KiLlIng JoKe Developments.....

This hurts me deep in my heart.

Major xpost...

While I think the original "The Wait" is supreme over anything that's covered it, I think Metallica's cover is alright! Garage Days Re-Revisited was truly Metallica's last blast of goodness. They really should have called it a day after that.

....Garage Days was super influential to me....introduced me to KJ and the Misfits....one of the first "punk" things I really ever heard....

Hahahaha. This would be third time if anyone like that is still even out there! How BORING!

That sucks!

Do you know if there'll be any special features on the DVD that IS coming out?

I mean, they must be getting desperate if they are willing to tour with Motley Crue.

Go back to the store and return every Killing Joke album you've ever bought. Then find a pasture and wash your mouth out with a cowpie.

That all said, I cannot imagine the `Joke converting great swathes of the Crue's core audience, but ya never know.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), May 28th, 2005 12:39 PM. (vassifer)

Oh, you always say that.

It would be more threatening to hear "Go buy some Motley Crue and listen to it till you find the similarities between them and the Joke!!!"

Go listen to your little Foo Fighters.

Dave is taller than Jaz!

Anyway, I already pissed some people off on that board. (what a surprise!) But some people think I'm cool.

But Alex, I can't leave this board because then I won't get to talk to you and I mean, where else am I gonna find a Joke fan like you ever again?? With all your info and stuff.

http://www.misera.net/gathering/

That all said, I cannot imagine the `Joke converting great swathes of the Crue's core audience, but ya never know.

I originally read this as the CURE's audience. I was utterly baffled for awhile there.

you know, i ALWAYS figured that nikki sixx was a secret punk!

Sixx is the king of revisionism, meanwhile he re-tooled the Crue's look circa Theatre of Pain to distinguish the band from the punks.

I thought it was incongruous that Motorhead are supporting on the Australian leg, but KJ do edge it.

Are Motorhead opening? That's totally criminal. But, Lemmy does live in L.A. (right down from the Troubadour. I rang his buzzer in `95....it does indeed say "I.Kilmister")...and Motorhead are a metal band. Now KJ and Motorhead together....THAT would be a fucking tour!

(another way -- spread a rumor that the killing joke will be 50 cent's opening band when HE tours.)

Oh, he's gonna kill me!!

Killing Joke, who were recently described as “the most devastating live experience on earth” (Classic Rock), will be reissuing two albums on 18th July – “Pandemonium” (1994) and “Democracy” (1996). Both albums have been re-mastered and contain bonus tracks *. Pandemonium, one of the band’s biggest selling albums to date, was recorded and mixed during the spring, summer and autumn of 1994 in York Studios, New Zealand (which Coleman co-owns) and Youth’s Butterfly studios in Brixton, and saw Killing Joke returning after a 4 year hiatus with a new/old line-up. The album featured drumming by Geoff Dugmore (not a full-time band member) and vocal tracks recorded in the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Fusing sheer intensity, alongside fierce power and inventiveness, Killing Joke enjoyed their greatest success as the song Millennium received major airplay on US radio stations. Following the release of Pandemonium, Coleman retreated to Sedona, Arizona where the first seeds for Democracy were sown. The album features the immense Democracy, Prozac People a poetic statement of denial inspired by the 18 months Coleman spent on the drug while being treated for depression and Aeon, an eight minute, hypnotic adrenalin borne gale of chorded guitars.

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Coleman retreated to Sedona, Arizona where the first seeds for Democracy were sown

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Yeah, I wasn't too sure about this either.

Hooray!

I want to say yes, but -- typically -- there's lots of conflicting info on the Joke front.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008VFEK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

There are bonus tracks on all the re-masters, though not as many as I'd have preferred.

Damnit! I'm in shock. I thought I was getting the real thing. I'm glad you caught that.

is this out yet?

What exactly is that image? A cross being used as a cell tower or a speaker pole or some reference to cameras in London?

It's a cell tower I think

This cover is so awful:
http://p.playserver1.com/ProductImages/0/0/0/6/7/8/8/2/28876000_500x500_1.jpg

But this track is so good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCsRwRYXFkg

heard that track earlier today, my nerves have yet to recover. immense.
but yes, truly awful awful artwork ..
if they removed the skull and the engine part (??) then that would be an improvement.

This song is a monster. As monstrous as that cover art.

Terrible cover. Incredible record.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:07 PM (1 year ago)

lol seems to be a recurring theme.

Cannot wait to FINALLY see Killing Joke in person for the first time at Roadburn in April.

Great tune, too.

Paul Ferguson really needs to dump the hi-hat/cymbals from his kit. The first 4 albums had such a unique sound in large part due to the tribal tom patterns and high frequency space opened up to Geordie's flanged jazz chords.

Don't mind Youth bringing in psy-trance production touches, but I haven't cared much for the past 22 years of KJ being the respectable Ministry alternative.

Really, nobody else has sounded quite like prime era KJ. Certainly not later KJ.

That may be, but as far as I'm concerned, EVERY ALBUM aside from "Outside The Gate" has been immensely enjoyable when it came out and has a place in their catalog - the metalic "Pandemonium", the acoustic "Democracy", the violently angry "KJ 2003" and the long sludgy grooves of "Hosannas" are all really different from one another and all fantastic.

absolute dissent is a pretty great album, the first in a long time from them that I thught really sounded like old school KJ.

I heard from a friend they were 'awful' in LA last year and had a tech stand in for Youth...true?

I like this new song.

New album is balls...

...of fire raining from the sky and scorching my eardrums with awesomeness!

Nice! New KJ take a few listens to reveal the nuances but, yeah, more greatness. Frankly I find every single album aside from Outside The Gate to be worthy, no idea how I'd rank them as they seem to change with each one.

Any thoughts on "MMXII"? Lyrically, Jaz is completely nuts - FEMA camps, really? At times it sounds like a cross between Brighter and Repressed Emotions. It's not bad but it's not grabbing me like the last one.

I'll keep posting on this ghost thread. New singles collection coming out - it's 33 individual CD singles! Jeez... Deluxe edition comes with a sweet disc of odds and ends, though.

Tracklist: Killing Joke, The Singles Collection: 1979-2012: Super Deluxe Edition

CD 1
1. “Nervous System”
2. “Turn To Red”

CD 2
1. “War Dance”
2. “Pssyche”

CD 3
1. “Requiem”
2. “Change”

CD 4
1. “Follow The Leaders”
2. “Tension”

CD 5
1. “Empire Song”
2. “Brilliant”

CD 6
1. “”Chop-Chop”
2. “Good Samaritan”

CD 7
1. “Birds of A Feather”
2. “Flock The BSide”

CD 8
1. “Let’s All Go (To The Fire Dances)”
2. “Dominator”

CD 9
1. “Me Or You?”
2. “Wilful Days”

CD 10
1. “Eighties”
2. “Eighties” (Coming Mix)

CD 11
1. “A New Day”
2. “Dance Day”

CD 12
1. “Love Like Blood”
2. “Blue Feather” (Version)

CD 13
1. “Kings And Queens”
2. “The Madding Crowd (Remixed By Killing Joke)

CD 14
1. “Adorations”
2. “Exile”

CD 15
1. “Sanity”
2. “Goodbye To The Village”

CD 16
1. “America”
2. “Jihad”

CD 17
1. “My Love Of This Land”
2. “Darkness Before Dawn”

CD 18
1. “The Beautiful Dead”

CD 19
1. “Money Is Not Our God”
2. “North Of the Border”

CD 20
1. “Exorcism” (Live In King’s Chamber Cairo, Aug 1993 Mix)
2. “Whiteout” (The Intellect Is Ugly Remix) (Mandragora Edit)

CD 21
1. “Millennium” (Cybersank Edit)
2. “Millennium” (Cybersank Extended Remix)

CD 22
1. “Pandemonium” (Cybersank Edit)
2. “Pandemonium” (Cybersank Extended Remix)

CD 23
1. “Jana”
2. “Jana” (Dragonfly Mix)

CD 24
1. “Democracy” (Album Mix)
2. “Mass”

CD 25
1. “Loose Cannon”
2. “Wardance” (Ultimate Version)

CD 26
1. “Seeing Red” (edit)
2. “Seeing Red” (Jagz Kooner Remix w/vox)

CD 27
1. “Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell” (Radio Edit)
2. “Afterburner” (Alternative Version)

CD 28
1. “In Excelsis”
2. “Kali Yuga”

CD 29
1. “European Super State” (edit)
2. “European Super State” (Youth Remix)

CD 30
1. “Fresh Fever”

CD 31
1. “Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove”
2. “Ghosts of Ladbroke Grove” (Dub)

CD 32
1. “In Cythera” (Edit)
2. “Penny Drops”

CD 33
1. “Corporate Elect”
2. “New Uprising”
3. “In Cythera” (Bloody Beetroots Remix)

CD 34: RARITIES DISC
1. ‘Transient Place’
From ‘Freispiel: The Soundtrack’.
2. ‘Zennon’
B-side of ‘Loose Cannon’ single.
3. ‘Drug’
From the ‘Mortal Kombat’ soundtrack.
4. ‘Hollywood Babylon’ (longer intro mix)
From the ‘Showgirls’ soundtrack.
5. ‘Our Last Goodbye’
From the ‘Free The Memphis 3’ album.
6. ‘Sixth +Sun’
Unreleased track from the ‘Absolute Dissent’ sessions.
7. ‘Wardance’ (Naval Mix).
8. ‘Requiem’ (Acapella Mix).
9. ‘Pandemonium’ (Aotearoa Mix)
Full-length.
10. ‘Four Stations Of The Sun’
Studio version
11. ’Feast Of Fools’ (rough mix)
Unreleased track from the ‘Absolute Dissent’ sessions.
12. ‘iBuy’ – with Tim Burgess.
Track for Classic Rock collaborations CD.
13. ‘Timewave’ (rough mix)
Unreleased track from the ‘Absolute Dissent’ sessions.
14. Jaz & Youth Shamanic Ritual Live in the King’s Chamber Giza Pyramid
(Pre-recording vocals for 3.Pandemonium).
15. ‘Ravings of Jaz’
(A conversation on philosophy between Youth & Jaz circa 2003).
16. ‘Intellect’ (feat. Aboud Abdel Al)
Track from ‘Democracy’ (previously unreleased version featuring this celebrated violin player).

Good last disc, but do none of those CD singles have the 12" content?

Yeah, I noticed that. Weak!

So I heard the 3CD "In Dub" collection that just came out. It's really more like Youth-plays-some-electronic-dub-and-occasionally-samples-Jaz. It has it's moments - an old favorite is the fantastic 10 minute Floating Leaf dub mix of "Requiem". Not sure I need to hear much of it again, though.

Apparently, Jaz is recording symphonic versions of classic LJ songs...

the crowdfunder for that launched 2.5 years ago, it could have been out by now if you updated this thread more frequently

https://blackcountryrock.co/2018/08/31/conny-plank-the-potential-of-noise/

Killing Joke had just got kicked out of Hansa Studios in Berlin for trashing the mixing desk. Christa (Plank) was paranoid that they would do the same in Cologne. She came up with a ruse to assert her authority and bolster her image as someone not to be messed with. She breakfasted on raw steak with the band. It convinced them that she was beyond fearsome and henceforth they behaved like schoolboys.

Jaz Coleman made a nifty EP with Deflore, an Italian band. Title track and last track reminds me of "Pandemonium" material, track 2 is a nice spacey instrumental with an aggro bridge.

https://deflore.bandcamp.com/album/party-in-the-chaos