Various Artists: Junior Boy's Own Collection (Junior Boy's Own)
Simon Reynolds, Spin, November 1994
THE COVER of this compilation of releases from one of London's hipper dance labels features a gallery of lovable rogues, including Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Patrick McNee (from The Avengers), Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend, and Phil Daniels (star of Quadrophenia). The last two are the giveaway, since the whole Junior Boy's Own ethos is a '90s update of mod. That '60s scene was about boys and their obsessions with the sharpest clothes, the obscurest dance singles, and the pills that allowed them to skip sleep and spend the weekend dancing and posing.
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