[kj] Meta Killing Joke

[Lennonka]

Yes, nice remark : )
I'm curious if it was written by someone who reads this list.

2008/2/23, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>:

>

>  Now that's a coincidence, was checking out the Wiki entry for Killing

> Joke and look what I found:

>

>

>

> At the same time, some journalists were suspicious about Killing Joke's

> image and wrote that "Killing Joke's music includes certain fascist

> tendencies...". This was a common misconception because, if anything,

> Killing Joke were a politically apolitical or "*meta-political*" - with

> much of their disturbing imagery acting as ironic or cynical symbols for a

> world which they perceived was becoming ever more materialist, unjust and

> conservative. Killing Joke had various 'run-ins' with a number of music

> journalists at the time.

>

>

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_joke

>

>

>

> Politically apolitical…one of those words is largely redundant, although

> arguably not…

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