[kj] ESS: the best single in decades?

[sade1]

Ha, yes, another Leftfield reference! ;)
I think Follow The Leaders'  keyboards tho' not sounding so much 'mainstream,' 
do remind me of, maybe, pumped-up Moroder 3-note riffs. 



 

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From: folk devil <folk.devil at hotmail.com>
To: gathering at misera.net
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 2:47:32 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] ESS: the best single in decades?

Not so sure about that. It sounded pretty um, Leftfield (sorry) at the time. 
Except fo certain Northern / NY 'scenes'.
 
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From: jagargal at lycos.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:42:10 -0400
Subject: Re: [kj] ESS: the best single in decades?

I could bet, at least the keyboards, in "Follow the Leaders" sounded as 
mainstream then as the ones in "ESS" today. 


Javier 
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>Follow the Leader. One of my all time faves. It doesn't compare for me, bar the 

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>Spot on, Neil. 

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>Actually - now that you've mentioned FTL, that's what it reminds me of... 

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>From: Neil Perry 

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>Subject: Re: [kj] ESS: the best single in decades? 

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>I agree. 

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>I have been playing it daily and it gives me goosebumps every time. I don't know 

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>But I like the return to more danceable tunes after the grunt and sludge of 

>recent albums - sometimes Geordie 

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>works better with 'less is more'. And I love the fact that Jaz is singing again. 

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>can still come up with a musical leap like this, something I wasn't expecting. 

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>Thing is, when KJ have previously tried to write a pop hit, I've detested those 

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>but ESS is pure genius I think. Maybe they weren't trying to write a pop hit 

>this time? I don't think it is their 

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>best single by a long shot - Follow the Leader, Empire Song, Eighties, LLB, 

>Millennium, etc etc - but 

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>it is probably their best chance of having a hit in a very very long time. 

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>I believe this could be HUGE in clubs, and consequently maybe radio, if of 

>course there is promotion and marketing 

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>and all the rest. Which going by recent history, is a big IF. 

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>On 31 August 2010 00:31, Javier Garcia wrote: 

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>Have listened European Superstate almost daily, this track grows prety fast on 

>me. I think it´s really an awesome song. And beyond that I think Killing Joke 

>may have the best single in many, many ages. 

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>It's Killing Joke at their best -ok not so much guitar, but still it has great 

>ingredients- and is also very radio-friendly. 

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>Great they´re planing to release it a a single but they will have to pressure 

>the record company in a serious way so they make a nice effort promoting this 

>track; if they don´t do it they will be wasting a pretty good opportunity to put 

>a song with good rotation on the radio, and who knows? maybe a hit. 

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>What do you guys think? 

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