[kj] Current Fav K.J. song

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I make no excuses for it my love of Hosannas. I love it. It's the 
(double) LP KJ needed to make at the time they made it.

Comparisons to _St. Anger_ are off-target. People said _St. Anger_ was 
Metallica's pathetic, contrived attempt to get "back to their roots," 
vis a vis that one Rancid LP where Rancid tried to show people they 
hadn't sold out, merely by playing fast, which seemed so fake it was 
laughable. To my knowledge, though, before Hosannas, KJ had never made 
an outright d-beat song ("Hosannas," the title track), or anything as 
Motorhead-y as "Implosion," a very cool track, doesn't everyone admit...?

In short, KJ were not attempting to recapture any past glory; they were 
fleshing out aspects latent in earlier material, but never brought to 
fruition. And anyone who hates the "metal" aspect of KJ needs a serious 
reality check. "The Wait" is arguably -- ARGUABLY -- the first 
punk-metal crossover song. Ever. "Tabazan," for ex., has an amazingly 
metallic throb to it, and is prescient as far as Mid-Eastern type metal 
riffs go. There has aways been that latent METAL side to KJ that some 
people -- people who prefer posh New Romantic-type stuff -- may not 
like, but has nonetheless always been there.

"The Tribal Antidote," for example, to me sort of rehashes the main 
guitar riff of the also-awesome "Absent Friends" off _Democracy_, like 
some say "Majestic" does for another song - but it is just the perfect 
song for the era (2006) and whether KJ were drunk and sloppy or not when 
they made it I think _Hosannas_ is a damn fine release. It was and is a 
kind of missing link in their discography.

-Oliver




Leigh Newton wrote:

> "why all the HATE against HFTBOH?"

>

> I think you might have answered your own question with that 2 

> paragraph disclaimer below. When you have to make THAT many excuses 

> and concessions for an album.....what you're making excuses and 

> concessions for is a SHITTY album.