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Actually the second! But I like the idea of it being the first for some reason. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

you all talk rubbish

― keith, Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

I first met Jaz in London in 1979 and saw The Joke for the first time. I last met Jaz a few weeks ago at the Camden Underworld gig and as usual we chatted. In the 24 yeaqrs in between I have seen the Joke many, many times both in England and abroad. From their first release to their last and most recent release all the work has been remarkable. I have read all of your comments and feel that most of you have no concept or idea of the subject matter of the Black Jester's work.

― Keith, Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

Um, no thanks, we've already got one...

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

Because this thread is way too unweildy by now, I defer to the following threads.....

Killing Joke at Webster Hall 10/22/03

Killing Joke at Slims on 11/13/03

this is the thread where we talk about how much Living In The 80's by Killing Joke rules.

This is a thread where Alex in NYC can post EVERY SINGLE Killing Joke-related picture he has

Killing Joke 2003: the Album (c'mon, ya knew it was coming!)

Killing Joke - Outside the Gate.: Can ANYONE defend this?

TS: Adam And The Ants' "(You're So) Physical" vs. Killing Joke's "Requiem"

Grohl with the Joke -- for Aja

Killing Joke Album Review (For Alex In NYC)

Killing Joke question (for Mr. Killing Joke)

Alex in NYC - Let's rave about Geordie from Killing joke

killing electroclash joke

Ok, Killing Joke's playing in a club next week, should I go?

TS: Killing Joke's "War Dance" v. XTC's "The War Dance"

26 days til KILLING JOKE hits vancouver....

new killing joke/grohl resume entry

Fire Honours Itself

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

I still want to know whether Ned knew what he was about to unleash when he passed on the secret of how to post pictures on ILM?

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, you're right at that! It was all for the good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago) link

I think it's the way Alex had snuck off to his birthplace to practice his moves, before you (Grand Master Raggett) came to show him the way.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

This is just a heads up for Alex in NYC -- I remember him pointing out in another thread something about a strange appearance of a Killing Joke poster in the background of some TV teen's bedroom or something.

Anyways, I just finished watching this TV pilot for my work, which features a scene with a young girl giving a guy a mix CD. As she hands it to him, she says "it has all the hot new stuff on it -- The Darkness, Handsome Boy Modeling School (?), Killing Joke..."

Maybe there's one main set dresser/cred consultant lurking in TV land who's a big Joke fanatic...?

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

it has all the hot new stuff on it -- The Darkness, Handsome Boy Modeling School (?), Killing Joke...

My head just exploded.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

They're my three favourite bands!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I love the obligatory posters-hung-at-a-dutch-angle in any movie/tv teenagers' room, which obviously are "whatever the labels sent for free" -- It's always a mix of like James Taylor, Guttermouth, and Polvo or something.

does this phenomenon have it's own thread? (not that it DESERVES it, I realize, but that hasn't stopped me before...)

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The Darkness, Handsome Boy Modeling School (?), Killing Joke..."

Words fail me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Incidentally, those sympathetic to the cause should take heart, as next week sees the official release of Chaos for Breakfast.

http://www.studio-c.co.uk/maliciousdamage/graphics/chaos.jpg

http://www.maliciousdamage.co.uk/

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

fucking whoopee

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You, sir, are an enemy of joy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

No, sorry, I'm with the Doc. - re-release everything and devalue my original vinyl copies why don't you, you bastards?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, Stew, these aren't simpy re-releases. There are some un-released demos involved (if you care about such things). But, you knew this.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

http://killing-joke.com/laff_jester.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, but is it art?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Just reminding people. Jaz is watching.

http://www.killing-joke.com/gems.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

"You know, after all of this, would it be foolish to admit that I for one am actually not very familar with Killing Joke?" adam in 2003

Have you rectified this problem yet?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

C L A S S I C !

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd forgotten that I was living under a seven year curse. I guess it still has a year to run.

Honour the fire!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Now and forever a classic, but arguably not at the top of their game these days.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Where's my fellow Ultravox/Japan/Scars fan Bimbler? He's a fan of this group. Admittedly I can't get into them because they're too much of Another's Group, untouchable the way Belle & Sebastian also are, but it's good that someone whom I find as much musical symmetry with would derive pleasure from listening to this group.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I spun "A Love Like Blood" on the radio today. (I would have gone for "Night Time" but they didn't have it.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link

("spun" is definitely the improper verb tense)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The drum sound/performance on "Savage Freedom" is the best ever. Just saying.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

they're too much of Another's Group

Are you suggesting the `Joke are not their own? POPPYCOCK, BLASPHEMER!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

hey alex, way off topic, but every time i see an e-surance commercial, i think of you...

― john. a resident of chicago. (john s), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you suggesting the `Joke are not their own? POPPYCOCK, BLASPHEMER!

No no no, that's not what I meant at all (and calm down, man). I mean that they belong so much to this Other Grouping that I feel like an interloper even sampling one of their songs, which I confess to having done over the past week. Actually some of what I've been hearing reminds me of some of the Scars' latter output -- tribal-flavored, danceable post-punk with sharp, angular guitar action. But I'd still "feel like a thief or burglar barging into that territory", as I explained to Bimbler on the temporary forum. Same thing with a few other artists. Speaking of, I wonder where Bimbler is. I'd have thought he'd have poked his head in around here by now.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Saturday, 6 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm here Phoenix, but the problem is despite my flights of fancy on the temporary board, I'm not even nearly as much of a Killing Joke fan as Alex is, and both he and many folks here know that. So you embarass me a bit, though I'm flattered to be mentioned. ;O

That said I did run into "Turn To Red" tonight when playing part of my 8-Disc mix of 1979 tracks that I made a few years ago.

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Saturday, 6 January 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I did respond to your email tonight about Scars/Robert King etc.

I think you and I need to start discussing things privately more often. I asked if you liked New Order on the other board but you were gone, etc. We've got a good think going Phoenix. Let's talk some more!

― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Saturday, 6 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

six months pass...

this band is shit. Dud

― am0n, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Wait, are we going to have a new invasion all over again?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link

this band is shit. Dud

It's YOU who is shit, am0n.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link

That was quicker than I thought!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Why waste time?

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link

the four-minute man!

― sexyDancer, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link

this band is shit. Dud

― am0n, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link

There is the theory of the Moebius.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link

am0n is way wrong

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link

lawal

― am0n, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link

If that first batch of Killing Joke defenders was for real, then jeez!

I've never heard anything by this band, but I once saw a Czech fake documentary where their lead singer appeared as himself, and he was mighty funny. I'm not sure if that was the intention though. A great film, anyway.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link

No matter what you think of everything else they've ever done, how someone can hear the first LP and think "dud" is beyond me. WARDANCE PEOPLE FOR FUCK'S SAKE. REQUIEM EVEN.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link

"Follow the Leaders" is some of the most awesome + brutal shit ever. Those DRUMS.

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link

If that first batch of Killing Joke defenders was for real, then jeez!

We are very much for real, thank you very much.

That would be "Year of the Devil". Patchy in parts, but otherwise quite entertaining.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link

ts: debut vs. what's THIS for...!

fuck now I can't find my copy of wTf, fuck that

― J0hn D., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Played What's THIS For..! in its entirety yesterday, and it is absolutely omnipotent.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link

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