Fucking based.
Every KJ album is at least good, aside from Brighter Than A Thousand Suns. No idea what happened with that one.
One of my favorite bands. All their shit is good. Even Outside the Gate.
>>130133810Stop pretending Brighter Than A Thousand Suns is good.
Brighter is their best album and it's not even particularly close
>>130133813I have no problem with that album. Rubicon is one of my favorite songs. https://youtu.be/8kQP5RAWNZo?si=44KbNGXZYJAjdmoG
>>130133568Best song in NFS Underground 2
>>130133568So are they done now that Geordie is dead?
One of the few band from that era that actually survived and even evolved their sound. But they never got the recognition of other bands either which is shame.
>>130134635Their only flaw was not writing memorable songs
>>130134646What do you mean, Love Like Blood and Eighties are mega memorable.
>>130134688One of those is only memorable for sounding like a more memorable song
>>130134646Killing Joke influenced more bands than you could name.
>>130134762I know Come As You Are by Nirvana has a similar riff to Eighties, but The Damned wrote a similar sounding song before them as well
>>130134635Youth is more known as a producer than KJ member, he produced the Bittersweet Symphony
>>130133568The lyrics on their later albums sound like Alex Jones rants
>>130133568true
>>130134790And most of it has come true
>>130134646>not writing memorable songsWhat a stupid comment. Killing Joke songs are fucking monumental. Just because they're not mainstream and popular doesn't mean their songs aren't memorable to people with a modicum of intelligence. Are you telling me songs like Asteroid or Age of Greed aren't memorable??>>130134573I don't see Jaz continuing without Geordie.
>>130133568Sh'yeah, it's pretty good>>130133907It's their best 80s album but the self-titled album is really good. Good music to listen to during an all-out nuclear spasm attack.>>130134635Music people like them but Jaz scares the hoes I think
>>130137225>jaz scares the hoesyou weren't here a few years ago..
>>130133907Any album that has A Southern Sky on it can't be anywhere close to the top.
Their best, in my IMO
>>130133568For me it's Hosannas from the Basements of Hell.
>>130138790This, and it's not even close.
>>130138716Yeah that song is cheesy but the rest is great, especially AdorationsAnd Victory has such a groovy bass line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtrq9vy9UM
>>130136478well actually I've watched interviews with Jaz where he talked about how they wanted to keep the band going on indefinitely and how every member had elected ideal replacements for themselves for after they died or some shitgranted, I still think it's unlikely we'll get more but who knows
>>130133794RUN RUN RUN AND WE RUNWE CRY LIKE CHILDREN IN WINTERGARDENS NOWhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy00pg39QYA
>>130134769they were pretty much influential to half of that whole generation or somehow they liked themhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8bzzdijOrM
I like every album, even Outside the Gate, which I wish had better production. A lot of the synths suck ass.
>>130146201I like Outside the Gate more than the two albums before it. So long as it's treated like the Jaz solo record that it is, it's not unbearable. Calling it Killing Joke was entirely the record label's doing if I'm not mistaken.
>>130133568Didn't Andy Gill (pbuh) produce that album?
only good Killing Joke album is their debut
The opening riff to Prozac People periodically gets stuck in my head unlike any other KJ song
>>130147299BoooooooooGreat album, but the follow-up is a touch better IMO. Also not much reason to see no value in their last 3 albums when it's literally the same lineup as the debut.
>>130147299
not sure there's a single KJ before Absolute Dissent that I would rate lower than an 8/10
I am gonna form a KJ tribute band called Chilling Coke
>>130155127Doubt it
>>130133975BTATS is my fave KJ album and one of my fave albums of all time. Its no less potent than something like What's THIS For...?, just in a different way. I will also defend Outside the Gate until the day I die. That album is peak messaging, peak retardation and peak Jaz megalomania all at once.>in the light of every dream we're all coming homeJust pottery.
>>130155758Brighter sounds like overglossed, sanded down, AOR nonsense to me. Nigh indistinguishable from the sort of 80s landfill that's forgotten before the song even ends. I'd even go a step further and say Night Time goes too far in this direction as well. It's not AS bad, but it's still too much for me.
>>130155881Yeah it's definitely their poppiest albumI find it interesting how no one talks about Revelations and Fire Dances, these albums seem truly forgotten.
>>130155881That's fair, its very 1986. I just really dig its "Icehouse meets Chameleons" sound to quote an old review that's always stuck with me. You've also got the "restored" mixing version which strips away a ton of the reverbs, tones down the synths and makes it more like Night Time. I'm an OGfag tho so the first version is my choice.>>130156580Revelations is my 2nd favourite of their albums after BTATS. Very underrated album, sounds and feels like a bad acid trip. No wonder they imploded shortly after that album.
Does anyone here know the Czech band Čechomor? I just found out that Jaz Coleman made a collaboration with themhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOL_Iq1Dnc
