RFI: Tell Me About My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

OTM. What a stunner.

What's your name?
Secret! What's yours?

I was lucky enough to catch TKK live once, eleven or twelve years ago. They were the support act on an EMF tour, implausibly enough. Seeing their crew of Leather Goddesses and mincing drama queens burst onto the stage of a grotty cavern in pre-economic boom Dublin was... unexpected. As Mr Clean remarked in Apocalypse Now, "this sho nuff is a bizarre sight in the middle o' this shit".

God, that disco bassline.

I've been searching for an mp3 of the version of "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan" that was on the CASSINGLE, without success -- all I can find is the "Acid & Flowers Mix." ;_;

Dug out Confessions and am really grooving on it. I've never heard a lick post Sexplosion! but everything up till then was amazing. Worth tracking down the last twenty-odd years worth of stuff? Anyone kept up with them, or heard the new remixes of the early EPs called Sinister Whisperz?

13 Above The Night and The Resurrection of Luna are worth it; everything else is kind of only-for-completists

haven't heard Sinister Whisperz

Thank you sir! I'll keep my eyes open for those two.

i will break out my old man with a cane routine for the umpteenth time ans say that they lost me forever with Sexplosion!

my goal for jjj's wedding is to hijack the P/A and play a bunch of post-Sexplosion! TKK

Hit and Run Holiday is kind of hilarious in its all-out quest to be the tackiest-sounding album ever recorded.

Dare I ask for details.

Ha, there aren't really that many details to be had! It sounds like a B-52s album made on a &6.66 budget.

Hahahaha. Anything choice on YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWYiU4-hQjM

this is the second song on the album (ignore the random anime video)

(previous song is "Glamour is a Rocky Road" btw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgAwH_fPv0A

the live version of "Hot Blood Risin'"

Okay and that first one isn't a demo recording but the actual thing?

hahaha

yes, that is the actual song

unsurprisingly it is a much meatier song live (or at least it was in 1997)

I totally understand why people hate this album so much but I think it's about a bazillion times more charming than Sexplosion

so, um, they're touring this fall for their 25th anniversary. Coming to town in October. Any chance it'll be worth it?

"Sex on Walkers"

OW! Ba-baby.

I fear for this tour but I'm not gonna lie; I kind of wanna go

Not coming to Boston though. Worth a road trip to NYC? Time a trip to the old homestead around Oct. 11?

Full dates here if anyone's interested.

the day I die will mean NOTHING to you
THE DAY OF SWINE AND ROSES

It sounds like a B-52s album made on a &6.66 budget.

― I just like… I just have to say… (Starts crying) (DJP), Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:35 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't figure out if this supposed to be a bad thing or... it certainly piqued my interest! I'm listening to snippets now and digging the cheese. I saw them somewhere circa Sexplosion! and it was definitely more vinyl gear and Manic Panic hairjobs than I've ever seen in one place.

"Sex on Walkers"

I lolled.

I can't figure out if this supposed to be a bad thing or... it certainly piqued my interest! I'm listening to snippets now and digging the cheese.

omg

I've found the one other person besides my wife who likes Hit & Run Holiday

hi-5

grr besides my wife and me, obv

http://open.spotify.com/album/0jqmyv8U6Ktq0QrpTlMB0Q

here's the album if anyone else wants to see if they can get down with the utter shamelessness

DJP, I saw you repping for Red Red Groovy on a thread once, so I think we're on a similar wavelength re: cheesy early 90s dance rock. I've just spent the morning racking my brain for this band/song title in a similar (I think) vein, finally came up with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_FqVGDAFM

omg

when can we start a Sunscreem revival

Not that familiar, will investigate. A more overt B-52s rip, from '93.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15bTV9GfkaE

DJP, I saw you repping for Red Red Groovy on a thread once, so I think we're on a similar wavelength re: cheesy early 90s dance rock

is... is this a band named after the b-side of a SAW-produced single by Jimmy Cauty's pre-KLF band Brilliant?

i knew nothing about this group except their track i remembered from The Crow OST...until today. (i remember when i was 10 that all i really liked on that album were the NIN, Rage, and TKK tracks).

anyway, oops new obsession.

Sorry to blow up the post but I do own every cd, 12 inch and cd singles including the Rustblade Ultra Limited tin box with cd singles etc. Same with LoA and the B-52's, huge fan of all three groups. Also have the solo Ruth stuff / Cherrie Blue and Darling Nikkie stuff from Loa I do not have all of the Jade 4 u Praga stuff, but I own over 90% of all of it. KMFDM was another group I bought all the singles of. I put a video of Cherrie Blue in Tampa on Youtube if anyone liked her in either Lords of Acid or with TKK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ueMUGAKR0 she was cool enough to let me copy the show I also have TKK from the same night - I did color correction them because I did not know I had shot it in night vision.Yes, she got bigger but she is still a doll imo.

I'm finding you to be a treasure trove of information and am greatly enjoying your posts on the thread!

Just remembering that Confessions of a Knife is a perfect album

it really is

what's this about repping for Red Red Groovy?

Oh yes, they ruled

we listened to that Red Red Groovy album so much when it came out! Siouxsie rave music

Best youtube comment on Confessions...

In the early 90s I was playing this cd for a friend (who's Buddhist) and after 2 songs he ask me to turn it off, because he thought it was polluting his house. Which I guess is a complement.

lol that's great

cntrl-f > vanity search reveals i have told my one and only TKK story.
i have recently added the debut, and a weird somewhat crappy disco remix compilation ('dirty little secrets'), to my archive, the only TKK cds i have unfortunately.
but not dived back in yet.

presses play on the debut : ok, i now remember that this is possibly the best opening track of any album ever.

Yeah, I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits is just a beautiful piece of work, also a perfect album.

hang on : the opening track of my cd edition of Confessions is : 'a daisy chain 4 satan' (acid and flowers)'

i am confused as there is no track re Good Spirits/Bad Spirits !?

(was Confessions not their debut !? I always assumed it was .. )

Confessions is their second album! I See Good Spirits... is the debut.

("A Daisy Chain 4 Satan" is amazing tho)

ahh just checked .. rookie error. sorry DJP.
life before t'internet meant that for 30 years i had assumed Confessions was their debut.
apologies.

[obvious xp]

ok, i see why now.
no cd edition of the debut released in the UK until the reissue in 2004.
i have never seen the cover of the debut in any racks ever in the UK.

I See Good Spirits and I see Bad Spirits is still my fave. I've listened to "These Remains" a lot recently; so lovely.

KOOLER THAN JESUS!!

don't sleep on Cuz It's Hot, either

Confessions is indeed so so good. Need to dig that back out soon.

Cuz it’s Hot single (EP?) is how I discovered them at the goth club night. Remains their absolute pinnacle

great band

kinda feel like they should be super on trend but somehow kids skipped them in favor of more obvious commercial touchpoints like NiN & manson

It didn't have that pent-up aggro vibe that pushes most teen's buttons, their whole hedonistic disco vibe always seemed more seedy and grown up

... wow i love this band

just heard confessions of a knife and sexplosion! for the first time recently and wow

i'm probably not going to go any further but based on the first four albums and their contemporaneous singles, this is my favorite band of all time

Brad!! you should absolutely hear the 5th album, as well as this comp:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Little_Secrets:_music_to_STRIP_by...