[kj] I JIHAD YOUR NEW ALBUM

[Brendan]

A) Eating tomatoes then comes to entail x amount of shit scrubbing
B) You can wash the tomatoes but you can never forget that they used to be
covered in shit

I'll work on my example because I think I've found a new philosophical
proof. I could be the new Kant. Haha (anyone who knows how kant is
correctly pronounced will probably agree with me ;)


> Can't you just wash the shit of off the tomato? *blink blink*

>

> At 02:59 AM 12/21/2008, Brendan Quinn wrote:

>>I’m a Killing Joke fan, along with PIL, Queen,

>>Beck, Radiohead, Led Zep, Pink Floyd

changing directions is fine.

>>

>>But if I’m on a hike and the trail leader takes

>>a detour into the LAKE OF SHIT I’m not following.

>>

>>“Brendan come back and stop swearing, it’s just

>>a change of direction

right and left is all

>>relative

if you were a shit feeder you’d really

>>like it, it’s all perspective, decomposers are a critical part of the

>> ecosy

..”

>>

>>Yeah, I’m not a shit feeder, I haven’t devoted

>>as much of my life to music as I have, spent

>>hours working crap jobs with idiots to earn

>>money to buy records and go to gigs, collected

>>back catalogs, spent thousands to convert my

>>entire collection to CD when the format changed,

>>bought crap compilations from people on the

>>other side of the world just to get a single

>>track (a mediocre cover of an average song just

>>for completeness), read thousands of interviews,

>>tried to expand my tastes by listening to

>>average crap, fallen asleep after listening to

>>stuff for hours and hours, put up with all the

>>shit mainstream music I’ve had to endure in

>>clubs, bars, other’s people’s houses, lifts,

>>malls, supermarkets, made mix tapes for

>>girlfriends, tied as much of my life as I have

>>into the music I was listening to at the time, NOT to have an opinion.

>>

>>An opinion other than “OH I LIKE PRETTY MUCH

>>ANYTHING

EXCEPT DEATH METAL, HAHA”

>>

>>Fuck that PC bullshit argument, just ‘cos

>>everyone spouts it, and just ‘cos on the face of

>>it it looks conciliatory and all-inclusive,

>>doesn’t actually mean it has any merit. You CAN compare across

>> categories:

>>

>>“A sub-par apple is always better than a tomato

>>covered in shit, no matter how much you don’t

>>like apples and do like tomatoes.”

>>

>>The only defence to the above is if you are

>>allergic to apples (in which case, in the

>>analogical sense to my argument, you’re tone

>>deaf or music makes you physically ill) or you

>>actually like shit

which seems to be where the world is heading music

>> wise.

>>

>>PS: Welcome to the list J

>>

>>PPS: This sums up how I feel, in Chris’s own words:

>>

>><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C43zd1jM1NU>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C43zd1jM1NU

>>

>>(The monotonous, semi-dead riff is intentional

you kinda get it or you

>> don’t)

>>

>>

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>>From: gathering-bounces at misera.net

>>[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Lawrence

>>Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:51

>>To: gathering at misera.net

>>Subject: Re: [kj] I JIHAD YOUR NEW ALBUM

>>

>>why oh why do people get so upset when an artist

>>changes direction get over it enjoy the back

>>catalogue and let it be artists are no different

>>to vou or i and i'm sure if we reached that

>>level of success we'd be turned to the darkside

>>

>> > From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz

>> > To: gathering at misera.net

>> > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:33:11 +1100

>> > Subject: Re: [kj] I JIHAD YOUR NEW ALBUM

>> >

>> > There is no fucking CD that'll come close to the return velocity,

>> accuracy,

>> > and bad intentions if it's ever distributed my way. And I'll be

>> quoting

>> > lines that were cut from The Exorcist for being too foul.

>> >

>> > Anyone who can defend that album can defend

>> me against Satan at the doors of

>> > hell against video and swab evidence of me in my early teens.

>> >

>> > I mean, was he thinking: "I'll blow those fucking Rage Against the

>> Machine

>> > cunts off the fucking charts, and Axl too"

>> >

>> > Every single note Kim Thayil hasn't played since April 1997 sounds SO

>> much

>> > better than this.

>> >

>> > At this rate he's gonna end up in Vegas performing with

>> Rent-A-Frampton at

>> > 3am Tuesday nights:

>> >

>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqBj77GOiak&feature=channel

>> >

>> > Here's my only real idea for WHY: he cut ties with most of his friends

>> from

>> > the past when he moved to Paris with his new wife, is quite possibly

>> still

>> > trying to show them all, all the old friends,

>> the ex wife (acrimonious split

>> > involving kids), Soundgarden, Audioslave, that he's doing better than

>> ever,

>> > he's still the man. Like, duh. A silver disc up on the wall means

>> success?!

>> >

>> > Chris's solo stuff ALWAYS rocked (until last

>> year), there was never any need

>> > to prove it. Temple of the Dog is basically a Chris Cornell solo

>> album,

>> > there are only 2 non-Cornell tracks on it.

>> >

>> > This is from back in '91, him on guitar too:

>> >

>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXS-CLnwNok

>> >

>> > No point left to prove after that.

>> >

>> >

>> > -----Original Message-----

>> > From: gathering-bounces at misera.net

>> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On

>> > Behalf Of TB

>> > Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2008 03:34

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

>> > Subject: Re: [kj] I JIHAD YOUR NEW ALBUM

>> >

>> > "Brendan Quinn" wrote:

>> >

>> > > OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO:

>> > >

>> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU2Mj4sW6dk

>> >

>> > I saw this coming the moment I heard Cornell was working with

>> > Timbaland(sp?). It's so funny how some people defend his new album

>> because

>> > he's "changing" and "evolving" as an artist. Well yeah, but who'da

>> thought

>> > a human could evolve into a spineless turd?

>> >

>> > It's kinda like when David Lee Roth started doing cheesy Beach Boys

>> and

>> > Louis Prima medleys and became a Vegas Lounge singer. At least Roth

>> carried

>> >

>> > a bit of his attitude and humor with him when he made that regrettable

>> > switch - Cornell sounds like he completely

>> submerged his identity to become

>> > the King of supermarket shopping music.

>> >

>> > T.B.

>> >

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