Juanita (Underworld song)

"Juanita" is the title of a 1997 promotional single release and a song by Underworld, and the first portion of the opening combined track "Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love", from their 1996 album Second Toughest in the Infants.

[1] The song was the regular set-opener of their Second Toughest in the Infants and Beaucoup Fish tours.

It is named after Juanita Boxill, who later contributed spoken word vocals for their album A Hundred Days Off.

[citation needed] The 2000 live album Everything, Everything, which documents the Beaucoup Fish tour, features a version which includes "Juanita" and "Kiteless" only, and runs to 12:35.

In a 2016 rundown of the band's best tracks on Stereogum, music critic Sean T Collins rated "Juanita" as "the single strongest argument for [Underworld's] genius", and noted: "The song concludes with one of Karl Hyde’s most effective deployments of his observational writing technique: He simply sat and recorded himself listing the colors of passing cars, played it back at high speed, slowing down the occasional entry in the list as if it contained some special, unknowable meaning.