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The Features
“Jurley”
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The Features
“Jurley”
Mahaffey Sessions (2000)
Here it is, the guiltiest pleasure a Features fan can have. A lot of people scoff at “Jurley,” mainly due to the name “Jurley” (that’s not a real girl’s name, right?) and the purposefully contradictory lyrics (“Jurley has many things that she likes to do/Making pottery is one of the few”). I, however, love it for both of those reasons and more. If you listen to the song and judge it on its musical merits, I really press you to not come to the conclusion that it’s one of of the band’s best and most fun songs. The acoustic intro hooks your ears, and the lyrics just start reeling you in. Your mouth is now in a smile shape guys. And then that chorus! It’s so thick and start/stop-y (a recurring theme on this tumblr now being how much I love start/stop bits in songs) with a grinding bass line. How can you not love that? The second half of the second verse, too, features one of Roger’s best bits as a bassist. The entire melody, the entire everything of the song, is tossed to Roger in that part and he scores a touchdown with that funkified line. Then the bridge and solo. Wow. As if this song didn’t already have enough stand out killer parts, they added that galloping bridge with the earnest vocals and that finger-pickin’ psycho solo that would make guitar virtuoso Prince blush. Okay, maybe not…but still.
“Jurley” is a great song.
I don’t know when “Jurley” debuted, but it is one of the Features oldest songs. It was already at least four years old at the time of this recording. The song survived the departure of Taylor and Sergio and the addition of Rollum in 1999. I don’t even think that the song was a regular around the time it was recorded for the Mahaffey sessions, as a bootleg of the song I have from 1999 has the song being played by request. Of course it was already out of rotation by the time I started seeing the band in 2001. I only heard it live once at the all-request show, and for that I had to petition for it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
BRETT WHITE is a New York City-based comedian who has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and written for Wizard Magazine. He is currently a writer on the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch team Thunder Gulch. He performs improv comedy with the groups Iron Ruckus and Daddy. He is also the author of the web comic Tales To Diminish and contributes to the nerd-humor site Topless Robot.
His obsession with the Features began when he first saw them on October 18th, 2001. His college years were spent posting on the Features message board under the name DigsySlattery. He has seen the Features over 50 times in concert and never makes a mix CD without including at least one Features song.
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