I’m So In Love With The Music!

Junior Senior @ High Line Ballroom 8/13/2007
Go Junior Go Senior / Chicks and Dicks / Dynamite / Good Girl, Bad Guy / Rhythm Bandits / Happy Rap / Itch U Can’t Scratch / We R The Handclaps / Can I Get Get Get (with JD from Le Tigre) / Move Your Feet / Shake Me Baby / Shake Your Coconuts / Hip Hop A Lula // You Cannot Trust… / White Trash

Junior Senior “We R The Handclaps” – Okay, so here’s the thing. Junior Senior came out and played a great set — high energy, great crowd, wonderful songs. I really want to emphasize that last one, because it seems to me that people get so overwhelmed by their kitsch and extreme cheeriness that they tend to overlook that they are rather fantastic songwriters with an amazing gift for melody and elegant arrangements that are probably very carefully crafted, but sound totally natural. But the thing is…they kinda dropped the ball on the encore. Instead of coming out and ending the show with the best song from each of their records — “Take My Time” and “Boy Meets Girl” — they played a sorta repetitive new tune and the weakest track from their debut album. (Insert frowny face here.) The encore didn’t totally suck, and it didn’t exactly ruin the show, but yeeeee, that was no way to end a gig! They should’ve at least saved “Move Your Feet” or “Shake Your Coconuts” til the very end! Also, the fact that Cindy and Kate from the B52s were not on hand was no excuse not to do “Take My Time,” by the way — the girl who sang lead on “We R The Handclaps” was absolutely amazing, and she would’ve totally killed it on that song!

But don’t get me wrong, this was a really fun show. Also, don’t get me started about Gravy Train, who opened up and may be the single most puerile band on the face of the earth. Take that as a complaint or as a compliment, and either way you’re right. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)