[kj] Kerrang!/Hosannas/KJ2003

Leigh Newton angrytomhanks at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 28 23:01:47 EST 2006


Well, both Nighttime and Brighter sound extremely
commercial (or they did when they were released) and
they're both amazing. I don't think it's pandering if
the music you're writing is still quality. Which, i
think, KJ2003 is. For the most part. BUt that's just
me.

Leigh

--- god botherer <acroastic at hotmail.com> wrote:

> OK, so nu-metal wasn't the best quick reference term
> for a certain flavour 
> that was added to KJ2003, but I was trying to
> describe the extent of the 
> pandering to, let's say, a particular sector of the
> market - surely you know 
> what I mean.
> 
> I now see that I'm not alone in my opinion:
> 
> +++
> 
> Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman has revealed to
> Kerrang! that the 
> post-punk superheroes have returned to their roots
> on their forthcoming, 
> 13th studio album.
> 
> Fans should expect a less commercial-sounding
> offering from 'Hosannas From 
> The Basements Of Hell', the follow up to 2003's
> 'Killing Joke', after 
> guitarist Geordie Walker registered his
> dissatisfaction with the band's last 
> album.
> 
> "Geordie wasn't happy with the last one we did
> because he thought it sounded 
> too commercial," Coleman admits. "This one's the
> antithesis."
> 
> +++
> 
> - and all the better for that, I reckon. And it goes
> to show that Geordie is 
> or should be the supreme arbiter of what goes.
> 
> There's fact for you Leigh.
> 
> 
> gb
> 
> 
> >From: Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
> >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] Hosannas 1 KJ2003 0
> >Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:36:07 -0500
> >
> >Is Nu-Metal even Nu-metal anymore? Seems about as
> timely a term in  2006 as 
> >shoegazing and/or baggy.
> >
> >
> >
> >Alex in NYC
> >
> >
> >
> >On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Leigh Newton wrote:
> >
> >>I reckon that 0.00000000000000% of KJ2003 is
> nu-metal.
> >>Fact, not opinion.
> >>
> >>Leigh
> >>
> >>
> >>--- god botherer <acroastic at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>This new stuff pisses all over the cartoon
> nu-metal
> >>>of 2003. This is
> >>>glorious. I'm hearing TRUE Killing Joke again and
> >>>it's wonderful!
> >>>
> >>>Oddly, the two tracks officially available to
> check
> >>>out prior to release,
> >>>i.e. Implosion and the title track are IMHO the
> >>>least interesting tracks on
> >>>the album, but still pretty fair.
> >>>
> >>>Here's a few things missing from the album:
> >>>
> >>>shit Youth tampering
> >>>crap production
> >>>pandering to the Kerrang audience (well, maybe a
> >>>bit)
> >>>lukewarm drumming
> >>>weak tracks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Concentrating all the efforts of the personnel on
> >>>this project, and living
> >>>and playing together lots like a real group
> should,
> >>>having a shit hot
> >>>drummer and turning up the volume on (still) the
> >>>most extraordinary sound
> >>>these ears know of (that beatiful Geordie guitar)
> >>>have all paid off - and
> >>>they've remembered to make it danceable!
> >>>
> >>>Above all, the genuine passion shines through,
> and I
> >>>get those goose pimples
> >>>again which have been so rare since 1991 (with
> the
> >>>honourable exception of
> >>>Aeon and one or two other bits from Pandemonium
> and
> >>>Democracy).
> >>>
> >>>Hope when I buy the real thing Geordie doesn't
> get
> >>>turned down in the mix
> >>>(again).
> >>>
> >>>Whaddyareckon?
> >>>
> >>>gb
> >>>
> >>>
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