[kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:

[Antoni Adamiak]

The version that Jon & Marc have put up does the song more justice than the one that was on YouTube ... I also like it even though it's not quite what I was expecting ... I'd like to think the new record contains various KJ styles ... I starting to get excited again about it all ... I've bought tickets for the HFB album bash in Kilburn ... then there's the Verticle Smile/Inertia/Tribazik gig at Madame JoJo's, I've rearranged things for Edinburgh, likely to do Le Bataclan in Paris & parted with my dosh for the double 10" (plus CD) of this single ... oh, and Artery have got a London gig sorted for early August too ... plus the Furs later in the year ... 2010 is getting much better in my humble opinion ... :o)

 


To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:39:14 -0400
From: jpwhkj at aol.com
Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:


Haha!  Those of us old enough bear the scars of people asking if LLB was U2.
 
Anyway, I like it.  It is fucking wonderful to hear Jaz singing again.  (Mind you, the lyrics sound a bit silly, but then they have done for a couple of decades.)
 
It's not perfect - as various people have said, more space & a bit more a groove would help.  But I've been a bit worried that the weight of expectation would have suffocated the recent venture, and I think I can stop worrying.
 
Jamie





-----Original Message-----
From: nicholas fitzpatrick <gasw30 at hotmail.com>
To: gathering at misera.net
Sent: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 9:46
Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:




I absolutely love it (though the sound quality means I couldn't hear it properly). Agree that Jaz's voice is better than the "old warty toad" of recent years. Hope there's more of the same on the album. 

One thing though, I couldn't stop thinking that this is what U2 would sound like if they did metal. Is that the edge on backing vocals? 

"Hey Red Rocks, this is 'Gloria'...."


  



From: fluwdot at earthlink.net
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:23:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:







The bad:
 
What? Why can’t kj learn that less is more, space is more important than yet another track of guitar buzz saturating and obscuring what came before it. The guitar has no body, no power, no point of existing. Why have Geordie play if what he creates sounds like a kid who just learned IV chords at a guitar center on a POD.
 
1234 1234 downstrokes for a groove…fucking lazy rudimentary and not interesting or inspiring…for robot dancers only.
 
On the positive side:
 
The voice sounds better then the past couple albums at least jaz isn’t trying to sound like a old warty toad possessed by a B movie villain.
 
Youth doesn’t sound like he has in the mid 90’s
 




From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Rheinhold Squeegee
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:40 AM
To: Gathering Gathering
Subject: [kj] "In Excelsis" on YouTube:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq2EBh8OFV8
 
For those who don't want to or can't download.
 
 



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