This Is the Way It Goes & Goes & Goes

Juno | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Desoto
• ASIN: B00000IACE
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #52,125 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Great Salt Lake - Juno

2. Rodeo Programmers

3. The Young Influentials

4. All Your Friends Are Comedians

5. Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire

6. January Arms

7. Venus on 9th Street

8. A Listening Ear

9. The Sea Looked Like Lead

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unmatched since its entrance, June 17, 2001

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Sebastian Stirling (Somerville, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is the Way It Goes & Goes & Goes (Audio CD)

"Rock and roll will never die, but my god, it deserves to." With the explosive resonance of a line like that, it's hard to deem the slow, seemingly pensive opener as apathetic. Even at that moment, on the only song on the album that doesn't thrive with an alien form of passion, Juno beats its competitors at their own game. This is not emo. This is devastating.

The following tracks range from vehement punk rock to crystalized elegies to expansive instrumental workouts. This ability to shapeshift, to congeal their three guitars into a pleasing variety of molds, cannot be lost upon the listener. Yes, they sound like Jawbox. Yes, they sound like My Bloody Valentine. Yes, they sound like Mogwai. But to that unique combination they add their own distinct flavor.

It all comes down to Arlie Carstens. I have not had another album tear into me as much as this one has. The personal recollections he spins into the songs are mirrored in my life, in the lives of those I've talked to about this album. It is his ability to take these events, events often too rough to talk about in person, and make them a palpable platform for catharsis that elevates Juno to their namesake's deity level.

I cannot think of any albums that have surpassed this since its release because of this combination. This sort of firebrand emotional intensity cannot be left unchecked. To leave it with an acoustic guitar makes it too strong, with no place to turn to when you're overwhelmed. The brilliance of Juno is that they take the epic proportions of Mogwai, the literate DC punk of Jawbox, and the swells of My Bloody Valentine, and couple it with this intensity. How many MBV songs could you relate to?

If this is how it goes, perhaps rock and roll shouldn't die.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breath taking and introspective, September 6, 2004

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N. R. Moles "Making the state of functional i... (Spokane, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Is the Way It Goes & Goes & Goes (Audio CD)

I first listened to this album at a get together when I was 16 year old. I recalled the din of conversation being lulled to sleep as I tuned out my friends and aquaintances and began to listen to this brilliant recording playing the next room. Juno, specifically this album, is unlike anything I had heard up to that point in my life. Quiet and ponderous one track, heavy and energized the next. I believe I loved the album so much because of my angst at the time, however I was wrong. In returning to my musical roots last week I found this CD disused in the bottom of a moving box full of unsorted items. I dusted it off and scoffed at the thought of being so remeniscient. Not only was I instantly transported to the first time I had heard it, but was keenly aware that the lyrics transposed even more into my life and it's events since I was 16. This album is terrific and breath taking in every way imaginable. A lot of comparisons have been made along the lines of Jawbox, BV etc. but none can truely compare with the magnificence of this album. A true treat for anyone who is bored with the mainstream or needs to think about life for a tic. Worth a listen if you haven't and worth repeating if you have.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very, *very* cool cd., August 1, 1999

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This review is from: This Is the Way It Goes & Goes & Goes (Audio CD)

I d/l'ed the two tracks available at epitonic.com and was hooked. Finally found this is at a local record store and picked it and 3 other cd's up. This one won't get out of my cd player.