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Dye
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Reviews & Interviews on Jamiroquai's 'Dynamite' Online
Hello Jamirotalkers,
'Dynamite' is getting real close, and with that, inevitably, the critics reviews. Here's the first one I found on the sampler:
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JAMIROQUAI
Dynamite (Sony/BMG)
Less like Stevie, more like Lenny
FOUR years on from the chart-topping Funk Odyssey, the Cat in the Hat-turned-flashy car fanatic has never seemed more out of step with his pop peers. Which is probably a good thing. Some of Dynamite does mark a change for Jamiroquai, though. Having spent time in LA, watching “all the beautiful ladies who lunch” (yuck), Jay Kay is starting to sound like a girlier Lenny Kravitz. It suits him on both Black Devil Car and Feels Just Like It Should, which boasts buzzy bass, psychedelic guitars and squelchy effects.
Less adventurous, but possibly more pleasing for old fans are the summery, slightly jazzy Seven Days in Sunny June and Eighties disco-type title track. On the downside, the political message on fast’n’frisky, dancefloor number Give Hate a Chance gets lost, and overall the lyrics consist mainly of silly rhyming lines and odes to Kay’s car collection.
He says “If you haven’t had an album out in four years, you want to have an impact and this says it, I’m back with a vengeance.”
We say He may act like an idiot, punch like a girl and have an ego the size of his country pile, but there’s only one Jay Kay.
Released Feels Just Like it Should on June 6; album on June 20. LV |
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Saffy7
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 19:53 |
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They don't seem too keen on Give Hate A Chance do they?! On the whole though, a fairly positive review.
The proof, however, is in the listening...roll on 20th June!!! 
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skoolen87
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 20:13 |
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I don't think he is too positive but I have read his other reviews and I think he writes about everything too negative because he doesn't know what write about, with his silly "he says, we say" sentences
(i was just refreshing and the colours of the forum are changing more and more  ) |
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Supersonic1
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 20:14 |
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Eh, I'm not sure if anybody in the U.K. press gives Jamiroquai any good reviews. I'll decide for myself if this album is good, thanks.
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JamiroFan2000
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 16:41 |
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 Hello,
 I'm not surprised in the slightest with the somewhat "lukewarm" reception that this reviewer is giving 'Dynamite' initially . But they are right on the spot with one thing, this new album is appeal to the older and more seasoned Jamiroquai fan, while new fans will feel as lost as Bush at a G8 Meeting. The song titling for Dynamite is probably the most unexpected thing with this album for me. In regards to the reviewer downgrading JK's lyrics for "Give Hate A Chance" ( One new Jamiroquai song I HIGHLY looking forward to hearing...sometime in the distant future *sighs sadly* ), shame on them, JK and the band haven't done a FULL "Political" or "Activist" song since the yonder days of "ROTSC", so cut him some slack mack! Let's be honest, ACTUAL music reviewers are a rare breed these days, most of them just listen to new music ONE TIME then think they can render a honest review, that's bollocks, you have to hear a more than once to render any kind of judgement. Music magazines like SPIN, Rolling Stone and all those Men's Fashion/Entertainment garbage think they can review music, yeah right, they are all advert space now, music coverage has been backlogged to the backpages right next to "Penis enlargement" and "Make her frisky in bed" personal adverts. In any case, reviews of "Dynamite" will have be expected to wane in music reviews, but will really be loved by the fans, like it should be, to quote the following: "Feels Just Like It Should....to the fans!" Thanks for listening and Peace!
Sincerely,
JamiroFan2000
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leeant007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 19:09 |
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Ha ha! you know what Jamirofan i am starting to warm to you a little!
I have to agree with what you have said totally!
I am sorry but i do not understand the idea of 'reviewers' anyway???
I mean at the end of the day, it is simply there own 'individual' , yes individual, opinion isnt it ??
I think we ought to collect up all these so called reviewers and burn em ! heh heh! 
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Dye
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 17:01 |
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More online reviews
Hello Jamirotalkers,
I've been on the net again searching for more opinions on the new Jamiroquai, and this is what I found:
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San Jose,California: Hello Ken.What is your opinion of Jamiroquai? I just heard their new single "Feels Just Like It Should" and it is great....it's more rock-soun ding and edgier than many of their recent singles which are more retro-disco sounding.I like it alot.Their new CD 'Dynamite' will be released in June,I believe.Do you think they will finally have a shot at major success in the US?
Ken Barnes: Well, that sounds promising, but I have had no use at all for them previously--when it comes to dance-oriented music, I usually like the most pop-styled, often cheesy, Eurodisco around--the stuff that sounds the most like old girl-group records.
As for Jamiroquai's chances for success, I think their boat has sailed and doubt they have much of a shot now. |
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Jamiroquai - Feels Just Like It Should
With numerous hits such as Space Cowboy and Lovefool in the bag, it's hard to believe that Jay-Kay is still turning out such brilliant tracks. Taking a step away form his classic disco beats, this has a more rocky feel to it but in true Jamiroquai style, still manages to contain that unbelievably catchy hook. Without a doubt, this will be another massive hit he can add to his list of successes. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 07:51 |
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The June issue of FHM magazine (UK) has a short "review" of Dynamite and out of the top 10 albums reviewed, Jamiroquai is number 4. They write... "The pint-sized dance monkey is off the marching powder and getting high on jazz instead. Sounds hideous? Oddly, this is by far and away his best stuff since the Nineties. Listen to this when you are drunk enough to think you can dance like Jay Kay. 3 out of 5
funkin.com
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Dye
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 17:26 |
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Hello Jamirotalkers,
I've found more reviews from the new JMQ:
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April 19, 2005
For Jamiroquai, It 'Feels Just Like It Should'
It's not commercially available until June 6, but Jamiroquai's upcoming single Feels Just Like It Should showed up on BBC's Radio 1 yesterday. Band leader Jay Kay also showed up for an interview and discussed the band's new music.
Feels Just Like It Should is a heavy slice of Funk/Rock and will be the first single off the upcoming album Dynamite to be released June 20 in the U.K. and June 21 in the U.S. A world tour is planned to promote the album. Timo Maas has been tapped for a planned remix of the single for clubs. |
A bad translation of this one:
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Jamiroquai presents/displays new Web agreeing with the opening of its CD
4/20/2005
The band of Jay Kay already has date closed for the edition of its next work of study, ' Dynamité. He will be next the 20 of June when his ' funky' invades the world. At the moment, the first seconds of their simple presentation, ' Feels Just Like It Should', already can be listened in the official Web of the group, jamiroquai.co.uk, where to his fans waits for many new features more to them.
All that that it wants to discover the new Jamiroquai universe that is prepared. It only must put in renewed site of the artist to know and to enjoy more the company/signature of Jay Kay and company.
Dyed of tonalities malvas, the group finishes presenting/displaying the face washing (and entrails) that has done to him to their official page, jamiroquai.com. Presided over pr always it is present at of his sweeping singer, the Web offers all the last new features relative to the formation (in its section the news), allows to taste his new ones and old songs (player sample it leaves from his successes and an advance of its new CD, the cut Feels Just Like It Should), it presents/displays the life and miracles of this pecualiar group (with one complete biography) and, among other contents more, it allows the visitor to leave his opinion on which ve/escucha/siente... (forum).
World-wide edition of the new CD
Dynamite is one of waited for discs more of the year. It is predicted that the CD on sale puts next the 20 of June. Leader of formation, Jay Kay, says that, so and as he shows single presented/displayed, the disc exhibits a "new sound" and that approaches its discografía towards melodías more hip hop, although it maintains his essence rock and soul to which they are customary. Thus magazine confesses Kay in the Japanese publication Buzz at least.
By the way, the Japanese followers of Jamiroquai will have the luck to find in the Japanese edition of the album a pair of bonus tracks who will not appear in the rest of distances of the world.
Speaking of the songs that Dynamite will lock up, SonyBMG has already distributed between some European means a CDs of sample of the album with five songs: Feels just like it should, Dynamite, Seven days in sunny june, Give hate to chance and devil Black to car.
Opening of Feels Just Like It Should in los40.com
Although the British BBC has been the lucky person to release before nobody the new song of Jamiroquai |
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Lista
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 18:53 |
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| cheeeba lover wrote: |
Listen to this when you are drunk enough to think you can dance like Jay Kay..
funkin.com |
Ohh, don't worry, I will  |
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Dye
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 17:58 |
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Hello Jamirotalkers,
Not actually reviews, I found more Jamiroquai related articles:
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REIGNITING THE FIRE
Jamiroquai will release Dynamite, their first album in four years, on June 20.
The follow-up to 2001's smash, A Funk Odyssey, was written and recorded over two years in Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, Scotland, New York, Los Angeles and singer Jay Kay's home studio in Buckinghamshire.
First single, Feels Just Like It Should, is out June 6. |
Bad translation of this one using google:
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Jamiroquai: "Feels Just Like It Should" (04/05/2005)
Jamiroquai the singer who takes again perfectly well the style of Stevie Wonder returns
Jamiroquai has arrived with new the single "Feels Just Like It Should", whose exit is scheduled for next 6 June "Feels Just Like It Should" is the first extract of new the opus "Dynamite" of Jamiroquai, first album studio for more than three years, which will appear on June 20, 2005 on Epic Records.
Nearly four years after the publication of "Funk Odyssey", their last album in date, several times disc of platinum and number one of the classifications (their album more sold with Rouyaume-Plain since "Travelling Without Morning""), Jay Kay and its group thus return with their sixth album very awaited studio.
Bearing its name well, "Dynamite" should still reinforce the reputation of Jamiroquai, one of the florets of British exports since more than ten years (more than twenty million albums run out throughout the world to date). "Dynamite" is also the opus more varied and succeeded that Jamiroquai offered.
Profiting from the presence of Mike Spencer, new Co-producer with the orders at the sides of Jay Kay, this album includes/understands splendid compositions and a multitude of traditional futures at the involving rates/rhythms. Written by Jay, "Feels Just Like It Should" is the first single of "Dynamite". One finds there Jamiroquai with best of their funk groovy and even percussion, the synthesized voice of Jay being used as line of low deformation.
If this title illustrates its more intense Jamiroquai, the album also contains pieces disco music involving and full with energy (the song titrates "Dynamite" or "Give Hate A Chance"), while making evolve/move sonorities with the rock'n'roll funky of" Black Devil Car "or the relaxed estival environment of" Seven Days In Sunny June ".
In addition, within the framework of the promotion of its new album "Dynamites", Jamiroquai will announce soon its projects in concerts in the United Kingdom, as well as a world round. |
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Dye
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 17:47 |
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Hello Jamirotalkers,
I found a new review of FJLIS:
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Jamiroquai 'Feels Just Like It Should' single
With his new single, Jamiroquai return to ‘Deeper Underground’ territory: A mad slab of fonk driven by a bass line so heavy it makes you feel ill. Back in the mid-nineties Jay Kay and crew might have seemed like a fresh prospect, but now the music scene has been and gone through a funk revival where does that leave Jamiroquai? Trying to compete with the likes of Nelly and Justin Timberlake, and not really pulling it off. This wants to be a floor filler, but falls short. Not likely to rock any parties in the near future. |
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FunkEducation
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 02:10 |
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Hello Jamirotalkers,
I found a new review of FJLIS:
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Jamiroquai 'Feels Just Like It Should' single
Trying to compete with the likes of Nelly and Justin Timberlake, and not really pulling it off. This wants to be a floor filler, but falls short. Not likely to rock any parties in the near future. |
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Dye
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| Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 17:43 |
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Hello Jamirotalkers,
Found a new review on Feels Just Like It Should:
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Jamiroquai - "Feels Just Like It Should" (Sony/BMG)
It's like Deeper Underground all over again, which for me is a good thing as that's pretty much the only Jamiroquai song I like. That's not to say I can't see the guy's got talent, but all this jazz funk malarkey just seems like over indulgence to me - a load of twaddling for the sake of it. Feels Just Like It Should however gets down to the nuts and bolts of what a good song should be from the outset - a ripping bassline, with a not-to-overly distorted funk guitar riff wailing in over the top. Now, if only JK could write a whole album of this stuff - it'd be a contender for my album of the year (and I never thought I'd say that!!!) |
Mmm.. it seems like it was a good song to bring a new audience, this is a nice example of it.
Oh, in case you're wondering, the single is still in the A list of the BBC Radio 1, with artists such as Coldplay, Oasis, U2 and Green Day
D! (dyego) |
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Geuze
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| Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 20:49 |
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I have here another review of Feels Just Like It Should. From Finnish Rumba-magazine. Not that great review.. 
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"Jay K & co have already been ancient history rhythmcomets for a good while. The comeback single is artificial and tasteless with an annoying feel of mechanical funk-groove. The miserable track has no hooks or catchs or any potential to be a global dance hit. The opening single from the forthcoming album Dynamite is a fluff and even Bomfunk MC's sound more fresh and innovative than this."
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