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Ronald_antly 3:30 Sun Apr 5
A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Why the fuck was I not made aware of their 2015 album 'Pylon'??

I bought 'Night Time' back in the day, but their work had 'flown under my radar' since then.
Until last Saturday evening when YouTube cued up, quite randomly it seemed, 'I Am The Virus'.

Whatever you might think of the lyrics (which contain a stunning bit of SHEER PROPHECY), it is indisputable that this is one MONSTER tune.

bruuuno 3:34 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

You’re the only joke round here, anttley

medwayhammer1 3:35 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Virus is a TUNE! Have you listened to their earlier work? If not you should...everybody should have a bit of Joke in their life when the apocalypse is due!

Ronald_antly 3:49 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

medway - Their followup to 'Night Time' didn't really grab me, and as I say they went under my radar until a week ago.
Since then, I have been fucking OBSESSING on their music and interviews.


bruuuuuuuuuuuuno - BE NICE!!

chim chim cha boo 4:58 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Possibly my favourite band of all time.

Been going to see them for 40 years including last September at Subterrania when Jazz Coleman passed out on stage. It was fucking HOT!

Ant, I'll give you some of my favourite songs and I suggest you youTube them and the lyrics. In no particular order:

First off, Seeing Red. 'They're dropping bombs again, and they're doing it in your name. Kiss the arse of Uncle Sam, oh to be an Englishman'.

Dark Forces. 'Get up, wake up, someone's taking you for a ride'.

European Super State. A thing Joke do better than any other band, mix in a bit of Disco with their industrial sound. Also see Follow The Leaders, the first song I ever heard with a drum machine AND a live drummer.

Their PROPER end of days stuff is superb, Glitch, Asteroid, Silent Weapons For A Quiet War, FEMA Camp, Pandemonium, Loose Cannon, Tension, the list goes on.

One of the most influential bands ever.

joe royal 6:31 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

War dance is an excellent album.

fossil 8:15 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Maybe Killing Joke went under your radar because they went seriously off the rails for a few years after Night Time, mainstream fame didn't suit them.

Nowadays they are on a different plane to other bands who have been going for decades. They have stood the test of time and are definitely not a nostalgia act. Jaz Coleman's intensely paranoiac focus on the future of our species is hitting harder than ever in today's world.

Iron Duke 10:15 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

joe royal 6:31 Sun Apr 5

War Dance isn’t the name of an album.

First 2 albums are excellent (Killing Joke and What’s this for?). Night time is a more accessible mainstream classic. They turned a bit shit for a few years but came back in the 90’s with the heavy classic Pandemonium. I haven’t heard their latest stuff - might give it a try.

chim chim cha boo 11:15 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

I think they took Nivana to court because Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds SO much like Eighties. The upshot was that Dave Greohl played drums on their second eponymous album 'Killing Joke' in a out 2003 (maybe 2006?).

Not a big fan of Ghroul (sp?) but it's a fucking brilliant album anyway.

joe royal 11:24 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Duke.

https://www.amazon.com/Wardance-Remixes-Killing-Joke/dp/B000009GT7


Full album here

https://youtu.be/oErjgB0qgAo

Athletico Easthamico 11:29 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Come as you are, sounds like Eighties.

zebthecat 12:08 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Threir renaissance conincided with Youth coming into the fold first as producer/fill in bass player and then when the Big Paul and Youth came back for good following Paul Raven's death.
They are absolutely brutal live still.
Not bad for four old blokes and a keyboard sideman.

zebthecat 12:10 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Athletico Easthamico 11:29 Sun Apr 5

Which was in turn nicked off the Damned (Under the floor again).
No doubt Captain Sensible borrowed it from eslewhere himself.

ironsofcanada 12:37 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

I thought you meant the Alan Moore Batman one-shot:

As you were.



(Check it out though )

joe royal 5:46 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Alan Moore knows the score.

gridbasher 7:47 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

The last 3 albums have virtually been a prediction of what is currently happening from Absolute Dissent with The Great Cull, Fresh Fever From The Skies and European Super State through MMXXII with Pole Shift, Fema Camp and Corporate Elect to Pylon with New Cold War, War On Freedom, I Am The Virus and Plague.
Jaz Coleman is either very astute or a rabid conspiracy truther, having met him on many occasions and partied backstage and aftershow as a mate owns the Prague recording studios they have used for the past decade I can confirm that he swings wildly between the 2.
A brutal live experience still I heartily recommend catching them if you get another chance, but if Jaz's predictions are right all non sheeple will be locked up in the Excel Fema Camp by the end of the year :-)

charlie paynter 10:34 Sun Apr 5
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

I loved all their early stuff, up to and including the Revelations album in 82. Then Jaz decamped to Iceland, Youth left, and it was never the same again. I too lost interest from the mid-80s onwards.

I had a listen to that Pylon album Ron, but it didn't do it for me. It sounded over-produced and a bit...standard, compared to them in their prime.

At their best, their music was angular, tribal, jarring, but somehow euphoric. I'd never heard anything like it.

Gazza_AZ 1:47 Mon Apr 6
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

i liked Killing Joke back in the day, but that is five and a half minutes of a dude screaming I am the virus. I fail to see much prescience in this lyric. ... sorry
I actually like some of the other tunes
Into the Unknown - has some decent lyrics going

Ronald_antly 9:24 Mon Apr 6
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

i suggest you look a bit harder.

blueeyed.handsomeman 9:34 Mon Apr 6
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

HOW DOES ONE
TAKE A HARD LOOK

Far East Hammer 9:55 Mon Apr 6
Re: A question for Killing Joke aficianodos

Didn't Jaz move to Auckland and set-up a retro-style recording studio?

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