I saw them in concert and got to meet the bass player, a young kid. They were all quite young and already laying down such a sophisticated sound, very impressive.
As an original Jazzfunker I was blown away when I first heard this back in the day. It introduced another generation to that style of music. Check out Labi Siffre - The Vulture, Johnny Hammond - Los Conquistadors chocolate's, Gil Scot Heron - The Bottle, Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions, The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park.
@@modrn_ Grew up in the 90s? I am 46 this year and barely remember 1993 (born late 1976) How old were you when this was released? 6? and 13 when the decade ended?
@@royfr8136 Ohh yeah, I don't remember this song really, just saying the 90's were a great time for me. I just remember life being so different. No cell phones, computers were barely a thing (at least where I grew up), kids were everywhere outside and everyone would just ride around on bikes meeting new kids and getting into shit. Just being a kid I feel was much better.
1:06 i love that "dubbed effect" that happens when Jay sings over the back vocal it sound really cool like a natural harmony and the bass is mixed so smooth too
Nobody is holding their phone in front of the singer's face, ah the good old days, now you go to a concert just a bunch of zombies with their hands up, holding their precious artefact...
@@mr.tyrone254 I too hate boomers' statements but phones in concerts, specially in private concert halls, should be prohibited. Also they should be prohibited in cinemas' rooms.
@@spirefactsyt5559 but it's a nice thing to keep as a memory to look back at from your view sure it can be annoying but that zombie-like attitude existed way back in those days too
Wenn ich aussuchen muss welche 3 Dinge ich auf eine einsame Insel mitnehmen darf dann ist das definitiv alles von jamiroquai, zwei gute Lautsprecher und einen CD-Player. RIP my beloved mum wir waren dabei in Verona ich werde es niemals vergessen...
Same here, mate. Funny that the A&R guy told Jay Kay to choose between preaching about the environment and selling nothing or making great music, when this is proof he could do both.
WoW, it’s interesting listening to this live performance. I used to play with some guys from Three Dog Night back in 1997-1999. I kept trying to get dude into Jamiroquai and Joe kept saying how great the band was but how his voice was weak. But hearing this, I see that it was the studio engineer trying to pull his voice back because he perhaps thought it was too strong and wanted the band to shine out, which it did. But his voice wasn’t weak at all, I see. Yeah, 24 years later, I just figured this out.
It's all playback here, so it's hard to judge. The equipment was never really good back then so if Jay's voice wasn't excellent that day, I could understand why it might have sounded thin in a live mix.
When I was 14 in the age of discmans and such I got this very old but cool looking compact sony tapeplayer from my dad. Recorded my Jamiroquai CDs on the tapes and this was my favorite.
excellent song. since i see so many comments about this performance: it's sing back if anyone is interested, not live except for the vocals. he is singing to a recording of himself on the choruses yet no one in the band is wearing headphones they would need to synchronize to that recording. everything is recorded in the other words. another clue is the guitar sound has a wah wah yet the guitar player is not using a wah wah. also the fact it's on TOTPs and that was their MO.
@@e7thstar you’re totally wrong about that, you should check all the live performances at the David Letterman Show, SNL, and Howard Stern Radio Show just to mention a few, indeed, some of the best most iconic/legendary performances happened in those shows
@@TheRealCarlos23 are any of those music shows and or music awards? No. Industry standard was lip syncing the 90s for all live music award shows and or "live performances " ...of course there was mtv unplugged which im surprised you didn't mention, but that wasn't really the context
@@e7thstar Dude, or your English is not good at all, or you just don’t know how to use punctuation signs, because I hardly understand what you’re trying to say, specially the first question I don’t know what decade did you grow in, but me, I grew up in the 90's and had the privilege of witnessing several live tv presentation, on either “regular shows” o “award shows”, and there’s plenty of those here in RU-vid, so much I couldn’t list them all as much as I’d like to