[kj] was- lengthy longnessness now drummers

[Tim Bucknall]

they've been doing long songs since Whats this for!
I think madness is nearly 8 minutes long (from memory)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christof hamille" <wessidetempest at hotmail.com>
To: <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] was- lengthy longnessness now drummers


> 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>
>>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
>>band!)"<gathering at misera.net>
>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>><gathering at misera.net>
>>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>
>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>><gathering at misera.net>
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:04 PM
>>Subject: Re: [kj] NEW ALBUM - lengthy longnessness
>>
>>
>>>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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