Where is the love for all these bands from my vinyl 12-inch "J" shelf who have rarely if ever been mentioned on ILM?

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Please inspire me to pull them off my shelf and listen to them!

Ja Ja Ja
Chas Jankel
Jason & the Scorchers
Morris Jefferson
Garland Jeffreys
Bobby Jimmy and the Critters
France Joli
Jules and the Polar Bears
Junie

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

chuck is that "junie"
junie morrison? if so,
that would kick much ass

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep = and he's rappin bout rappin bout rappin bout rappin

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a huge fan of Ian Dury's "Do It Yourself," on which Chas Jankel was bandleader, but I never could get too excited about his solo work (the LP with "Questionnaire"?) Likeable, forgettable. Garland Jeffries' debut has one killer cut ("Wild In The Streets"), some Stones-y rock and a couple decent reggae-influenced cuts. I recall playing side one quite a bit, enough that it's still in my racks.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Garland Jeffreys -> I was obsessed with his single way back when I saw in high school.

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

wot no jellybean?

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh jason and the
nashville scorchers were the bomb
(maybe not so good)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The only Jellybean I own is "The Mexican"/"Sidewalk Talk" on a 7-inch (which I play when I DJ a lot, often back to back with either Babe Ruth for the A-side or Tom Tom Club for the B-side, but the one album I heard by the guy once didn't do much for me. Was I wrong?)

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Garland Jeffreys - he was Lou Reed's only friend at college

... the "at college" bit of that sentence is optional

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I've tried and tried to find Jellybean albums but no luck, just a handful of track. Yeah 'Sidewalk Talk' is good. 'Dancing on the fire' is also fantastic but you need to run run run and find yourself a copy of 'The Real Thing' because that's just wonderful. (I can YSI if need be).

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Jason & The Scorchers were pretty good, but I preferred the Long Ryders for that sort of thing, esp. the guitar freakout at the end of I Had A Dream.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Jules & the Polar Bears: after falling in crush with the Bangles' "If She Knew What She Wants," I went out and got one of their albums, & found it dullsville.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

see also Jellybean's version of Was Dog a Doughnut?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

BOOBY JIMMY AND THE CRITTERS.. The Macola Records house funny band!

It's extremely dated, and probably never pined to be anything more than that anyway.. just "of the year" Jonzun Crew style parodies of current r&b/hip-hop songs. I remember their parody of Prince's "Housequake" called "Milkshake".

There are a few great tracks off that one album from 1987, but generally hit or miss. Definitely worth reinvestigating.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(Um, that's BOBBY.. sorry)

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post: Yes! "Was Dog A Doughnut" kind of pre-dates that whole "Axel F"/"Chief Inspector" steady jazz-electro groove. I like 'em when they're episodic like that...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoah, is that Walter "Junie" Morrison as in former Mothership traveller?

Nice guy, he's stopped by our store more than once.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You've hung on to your Jason and the Scorchers' records? The passing references to JATS in "Stairway" always made me think that you regarded them as part of the problem, not part of the solution. Regardless, I thought they were a fun live band, and their mid-90s comeback work compares well with their earlier work.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Just have the first EP (the major label version with "Absolutely Sweet Marie" added on, not the original Praxis version, which I used to have -- oops, actually that'd be their SECOND EP; the first one, which I also no longer have, was the 7-inch with "Broken Whiskey Glass" or some title like that, right?) Which probably means I bought a replacement from a dollar bin at some point. Anyway, they started out doing some rocking stuff, now and then, and rocked less and less as time went on, far as I could tell. But oddly enough, I even liked a track or two that Jason Ringenberg (sp?) came up with in the '90s.

― xhuxk, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jason's 2003 record was an Old McDonald-type farm thing for children:

http://www.jasonringenberg.com/01_jr_content_%20pages/05_jr_discog/jr_discog_frameset.html

― c@md3n (c@md3n), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jellybean was either really shrewd or really crass in releasing "Sidewalk Talk" as his own song when it really wasn't. I mean, according to what I remember from little factoids relating to that song -- wasn't it written and recorded by Madonna? I thought I read that somewhere. Like, Jellybean MIGHT have done production work on that song, but the actual song itself was Madonna's through and through? If so -- yeah, either shrewd or crass.

This thread inspired me to listen to the one Chas Jankel MP3 I have, after having it around my HD for awhile. (It's "109", FYI. Liking it thus far....)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck, is that the France Joli album with "Come To Me"? Great song, far as I can remember. (Haven't heard it in a quarter-century!) Never heard Garland Jeffries except for his "96 Tears" cover. Never heard of Ja Ja Ja, the band, altho "Ja Ja Ja" is my favourite Trio song. And Jules Shear managed to contribute my penultimate least-favourite songs to both She's So Unusual and Different Light.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 May 2005 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gonna Get Over You" by France Joli got a lot of urban airplay in the early 80s. It's generic breathy-voiced eurodisco, not really weird or ambitious enough to hold much interest nowadays IMHO.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 16 May 2005 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Chas Jankel had a couple medium-sized hit 12 inch singles. "AiNo Corrida" later covered by Quincy Jones on The Dude! and "Glad To Know You." Pleasant.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 16 May 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

>Chuck, is that the France Joli album with "Come To Me"? Great song, far as I can remember. (Haven't heard it in a quarter-century!) Never heard Garland Jeffries except for his "96 Tears" cover. Never heard of Ja Ja Ja, the band, altho "Ja Ja Ja" is my favourite Trio song. And Jules Shear managed to contribute my penultimate least-favourite songs to both She's So Unusual and Different Light. <

1. yes, that france joli album,
2. wait, not "da da da"? i have, like, 3 trio albums at home (which all share a bunch of songs, i think), but i don't remember a "ja ja ja." i will have to go back and check. ja ja ja the band were indeed germans though -- neu deutsche wellers, but more dancey than noisy.
3. i can't stand jules shear's solo stuff, and agree with you about the songs cyndi covered. his first two polar bears albums were more herky-jerky new wave, a missing link between sparks and bloc party (or i dunno, the yachts and the outfield maybe). and like the police, they had a few early songs that did complex rhythms at punk speed.

As for "Sidewalk Talk," yeah, Madonna does vocals, but I'm not sure what the breakdown of duties between her and Jellybean was otherwise.

― xhuxk, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

2. wait, not "da da da"? i have, like, 3 trio albums at home (which all share a bunch of songs, i think), but i don't remember a "ja ja ja." i will have to go back and check. ja ja ja the band were indeed germans though -- neu deutsche wellers, but more dancey than noisy.

Uh, this reply is possibly 8 months too late, but anyways: "Ja Ja Ja" and "Da Da Da" were on the same album. They sounded not at all alike.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 13 January 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

haha

― van smack, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:58 (sixteen years ago)

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

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:04 (sixteen years ago)

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