Right Here, Right Now (Jesus Jones song)

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"Right Here, Right Now"
Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones UK single standard edition.png
Artwork variant for standard UK single releases
Single by Jesus Jones
from the album Doubt
B-side "Move Me"/"Damn Good at This" (original)
"Welcome Back Victoria" (reissue)
Released24 September 1990 (1990-09-24)
Studio
  • Matrix (London, UK)
  • Ezee (London, UK)
Genre
Length3:09
Label
Songwriter(s) Mike Edwards
Producer(s) Martyn Phillips [3]
Jesus Jones singles chronology
"Real Real Real"
(1990)
"Right Here, Right Now"
(1990)
"International Bright Young Thing"
(1991)
Music video
"Right Here, Right Now" on YouTube

"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British alternative dance band Jesus Jones from their second studio album, Doubt (1991). It was released as the album's second single on 24 September 1990. Although it spent only nine nonconsecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 31, it became a top-10 hit in the United States; it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1991. The single sold over one million copies, won a BMI award, and was the song most played on college radio in 1991. [4]

Contents

Content

The song was inspired by the Revolutions of 1989 in Europe, particularly Perestroika in the Soviet Union. [5] [6] Mike Edwards has said that some of the lyrics were influenced by the band's experiences playing in Romania in February 1990 shortly after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu. [7] The lyrics were also inspired by the 1987 Prince song "Sign o' the Times" and a 1989 cover version of it by Simple Minds, which the members of Jesus Jones had first heard during television coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall. [7] Edwards' original demo for "Right Here, Right Now" featured samples of the Prince song, as well as guitar solos by Jimi Hendrix, but producer Martyn Phillips removed both elements from the song before the band recorded it. [7]

The official video for the song shows the band performing on stage mixed with images from contemporary political events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, news footage of the collapse of the Soviet Union and speeches by American and Soviet leaders. [8]

Reception

The song was number 14 on a list of the 50 greatest conservative rock songs by the National Review in June 2006. The list's author John J. Miller explained, "The words are vague, but they’re also about the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War." [9]

Credits

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom24 September 1990
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 10-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
[24]
Japan30 January 1991Mini-CD [25]
United Kingdom (re-release)8 July 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
[26]

Covers

A cover version was recorded by New Zealand band The Feelers and released as a single in 2010 and on the album Hope Nature Forgives . It was chosen as the anthem to the 2011 Rugby World Cup advertising campaign. [27]

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