[kj] [KJ] Killing Joke "Rawk"

[Alexander Smith]

Quite sure, thanks.  As someone else said -- I believe it was Javier  
-- what a boring life you must lead if you only listen to one type of  
music.


Alex in NYC


On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Dimitri Bukharin wrote:


> Paul Simon, Queen........... Are you sure you like Killing Joke?

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> On 1/11/07, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> Back in the days of vinyl, I used to organize by genre or by what  

> I'd perceive as a quasi-genre ("flavor of the month brit hype  

> bands" ala Jesus & Mary Chain, the Primitives, the Sugarcubes,  

> etc.) This just got too unwieldy after a while, and upon the advent  

> of discs, I just went with alphabetizing, which makes loads more  

> sense (although it means certain artists sit incongruously next to  

> each other on the shelves..... Paul Simon sits next to Siouxsie....  

> the Plasmatics sit next to Robert Plant....Pussy Galore sit next to  

> Queen, etc.)

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>> Or not!, and maybe you can do it the way you feel to. I just can't  

>> mix some soft/electronic stuff i have with metal... you know what  

>> i mean?. It's just my way to look for records easier. It's more  

>> practical to me.

>> After all, labels and genres exist weather you like it or not. You  

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>> But you want me to believe that you never, ever use labels...  

>> yeah, right! I'm not a label/genre defender, but they are not  

>> useless. That's my only point.

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>> And so, after your complaint with that store, under what label are  

>> KJ now? or they are re-organize all the store and now they went  

>> all alphabetical?? So maybe you now can find Killing Joke  

>> "easier": it's just next to Kenny G, Khawaja Zia ud din, King  

>> Pinz, Kid Rock, Krystal Blue and Kajagoogoo?? HA! Now i call that  

>> easy!!!

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>> Subject : Re: [kj] [KJ] Killing Joke "Rawk"

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>> Date : Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:02:48 +0000

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>> From : "Dimitri Bukharin" < krasnidenamit at googlemail.com>

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>> To : "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <  

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>> You could allways put your collection in alphabetical order then  

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>> A HMV store near me put the Joke in their "rawk" section so I sent  

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