[kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with reference to KJ

[Leigh Newton]

Yes, totally. Siamese Dream was and still kind of is a
nice little bit of ear candy. And then came that
double-sized piece of shit album. The world is a
vampire and all that crap. A reasonably good band gets
big and TOTALLY believes their own hype, thinks
they're gonna release the White Album or something.
Guns n Roses did the same with Use Your Illusion. 

Leigh 

--- paul mcdonald <freaken at ihug.com.au> wrote:

> putting a heap of reverb and delay on your guitar
> does not a killing joke song make. mina loy does
> have the synth pulse of Unspeakable tho.Ever noticed
> billys songs got shitter after he shaved his head.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Michael Garcia 
>   To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the
> band!) 
>   Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:00 PM
>   Subject: RE: [kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with
> reference to KJ
> 
> 
>   As musch as I like quite a few songs on the album,
> I dont see anything related to KJ on it.....track 6
> does start off sounding very early chameleons like
> though....
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of
> Alexander Smith
>     Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:00 PM
>     To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the
> band!)
>     Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with
> reference to KJ
> 
> 
> 
>     "Spectral presence" of Killing Joke?
> 
>     Corgan *WISHES*.
> 
> 
>     Alex in NYC
> 
> 
>     On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 09:08 PM,
> Michael Garcia wrote:
> 
> 
>       I was reading the review of Bily Corgans new
> album (which I will not be ashamed to admit has
> really grown on me) and the reviewer made a
> reference to KJ toward the end. See below.
>        
>       Cheers,
>       MIchael
>        
>       Amazon.co.uk Review
>       The past is a foreign country but the new dawn
> alluded to by the title of Billy Corgan's debut solo
> album TheFutureEmbrace is actually an overcast day
> in an Eighties post-punk Britain of raincoats,
> chimneys, riots and run-down heavy industry. That
> might not seem like much of a surprise - Smashing
> Pumpkins were neither cheery, Anglophobic or much
> given to enjoying luxurious sunny afternoon teas in
> thatched Devonian hostelries - but while
> TheFutureEmbrace is very much the inverse of Zwan's
> lighter but all-too-brief psych-pop caress, Corgan,
> to his credit, has avoided any back-peddling to the
> salad days of Smashing Pumpkins' biblical bombast.
> This is much more subtle, brittle and chilly, the
> inner rage of yore making way for sceptical
> deliberation and John Foxx synthetics. Corgan's
> admiral influences are obvious - the grey wash and
> wintry equanimity of Bowie's Neukoln phase, the
> phallanx of distantly shimmering flanged guitars
> recall The Banshees, the archaic and relentlessly
> mechanic drum machine summons forth the austerity of
> early Human League. The Cure's Gothfather Robert
> Smith stoops forward for an unlikely duet on a cover
> of Barry Gibb's "To Love Somebody" (Joy Division's
> "The Eternal" meets David Sylvian's Japan) while
> Corgan's own "Sorrows (in blue)" suggests he's
> actually more of a fan of the Bee Gees than his
> public may care to conceed. Others may sense the
> spectral presence of Killing Joke (both in "DIA" and
> in the tense, metropolitan meltdown of "Mina Loy")
> but while 1981 in England was no laughing matter
> TheFutureEmbrace at least allows one to reminisce
> from an extremely safe distance. --Kevin Maidment
>        
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Thomas Kennedy
> [mailto:tkennedy1999 at sbcglobal.net]
>       Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:40 AM
>       To: michael_garcia at alamedanet.net
>       Subject: Re: [kj] OT: My band - Electric Jesus
> 
>       good stuff, Michael!......I like "Big Wheel"
> the best.
>        
>       I sent you a friend invite on myspace - let's
> do a show sometime - my band's called LURID BLISS. 
> L8R,
>        
>       Tom.
> 
>       michael_garcia at alamedanet.net wrote:
> 
>       I know I don't post very often but I put some
> rough mixes up of 3 songs
>       from our forthcoming CD if anyone is
> interested in hearing what we
>       sound like. We're here -
> http://www.myspace.com/electricjesusband
> 
>       I'd love some feedback - good or bad.
> 
>       Cheers!
> 
>       Michael
> 
>       --
>       www.electric-jesus.com
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