[kj] Top 10, post-Y2K

Janean Lancaster Janean.Lancaster at hopwood.ac.uk
Thu Apr 5 04:34:24 EDT 2007


I got that on Soulseek and loved it. Still haven't got the CD and now
you've described the artwork... Well. Erm.

Still love the songs though - Out of Control reminds me of my youth down
at the goth disco. But from the outset I thought She Wants Revenge was
probably the worst band name in history.

Cheers,
Janean

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard
Sent: 04 April 2007 22:15
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Top 10, post-Y2K

Another band sorta like Interpol that I think is yet another "throwback"

band is ... SHE WANTS REVENGE. Joy Division throwback, that is. Even
some of the song titles.

Embarrassing confession: I actually dug this album when I saw
way-advanced copies of it floating around Soulseek about a year before
its official release. I was like, "Wow, this is like Joy Division meets
Sisters of Mercy." (That is, one song is like Joy Division, another like

Sisters of Mercy, but it all sorta worked.) Then the LP officially came
out and the album art was TERRIBLE (what is it, like an American Apparel

ad outtake or some MySpace photo of a girl's ass in her white cotton
undies? What the hell? I expected a cover that was mostly black with
some stormy clouds or simply white line art ror something,
Bauhaus-style) and it was carried at Target! That blew me away. Still, I

enjoyed it.

Just don't tell anyone that.

-Oliver


ade wrote:

> YES INDEEDY!

>

> The whole obviousness of the retro thing going on these days is a

> total turn-off for me. "Ooh, why don't you

> like Interpol?" Erm, maybe because they're such an obvious rip-off

> that it makes me cringe. Ian Curtis

> vocals anyone? Editors, Killers, blah blah, on & on & on.....

>


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