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Killing Joke [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Killing Joke Audio CD
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WITH A reputation forged in fire, brimstone and magic, Killing Joke have long been one of rock’s most iconic & influential outfits with a string of revered recordings to their name.

Covered by Metallica, Foo Fighters and more, Killing Joke’s apocalyptic vision continues to draw praise from such high-profile supporters as Jimmy Page and Billy Corgan, and the band’s ... Read more in Amazon's Killing Joke Store

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  • Audio CD (11 July 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B0009RRRC8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,853 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  7. S.O.36 (2005 Digital Remaster) 6:52£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  9. Change (2005 Digital Remaster) 4:00£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Requiem (Single Version) (2005 Digital Remaster) 3:46£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Change (Dub) 3:58£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Primitive (Rough Mix) 3:34£0.89  Buy MP3 
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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
5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and razor sharp 11 Sep 2005
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars jaw-droppingly awesome 28 Sep 2009
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Six stars? 6 Sep 2009
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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars No Future 23 Jun 2004
Format:Audio CD
They emerged from the carcrash that was the tail end of punk, along with Wire, Public Image and Gang of Four, working in a similar area, but adding a perfectly formed vicious nihilism along with their grinding synthesizers to create an overpowering and brutal sonic attack. Joke spat out an ominous mix of the organic and technological, paving the way for the wave of industrial and post-punk bands that would follow later in the decade.

Geordie's hypnotically cascading guitar intertwined with soaring synth washes and the tribal funk dub of Youth's booming bass. Riding this doom laden wave were the savage vocals of Jaz Coleman conjuring up images of decay and paranoia.

Their iconicly subversive artwork, almost always rendered just black, white and red, featured intentionally inflammatory images... they were once banned from performing in Glasgow after promoting the gig with a poster featuring the Pope blessing battalions of Nazi stormtroopers. The gatefold cover of the original vinyl release is no exception with it's urban guerillas silhouetted astride a graffitti'd wall in a wasteland that all too accurately evokes the mood of the Thatcherite 80s.

The band quickly amassed a loyal following from the both punk and funk scenes with hard-edged, anthemic, danceable tunes like the chainsaw riff-laden "Requiem" which was released as a single and backed with the monstrous staccato groove that is "Change". Coleman coughs his way into the metallic assault of "Wardance", before tumbling through the bleak desolation of "Tomorrows World" and into the abrasively brilliant instumental "Bloodsport".

Killing Joke is the desperate soundtrack of a stark hopeless future and more convincing depiction of an oncoming audio apocalypse would be hard to find.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome 27 Jan 2006
By D.O.S.
Format:Audio CD
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 conceived

Its hard to believe this was recorded nearly 30 years ago

KJ have inspired too many bands to mention and are still a force to be reckoned with now

Buy me

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars POWERFUL AFTER PUNK !!!!!!! 2 Nov 2004
By JUAN MARTIN GABASTOU VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
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.The recording is nothing short of absolute perfection,something far from common on 1980's underground music.Their last (and also self-titled album) is their second best,with a string of awful-styled records between them.By saying this ,I know this review will be voted as the least helpful,but what the !!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Underappreciated classic.... 3 Aug 2010
By A.Q.S
Format:Audio CD
A classic post-punk album that launched a thousand bands. Metallica, foo fighters, soundgarden, et al quote them as an influence. And this album really shows where ministry obviously got some ideas....
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5.0 out of 5 stars A new wall of sound 25 Jan 2004
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Maybe it was the gatefold cover on the original vinyl release, with the graffitti'd wall that set the tone for the political wasteland that was to envelope the 80s, but this record still creates the mood that prevailed as the Evil Thatch took her throne. This is the perfect soundtrack to the cold and stark landscape of Orwell's 1984 that was only just around the corner when this was originally released.

In Requiem you have a neo-religious anthem for those that opposed. It's also a classically structured piece of operatic drama based on turbo-powered synthesisers and huge drums - the new wall of sound. And accompanied by a voice that Jaz Coleman surely discovered in the bins of hell provides the edge that makes you scared to play it in the dark. (The 12" single version is backed by the fantastic dance-oriented Change which is a must-buy.)

Wardance is another tremendously powerful track that is very much a call to arms. Possibly one of the earliest examples of hard, urban techno-dance (well that's what I'd describe it back then), there is also a stripped down (and in my opinion even better) version on 7" single.

This and the next Killing Joke album "What's this for?" still do it and provide a great reminder for the late 70s/early 80s post-industrialist miserablist period that featured equally articulate musical commentators such as Joy Division/New Order, Cabaret Voltaire and DAF.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 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 3 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 4 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 8 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 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
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
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