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Withdrawn / Chain Mail / Just Hip / Island Swing / Folklore / Vulture / Leaking / Discipline / Stutter
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Jimone EP
Summary
The band’s debut release.
Track List
What’s The World / Folklore / Fire So Close
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| Release Name: | Jimone EP |
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| Release Date: | 1st November 1983 |
| Format: | Studio EP |
| Catalogue: | FAC78 |
JIMONE was conceived as a means of getting the band more gigs. Despite local support slots for Orange Juice, The Fall and New Order, James had struggled to get shows outside of Manchester without a record to their name.
Mike Pickering of Factory Records, and later M People, had picked up on the band’s demo tape and after having promoted several James shows at Factory’s Hacienda club, agreed to release the band’s debut single.
Factory wanted James to release Withdrawn and Hymn From A Village as the single, but the band, wary of going into the studio, wanted to record what they saw as three of their worst tracks so they wouldn’t blow their best songs through inexperience in the studio.
The single was recorded with Chris Nagle at Strawberry Studios in Stockport
The single’s distinctive artwork came about by mistake. Unable to decide upon a cover, Jim picked up a red pen and scrawled JIMONE on a green card. With just hours to go until the printer’s deadline, the band chose this childlike scrawl as the cover. The title was also a skit on Factory’s insistence on cataloguing their releases in chronological order, JIMONE being FAC78.
The single succeeded in bringing James to the attention of the national music press who were picking up on fellow Mancunians The Smiths and New Order. It was voted single of the week in all three major weekly music papers – NME, Melody Maker and Sounds.
The Smiths became champions of James, Morrissey describing them as “the best band in the world” and paying the band the ultimate compliment of covering What’s The World on their 1985 Scottish tour and releasing it on the I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish cassette single.
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Sounds
The Smiths and now a group called James – who’d have figured Manchester as the centre of a post-industrial semi-acoustic renaissance? This has more to do with the romantic side of Genesis P-Orridge than Dexy’s Po-Faced Runners and going by “Folklore” it might be as much tongue-in-chic as finger-in-ear. What might have been a perverse stab at being different, however, is already developing into an odd idiosyncratic vision on “What’s The World”.
- Fire So Close :1983
- Folklore :1983
- What’s The World :1983
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- Factory Signing Rumour
Unknown Venue – 22nd November 1982
Setlist
Discipline / Folklore / Fire So Close / Hymn From A Village / If Things Were Perfect / Papa Said / Withdrawn / What's The World / Announcement / Poem / StutterSupport
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Folklore
Folklore is a song from James’ debut EP Jimone released in 1983 and the Village Fire EP in 1985.
An almost accapella track, often likened to a nursery rhyme, from the debut Jimone EP. Its lyrics are concerned about young boys growing into men in the mirror image of their father and male dominance of women.
It was covered in the early nineties by a band called Unrest and can be found on their BPM compilation album.
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I've seen your mouth moving, heard others here say,
Those words are a piece of a part that you played
That sounds like you father, a teacher, the church
Didn't spring from the heart, but research
The only way I learn is put the fist in and get burned
Go get burned
Old wives, mystic here say
Wise men, rich men, shamen and sage
When you're meek on the Earth, when you die you will pay
For accepting that lot, in the cheapest of graves
The sexes divided, men mustn't be weak
Sensitivity is a vice of which we shan't speak
And women are a play thing that are just made for men
To treat how the boss he respect treats him
And I am going to grow up like daddy wanted me to be
To impress all those, who so impressed me
And young boys melt into men
And we'll start the process again
Add a touch of mystique where the writing gets weak
Break up coherence with a cut-cut-cut up technique
When you've got nothing to say
Shut up
Or show that you're willing to play
With words that simply aren't out of touch
With the genuine feelings which lead to their birth
Most things are better not written or heard
When you open your mouth, out drops a turd
The only way I learn is put the fist in and get burned.
Those words are a piece of a part that you played
That sounds like you father, a teacher, the church
Didn't spring from the heart, but research
The only way I learn is put the fist in and get burned
Go get burned
Old wives, mystic here say
Wise men, rich men, shamen and sage
When you're meek on the Earth, when you die you will pay
For accepting that lot, in the cheapest of graves
The sexes divided, men mustn't be weak
Sensitivity is a vice of which we shan't speak
And women are a play thing that are just made for men
To treat how the boss he respect treats him
And I am going to grow up like daddy wanted me to be
To impress all those, who so impressed me
And young boys melt into men
And we'll start the process again
Add a touch of mystique where the writing gets weak
Break up coherence with a cut-cut-cut up technique
When you've got nothing to say
Shut up
Or show that you're willing to play
With words that simply aren't out of touch
With the genuine feelings which lead to their birth
Most things are better not written or heard
When you open your mouth, out drops a turd
The only way I learn is put the fist in and get burned.
| Song: | Folklore |
| Released: | 1st November 1983 |
| Main Associated Album (or Single): | Jimone EP |
| First Heard Live: | Unknown Venue – 22nd November 1982 |
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