[kj] Extremities

[Rob Moss]

Atkins is much maligned but his drums on Extremities are superb. Age of Greed in particular.
I wonder what Panedemonium would have sounded like if the songs were stripped of the lops and beats and played in a more direct way?

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From: Brendan
Sent: 03/16/10 01:33 AM
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke \(the band!\)'
Subject: Re: [kj] Extremities

My biggest problem with Extremities, other than the mix, is MINOG. Great song, great intensity, and totally unbelievable from a money obsessed individual like Jaz. The album just isn’t believable from the very get go. And musically it’s mostly downhill from MINOG in. Just doesn’t capture me like Pandemonium does. Although Solitude, Beautiful Dead and Termite Mound are all top songs. Much more filler on Extremities.
You might all have heard them a million times in concert and been desensitised, but you’re probably forgetting how jaw dropping Communion, Labyrinth, and Mathematics of Chaos are. Extremities has a fair bit of visceral punch (most in the first track), but Pandemonium reaches or surpasses that by track two (Exorcism), and there’s really nothing on Extremities like the above three (and more) songs which delve right into the existential / metaphysical / synchronistic. There’s some freaky middle eastern sounds, but they’re poorly reproduced and not nearly as coherent to the songs as they are on Pandy.
Totally opinion so don’t get yer knickers in a twist.
TWO VILLAGES. 

From:gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]  *On Behalf Of *sade1
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 March 2010 11:20 AM
 *To:* A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
 *Subject:* Re: [kj] Extremities

ExDAVRE/PNDMNM..

It has always been very hard for me to choose between those two. I like 'em both lots and they are the two inseperable, different, complementary Testaments of the band; they are the double-helix of modern kjDNA. http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/614263/2/istockphoto_614263-dna-strands.jpg http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/614263/2/istockphoto_614263-dna-strands.jpg 

That, or this: http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/lighting-and-tornado-storm.jpg http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/lighting-and-tornado-storm.jpg 

http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/F64epWjf80o/0.jpg http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/F64epWjf80o/0.jpg 

... ... ... ... ... ... 

[looking at the current state of things..]

'Who has the fun.. 

 ..is it always a man with a gun...? 

 Someone must have told him if you work too hard... you can sweat"

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From: folk devil <folk.devil at hotmail.com>
 *To:*gathering at misera.net
 *Sent:* Mon, March 15, 2010 9:21:17 AM
 *Subject:* Re: [kj] Extremities

 I concur...too

 The overall mix of Extremities lets it down...but I understand, also from Ade, that it was recorded and produced in rather a short period of time...

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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
 To: gathering at misera.net
 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:59:36 +1100
 Subject: Re: [kj] Extremities

I don’t mind it but Pandy pisses all over it. Ade agrees with me.

From:gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]  *On Behalf Of *Neil Perry
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 March 2010 2:52 AM
 *To:* A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
 *Subject:* Re: [kj] Extremities
I never really liked Extremities.
 Too thrashy. I give Termite Mound and North of the Border a blast
 now and again.

 I'll get me coat

 N

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