Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Now I Got Worry”

sfilzen — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:59:19 +0000

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Now I Got Worry” released 25 years ago today, October 15th, 1996. Matador Records. JSBX’s fifth LP is one of my top 5 of all of their releases (though I may be guilty of saying that about all of their albums). Wild and noisy punk blues with some of their iconic tracks including “Wail;” Weird Al Yankovic directed and made a cameo in the highly entertaining and hysterical video which includes Spencer popping out of a toilet and Judah and Russell doing the macerana). Other great tracks are “2 Kindsa Love,” “Fuck Shit Up” (a cover originally by Dub Narcotic who they toured with in 2002 – at the show we went to Dub didn’t end up playing because they got there late but did manage to incite a mini-riot and get the club shutdown), “Chicken Dog” (with guest vocals from Rufus Thomas and Mark Ramos Nishita aka Money Mark), “R.L. Got Soul” and “Can’t Stop” which has the greatest – and most truthful – line of all time: “Throw your hands in the air and kiss my ass ‘cause your girlfriend still loves me.” We saw JSBX during the tour for this record at the Barrymore Theater – and got to go backstage after the show – in Madison, WI about a month after its release (Nov. 9, 1996 – as always a huge thank you to pop-catastrophe.co.uk for having such a thorough archive!).

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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Wail”

sfilzen — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:08:28 +0000

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Wail” b/w “Flavor (live version)” 1997. Mute Records, 45 rpm on green vinyl. (I have no idea why Jon is misspelled “John” on the cover of this single.) “Wail” appears on JSBX’s 1996 album Now I Got Worry, which is in my top 5 Jon Spencer records. Spencer, well, wails, with visceral intensity on “Wail,” backed by bluesy guitar (Mr. Judah Bauer!) and heavy beats (Russell Simins). Weird Al Yankovic directed and made a cameo in the highly entertaining and hysterical video which includes Spencer popping out of a toilet and Judah and Russell doing the macerana. The live version of “Flavor” is at super-speed with a theremin shrieking its accompaniment. The original version of “Flavor” is from JSBX’s ‘94 LP Orange (probably my favorite release and it contains my all-time favorite track, the instrumental “Greyhound” which, to my everlasting delight, the band played per my request at their Madison show in June 2015). The album version of “Flavor” has a much slower grooving tempo and the best part is the phone call recording of Beck, speak-singing “you got the flavor!”

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