[kj] Two more reviews

Alexander Smith gathering@misera.net
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:42:10 -0500


"The one exception is You'll Never Get To  Me, which is bizarrely
reminiscent of Pink or Christina Aguilera."

This writer must die. Now. His heart should be ripped from his sternum and
shown to him in the fleeting seconds before his expiration. His lifeless
carcass should then be butchered and fed to a gaggle of rabid wolverines,
and their ensuing steaming, viscous dung should be burnt and spread all over
a wide patch of unhallowed ground in a haphazzard manner so that the
writer's loved ones many never visit their whearabouts. 

"Jane's Addiction, who ripped them off, are back"

I must say, I don't hear any similarity between Jane's Addiction and Killing
Joke.

Alex in NYC


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>From: "nicholas fitzpatrick" <gasw30@hotmail.com>
>To: gathering@misera.net
>Subject: [kj] Two more reviews
>Date: Tue, Jul 29, 2003, 10:33 AM
>

>Sunday Mail:
>
>Killing Joke ***
>
>Zuma / July 28
>
>If much of this album sounds over-familiar, it's because Killing Joke are 
>victims of their own success. Their lyrical obsession with war was so 
>prescient as to now seem cliched and their heavy sound has hit the 
>mainstream. Even Foo Fighters and ex-Nirvana star Dave Grohl's drumming is 
>competent rather than remarkable. The one exception is You'll Never Get To 
>Me, which is bizarrely reminiscent of Pink or Christina Aguilera. Killing 
>Joke have never been strangers to the anthemic, but this was still a 
>pleasant surprise.
>
>
>The Observer.
>
>
>Killing Joke (Zuma)
>
>Electro, new wave and punk-funk may all be enjoying a resurgence, but there 
>are limits to the early Eighties revival. Aren't there? Post-punk bogeymen 
>Killing Joke are back in the Top 40, and no less an icon than Dave Grohl 
>(Foo Fighters/ Nirvana) plays drums on the Joke's twelfth (or thereabouts) 
>album. Jane's Addiction, who ripped them off, are back, and Tool - ditto - 
>remain one of the biggest bands in America. Reassuringly, though, Killing 
>Joke sounds quite fashion-proof. Scary Jaz Coleman bangs on about occult 
>powers over tribal backings like the Millennium never happened. You're left 
>with a grudging admiration, but this dated witchy churn won't travel far 
>past a metal audience.
>
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