For Real, Real, Real, Here’s Your Video You Deserve
Mondays can be rough.
And so, every Monday, we give you a music video. A fun, funny music video. Something that’ll make you smile, make you laugh, make you reminisce, and make you realize that back in the day, music video creators were probably either insane or heavily intoxicated. But were also incredibly entertaining.
We call this feature, The Video You Deserve, and you can find it every Monday on your site for fun, free entertainment and features, QuadCities.com.
Our latest video is from a British band which had its biggest successes in the United States, including the song featured here.
Jesus Jones came along in that vague hinterland of the late ’80s and very early ’90s before grunge broke and the new decade started to really blossom. Hair metal was becoming bloviated and tired, and nothing else had really come along, so there was a scattering of various genres across the pop landscape, including the mix of industrial, dance, and pop that came out of Britain in the form of acts like Jesus Jones, EMF, and others, adjacent to and out of the Madchester scene that included groups like Charlatans and Stone Roses.
Jesus Jones debuted with the excellent album “Liquidizer,” which gained airplay on college and alternative radio in the U.S. and had modest success in Britain spawning a couple of low charting hits. But it was the band’s second album, “Doubt,” which made them a massive success — albeit a bigger one in the U.S. than their native Britain, at least according to chart positions. Certainly, the group had a top ten hit from the record in the UK (“International Bright Young Thing”) and another hit album, “Perverse,” and song, “The Devil You Know,” as well as a few minor hits in the UK, but in the U.S., there was arguably more of a bang in the short term of their success window, as “Doubt” hit the top 10, and both of its singles stateside were massive — “Right Here, Right Now,” hitting number two, and the follow up, “Real Real Real,” topping out at number four. Oddly enough, “Right Here, Right Now,” was a huge hit worldwide but NOT in Britain, despite being released twice. Both times it barely squeaked into the top 40, peaking at 31, odd considering it was a top five hit elsewhere and was almost a number one here in the U.S.
Sadly, Jesus Jones never had any other hits in the U.S. after that, but two songs that just barely missed number one out of two singles is a pretty good percentage, and “Right Here, Right Now,” remains a staple at sporting events and pops up on various commercials from time to time, still tied in as a touchstone with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
But that’s not the video we’re featuring here. It’s actually the more frenetic follow-up, our Video You Deserve, “Real Real Real,” by Jesus Jones…
