Juanita (Underworld song)

"Juanita" is the title of a promotional 1996 single release and a song by Underworld, from their album Second Toughest in the Infants. It was the regular set-opener of their Second Toughest in the Infants and Beaucoup Fish tours. It is named after Juanita Boxill, who contributed spoken word vocals for their album A Hundred Days Off.

"Juanita"
Single by Underworld
from the album Second Toughest in the Infants
Released	1997
Genre	Progressive house
Length	16:35
Label	Junior Boy's Own
Songwriter(s)	Rick Smith, Karl Hyde, Darren Emerson
Producer(s)	Rick Smith, Karl Hyde, Darren Emerson
Underworld singles chronology
"Born Slippy .NUXX" (1996) "Juanita" (1997) "Moaner" (1997)

On the album it is titled "Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream of Love" as "Juanita" forms only the first part of three in the track, with "Kiteless" and "To Dream of Love" pushing it to its length of almost seventeen minutes. The "Promo Short Cut" version cuts down the "Juanita" part of the track, which is approximately the first 6:03 of the album version, and edits it to 3:49.

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

In a 2016 rundown of the band's best tracks, music critic Sean T Collins rated Juanita as 'the single strongest argument for [Underworld's] genius' and noted: 'The peculiar sample which occurs at the end of the track is one of Karl Hyde’s most effective deployments of his observational writing. His technique consisted of simply sitting and while he recorded himself listing the colours 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.'[1]