[kj] Killing Joke's career/[OT] Other Bands...

[Brendan Quinn]

Here's Faith No More in the studio making Angel Dust, kinda funny but also
maybe fan-only stuff.

 

07:50

 

"It's kind of like the release right there if it's major, if you don't have
a release there and it stays minor it just kinda of ."

 

"It builds up tension though"

 

But what's the good of having tension  if there's never release"

 

"It releases after that, in the part right after it.kinda opens up there.."

 

"But it.doesn't. I don't think."

 


:-)


 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBA7CdFfCos

 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Jim Harper
Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:00
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke's career/[OT] Other Bands...

 


Just thought I'd chime in with a few more acts worth tracking down and
evaluating:

 

A) I'm sure most Joke fans (and people into general alternative/metal in the
early 90s) will already have digested and evaluated these guys, but if you
haven't, it's definitely worth looking at Faith No More. Their first two
albums are patchy funk-metal with a bad singer, while The Real Thing is
solid funk-metal with a decent singer, but they were something entirely
different on Angel Dust, King For A Day and Album of the Year: heavy,
experimental, funny, abrasive and defiantly individualist. They were openly
influenced by Killing Joke- the drummer was very inlfuenced by the Joke and
PiL, Billy Gould's bass playing is often reminscent of Raven's, while
they're another of the few rock/metal bands of the time that used keyboards
openly without sounding wimpy or poppy. I know not everyone on here thinks
much of 'em, but for my money Faith No More were one of the greats. (It's
just a shame some of the guitar on Angel Dust is so mediocre- Jim Martin was
just not up to the task by then).

 

B) Not as abrasive as the Joke, but the first two Psychedelic Furs albums
really deserve a listen for anyone into post-punk or new wave. Having said
that, anyone into post-punk or new wave has probably already heard them.

 

C) D'espairsRay. Japanese rock. First-rate Japanese rock, well worth
hearing. Much better than the somewhat overrated Dir En Grey.

 

My 2p'th.

 

Jim.

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