― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 16 April 2004 03:49 (twenty years ago) link
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
My head just exploded.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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
Words fail me.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 11 June 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.killing-joke.com/gems.gif
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Have you rectified this problem yet?
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Honour the fire!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― john. a resident of chicago. (john s), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
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
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
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
― 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
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
I like the first three albums (in descending order of chronology, probably) and the live Ha! EP quite a bit. And I've pretty much liked them all ever since they came out.
Beyond that, I'm still not convinced.
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 August 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
You like three and a half albums by the band and you're not convinced?
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
The early singles collected on the _Chaos For Breakfast_ box are astounding. Never heard anything else like them - post-punk reggae initially, then just post-punk POWER. There's a good reason people are ga-ga over Jaz - he's a rare shouter who not only sounds good doing it, he's yelling FOR YOU!
― Mr. Odd, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
xp I said unconvinced "beyond that." They really lose a lot for me starting with Fire Dances, and I'm not convinced they ever got it back; sounds like they're just spinning their wheels, doing incrementally less exciting versions on the sound they started out with. I feel like people cut them slack for the mediocre later stuff because the early stuff was so awesome. But apparently people hear something in the post-'82-or-so stuff that I don't.
"Wardance" does blow away everything I've ever heard by Primal Scream, though.
And they did invent a genre, more or less. Without Killing Joke, there's maybe no Big Black, no Rammstein, no Test Dept., no Nine Inch Fucking Nails (okay, that might be a good thing, but I won't hold it against them.) And Ministry might've spent their entire career sounding like twee Anglophile synth-pop wannabees.
(And yeah, Big Black were ripping off Metal Urbain, too. But they ripped off Killing Joke more.)
By the way, Alex, ever hear of these guys? Early '80s band, they sound a lot like Killing Joke. Which probably explains why their EP came out on KJ's Malicious Damage label. CD reissue just out this year, and I like it a lot:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/redbeat
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 August 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
(Oops, reissue actually out in 2004, apparently. But I didn't hear it til this year.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 August 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for the tip, I just ordered the Red Beat comp! I heart ILM!
― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link