4:44pm International Bright Young Thing by Jesus Jones from Doubt
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🎵 International Bright Young Thing
https://12inchdance.bandcamp.com/track/international-bright-young-thing-phil-harding-12-mix
I've not heard this song in decades... it was one of the anthems of my teenage years. Feels like the lyrics are just as relevant today as they were 35yrs ago.
Jesus Jones - Zeroes & Ones (The Prodigy Versus Jesus Jones Mix)
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Jesus Jones:
🎵 Right Here, Right Now
https://4thetraxx.bandcamp.com/track/jesus-jones-right-here-right-now
Since algorithms and AI don't listen to music, I don't let them choose my music. This episode of Frequently Alternative is hand picked by a real dj who likes Jesus Jones, Marillion and Indigo Girls. Try it out on Mixcloud and let me know what else you'd like to hear.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Paulsplaylist/frequently-alternative-a-quest-for-the-golden-decade-episode-70/
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"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British #alternativeRock band #JesusJones from their second studio album, #Doubt (1991). It was released as the album's second single on 24 September 1990. Although it spent only nine nonconsecutive weeks on the #UKSinglesChart, peaking at number 31, it became a top-10 hit in the United States; it topped the #Billboard #ModernRockTracks chart and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MznHdJReoeo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_D6XHo9OE
"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British #alternativeRock band #JesusJones from their second studio album, #Doubt (1991). It was released as the album's second single on 24 September 1990. Although it spent only nine nonconsecutive weeks on the #UKSinglesChart, peaking at number 31, it became a top-10 hit in the United States; it topped the #Billboard #ModernRockTracks chart and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MznHdJReoeo
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Jesus Jones Play “Right Here, Right Now”
Listen to this track by Bradford-on-Avon indie dance-rock outfit Jesus Jones. It’s “Right Here, Right Now”, their biggest and most recognized hit single released in September of 1990 ahead of their second LP Doubt that came out in January of 1991. That album would be their international breakthrough. This single was the primary force in placing them in top chart positions in the UK and in top ten positions Europe. It also gained them respectable showings in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, becoming threaded into the cultural fabric of the era in the process.
“Right Here, Right Now” hit the airwaves right on time for a young generation who had lived through an era of constant geopolitical tensions, highly publicized Third World famine, and the rise of the AIDS crisis. By the end of the 1980s and early into the following decade around the time frontman and guitarist Mike Edwards wrote this song, it remained to be seen what might come next after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Revolutions of 1989. The song’s BMI accolade as the most played song on college radio by 1992 tracks pretty well in an era that felt like a held breath before a great exhale.
Jesus Jones put out their first record and were touring Eastern Europe around the time that Edwards wrote this song as an optimistic answer to Prince’s “Sign O’ the Times”. With so many longstanding authoritarian regimes suddenly in the rearview as a new decade was on the verge of dawning, the zeitgeist seemed to call out for a new anthem. “Right Here, Right Now” fit right into that space as the troubles of one era gave way to the open-ended possibilities of the next one. The signs of the times had indeed changed and things didn’t look so bleak as before.
For their part, anthemic music was Jesus Jones’s stock and trade by the time their most recognized song came out. Their amalgam of indie rock and dance music included influences like Janet Jackson, The KLF, and also the British bands of the mid-to-late 1960s that paved the way for what would become Britpop later into the Nineties. Jesus Jones geared their guitar-based but groove-oriented sound for communal consumption on a dance floor or in a live crowd in much the same way as bands on the vibrant club scene in Manchester around the same time were doing.
“Right Here, Right Now” is built for that same communal context on a thematic level, too. This is a tune about a whole generation of people being acutely aware of something positive in the cultural and political air after a harrowing period of doubt and fear. Gen-X had been living on the leftover hopes and glories of the past in a deadlocked era of political polarization. Very few pop songs captured the belief that things would ever change. It felt like we were on a course toward the end of the world as we knew it without feeling even remotely close to fine about it.
But by the time this song came out, Gen-Xers suddenly had their own anthem to capture the spirit of times they’d lived through that didn’t fixate on mutual destruction. There was a feeling that the old patterns set by previous generations were gone, or at least were not as much of a barrier as before. Something entirely new was suddenly possible. After living with the consequences of decisions made before Gen-X were born, at last the era felt like a good time to be young and alive. As the song itself says: Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about.
Jesus Jones in August 2011, appearing onstage at The Palace Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. image: CanleyCrucially and as idealistic as it is, “Right Here, Right Now” isn’t really a political song in the sense of taking a specific stance on any of that. It doesn’t deal in ideologies. Like all the best pop songs, it’s about feelings. It’s about being alive and aware in the moment and of the times one is in. It’s about being excited about what comes next at a turning point in history. It’s about bearing witness to how the times have unfolded into something that looks entirely new. It’s a celebration of greater clarity on what the possibilities are for the next step into the future, whatever that next step will be.
It’s about relief and hope.
American conservative publication The National Review disagreed on the point about ideology. They named “Right Here, Right Now” at number 14 in their list of top 50 “conservative rock songs”. Yet, as is the conservative’s wont in claiming cultural territory that isn’t necessarily (and usually isn’t) their own, they missed the point pretty spectacularly. That goes for most if not all of the songs on that list.
“Right Here, Right Now” is about empowerment and both recognizing and embracing change. There’s not much room for conservatism there. In portraying this song as a dance on the grave of Eastern European communism, they completely miss how joyful it is well beyond any perceived attempts at crass political point scoring.
As much as this song is tied to the era out of which it came, “Right Here, Right Now” is applicable to any era and any generation where its themes are concerned. The core of this song that celebrates feelings, hopes, and ideals reflect human impulses and experiences that do not ever get old no matter how much time passed. And hey; even if the fall of the Berlin Wall happened before you were born, this tune is still a bop!
Times like these in our modern era perhaps preclude the feelings of optimism heard in this song that served as an anthem to an era long past so well. But the hopefulness in the song remains. That’s the great thing about the best pop songs like this one. They hold sentiments and the best feelings of their times in amber. They await discovery by the generations that follow.
Even today, “Right Here, Right Now” represents a hope for times when worry and oppression are removed, and everyone feels a lightness of being that wasn’t possible before. It’s also a reminder that it’s possible for people to feel that way about their times and to be hopeful of where the world can go beyond what the powers that be prescribe. The power to wake up from history is still there. If it was true for people then, it can be true for anyone today and in times to come.
Jesus Jones is an active band today. You can learn more about them and what they’re up to at jesusjones.com.
For more on how they wrote “Right Here, Right Now” and their reaction to how it impacted the culture, check out this interview from the Guardian with the song’s writer Mike Edwards, plus keyboardist Iain Baker.
Enjoy!
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Jesus Jones / Right Here, Right Now (1990, 10" Box-Set); Die vier Song starke "Right Here, Right Now" EP fängt den energiegeladenen Alternative-Dance-Rock-Sound der frühen 90er perfekt ein. Der titelgebende Song wurde zur Hymne einer Generation, mit seinen treibenden Beats, schneidenden Gitarren und optimistischer Aufbruchsstimmung. #JesusJones #AlternativeRock #BritRave #Electro #SynthPop #DancePunk
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Mike Edwards has such a distinctive voice. He's in fine form on the most recent Jesus Jones single, "Animal Instinct". Angsty and a little dark to match the times.
https://jesusjones.bandcamp.com/track/animal-instinct
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