Hey Hey My My Yo Yo

Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
Studio album by Junior Senior
Released August 2005[1]
Recorded Gula Studion, Malmö, Sweden
Delta Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark[2]
Genre
Length 34:20
Label Crunchy Frog
Producer Jesper Mortensen
Junior Senior chronology
D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
(2002)		 Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
(2005)

Hey Hey My My Yo Yo is the second and final album by Danish pop group Junior Senior, released in Japan and parts of Europe in 2005. It was released in Australia on April 9, 2007. The album was not released in the UK, for reasons that have never been made clear. The album was released on August 14, 2007 in the United States and packaged with a bonus EP.

Release

Hey Hey My My Yo Yo was released in Japan and Scandinavia in 2005.[3] Hey Hey My My Yo Yo was successful in Japan, charting at number two on the Japanese music charts.[1] The American version of the album was released by Rykodisc Records on August 14, 2007.[4] This release of the album included a seven-song bonus EP.[3] In 2007, Hey Hey My My Yo Yo peaked at number five on the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
The A.V. Club(A-)[6]
Blender[7]
Entertainment Weekly(A-)[8]
Pitchfork Media(7.9/10)[9]
PopMatters(7/10)[10]
Rolling Stone[11]
Slant Magazine[12]
Spin[13]
Stylus Magazine(B-)[14]

Initial critical response to Hey Hey My My Yo Yo was very positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 80, based on 14 reviews.[4]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jesper "Junior" Mortensen, except where noted [2]. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Hello"   0:43
2. "Hip Hop a Lula" (Mortensen, Ivory Hunter, Otis Clyde) 3:12
3. "Can I Get Get Get"   3:12
4. "Take My Time"   3:49
5. "Itch U Can't Skratch"   3:06
6. "We R the Handclaps"   3:01
7. "I Like Music (W.O.S.B.)"   3:43
8. "Ur a Girl"   3:01
9. "No No No's"   3:47
10. "Dance, Chance, Romance"   3:23
11. "Happy Rap"   3:22

All songs written and composed by Jesper "Junior" Mortensen[15]. 

Personnel

  • Jesper "Junior" Mortensen – vocals, guitar and synth on all songs; percussion on all songs except track six;bass on track eleven; harmonica on track eight; harpsichord on track eight; piano on tracks eight, nine and ten; kazoo on ten; hand claps, stomps
  • Jeppe "Senior" Laursen – vocals, hand claps, stomps
  • Thomas Troelsen – hand claps; synth on track six; harpsichord on track nine; percussion on "We R the Handclaps"; drum fills on tracks seven, eight and nine; piano on track eight
  • The Velvelettes – backing vocals on tracks one, two, three, six, seven, eight
  • Carolyn Gill – vocals on track six
  • Bertha Barbee – vocals on track five
  • Le Tigre – backing vocals on tracks one and three
  • Johanna Fateman – vocals on track five
  • JD Samson – vocals on track three
  • Kathleen Hanna – vocals on track ten
  • Cindy Wilson – vocals on track four
  • Kate Pierson – vocals on track four
  • Anna Køster – backing vocals on tracks five, six, nine and eleven; handclaps on tracks one, two, three, four, five and seven
  • Joy Hoyle – backing vocals on track eleven
  • Rasmus Kihlberg – drums on tracks four, seven, eight, nine and ten
  • Bjørn Joensson – drums on tracks two, three, five, six and eleven
  • Mats Ingvarsson – bass on all songs except tracks ten and eleven
  • Jens Lindgård, Petter Lindgård and Sven Andersson - horns on tracks two, five and seven
  • Filip Runesson – strings on all tracks except ten and eleven
  • Spooner Oldham – piano on track ten
  • Rune Kjeldsen – acoustic guitar on track nine
  • Mads Nørgaard – handclaps on track seven
  • Lars Vognstrup – handclaps on track eleven

Production

[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Monger, James Christopher; Tim Sendra. "Junior Senior > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Official Crunch Frog Site". Crunchy Frog. Archived from the original on May 15, 2007. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  3. 1 2 Wood, Mikael (August 18, 2007). "D-D-Delayed Reaction". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 119 (33): 42. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  4. 1 2 3 "Junior Senior:Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
  5. ↑ Sendra, Tim. "Junior Senior > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  6. ↑ Scott Gordon (August 14, 2007). "Junior Senior: Hey Hey My My Yo Yo: Music : A.V. Club". Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  7. ↑ Lim, Dennis. "Hey Hey My My Yo Yo - Blender". Blender. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  8. ↑ Vozick-Levinson, Simon (August 10, 2007). "Music Review Hey Hey My My Yo Yo". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  9. ↑ Mitchum, Rob (November 16, 2005). "Pitchfork review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  10. ↑ O'Neil, Tim (August 13, 2007). "Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo - PopMatters review". PopMatters. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  11. ↑ Hoard, Christian (August 23, 2008). "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  12. ↑ Keefe, Jonathan (August 13, 2007). "Junior Senior: Hey Hey My My Yo Yo:Slant Magazine". Slant Magazine. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  13. ↑ Walters, Barry (September 12, 2007). "Junior Senior, 'Hey Hey My My Yo Yo' : Spin Magazine Online". Spin. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  14. ↑ McGowan, Ross (December 14, 2005). "Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo - Review - Stylus Magazine". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
  15. 1 2 Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (Linear notes on digipak). Junior Senior. Crunchy Frog. 2007. RCD10927.

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