RIP the two members of Killing Joke Geordie Walker (December 18, 1958 - November 26, 2023), aged 64 Paul Raven (January 16, 1961 - October 20, 2007), aged 46 You both will be remembered as legends.
Never understood the hate fot Brighter Than A Thousand Suns. It's got some decidedly 80s production, but to me it's basically Love Like Blood: The Album, and that's not a bad thing. They took the direction of one of their most acclaimed and popular songs and explored it to the fullest. Anyone who enjoyed Night Time should realistically be able to enjoy BTATS
It's one of my favourite ever albums. A different step for the band but you're right, really continuing the emotional but stoic rock vein of Love Like Blood. Sadly it got a raw deal on release because of the label remixing it without the band for a more commercial sound. It made it sound confused and false. Had the original mixes been released (like we have now) it may not have got such a bad response. It has some overlong tracks and is a lot more lyrical than riff based like previous Joke albums, but at its best it's amazing. Definitely worth a fresh listen!
There's something special when you get that punk/synth sound combined. Fantastic sound as you chill out, an early version of Trance music maybe? A Flock of Seagulls are another example of post-punk synth mix and check out Goodbye Mr McKenzie. I love punk to this day but also love synth. Killing Joke, the older I get the better they sound.
Have to agree - some artists can manage to put out an album that I would say every track could have and should have been released as a single. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns is one of those albums.
Same here mate. Takes me right back to 1986. I had it on cassette single to play in the car before getting the album on cd a few years later. I had high hopes of it making the top 30 but it stalled at No.42. The B-side 'Ecstasy' was a great track too.
@coralraider: what car did you have 30 years ago when you had this blaring out? I had a silver 1981 Cortina 2.0 Ghia, not bad for someone who was only 20 at the time. No speed cameras, no smart motorways, just real FREEDOM! God, I miss those days!
Killing Joke...so melancholic and melodic. So in love with Raven and Geordie, Coleman and Ferguson are the icing on the doom laden cake that is so lovely.
Beautiful, poignant, tragic... _and_ Jaz looks fantastic in this video. I've always felt that "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" (and "Outside the Gate") were far more personal than the other LPs, with Jaz opening up and showing a far more joyous, yet vulnerable, side to his ideas on and perceptions of life.
Loved KJ since the early 80's. They took so much criticism for this "sellout" album back then, Guess what ? It sounds fresh today. Well ahead of its time.
It really is and it’s so damn good. Unfortunately I can’t get into any of there albums after the year 1990. I miss there original sound and he’s voice that can be soft/haunting and then goes to aggressive a bit. But now it’s just overly aggressive and can’t understand a word he says now. Those first eight albums are the best to me.
Good song. Here is the lyrics: Courage and Cowards move, heroes to ecstasy Welcomes of war and wounds, vigil and victory Structures of atoms dance, sugar towards the taster, Prey to the predator, love as we're falling down Through light and laughter flow, to dirge and death we go, Mindless processions move, lanterns of burning towns, Welcome to fray and feast, bliss in all sorrows found, Rhythms and random moves and waves of adorations. Patterns I'm finding As pain and joy and sorrow mingle. Patterns we're finding Our faces raised in adorations. Deserts are paradise, awake to genocides. Delight and suffering, these roles that we have found Nourished by food we eat, hungered by waste excrete From apes or sons of god, let every act be sacred. Patterns I'm finding As pain and joy and sorrow mingle. Patterns we're finding Our faces raised in adorations.
Killing Joke not a Joke deep music for deep minds this is my antidote to the Coronavirus scaremongering stay safe stay clean 🧼 and listen 👂 to Killing Joke ✨✨✨🧠🧠🧠⭐️⭐️⭐️
i’ve just heard a really heavy trashy punky bad ass song by this band SO COOL INDEED, now this exquisite complex melodic awesomeness. damn! so multifaceted and professional full of feeling joke.
@@DerekHundik Even the album cover to Pylon looks like a coronavirus with 5G towers in the background... not that I believe any of that nonsense, but I don't believe in coincidences of that magnitude either
As I approach my 55th year, this song takes on a new and deeper meaning. Every year around my birthday, I get a Killing Joke song stuck in my head. I listen to it on repeat, and my life and the universe make more sense to me. God speaks to us through whatever means we take the message, and I'm just ever-so grateful for The Killing Joke and music that really means something.
October 2018. Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Killing Joke and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily. And love, admiration and adoration.
As someone from the UK the thing I'm most proud of from this country in the last 50 or so years is just the sheer amount of amazing music that came out of this little grubby sometimes beautiful island.
I think the same way. I was just actually contemplating this while watching the video and about how in my mind's eye I picture England as a vast place but in reality it's a tiny friggin island. This has almost entirely to do with their cultural output. It is insanely oversized. I mean, I'm from the state of Indiana in America which is only about half the size of the UK by itself. And we're not even a particularly large state of the Union! What do we have to show for ourselves? The Indy 500 and some corn. That's about it. I love Indiana, don't get me wrong but the UK definitely punches well above their weight. British people have a right to be proud of themselves.
This is an autumn song. I remember I was the doorman at my sister's bands audition for a new bassist and I had headphones on and this on a Sony Walkman, the little cumulus nimbus skidding down across NW London, chap called skype or something turned up, was brilliant, tried to poach him for my own useless band which was never going to work, my sister's [boss] band rejected him. He went on to better things I hope.
This song was my introduction to their music, and this song alone made me buy most of their stuff. So much for "selling out", right? This piece made me a KJ fan, and I also dig their raw stuff. Completely forgetting about this record is such a shame.
I can never play this bad boy loud enough to make my ears bleed it is an awesome tune, Geordie is an amazing guitarist, it puts an edge on every song.....RIP The Raven...
These men explored the reaches of despair and dark beauty, and could express them both with the same imagery. The guitar part transcends music, it is the score of my hopeful sorrow.
@@ВладиславОдинокоболезненномечт Do you ever feel like you missed something, when everyone around you laughs at a simple statement? Do you have many awkward moments in social settings, where you may feel like everyone is making inside jokes? If so, you should ask your family Doctor about something called the "Spectrum". Call now & book your appointment for a better tomorrow! This message was brought to you by the Autism Aspergers Syndrome Society* & National Autism Association* *I am full of shit, this is not true & I'm glad you wasted your time reading this ridiculous comment✌
Geordie, Geordie, Geordie. Such a beautiful sound. Totally his own. He doesn’t move like other guitarists. He has this smooth , graceful slinky movement. And as if that wasn’t enough, the face of an angel.
@@filmswall8543 shit!! I didn’t know until I read your comment!! I was fortunate to spend more than an hour talking with him on a rooftop of a Melbourne nightclub a few years ago. My arsehole boyfriend was off doing coke and shmoozing and ignoring me so Geordie sat with me and was a total charming gentleman. Brilliant guitarist of course. So sad but he did love his ciggies and booze. 😕
my favourite post-punk album in existence and i really like post-punk lol. one of them albums you can listen to 100 times and it just keeps getting better.
None of these bands are comparable to KJ, Bauhaus is a bore melodically, SoM are pretty good especially Floods and a few tunes from SGWBM like Burn, Danse Society has one really unique album, although a bit cheesy lyrically.
i really love this song. After the three igantic lps before; (KillingJoke , ...What's this for...? and Revelations, (fire dances also...a little bit.) ... I think its quite an accomplishment to make a NEW song unlike the previous songs in a ...sore kind o way the 'Adorations' song have got. But well....i am still a KJ punk. In my head 100%. i am a fan. Thats not wrong, issit? Nooooooo..... Jesssss, and håååoookaaayyyyy... C I A O !!!
What a fuck!! Why KJ can create doest great songs? Beers and beeers from Uruguay, until the the end of the times!!!Even when times means beers, ja ja !!!!
For me they were the most underrated band of the eighties - love this song and video- their faces say it all, love us or hate us this is who we are and this is what we do and we don't give a monkeys.
In the book Killing Joke: Are You Receiving, Youth relates a story about Geordie going into such a rage at someone (I think it was Jaz) in the studio that he grabbed the other guy's leg and started biting it. In another incident, Jaz grabbed a studio musician by the throat, lifted him up, and slammed him against the wall after the guy had fucked up the programming on Jaz's keyboards. Raven was an infamous barroom brawler, too, with various accounts of him beating the shit out of pikers who took a swing or a shot at the band. When KJ declares "I harbor thoughts of killing you," they're not being metaphorical.
Being an angel or a demon is of much less consequence as being a spirited soul in flesh, on a plain between good and evil, with free will. It's the conundrum of curiosity and jealousy that makes angels fall and demons rise to feast. Even unto their own binding or yours. With forgiveness and betrayal being the center of the spiritual wheel, carrying the God smack to and fro in either view of direction. With you the spiritual being in flesh and soul with payment of both. Yes! A Messiah has paid it all, and for all until the end. Yet you are still of free will. Still connected to the wheel of forgiveness and betrayal. A wheel which does cause pain in the flesh and spirit by ethereal means. Even if you don't believe a Messiah has done this, you are still afforded a reduced payment in flesh and soul because it was done. For the closest possible honoring of your free will until your individual end. Those within the flesh, within this solid world, who would have you pay with flesh and loss of free will by their hand are not honoring what should truly be paid through the God smack coupling of forgiveness and betrayal. I hope you understand, I am not a Theological debit collector because I can see a structure within the spiritual ether that collects in ways which are beyond our ability to understand and imitate. If we could do that, it would certainly mean the loss of our free will. It was done by a Messiah, and it will be undone by an Anti-Messiah and plains will be set aside and bound within their own uncrossable existences when the time comes. Free Will shall be of no consequence to you. For you are where you bound yourself to be. And in as such, you will feel justified to your place of fulfillment. There are many scholars who can not be certain where spiritual souls like Constantine or Samson went, but if I truly forced upon you where I strive to go it would be a removal of your free will, and a binding of mine. No matter where my feelings of order may truly take me. There WAS a Messiah. There WILL be an Anti-Messiah. We all live between this, in temporal placement, in the flesh, in a solid place, as well as in a spiritual plain. Know this and know you still have your full free will, and all that comes to you in this place, is because of it. Angels and Demons only have limited free will at best. Because they are bound to their chosen place of fulfillment, and the order which they must now forever follow.
Today, it's like being in a nightmare, and you cant wake up....when these lame, soulless commercials come on inbetween KJ songs and you can't skip them, and you have to torturously wait them out until they're over, to get back to the reward center of your brain and the next real 🎵 song.
A day in my adolescents I will never forget, a chilly feb night all crammed in my friends crappy little car with this song blaring all I can see now is our smiling youthful faces with not a care in the world. It was amazing. RIP Paul Raven
You LOLed cuz you can't stand the visceral godlike coolness of Jaz Coleman - his piercing eyes and too-cool-for-this-world demeanor send you into a mobius strip-like runaway loop of self-doubt, existential inferiority, and other related personality crises. Your self confidence would shrink to freshman size! = - )
Jaz Coleman explains the band name Killing Joke as follows: “The feeling of a guy in the First World War who’s just about to run out the trenches… and he knows his life is going to be gone in ten minutes and he thinks of that fucker back in Westminster who put him in that position. That’s the feeling that we’re trying to project… the Killing Joke.” (Den Bandnamen Killing Joke erklärt Jaz Coleman wie folgt: „Das Gefühl eines Kerls im Ersten Weltkrieg, der dabei ist, aus dem Schützengraben zu stürmen … und er weiß, dass er in etwa zehn Minuten tot sein wird, und er denkt an diesen Arsch daheim in Westminster, der ihn in diese Situation gebracht hat. Das ist das Gefühl, das wir versuchen rüberzubringen … den todbringenden Witz.“) - Jaz Coleman: Rip It Up And Start Again
...e se c'e' qualcuno che si azzarda a dire che questo pezzo e' commerciale come "Love like blood"...beh,...CHE SI FOTTA!!! SONO E RESTANO 2 GRAN PEZZI E BASTA!!! W I KILLING JOKE PER SEMPRE!!!
saw them live in 1996!KJ is amazing in front row shook hands with Jaz!loved their albums you can hear hints of "Brighter"in 2012 album "in Cythera"etc.loved them since requiem 1980!!
