO – 3 Apr 2000, XLT 120

ROMEO – 2001, JAXL 003

WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT – 2001, JAXL 007

Banana Kru – MY NAME IZ START / CUT THIZ GROOVE – 2001, BK003

SPAN THANG EP – 19 Nov 2001, JAXX019 (inc U Took My Love)

JUS 1 KISS – 2001 JAXX020

[“Supergetoff” Get Me Off Superchumbo mixes white label – 21 Jan 2002, JAXL008]

GET ME OFF – 17 Jun 2002, XLT146

DO YOUR THING – 2002, JAXL 009

JUNCTION EP – 23 Sep 2002, JAXX024 (inc We R Computa)

LUCKY STAR – 10 Nov 2003, XLT172

GOOD LUCK – 5 Jan 2004, XLT178

PLUG IT IN – 29 Mar 2004, XLT180

CISH CASH – Jun 2004, XLR190

OH MY GOSH – 2005, XLT209

U DON’T KNOW ME – 13 Jun 2005, XLT215

[UNRELEASED MIXES EP – 12 Dec 2005, JAXX031 (two house mixes of Kish Kash album tracks and a B-side)]

HUSH BOY – Aug 2006, XLT241

TAKE ME BACK TO YOUR HOUSE – 30 Oct 2006, XLT253

HEY U – 5 Mar 2007, JAXL013

MAKE ME SWEAT – 19 Mar 2007, JAXX038

NIFTY – May 2007, JAXX042

TWERK – Aug 2008, JAXL014

FACEPAINT – Sep 2008, JAXL015

NIFTY BEATS – Nov 2008, JAXX044

RAINDROPS – 21 Jun 2009, XLT444

FEELINGS GONE – 7 Sep 2009, XLS461

MY TURN – Dec 2009 [promo, no cat?]

Jaxtrak – BRING THE ROBOTS – Aug 2010, JAXX046D (digital only)

[UNRELEASED MIXES 2 – 12 Dec 2010, JAXX048D (only proper release for One More Chance feat Lil’ Louis)] (digital only?)

DRACULA – 7 Dec 2010, JAXX050D (digital only)

fly life is the only one that still gets played occasionally

― fauxmarc, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 12:42 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

meaning?

he thinks they did great stuff later but he only listens to Fly Life now?

i guess. sounds more like the others are 'not played', which im pretty sure isn't true.

I used to love their Banana Kru bootlegs - still have them on 12".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKEoYhSZn0

Basement Jaxx are one of those bands that seemed to stop Mattering somehow, really abruptly. It's unfair to think that way, maybe. Some of their 2000s singles are pretty great but nothing came close to "Where's Your Head At" for me.

Ha indeed, still have those Banana Kru's as well! Always reminds of the great Thomas Bangalter reign from around that time ('Together', 'So Much Love to Give') which for some reason always seemed heavily linked, at least in my head.

I'm voting Where's Your Head At here, I gave up on these guys pretty much after Kish Kash, which I thought was mediocre at best. Their early singles (as compiled on this beast) still rule.

xp

i still hate "where's your head at", it may as well be a football chant. so uncouth

i still don't like "romeo" much either. funny that i never warmed to the big singles off rooty but everything on remedy and kish kash hits the spot 100% for me

KMT

re: crazy cousinz, i swear the most underrated thing they ever did was their remix of booty luv's "say it"

What's up with Crazy Cousinz anyway? I haven't been following the funky house skeptics thread. Have they done anything I need to hear post-"Inflation"?

They just produced an Omarion track.

It was good I thought.

hang on what, they PRODUCED for omarion?! not just remixed?

it seems they did! well i'll be.

!

it's called "forgot about love" fyi - listening now, it's...slow! and really quite nice.

Oh I heard this before (I think it must have been posted on rolling r&b). Still don't like it.

lol the first google autocomplete suggestion for omarion is "omarion gay"

Voting for Bingo Bango because I've always felt it's the under-rated high point of their career and sounds like the best intersection between their classic house influences and their UK "urban" dancefloor techniques. Plus, it was the high point of a Cream compilation I had when I was a teenager and it was really well-used in Sugar Rush.

'Where's Your Head At' isn't particularly forced but I'm sure there are some teeth-clenchingly forced imitations from a similar era that I've forgotten all about. Probably by Freeform Five or someone.

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Audio Bullys.

oh god what was that really really gross one!

i like the way you mooooove

vomit

'bingo bango' is kinda the worst single during their years of greatness

rly hate 'do your thing' but that's partly because it became a tv staple

i like the way you mooooove

that song is basically motivation to be a good christian, cause it's definitely the soundtrack to eternal damnation

"I like the way you move" isn't thuggish, it's faux-sleazy. There is a difference. And you can't blame basement jaxx for the bodyrockers when in between there was a whole canon of mersh electrohouse for the bodyrockers to draw on.

yeah can't really imagine anyone creating a "way you move" chant for the football terraces without immediately feeling stupid

The ancestors of "The Way You Move":

Felix Da Housecat, "Silver Screen, Shower Scene"
Planet Funk, "Who Said (Stuck In The UK)"
Armand Van Helden, "Hear My Name"
Deep Dish, "Flashdance"
Rogue Traders, "Voodoo Child"
Bad Cabbage, "You're Rude"

Re Crazy Cousinz, member Paleface smashed it with this recent funky tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNxH9b56Vek

Best bit is at 1:57 where the hyper cut-up vocal starts going "eep, eep, eep, ee-ee-ee-eepeepeepeep"

I'm kind of surprised you don't like "Gett Me Off", Lex!

Probably by Freeform Five or someone.

Freeform Five were great! But you might be thinking of Eeeeaaooww, with Bounty Killer?

can I just say "lol Audio Bullys"

"fly life is the only one that still gets played occasionally" meaning if you go to a party there's a pretty good chance if any basement jaxx gets dropped today the dj's probably going to drop fly life rather than anything they've done in recent years.

oh ok you crazy then

(if by "recent" you mean "post-Fly Life")

dunno about parties. feel like I don't hear much of any Basement Jaxx on the radio tbh but much as I love "Fly Life" it didn't get a lot of play first time round

absolutely, not to derail but fly life is a classic on it's own to the point that half of the time people don't even attribute it to being basement jaxx vs just recognizing the song.

haven't heard Glamma Kid in aeons either

I definitely feel like Rooty was a defining album for people in their 30s in the US entertainment industry; tracks from that seem to pop up constantly (most recent totally lolworthy example being "Romeo" and "Do Your Thing" appearing on the same episode of "Dancing With The Stars")

A completely personal impression here but there's also a kind-of retrospective innocence to it and a lot of other pop that was released in 2001 but pre-9/11.

haven't heard Glamma Kid in aeons either

he's on the amazing new lady chann single! http://soundcloud.com/gabrielheatwave/lady-chann-glamma-kid-sticky

Seeing Bassment Jaxx DJ/perform Remedy in New York in 2000 was the moment for me. I liked Rooty okay, hated "Where's Your Head At?," and tuned out after that.

Though TBH I was definitely caught up in the event of Rooty--I cooled on it slowly.

I like that "Dracula"! I just watched the disco scene in Fright Night set to it--I should really get to work!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Definitely "Raindrops" - right up there with their best singles IMO.

"Oh My Gosh" is close enough to great I think. Resisted temptation to vote "Rendez-Vu"

― ban parappa (the rapper) (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 April 2011 17:43 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Trick poll, Basement Jaxx never had a great single.

~see u later~

Where's ya head at

without a doubt

Isn't it their only song?

and yet there are other options in the poll

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

search fuction proved pointless, so i'm sorry if this is a re-post. but there's a new basement jaxx single that sounds uncannily like spice girls going marimba style/tropical flavoured house :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WDeCmK9dH04

^^i'm thinking 'spice up your life'

I don't really expect Basement Jaxx singles to be any better than 'passable' nowadays but that is SO BAD.

someone was all "todd terry mixes spice girls" but i'm thinking "what if current bjork was on dfa"

Transglobal Underground remixing Shampoo more like.

what the fuck was that

The newer singles off Junto are great.

Psyched. I know I'm one of the few, but I thought Scars was solid and at least half of it was spectacular.