[kj] Your TOP TEN FAVORITE JOKE Blunders!

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10.  Losing Big Paul.  So much of the previous 9 items is related to 
this.  Killing Joke was originally a piece of creative tension.  _/With 
Big Paul gone I don't feel there was anyone who could stand up to Jaz's 
attempts to steer the band in whatever direction was currently in favour. /_
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#1 & #10 are dead on jamie...although i kinda liked the jellyroll 
pompadours @:]
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jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:

> I'm going to leave out individual tracks.  There have been some 
> shockers, but that's true of any band.  The real blunders have been 
> wider.
>
> 1. The long gap between Fire Dances and Night Time. They wrote some 
> great music in that period (Blue Feather, etc) but missed the chance 
> to make the logical progression...
>
> 2. The loss of "total anonymity" in the mid-eighties: the photos, the 
> bouffant hair, the sense that they were trying to have chart success 
> for its own sake.  I think Jaz coming out from behind te keyboards was 
> part of this...
>
> 3. The disintregration of band during OTG.
>
> 4. Atkins. Supposedly a good drummer (though I'm not qualified to 
> judge, technically) but his involvement appears to have been negative 
> in the long run.
>
> 5. The gradual decrease in distinctiveness of Geordie's guitar.  The 
> man is extraordinarily talented, and probably has contributed more to 
> the uniqueness of the Joke sound than anyone else.  If, as Todd 
> reckons, some of the decline was simply lack of available equipment, 
> Jaz should have coughed to buy some new stuff.  If KJ is really such a 
> dominant aspect of Jaz's life, then spend some of the readies from 
> classical success etc on decent kit.  It's all deductible, right?
>
> 6. Fucking up on tours: Democracy and now the 2006 one.
>
> 7. Broken promises generally.  Actually, it's more a case of Jaz's 
> predictions not coming true, be they Joke-related or 
> end-of-world-related.
>
> 8. Allowing ideas and theories to rule your music.  Geomancy is going 
> to make you successful?  Uh... I don't think so.  OTG - I rest my 
> case.  The Joke were at their best when they were doing it by instinct 
> - in the early days.
>
> 9. Lyrical decline.  The lyrics have become longer and increasingly 
> straightforward.  Less is more, as far as I'm concerned.  By '86 it 
> was teenage poetry level, and it's gradually become worse.  Jaz 
> swearing.  Jaz shouting rather than singing or chanting.
>
> 10.  Losing Big Paul.  So much of the previous 9 items is related to 
> this.  Killing Joke was originally a piece of creative tension.  With 
> Big Paul gone I don't feel there was anyone who could stand up to 
> Jaz's attempts to steer the band in whatever direction was currently 
> in favour.
>
>
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