[kj] reasons why BTATS is gash

[fatpotanga]

I love BTATS & whenever I play it it takes me right back to being 16.
When it came out the production was very current & I would say that
listening to it then, production wise it seemed nothing other than slick.
Killing joke wise, it was a bit more commercial, very keyboard heavy, a bit
gentler and Œsung¹ but it was still Killing Joke.
Having said that, at the time it still sounded very different to the rest of
the charts and was till unlikely to gain much air play.
The bass sound was very current ­ headless Status bass into the Trace
Elliot, new toys for the bass boys!
Too much reverb and lots of fat warm synth pads.
As with most stuff from the 80¹s it¹s aged badly but give me anything off
BTATS to most of it¹s peers.

What I do like about Kj is every album is different.
³Killing Joke is loike a boxer choklits. Y¹never know wotcher gonner git²




On 9/5/06 11:13, "bluce ree" wrote:

> a)  the first 45 seconds of 'Love Of The Masses' including that fruity little
> break at around 42 secs.  The whole song sounds like Tears For Fears.
> 
> b)  'The Southern Sky'.  horrible.
> 
> c)  the chorus in 'Victory' which ruins an otherwise sub-par but inoffensive
> song.  the verses are probably one of the better things on the album.  thin
> praise indeed.
> 
> d)  'Rubicon'.  ooh... sinister guitar intro.... gives way to a riff which
> sounds like everything else on this fucking record.  Maybe it's the production
> but this is the most samey album they've done.  Stupid vocals on this track as
> well, sounds like a new romantic Chas and Dave.
> 
> e)  'Goodbye To The Village'... yet another weak, poppy chorus.  Non-descript
> bass.  the guitar sounds alright, even if the song sounds like a poor
> Nighttime-era b-side.
> 
> f)  'Sanity'.... horrible beat, horrible 'woah-oh's, horrible chorus (again),
> horribly undermixed guitar.
> 
> g)  'Exile'... where are you lady?  I'm in Club Tech-Noir.
> 
> h)  horrible production.  Even Chessboards sounds paper-thin compared to the
> live version on NWOBFG.
> 
> i)  whats with all the slap-bass?
> 
> the whole album sounds much like the worst aspects of 80s synth-era Cure and
> sits VERY uncomfortably between the 3 early albums and EDAVRE onwards.
> 
> it has a few moments of okayness.  Adorations remains the strongest thing on
> it IMO but is ruined by Jaz's choirboy vocals and that 'as pain and joy and
> sorrow...' bit.
> 
> If Nighttime was chasing the dollar then BTATS grabbed it, put it in its bra
> and did a whoreish lapdance.  Although partially I think it was their attempt
> at being 'good' musicians even though Revelations shits on BTATS for
> musicianship, attitude and variety.
> 
> Although people say that OTG isnt a true KJ album etc etc it could only have
> followed this record.  If it had come out after any of the others the sharp
> change in direction would have marked them out as commercial whores who like
> being bummed in the gob.  BTATS softened the blow, so to speak.


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