[kj] Current Fav K.J. song

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Sorry, but:--

For better or worse (my detractors would claim the latter), "Hosannas" 
is what brought me to the list. Prior to that I was listening to sludgy, 
underground, bleak, DIY hardcore punk (World Burns to Death, Amebix, 
Tragedy, Born Dead Icons, The Complications [named after the KJ song!], 
Inepsy, etc. And when I heard Hosannas it sounded EXACTLY like what a 
lot of the current gloomcore bands were trying to do -- only KJ had 
topped a lot of them once again.

The title track of "Hosannas" -- listen to that and then check out 
Venom's "Sons of Satan" from the early 80s. And the "This Tribal 
Antidote" is so crutily Amebix-ian it blew me away. To me, hearing 
"Hosannas" was like a reaffirmation that KJ really could get the grimy, 
sludgy, underground hardcore stuff out there if they had to, that their 
capabilities and capacities were just awesome, and I impressed it onto 
my friends who would have never though anything outside the Discharge 
realm of bands was acceptable. It converted a lot of doubters to KJ, 
believe it or not. It gained them "street cred," to put it awfully. It 
was a strategically wise release for 2006 for KJ. And the art is fantastic.

And "Implosion" is like MOTORHEAD. It was was like KJ were filling out 
some blank spots in their repertoire that had been atent, but 
unfulfilled, until then. I LOVE Hosannas from the Basements of Hell! I 
am proud to have it as a double blue viyl LP with black slipsleeves and 
the amazing artwork, etc.

-Oliver

Alexander Smith wrote:

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> Leigh spot-on once again.

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> Alex in NYC

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> On Sep 14, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Leigh Newton wrote:

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>> Hosannas is Killing Joke's "St. Anger". It's just that simple. 

>> (That's a dis, btw.)

>>  

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