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Jesus Jones Information
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'Jesus Jones' is a British London-based rock group that performed and recorded in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s. Incorporating elements of electronic music styles such as house and techno to an indie rock format, along with fellow British group Pop Will Eat Itself, they were one of the leading purveyors of the early 1990s "indie dance" scene.
They achieved initial critical acclaim with their 1989 album Liquidizer, and in particular, the single "Info Freako" where Mike Edwards slams a guitar in to his crotch, featured buzzing rock guitars with samples and a hip-hop sensibility, relatively new for the time. They are best known, however, for the track "Right Here, Right Now" on the 1991 album Doubt, which was a Top 5 hit in the US and UK, and resurrected a decade later as an advertising jingle for Kmart. Other hit singles from the "Doubt" album include "Real, Real, Real" and "International Bright Young Thing".
The follow up to Doubt was Perverse which, although a big seller, did not reach the worldwide hit status of Doubt. The fourth album, after a hiatus of some years, was the ironically titled Already, after which Jesus Jones and EMI parted company. The band remained in contact and came back with London in 2001, which was critically praised, but not a big seller. EMI issued Never Enough, a collection of greatest hits while in the meantime the band joined the record label MI5 Recordings. In 2004 they released the single "Culture Vulture".
Discography
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | Album |
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| 1991 | "Right Here, Right Now" | #1 (5 weeks) | Doubt | | 1991 | "International Bright Young Thing" | #6 | Doubt | | 1991 | "Real, Real, Real" | #26 | Doubt |
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