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Syzygy
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Posted: January 07 2006 at 06:18 | |
I only know their early stuff, but I used to really enjoy them - the combination of punk attitude and pretty good musicianship was a winning combination for me. Gigs were intense, and the audience were a lot scarier than the band themselves from what I recall. Youth is a spectacular bassist, and went on to work with Steve Hillage in System 7 (among many other interesting projects) so maybe they were peace loving hippies underneath all the camouflage make up and brutal rhythms.
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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Bob Greece
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 1823 |
Posted: January 09 2006 at 06:55 | |
From what I've heard, Jaz Coleman's main job these days is composing classical music. He only reformed Killing Joke in 2003 because he was angry about the Iraq war. He must be still angry because there's another Killing Joke album in the pipeline this year. What kind of person goes to a Killing Joke concert I wonder? |
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Bob Greece
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 1823 |
Posted: January 11 2006 at 03:43 | |
Wikipedia describes Killing Joke as post-punk ... one of the bands that tried to make punk more complex, a strange concept when you think about it. One of the reasons why they couldn't be called punk is because they use keyboards.
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: January 11 2006 at 05:32 | |
So did the Stranglers.. I'll have to see what Wikipedia says about them, not that Wikipedia is gospel.. |
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: January 11 2006 at 05:37 | |
Ok just looked up the Strangers.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranglers Agree with most of it, I guess. They didn't consider themselves punk, not because of keyboards, but because they wrote intelligently..like Killing Joke... Sorry to stray off topic..I'm good at that.. short attention sp.. |
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Bob Greece
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 1823 |
Posted: January 11 2006 at 05:50 | |
No, I like that. It makes things more interesting. Wikipedia is really good most of the time but did you hear about the time when a man was falsely linked to the JFK assassination on the site? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4520678.stm The entry for neo prog wasn't very complimentary either. Now who's straying off the topic .... and it was my topic as well. |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: January 11 2006 at 06:00 | |
I never considered the Stranglers punk. You prabably know that from other threads. |
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:03 | |
Yeah, I remember. I always did, somewhat foolishly I guess. Whenever there was programs on telly about punks the Stranglers semed to get a mention. They were lumped in with the Mohican brigade because of their agression and raw sound, I suppose. If you think about it intelligently, they are obviously NOT punk... |
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:03 | |
It's your thread as you say... Take it wherever you like, mate! |
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Bob Greece
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 1823 |
Posted: May 09 2006 at 05:37 | |
Killing Joke's new album is out. It's very intense as usual with repetitive tribal rythyms. I'd say it's more melodic than their previous album. The third track is particularly interesting with heavy use of violins throughout. If they had used more orchestral sections in the whole album, it could have been a masterpiece.
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lordoflight
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 24 2005 Location: Malta Status: Offline Points: 105 |
Posted: May 14 2006 at 06:35 | |
Killing Joke are a good band, quite unique in their use of heavy tribal
drumming. They seem to be getting better and heavier with time -
their 2003 self-titled album and the samples i heard of Hosannas From
The Basement of Hell (new album) are great.
They are well known for having influenced many bands - Metallica covered their song Killing Time, Nirvana ripped of the riff from Eighties on Come As You Are (has anybody else noticed this?) and even Kate Bush is their fan |
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Certif1ed
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: May 15 2006 at 16:50 | |
I stopped following Metallica after they released "Load" - the only Killing Joke cover I know they did was "The Wait" on the $5.98 EP - which is a good cover, but I much prefer the original. KJ's first album is a masterpiece of its genre - I particularly like "Requiem" and "War Dance", as well as "The Wait" - but I never really got into anything they did after that. |
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