[kj] Extremities

[Matt Tibbits]

Extremities all the way for me. I remember the thrill of listening to it for the first time and thinking "they're back and they're angry!". I love Geordie's spine-chilling, clarion-like chords all over Intravenous and Slipstream. I love the complexity of the songs, the time changes, developments and dramatic builds to climax. It's like progressive/industrial rock with a dash of opera (Age of Greed exemplifies what I'm trying to say). Not a weak song on there for me. From slow and sinister (Beautiful Dead, Termite Mound) to agile and exciting (Extremities, Struggle) I personally feel it's one of the best rock albums ever made. The fact that the Astoria gig was one of their most mesmerising and powerful only adds to my conviction.

 

The impact of Pandemonium was weakened for me because I'd had all the singles with their various mixes for what seemed like a long time and I actually preferred some of the mixes to the album versions. I loved Communion and Labyrinth but for me the production was too clean and mainstream metal and the riffs and loops too machine-like. Not enough clarity or treble in Geordie's guitar, either. His unique sound is lost amongst the chugging. Good, solid album and commercially successful but no way near as good as Extremities for me. As Jaz says though, opinions are like arseholes...

 

 

 


Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:34:54 +0100
From: rob.moss at gmx.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Extremities



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?



 




----- Original Message -----

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





 





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





 





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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...
 







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

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