Please no. With the exception of "A Funk Odyssey", they should've retired right after Travelling Without Moving. No Stuart Zender, no Jamiroquai for me.

I enjoy all their albums....yes,even the ones they did after Stuart left

I think 'A Funk Odyssey' is their best album.The last album was also superb.

nuttynutmeg said:

Please no. With the exception of "A Funk Odyssey", they should've retired right after Travelling Without Moving. No Stuart Zender, no Jamiroquai for me.

that's a bit harsh, but I know what you mean.

the first three albums are the most consistent ones and the only ones I still can listen to from start to finish. the later ones are really patchy at times and I skip quite some tracks on those

still a new album is always welcome

warning2all said:

Dynamite was good: -Dynamite -Star Child -Don't Give Hate a Chance -Time Won't Wait For You -Seven Days in June

"Seven Days In Sunny June" is heavenly

nuttynutmeg said:

Please no. With the exception of "A Funk Odyssey", they should've retired right after Travelling Without Moving. No Stuart Zender, no Jamiroquai for me.

I'm with Dancelot, I wouldn't go that far, BUT, I agree that the quality of their work trailed off after Zender left. I prefer Synkronized over A Funk Odyssey, but for the last decade or so, we've gotten diminishing returns. I'm content with a "Seven Days" or "Smile" here and there but I rarely go back to the last 3 albums.

FWIW, Wikipedia claims that a new album may arrive in 2015.

on a Jamiroquai fansite/forum that I visit,one fan suggested that Jamiroquai should bring in Pharrell to produce some songs on their next album.I like Pharrell,but here's the thing: Jamiroquai already excels at the same retro-funk/R&B stuff that Pharell is doing.They've been doing it for years.Another reason why I'm a huge fan.

namepeace said:

nuttynutmeg said:

Please no. With the exception of "A Funk Odyssey", they should've retired right after Travelling Without Moving. No Stuart Zender, no Jamiroquai for me.

I'm with Dancelot, I wouldn't go that far, BUT, I agree that the quality of their work trailed off after Zender left. I prefer Synkronized over A Funk Odyssey, but for the last decade or so, we've gotten diminishing returns. I'm content with a "Seven Days" or "Smile" here and there but I rarely go back to the last 3 albums.

To be honest,when I hear a song like "Little L",I don't even think about the first three albums but then again,I didn't become a Jamiroquai fan until Synkronized,which came out after Stuart left.

namepeace said:

nuttynutmeg said:

Please no. With the exception of "A Funk Odyssey", they should've retired right after Travelling Without Moving. No Stuart Zender, no Jamiroquai for me.

I'm with Dancelot, I wouldn't go that far, BUT, I agree that the quality of their work trailed off after Zender left. I prefer Synkronized over A Funk Odyssey, but for the last decade or so, we've gotten diminishing returns. I'm content with a "Seven Days" or "Smile" here and there but I rarely go back to the last 3 albums.

FWIW, Wikipedia claims that a new album may arrive in 2015.

I agree mostly. A lot of changes took place after the 3rd album that started with zender leaving. The original producer didn't return after the 4th album. The keyboardist Toby Smith checked out after A Funk Odyssey, the digeridoo dude got the boot, and the music became increasingly reliant on computer technology when the outfit started out on a much more retro-analogue live studio sound.

Also Zender brought a lot of finesse and latin influence while he was there. And the music became increasingly cheezy after the 3rd album. Less funk and more disco. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The last album Rock Dust Light Star was actually less disco-ish than the previous albums.It was sorta like a return to the Traveling Without Moving sound.I'm impressed with the songwriting throughout,on songs like "Two Completely Different Things" and "Lifeline".

I admit,I'm a Jamiroquai fanatic (lol),but I don't think they've ever made a bad album.I like em all

I agree with Soul... I love all their stuff and I too think Jamiroquai has never made a bad album. Fingers crossed that the boys are creating something.

The thing i miss about the 'golden' era of Jamiroquai (stuart zender)

is.. the 'Styles' of music itself...

they used to rock Brazilian jams..Jazz funk jams... smooth jazzy jams...

then they went full on DISCO!

after that (1999 ish) i jumped ship..

i was a big fan between 1993-1997

rhythmtonic said:

namepeace said:

I'm with Dancelot, I wouldn't go that far, BUT, I agree that the quality of their work trailed off after Zender left. I prefer Synkronized over A Funk Odyssey, but for the last decade or so, we've gotten diminishing returns. I'm content with a "Seven Days" or "Smile" here and there but I rarely go back to the last 3 albums.

FWIW, Wikipedia claims that a new album may arrive in 2015.

I agree mostly. A lot of changes took place after the 3rd album that started with zender leaving. The original producer didn't return after the 4th album. The keyboardist Toby Smith checked out after A Funk Odyssey, the digeridoo dude got the boot, and the music became increasingly reliant on computer technology when the outfit started out on a much more retro-analogue live studio sound.

Also Zender brought a lot of finesse and latin influence while he was there. And the music became increasingly cheezy after the 3rd album. Less funk and more disco. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Good info there.

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My feeling is...disco needed to be revived Jamiroquai has been doing that whole retro/disco/funk thing for years and now look around....everybody's jumping on that bandwagon now.It's a good thing.

Don't get me wrong....the acid jazz thing was cool in the 90s,with bands like Jamiroquai and the Brand New Heavies taking it to new heights.But that sound didn't really evolve,did it?

SoulAlive said:

My feeling is...disco needed to be revived Jamiroquai has been doing that whole retro/disco/funk thing for years and now look around....everybody's jumping on that bandwagon now.It's a good thing.

Don't get me wrong....the acid jazz thing was cool in the 90s,with bands like Jamiroquai and the Brand New Heavies taking it to new heights.But that sound didn't really evolve,did it?

As I see it, the New Jack/Rap and Beats sound has been so dominant for so long disco was due for a revival of some sort.

I think acid jazz is a misnomer where the early work of BNH and Jamiroquai are concerned. They were straight-ahead R&B-Disco revivalists. The overall acid jazz movement evolved into electronica, which still lives and lurks in the shadows of DJing and self-styled swanky joints everywhere.

SoulAlive said:

My feeling is...disco needed to be revived Jamiroquai has been doing that whole retro/disco/funk thing for years and now look around....everybody's jumping on that bandwagon now.It's a good thing.

Don't get me wrong....the acid jazz thing was cool in the 90s,with bands like Jamiroquai and the Brand New Heavies taking it to new heights.But that sound didn't really evolve,did it?

Honey its now callled House Music.... Get you Disco on!

'Return of the Space Cowboy' is one my favourite albums, it's light years ahead of anything else they've done. Pretty much a perfect album.

They fell of a little when Zender left, but their latest album, 'Rock Dust Light Star', is their 2nd best album in my opinion. So... hell yeah, I'm down for more Jamiroquai.

SoulAlive said:

My feeling is...disco needed to be revived Jamiroquai has been doing that whole retro/disco/funk thing for years and now look around....everybody's jumping on that bandwagon now.It's a good thing.

Don't get me wrong....the acid jazz thing was cool in the 90s,with bands like Jamiroquai and the Brand New Heavies taking it to new heights.But that sound didn't really evolve,did it?

As far as I'm concerned, disco and funk should have never gone out of style, so when you first recommended Jimiroquai to me years ago, I thought you had lost your damn mind because I remembered them from the 1990s also and I hated what they were doing. "Smooth" jazz type R&B that reminds me of a bunch of stuffy type people, not dancing, but simply sitting around in one of those stuffy type clubs trying to seem all "cultured".

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I took a chance and bought "A Funk Odyssey" though, and loved it. It sounded nothing like I remember them sounding like in the 1990s. I bought "Dynamite" too and loved it and also their last album. I usually hate when artists change their style because they usually become more mellow and dull trying to fit in with these dull times we live in these days. But in this case, the style change was a 100% improvement. More artists need to be making ass shakers these days. Hell, let me stop lying....ALL artists need to be making ass shakers and the ones that aren't making them, need to sit their ass down and make room for the ones that are.

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TD3 said:

SoulAlive said:

My feeling is...disco needed to be revived Jamiroquai has been doing that whole retro/disco/funk thing for years and now look around....everybody's jumping on that bandwagon now.It's a good thing.

Don't get me wrong....the acid jazz thing was cool in the 90s,with bands like Jamiroquai and the Brand New Heavies taking it to new heights.But that sound didn't really evolve,did it?

Honey its now callled House Music.... Get you Disco on!

Other than Prince, house music was the only thing I listened to during the entire 1990s. I hated everything else that was being made at the time and still do. Damn, the 1990s was a depressing decade that started the decline in music.

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The house music of the early 1990s was great because it felt kind of like a reincarnation of disco and that time around, I was grown and able to enjoy the era as an adult clubbing and drinking alcohol instead of the way I enjoyed the disco era as a child in skating rinks drinking damned soft drinks. But disco was a much stronger genre than house. I enjoyed a lot of the house that had singers and the songs actually felt like "songs". A lot of the songs without singers and just music, was extremely repetitive with the music itself sounding great but not changing up throughout the song. In other words, some of it felt like a loop playing over and over and never switching up during the song, kinda "unfinished" sounding. You could put the needle toward the beginning, middle, or end of the song at it sounded exactly the same all the way through. Those type songs were great for mixing with other songs but to sit and listen to without mixing, I would end up losing interest before the song finished.

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I lost interest with house though, when acid and trance took it over. And the house that wasn't taken over by trance, seemed to be adding things like saxophones and things. Oh no honey, don't add no jazz elements or I'll become bored real quick.

SoulAlive said:

To be honest,when I hear a song like "Little L",I don't even think about the first three albums but then again,I didn't become a Jamiroquai fan until Synkronized,which came out after Stuart left.

I can understand. I became a fan when Return Of The Space Cowboy dropped. I had that album and Travelling Without Moving in heavy rotation for the rest of the decade. I dug Emergency On Planet Earth, and liked a lot of Synkronized, but the 2d and 3d albums are by far my favorites.