[kj] Current Fav K.J. song

[Brendan]

I know we've all covered this ground before, but I have to throw my hat in
with Olly on this one. Gratitude, btw, is a FREAKY song to wake up to in
the middle of the night.


> 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:

>>

>> Leigh spot-on once again.

>>

>> Alex in NYC

>>

>>

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

>>

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

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

>>>

>>> <http://www.nightruiner.com>

>

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