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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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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By welwitsch
Format: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.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By JONESY
Format: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.
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.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By JohnMac59
Format: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.
If you liked the songs 'Love like Blood' or 'Eighties'...........this is nothing like it.
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Punk Power
The name says it all a fairly heavy/punk rock group and this was them at their best get a copy and listen
Published 2 months ago by malmac
3.0 out of 5 stars
i dont get the joke?
this band passed my by in the 80's, and i dont quite understand the point they are trying to make. Good tho' but takes afew listens to catch on
Published 3 months ago by S. Young
5.0 out of 5 stars
Driving Beat
"Driving Beat" was how a friend described Killing Joke after we had seen them play a storming gig at the time this album was released. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ossian
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this album
According to the stamp on the inner sleeve I bought this in Nele record shop Walsrode Germany, wonder if it's still there. Maybe but Killing joke are still here. Read more
Published on 28 April 2011 by Mr. Carl Jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Underappreciated classic....
A classic post-punk album that launched a thousand bands. Metallica, foo fighters, soundgarden, et al quote them as an influence. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2010 by A.Q.S
5.0 out of 5 stars
Savage sounds of the cybernauts
Savage sounds of cyber-naughts beamed out of a cathode tube, enscribed onto digital bytes. The Moroder disco beat on Bloodsport collides with full metal barriers as a rabid dance... Read more
Published on 1 May 2010 by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bulging Eyes says.....
I bought album when it came out in 1980-because I liked the sleeve!I have been a fan ever since.
No two albums sound the same so checking out their back catalogue will... Read more
No two albums sound the same so checking out their back catalogue will... Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2009 by Bulging Eyes
4.0 out of 5 stars
Chung, chung, cha cha cha chung...CHANGE!
Yeah, great stuff. The highs of this one are definetely well worth a revisit and this version comes with some nice extras (such as the single version of Change, which reminded me... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 2009 by R. Mainwaring
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome
Killing Joke need to be seen live to be fully appreciated, this, however is perhaps their finest album and Wardance possibly one of the greatest, simplest and heaviest riffs... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2006 by D.O.S.
5.0 out of 5 stars
POWERFUL AFTER PUNK !!!!!!!
The band's first and best album.The style is clean ,powerful after punk with incredible drumming (at times tribal-like) and nice synth touches. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2004 by JUAN MARTIN GABASTOU
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