This is one of those singles that pretty much got away but remains alive due to the efforts of middle aged bloggers like me. Johnny Boy were a London/Liverpool two piece working with loops and guitars. They released this single in 2004, single of the month in Jockey Slut (the final print issue which is where I heard about it) and it got to number 50 in the charts. It rides in on Phil Spector's drums and tambourines, adds a sheet of guitars, an anti-consumerist message and ends up chucking in a chantalong finale and a wall of noise. It rushes by and then stops dead. It should have been massive. The follow up album was decent but didn't have anything to compare to this. Yeah yeah.
You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve
2 comments:
An absolutely fabulous single. Tha album was very good too. Whatever happened to them? Like you said - shoulda been massive.
One great single and out would have been too perfect.
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