Killing Joke -vs- Steely Dan

Used to be more of a surprise factor.

Wait, people are still getting butthurt over Alex in NYC?

people are still saying butthurt?!

butthurt is a good word.

Better than dickride?

Not that I agree with the analogies, but why is a band that's an analogous to a power tool better than a band that's analogous to a rice cake? Rice cakes may be bland, but power tools just make me think of blunt masculine energy, which I rarely find appealing.

power tools go right to my hips : (

Let's take the transcripts of arguments between 6th grade boys on the back of school buses, parse them, and judge the insults. I am sure this will bear fruit!

If you fell into a cave, and it was full of power tools and rice cakes, I bet you'd be way more into the rice cakes.

Or you could use the power tools to drill through the walls and get out.

well if the cave has free utilities then you might as well just live there

rice cakes are good w/cream cheese

im going to add some rice cakes and cream cheese to my fresh direct order

Turning into a TITTWWS thread.

J0hnD. is capt. save-a-controversy. p.s. u madddd

can't wait 4 his willfully naive rebutt-al!!! XD

Power tools are mostly battery operated now, ya know.

And if you fall on a big pile of them, you can just use another one when the previous one's battery runs out.

Look, I got this "escape from a fucking cave" thing all worked out in my head.

maybe you could fashion the rice cakes into a ladder using the power tools

I think I once read a Walker Percy novel based on a famous philosophical conundrum similar to this one.

Ricecakes In the Ruins

Yeah, that was it.

I have zero history with Alex (I'm still very new here), but his comment made me laugh out loud at the end of a long day. He's ok by me. :)

WHY I DISLIKE ALEX IN NYC, A LESSON IN THREE PARTS.

It's well beyond mutual, ass monkey!

So the more ds, the maddddddder u r?

Why must people be so utterly humorless?

Killing jokes.

I laughed.

you're so vain
you probably think this thread is about you

This thread was composed as a retort to this thread, so yes -- it might as well be about me.

PS: Up yours.

this looks like a cool cd:

2000 VA- Gothic Club Classics audio
A double-CD collection of true gothic club classics! Not any Bauhaus, Nephilim, Xymox or Mission song, but their absolute best, most recognized, and most essential tracks for the newly converted: The Mission UK's Wasteland, Bauhaus' Bela Lugosi, The Clan's Louise, X-mal's Incubus Succubus II , Killing Joke's Love Like Blood, Nick Cave's Weeping Song, Fields of the Nephilim's MoonChild, and several other leading gothic bands like Dreadful Shadows, Love Like Blood, Inkubus Sukkubus, Theatre of Tragedy and many more. 28 songs.

so does this one:

2006: VA - A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Boxaudio
"A 4-disc box (3 CDs + DVD), with 53 songs and 12 videos originally released between 1978 and 1998, this boxed set provides a uniquely comprehensive listen into the largest underground scene in the world. Long before its black velvet and pale skin fashions crept into American malls, Goth music represented an underground movement led by fans who favored songs that tapped into the antisocial energy of punk but celebrated dark introspection, tempestuous atmospherics and visual panache. Rhino brings together influential bands that rarely or never participate in Gothic music compilations to create a fascinating cross-section of all matters pertaining to Goth. The box set includes essential classic hits from the founders of the gothic rock movement including Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Mission UK, Echo & The Bunnymen, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Love And Rockets, Fields Of The Nephilim, Ghost Dance, Peter Murphy, The Danse Society, Clan Of Xymox, Xmal Deutschland, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Damned, Killing Joke and many more."

well if the cave has free utilities then you might as well just live there

qft

What the fuck do they know? I don't consider Joy Division or the J&MC goths either, for what it's worth.

..and nor should anyone.

See, that last post is where I just start laughing at you.

joy division are the precursors to minimal house, everyone knows that

i bet steely dan has the highest percentage of fans who used to loath them of any band.

How long will the new Alex'n'Nate comedy team last?

Never loathed them, just considered them a guilty pleasure. Have since dropped the guilty part.

See, that last post is where I just start laughing at you.

Funnily enough, I've been laughing at you since before I can remember.

Joy Division aren't goths. Inspiration to the Goths? Sure. But to call Joy Division goths does them a profound disservice.

Alex has forgotten all of us, Rock Hardy. Maybe he should have revived the Alzheimer's thread last week.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/crumblaughing.jpg

http://walkerart.org/archive/D/AB737183A1BE364D6168.jpg

Killing Joke hardly needs my defending in this case. Yes, Jaz looks like shit these days (tho' so does Scott Seward, I'd wager), but their music takes a planet-engulfing dump on Steely Dan's weedy, jazzbo piffle every day of the apocalypse.

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:33 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark

LOL

i like killing joke tbh (i bought their first record at a store a few years ago and the guy loled and said, "i've been waiting for that one to move every since i opened the store...four years ago") but i think the comparison between their impish goth new wave punk thing and steely dan's carefully constructed, literate hard rock is a little weird?

planet-engulfing dump

Said it once & I'll assuredly say it again: FUCK Steely Dan.

Steely Dan is almost perfect but that is for another thread.

went into this thread wishing i'd been around to vote for killing joke...

jazz-rock beats goth every time.

not every time.