Killing Joke - Classic Or Dud, Search And Destroy

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

They're my three favourite bands!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

Words fail me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

fucking whoopee

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You, sir, are an enemy of joy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 June 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but is it art?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Just reminding people. Jaz is watching.

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

C L A S S I C !

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

("spun" is definitely the improper verb tense)

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

this band is shit. Dud

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

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

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

this band is shit. Dud

It's YOU who is shit, am0n.

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

That was quicker than I thought!

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

Why waste time?

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

the four-minute man!

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

this band is shit. Dud

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

There is the theory of the Moebius.

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

am0n is way wrong

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

lawal

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

You like three and a half albums by the band and you're not convinced?

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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