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Killing Joke started on the unemployment line. Whether fact or fiction, it was while waiting in line at a British unemployment office in late 78/early 79, that singer/keyboardist Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman ran into a friend and started discussing his musical aspirations. Upon hearing Coleman speak, the friend said, "I have someone you should meet," and later brought him to a London flat, where drummer Paul Ferguson was waiting. Just over 25 years since the release of their first album Killing Joke, the band return to the gig circuit on support slots for Motley Crue’s arena tours in June 2005. Following this tour, their albums, now newly remastered and with added bonus tracks, are being re-released. The artwork for each album has been cleaned up by original designer Mike Coles and all bonus tracks have been carefully chosen by the band themselves.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark and razor sharp,
This review is from: Killing Joke + 4 (Audio CD)
About 25 years after its inception, this album still holds up very strong and is bound to do so for a long time to come. It is the essence of organic music, stripped bare of any pretensions. Life between steel and concrete, man-made anger and desolation seem to drip from every line of the lyrics, from every abrasive chord. The slow reeling "Requiem", the angry and opressive "Wardance", and the spacious "Tomorrow's World", they seem atomic fragments of emotion rather than songs. But this is what makes this work seem truly detached and timeless - so true in its form and rarely captured in any other music of roughly the same genre.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
jaw-droppingly awesome,
By JONESY "ROCK MENTALIST" (LONDON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killing Joke + 4 (Audio CD)
I have been listening to and buying music since 1970, and this ranks as my all-time favourite disc. This is the brilliant Killing Joke's first full-length effort and it is a roller coaster ride of thumping riffs, psychotic tribal drumming, soaring cadences and football anthem choruses
Jaz Coleman, the ringmaster of this extraordinary ensemble and world-renowned nutter par excellence, barks the vocals or delivers them in an appropriately world-weary fashion. It all seems to come together in a glorious whole. A timeless and quite extraordinary classic.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Six stars?,
By JohnMac59 "much better than being dead." (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killing Joke + 4 (Audio CD)
Sit down, shut up and hold on. Turn this thing up and believe you can deal with it. You will be a wiser and more chastened human being for it. At the time there was nothing else like this, still isn't.
If you liked the songs 'Love like Blood' or 'Eighties'...........this is nothing like it.
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