'I'm looking for fast and cheap': THE JAMIROQUAI SINGLES POLL

UK singles only. Not included: some nonsense they did with Jools Holland

Alternative poll image: http://www.clusterflock.org/jaykaylambo5.jpg

Deeper Underground is the only right answer.

You're wrong: it is Canned Heat (or maybe Cosmic Girl or Feels Just Like It Should)

I don't know any of the post-"Little L" ones, so who knows, but I rate all of these and I don't care who knows it:

When You Gonna Learn
Too Young to Die
Emergency on Planet Earth
Space Cowboy
Stillness in Time
Virtual Insanity
Alright
Little L

...of which "Stillness In Time" and "Space Cowboy" are probably stuck in my head most often. "La la la la, la la LOOOE la la la la LOOE!" Great!! "Virtual Insanity" is probably the most tightly-constructed thing on here though. Hrm.

(Don't) Give Hate a Chance

So are we supposed to give hate a chance or not?

Fuck these guys

"Feels Just Like It Should" is a helluva jam.

"When You Gonna Learn?" was my 3rd favourite single of 1992.

Canned Heat is their slickest single, and since slickness is all they really ever had to offer I'm voting for it.

it's their fastest (along with Love Foolosophy) at least.

Love Foolosophy is another extremely stupid song name.

http://i33.tinypic.com/2vd3e60.jpg
What a video, though

I loved the first album. Kinda lost site after album 3.

Can't deny Blow Your Mind to this day.

Not much love for Jamiroquai, then. I don't get it. These are great pop records - good tunes, tight playing, lots of fun once they dropped the environmental stuff - and they never sounded like anyone else (anyone beyond 1978, anyway). Plus I've got a lot of time for ambitious young bucks like Jay, provided they've got the talent to back it up and don't take themselves too seriously (Geldof, Halliwell, Borrell, I'm thinking of you). He took the right road - proper pop star behaviour like cars, girls, minor scuffles, silly videos and so on

Actually, there is so much general hate about JayKay, that I'm surprised things have been quite polite on this thread.

too young to die does faux-stevie wonder quite well

I thought the lyrics of "Virtualy Insanity" were very profound when I was 11, but "Canned Heat" it is. Those may be the only two Jamiroquai songs I know.

I don't get the general hate, though! He might not be likeable, exactly, but he doesn't preach (anymore), isn't smug and looks like he's having a good time. I could do without the lyrics bitching about the press, but that's good enough for me. Better than Robbie Williams or Damon Albarn. Tell me why I'm wrong

People don't dig the retro steez and Campaign for Real Funk vibe, I think. Also probly too much filler. I say this as somebody who likes his stuff.

I mean there's a lot of singles in that poll where I haven't got a clue what they sound like. Also probably disliked more by association with an imagined audience, like Acid Jazz.

Also he wears stupid hats and is a bit posh

He looked a bit like Marky Mark in the 'Too Young To Die' video (I liked the vid for it's really nice woozy American imagery)

Best Jamiroquai Album Ever: his Late Night Tales comp. That's immaculate, that is.

I've got a lot of time for Half The Man (and I'm giving it my vote); its cute squelchy synth lines were the first thing that made me think Jamiroquai might not be so bad after all. Deeper Underground doesn't flow that well, but with that riff it doesn't need to, it's still great. Virtual Insanity is undeniably their best single though.

Also, I'd have been tempted to include "Do You Know Where You're Coming From" by M-Beat featuring Jamiroquai in this poll. That was fantastic.

I've got no interest in post-Toby Smith Jamiroquai though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Too Young To Die". Stevie Wonder by numbers. :)

Well, my efforts to rehabilitate this band seem doomed to failure, so I'll steal an old story from popbitch:

Jamiroquai lost a bassist at some point in the late 90s and a friend-of-a-friend put in for the role. He turned up to an audition and played some tunes with the band for a while. All going swimmingly, so well in fact that afterwards he and the drummer hung around and jammed on their own for a while, just the two of them. After finishing up, the bassist leaves the studio to find Jay Kay in the car park, setting about the doors of his ford focus with a two-by-four.

"What the hell are you doing?! I thought that went well"
Jay turns to him: "Get yourself a better car, mate ... you've just joined Jamiroquai!"
"It's my mum's car"

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

we're too young to
DOO DOO DOOOO DOOOO DAH DAH DOOE DOOH DOOE DOOH DOOOOO YEAH

(roommate is listening to some kind of Jamiroquai greatest hits on Spotify and it's sounding pretty good)

Just ordered the singles collection because I’m finally old enough to stop pretending I don’t enjoy this danceable silliness