Jukebox Junior: Playing records to a girl called Junior
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[2] Yazoo, 'Only You'
More humanity in machines. Even Alf’s nasal, masculine drone finds some emotion, tripping over itself in the later lines, cracking and interrupting itself. It’s a great performance; she finds more rhythm in her tone as the song goes on and Vince ups the tempo as all the feeling comes pouring out. Gives Junior’s old dad a bit of, erm, hayfever.
The girl herself raises her arms in the air and sways them from side to side. This is a reaction I haven’t seen, more typical of Rod Stewart fan during ‘Sailing’ or a Foreigner fan during, well, anything. Junior’s calling ‘Only You’ a soft rock ballad. Hmm. Swap the synths for power chords, and what have you got?
Right. Depeche Mode, Yazoo, the Assembly, Erasure, countless productions/remixes: where’s Vince’s Outstanding Contribution Brit? Sign my petition now.
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doctortripswitch
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(26.7.06 13:02)
No, Bingo, I was fairly relaxed.
Good on you, Lilo. Fight the power.
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amillionpieces
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(26.7.06 13:17)
Junior is clearly quite the sharp musical analyst now. Can she spot future hits?
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bingolittle
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(26.7.06 14:30)
Ah. So you were
alert, animate, animated, blithe, blithesome, bouncy, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper*, chirpy, confident, convivial, devil-may-care*, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, fun-loving, gamesome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, light-hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasure-seeking, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, zippy.
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doctortripswitch
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(26.7.06 14:47)
Heh. Heh. Heh. Yes, I was all those. I must be more so now, 'cos I moved Yazoo up from No.7
amp- that's what this place was meant to be in the first place, a proper Jukebox Jury, but we lost focus, erm, before the first post. We should do it more often.
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Katja
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(26.7.06 16:38)
Oh yes. I'll definitely sign it. And one day when I get famous you'll be able to sell it for loads of money. Ahem.
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doctortripswitch
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(26.7.06 16:51)
(I haven't got a REAL petition, Katja)
Then again, if there's demand...
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amillionpieces
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(26.7.06 17:02)
Doc, hehe, yes, like a weekly review of singles to predict chart positions 
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Katja
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(26.7.06 17:24)
Well, if we're going for gritty realism, I very much doubt that my signature will ever be worth much more than tuppence. Ah well.
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amillionpieces
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(26.7.06 19:52)
I'll give you a threpenny bit if the backs of the pages are blank so I can reprint on the back?
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