Killing Joke - Classic Or Dud, Search And Destroy

What is there to like about New Order? Apart from their name, obviously.

Personally, I fuckin' love New Order, but y'know....whatever.

The wife's favorite song of theirs, actually.

'My Love of this Land' was a great single.

http://www.killingjoke.com/

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

So that'll be my special limited edition original 1980 cassette version devalued by about 99% then!

ME BIG HAPPY!

Forgot to say thanks for this. I've now read I think every article they've got on both of those.
It's certainly put a new spin on the music for me.

Great to see how their behaviour in interviews has evolved over the years and how they, Jaz in particular, have changed.

Looks like there'll be a new album sort of soon too, which I'm equally aprehensive and excited about.

Regarding the new album, The Death & Resurrection Show, word `round the campfire is that Dave Grohl has completed recording the drums tracks for the new album, and they're currently being mixed by a gent named Clive Goddard.

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Alex, it says that Fugazi have covered KJ, do you know what/when/where?

But this thread made me greatly miss my Killing Joke T-shirt, which I wore until there was nothing left of it to wear. That was like the best damn T-shirt I ever had, the Daisy Buchanan of my T-shirts.

Yeah, I saw that too. I think it's a mistake. The bands I'm aware of who have attempted to cover the Joke (usually with shite results) are: Metallica ("The Wait"), Foo Fighters ("Requiem"), Icehouse ("Love Like Blood"), Helmet ("Complications"), Godflesh ("Requiem"), Amen ("Europe"), the Mad Capsule Markets ("Wardance"), Love like Blood (lamentable Goth band take who not only butchered the song, but sullied its good name by adopting it as their moniker). I've heard rumours that Sarah McLachlan covered "Love Like Blood" live, but I've never heard it.

On a different point, I wonder what ol' Courtney Love has to say now that Grohl has gone public about working with the Joke.

I've got a cover of 'Primitive' done by Helmet, but not 'Complications'.

I know Grohl doesn't like Love or maybe vice-versa.

Personally I think KJ should cover Heart Shaped Box, which is supposedly about Courtney, but change the lyrics and claim it's their own.
Then send her a Christmas card telling her they've never heard of her.

Ack! You're right, it is "Primitive." Sorry about that.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=17876

http://www.foofighters.com/press/press_entry.php?id=207

Also, it's been said in the above, but anyway, from www.blabbermouth.net:

FOO FIGHTERS frontman/ex-NIRVANA drummer Dave Grohl has laid
down the drum tracks for the new KILLING JOKE album, tentatively titled "Axis of Evil", according to Billboard. The project, which will be out in June on Sony worldwide, was produced by GANG OF FOUR's Andy Gill and is the veteran U.K. rock act's first since 1996's "Democracy".

Grohl, who is said to be a huge KILLING JOKE fan, met the group's leader, Jaz Coleman, in New Zealand recently and agreed to play on the album. They recorded the drum tracks the last week of March in Los Angeles. Grohl has no plans to tour with the band, like he did with QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE last year in support of their Interscope album "Songs For The Deaf" after contributing drum tracks to that release.

The reunited KILLING JOKE, who were last believed to be working with a lineup featuring Coleman, guitarist Geordie, bassist Paul Raven (ex-
PRONG), and drummer Ted Parsons (ex-GODFLESH/PRONG), were
previously reported to have completed work on a new studio album at the end of last year. The CD, then tentatively titled "The Death & Resurrection Show", was said to have been tracked in London and Los Angeles and was set to feature guest appearances from members of TOOL and SYSTEM OF A DOWN. It is not presently clear if any of those initial recordings will surface as part of the new collection

Out today!!!! Not the new album, but the official release of age-old bootleg.

Teeheehee. I was briefly in a band called Requiem once and we were every bit as awful as you'd imagine a band with a name like "Requiem" would be. I bet you can't guess what KJ song we used to cover....

Anyway, this would be, uh, first album ish - maybe late 1980 / early 81 and I thought they sounded like the early Banshees with a mad bloke singing. Thats not a bad thing, in fact they were quite good but a bit limited and one dimensional.

The support band were called Boots for Dancing and I liked them loads.

Oh and KJ were great doing The Empire Song on TOTP the week of the Falklands.

After a hellish afternoon of dragging more of my shoddy belongings into a crypt-like storage space way the hell over on the far-flung frontiers of the West Side of Manhattan, I sluggishly popped into "Rebel Rebel," an age-old record store in the Village just on the slight, unlikely chance that....maybe.....possibly...just a lark....maybe in a blue moon fluke....

HOLY SHIT, THEY HAVE IT!!!!!

I am now the very happy owner of THE UNPERVERTE PANTOMIME?, and am thoroughly bedazzled by its comparitivley crystaline sound (I can now retire my long-suffering cassette edition of the original bootleg) and *ABSOLUTELY STRIKING* packaging (battle-helmets off and fists raised in righteous exhortation to the estimable Sir Michael of Coles!!!!). AAGGHH! I haven't been this excited about a disc acquisition in more time than I care to think about. Where do I begin?

Visually:
Well, for a start, for those of y'all out there who want the skinny on ever last detail, the back cover (....as I'm assuming everyone has seen the front cover by now)...features the illustration that graces the cover of the bootleg (or at least the copy of the boot I have), that of a despondent jester massaging his furrowed brow in a leafy glade. The inner booklet is designed in much the same collage motif as graces the inner sleeves of LAUGH?I NEARLY BOUGHT ONE and WILFUL DAYS compilations, featuring many candid shots of the band goofing around (yes, there is indeed a shot of Youth taking a leak) and a couple of shots of Jaz sporting some truly dubious facial hair. Any regular peruser of Mike Coles Studio C site will recognize some of the live shots contained herein, the band all looking much younger and fresher than they invariably do today (Geordie...not just with hair, but LOTS of it, Youth in a stylish UNKNOWN PLEASURES t-shirt, Big Paul with a can of....er..Colt 45). There is an enticing account by Alchemy mainman Carlton P. Sandercock (a surname I'm guessing he caught a handy amount of grief about in his school days) which I'll let you discover on your own (as I'm not about to type it out), but it closes with the entirely welcome post script: "Oh Yes, there is More!"

Sonically:
I'm only on the my first spin-through, but suffice to say, to hear some of these tracks (previously only filtered through poor quality tape hiss or compressed like freeze-dried foodstuffs into a comparitvely stifling MP3 format) is a glorious revelation. The Capital Radio session of "Are You Receiving?" positively crackles out of the speakers as if it was recorded yesterday and the Malicious single version of "Pssyche" sounds like an almost different track from what I've been used to. I'm only waist deep into it, but so far I cannot stop grinning maniacally. Today may finaly be the day I push my neighbors' collective patience over the edge as I cackle amidst the infernal din, "WELCOME THE NEW ERA! HONOR THE FIRE, YOU FUCKING HERETICS!"

GO FETCH IT AT ONCE!

Oh, shit, now I have "This Corrosion" in my head.

How much were they charging for the CD? I actually saw it somewhere, but I forget where. And laughed to myself, thinking about this very thread, like a total asshole.

I was saying that very thing yesterday to some doubting jizzlobbers on the Gathering who were writing off Andy's gang as talentless Zep-wannabes (fuckin' AS IF!). I believe they had him confused with the Mission.

The disc was nineeteen bucks & change......and I also picked up the new Kitchens of Distinction compilation, but that won't see the inside of my player for many, many angry red moons, I fear.

This is basically my opinion too.

There's a new Kitchens of Distinction compilation? Where the fuck have I been? I am so out of the goddamned loop these days it's not even funny.

Well, they certainly did on "Youth of the Nation," but I'm not familiar enough with the rest of their work to crucify them for it (although aren't they big ol' Christians? In which case, I'll go get my nails and hammer!)

Although the compilation is inexplicably missing "Smiling" from their Death of Cool album.

That's all I'm going on, too.

Alex in pro-Satan shockah! What is up with all these bands being raving Christians these days, by the way? If you imagine me saying that in Jerry Seinfeld's voice, it's funnier.

I think we should page Anthony Miccio to thread, I bet he knows a lot about P.O.D.