[kj] was- lengthy longnessness now drummers

[Christof hamille]

Extremities was the first release that showed Killing Joke writing longer 
songs.  The plus side to Extremities is that they were truly exploring new 
grounds musically.  And it pays off.  The downside is that Pandemonium and 
Hoassanas (especially these two) having longer songs and the pay off is not 
nearly as great.  Democracy and 2003 cut back slightly on the time table.  I 
like Pandemonium a lot but the biggest problem I have with it (same for 
Damage Manual and Murder Inc) is that they plod on tooo long.  A lot of the 
songs I skip to the next after I know there will be 2 minutes of outro 
playing

Chris


>From: "Tim Bucknall" <tim.bucknall at btinternet.com>
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>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>Subject: Re: [kj] was- lengthy longnessness now drummers
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:09:53 +0100
>
>no complaints about Benny boy whatsoever, invocation alone proves that Ben 
>is the man
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Mallett" 
><Robert at jrcardwell.fsnet.co.uk>
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>>its true the long songs don't go anywhere , whereas the long tracks on
>>extremities most certainly DID
>>take intravenous or any of them actually
>>
>>
>>i think Intravenous, Extremities, Inside the Termite Mound, North of the 
>>Border and Slipstream are ok, but no more than that compared to the new 
>>compositions (I choose my term carefully). They simply don't groove, and 
>>are good ideas ruined by that arsehole Atkins with his Ginger Baker/Mitch 
>>Mitchell delusions. Extremities marked the beginning of a return to form 
>>that took 16 years to reach fruition, because they were employing 
>>inappropriate drummers. Benny isn't BPF, but he does a far better job than 
>>the rest of that shower of drummers did. He should have been further 
>>forward in the mix. Come on, it's fekkin awesome!
>>
>>bob
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