Songoftheday 1/5/18 - I think I know what you mean, and although it sounds obscene I will always do my best to understand...
from the album Doubt (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from the British modern rock group Jesus Jones, who had landed a top ten hit in the U.S. in the summer of 1991 with "Right Here, Right Now". They followed that American breakthrough with the song released as the first single from their Doubt album in England, "Real Real Real". Written by lead singer Mike Edwards, the bouncy dance-rock track would score the band another mainstream hit in the States...
"Real Real Real" became Jesus Jones' second and final pop hit, reaching the top ten in November of 1991. The single also climbed to #26 on Billboard's Modern Rock radio format chart, while the remixes from the 12" vinyl/CD single helped it reach #5 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the song climbed to #10 in Canada, #19 in the UK, and #37 in the Netherlands.
A third release from the album, "International Bright Young Thing", was their biggest success in their home country, landing at #7 on their chart, while in America it got to #6 on the Modern Rock chart but missed the pop Hot 100 altogether. Finally, "Who? Where? Why?" climbed to #21 in Britain.
In 1993, the band released their third album Perverse, which was a top ten success in their homeland, and landed a #1 Modern rock hit (their second and last) with "The Devil You Know". That song also reached #10 in the UK, but it blanked out on the pop chart in the U.S. completely. A second release from the set, "The Right Decision" (which sounded like their work on Doubt), peaked at #12 on the American Modern Rock chart, their final appearance here. From the album "Zeroes and Ones" hit #30 on the British chart (their latest top-40 hit there).
After a four-year break, the band re-emerged in 1997 with Already. Ignored pretty much in the U.S., the lead single "The Next Big Thing" topped out at #49 in Britain. A second, "Chemical #1", is their most recent charting single in the UK at #71. Leaving their record label EMI, they released the indie record London in 2001. They're expected to come out with new material this coming year (2018).
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A different cut of the video was serviced to MTV in America...
...and here's the remixed version, which made the top five on the dance chart...
Here's the band live at Wembley in the 90s...
and lastly, in concert in 2011...
Up tomorrow: A soul singer is not fond of being tricked.
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