r/jamiroquai

Canned Heat

Talullah

Seven Days in Sunny June

Time Won't Wait

Soul Education

White Knuckle Ride

Runaway

Virtual Insanity

Two Completely Different Things

Alright

Picture of My Life

Corner of the Earth

Starchild

Emergency On Planet Earth

When You Gonna Learn

High Times

Radio

Little L

Falling

Lifeline

an article i wrote as an obsessed fan who is holding in tears for having to miss summer sonic... if you want to dig more into jami's history in japan, you might enjoy reading this :)

hope you like it!

Hi all,

Managed to download the paywalled gig from Tokyo off Twitter. Tried to upload it to Youtube but it got immediately blocked by WOWOW - think they block lots of Japanese vids of the band (i think i remember Help uploading a video of them performing at the last Summer Sonic but it got taken down 😕). Anyway as it can’t go on Youtube this is the download link to the gig:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lx_MtgOdKCj1zBzfFS7oUYJIzZj-8pDQ/view?usp=drivesdk

I don’t share stuff on Drive so please lmk if the link is broken - you should hopefully be able to download it to your own device. Note that Disco Stays the Same isn’t in the recording - this also happened at the Cooljazz radio audio last month due to music licensing restrictions. Anyways enjoy ‼️

Setlist
0:00 Now We Are Alone Intro
1:14 Don’t Give Hate A Chance
7:55 Little L
14:54 Emergency on Planet Earth - Returning; Berlin Nov 19 2025
19:41 Space Cowboy
31:27 Alright
40:12 Light Years
46:07 Travelling Without Moving
56:31 Canned Heat
1:06:41 Cosmic Girl
1:15:54 Love Foolosophy
1:28:22 Virtual Insanity

I remember hearing this comparison back in the 90's and being confused back then by it. I'm a big fan of both and I just don't hear it. Their voices sound totally different and the songwriting is also very different.

I'm doing the r/1001albumsgenerator and got Emergency On Planet Earth today. I read some of the user reviews and they are filled with "wow this guy wants to be Stevie Wonder!". And on the Wikipedia page "Reception" section, Stevie is mentioned 3 times!

So I listened and kept that in mind while trying to find specific nods to Stevie. The only one that stands out is the scat vocals in the chorus of Too Young To Die, it's very Stevie. The title of Music of the Mind is obviously a nod to Stevie's album Music of my Mind but the song itself is instrumental and does sound like a Stevie jam. That's it really, unless I'm missing something?

I'm not saying Jay Kay isn't influenced by Stevie, it's impossible to be a Funk/RnB singer and not be. But I just don't hear it as strongly as suggested by everyone. Does anyone else feel the same?

Anyone else feel the same?

I remember seeing it on Instagram but i cant seem to find it again

Im curious becouse there are two songs that i dont recognize and i wanted to listen to them