Jesus Jones is one of my All Time Favorite bands. I picked up Doubt and Perverse first, and Liquidizer later when I discovered it. Already was an awfully long time coming.

I'm rather pissed that they forced the group to break up, and have a deal going with Mike Edwards that he can form another group, so long as he doesn't sing for it.

I've found their lyrics generally fascinating and challenging, especially from Liquidizer with regards to religion. Songs off Perverse were simply intersting because of what they said about culture...and what I'm seeing in my head, between what I've read about Edward's on and off affair with the music industry, and the songs, generally says more than I can write here about what we're doing to ourselves as a society. I think that Welcome Back, Victoria is probably one of their more powerful and highly overlooked pieces.

I think that while it's true that many bands have sounds that are close to Jesus Jones, few of them have lyrics which think about any of the same things, or have the same depth or fun to them. But what is style in the face of fame and the demands of culture, neh?