Yes, I already wished Meryl Streep a happy birthday today, and seeing that she’s a national treasure, she really shouldn’t have to share her cake, but there are two other June 22 celebrants who’ve come to crash her PopWatch party: Alan Anton, of the Cowboy Junkies, turns 48; while Jesus Jones’ lead singer Mike Edwards rings in his 43rd. And to be honest, I just don’t feel like waiting another 365 days for an excuse to embed their respective bands’ delightful clips for "Sweet Jane" and "Right Here, Right Now." The Junkies’ joint is simply one of the most delectable slices of pop music my ears have had the pleasure of soaking up. Respeck.
"Right Here, Right Now," meanwhile, transports me back to my freshman year of college. I remember going to see a Jesus Jones concert with my friend Kim, and feeling supercool in the knowledge we’d just witnessed what was sure to be one of the biggest bands of the ’90s (along with EMF, naturally). Hey, I never said I was a good prognosticator, okay?
Happy birthday, Cowboy Junkies and Jesus Jones dudes!
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Slezak, you are the MF’in man!
I’d been wondering what the name of that “sweet jane” song was for more than a decade! You made an unannounced popwatch genie wish come true ya big stud!
Any Midwestern UUer’s from the 1990’s here? I still remember Josh Hunter and Heather Guhtkenect’s version of “sweet jane”.
Oh, and Jesus Jones was the first “alternative” band my dad ever got into and created a bonding moment between us. What ever happened to them?
I still like the Velvet Underground’s original “Sweet Jane” better. The Cowboy Junkies’ version is so drowsy, the band can’t help but get bored and stare off into space while they’re making the music video.
Jesus Jones – they were going to be the greatest 90s band ever, weren’t they? My sister went to see them and some other Really Hot 90s UK Band That Has Since Disappeared Into The Ether (whose actual name I’ve forgotten) and sent me a mix tape of just these two bands. We were both looking forward to seeing them on the scene for years to come…ah, the vagaries of pop.
Cowboy Junkies are playing with the Boston Pops this summer, so we did know what happened to them. Guess all that somnolence paid off somehow.
Wow, Michael, you brought back memories. I loved Sweet Jane; I can remember that spooky video, straining to understand what she was singing(to this day I’m not sure). As for Right Here, I always got Jesus Jones mixed up with EMF. Unbelievable, right? LOL!
The Underground’ version of Sweet Jane was better but there was something peaceful about the Junkies version. I got Jons mixed up wth EMF too. lol! I always thought that Jesus Jones was going to be huge, but they turned out to be a one hit wonder.
As was, sadly, EMF. I’ll never understand why their follow up to “Unbelievable” was “Lies”, the least appealing of the songs on their album.
personally, I always get Jesus Jones mixed up with Ned’s Atomic Dustbin (Kill your television, and that cover of S.a.t.u.r.d.a.y. Night) and the Farm (Groovy Train).
Still, it always struck me how that song just seemed to sum up the era from which it came. Hard to believe sometimes how the cold war ended with such a silence. No nukes, no nuclear winter, and then we’ve gotten to spend the subsequent 20 years dealing with the mess caused by having no visible enemy.
Anyone else miss the days when we hated one ideology, and the solution turned out to be for them to start drinking coca cola and eating Mcdonalds? Why can’t we change the hearts and minds of Al Qaeda with good old fashioned consumerism like we did the Soviets?
Yeah. I believe that the only three bands from that era who broke from the chain of the brand new brit new wave one hit wonders were The Stone Roses, Oasis, and The Jesus Mary Chain/Primal Scream.
Because the communists loved American commercialism…just without an independant republic, and Al Queda just hates everyone. Though I must admit that some of the Islamic fundamentalists are hypocrites. Some of them like American Sports, have been seen in the press wearing a Yankee hat, yet hate us.