[kj] more on Seeing Red/Crue.

[Jiri]

On choice of singles, I thought I remembered hearing
on this list that Geordie told someone "you don't
release your best single first" or some such madness.

Seeing Red, followed by a Blood On Your Hands single,
would've been golden, I think. Every virgin I play
those two songs to is hooked right away.

But that's yesterday's story...hope 2005 will be a
mammoth year.

--- Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Agreed. "Seeing Red" was (a) more timely and topical
> (b) retained 
> elements of 'classic' Killing Joke (c) was certainly
> more melodic and 
> (d) expressed a sentiment that was a great deal less
> BANAL than "Loose 
> Cannon".
> 
> Why it wasn't the first single, I'll never know. 
> Why "Loose Cannon" 
> was *EVER* a single (first or last or whatever) is
> also beyond me.
> 
> "Seems like they just sort....walked away from
> it...."
> 
> I think it was the management they (wisely) walked
> away from. And so 
> too then the album and its subsequent promotion.
> 
> That all said, I don't think it's their NEW
> management's (whomever they 
> might be) idea to tour with Motley Crue. I'm
> inclined to think that has 
> more to do with Raven's friendship with Nikki Sixx
> (and Sixx's 
> supposedly fanatical fandom of the Joke).
> 
> Incidentally, I heard the new Crue single yesterday.
> It's godawful. The 
> Crue shouldn't try to be anything their not. They're
> a stupid metal 
> band, and so they should stay. Introspection and
> youthful angst does 
> not suit them. Big haired idiocy, libido and hollow
> exhortations of 
> rebellion does.
> 
> Alex in NYC
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 01:12 PM,
> FlumeDC at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > While most of us had to take a few spins to get
> comfortable with KJ03, 
> > as discussed here - it was painfully clear to me
> that Seeing Red had 
> > all the IMMEDIATE impact that we love about the
> best elements of KJ 
> > and it delivered it all in that track.  Why that
> one wasn't exploited 
> > and promoted to the hilt just mystifies me.  It
> was a total winner in 
> > every possible way...everyone I played it for
> loved it: from skeptical 
> > KJ veterans to the uninitiated beginners, the
> reaction was the same.  
> > It's a gem and stands tall in their
> repetoire...sez me anyway.
> >
> > Seems like they just sort of ...walked away from
> it....
> >
> > Go figure.
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