Who else here gets the 'Joke?

[havoc]

Saw them again at Sonisphere the other weekend, where they played a short-but-faultless set*. And I re-realised how good a band they are, and how little attention they've received in the mainstream over ~30 years. (I've started to dig-out some of their back-catalogue from the loft, where it should never have been put...).

So I was just wondering how many others on here are fans?



* They also dedicated "Eighties" to 'Dave Grohl and the other surviving members of Nirvana', which was very cute - Nirvana (i.e. Kurt Cobain) nicked the whole guitar-line off KJ's "Eighties" for "Come As You Are", plagiarism of Vanilla Ice-esque proportions!.

[Podie]

er... what?

[B Oeuf]

Killing Joke, a most excellent and under rated band still slogging along

[Podie]

hmm... have slipped under my radar, will check them out. Thanks

[B Oeuf]

Love Like Blood was their iconic single years ago

[Asterix]

Top band indeed.

[koenig999]

Listening to 'The Denude Session' in the car this week, they are a very powerful unit.

I've been a follower since Nervous Sytems / Turn to Red 10" and the Wardance record on.

Koenig

Edited by koenig999 on Thursday 13th August 16:57

[Imelda]

Podie said:

hmm... have slipped under my radar, will check them out. Thanks

This should help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZ0sYcmkAk&fea...

Honestly, you youngsters...

[B Oeuf]

Imelda said:

Podie said:

hmm... have slipped under my radar, will check them out. Thanks

This should help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZ0sYcmkAk&fea...

Honestly, you youngsters...

a bit of a contrast with the older stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzG_S-GwAIo&fea...

[havoc]

See if you can find any good footage of them live (Eighties and Nighttime on the Tube on YouTube are so-so) - they're an awesome live band, not least because of Jaz Coleman's on-stage charisma...the man is 2/3 unhinged, but he can hold a crowd like very few others!

(Have been lucky enough to see them in small-ish (~1k people) venues twice...it's his eyes...captivating and disturbing at the same time!)



Suggested listening - old stuff:-
- Eighties
- Wardance
- Love Like Blood
- Death and Resurrection Show

Newer stuff:-
- Pandemonium
- Millennium
- Loose Cannon

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[Ace-T]

Saw them a few years ago at Rock City. Awesome!

Trace

[Asterix]

Would it be wrong of me to say that they are Jane's Addictions father?

[havoc]

Asterix said:

Would it be wrong of me to say that they are Jane's Addictions father?

I dunno...I get the impression JA are all about the show/image (and Perry seems a rather self-indulgent (i.e. egotistical) chappy...still like their music though!), whereas there's a very serious political undercurrent to all of KJ's stuff. JA always seems to be more a (late) descendant of the US 'hippy'/LSD scene, tbh...


I'd suggest that of all the bands KJ influenced, it's stuff like PitchShifter (left-wing punk-industrial who also put on a hell of a show) which are the 'spiritual' successors.