[kj] Releases of the year - 2012

[Alexander Smith]

My little batch of sour grapes on this matter:....

http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/12/my-favorite-new-tunes-of-2012.html

Alex in NYC



On Dec 31, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Brendan Quinn wrote:


> Soundgarden King Animal. Worth the 16 years wait.

>

> Stand out gigs:

>

> Soundgarden (a silly amount of times…may there be many more)

> System of a Down

> Radiohead

> Devo (bucket list!)

> Kyuss Lives (might have been 2011, fuck knows)

>

> Got some great ones booked for 2013 already.

>

> Conspicuously absent despite the hype:

>

> Killing Joke. Guess the fishing was more interesting.

>

> Good riddance to 2012! Happy New Years all…when it finally hits you.

>

> I’m gonna check out that Mark Lannegan album.

>

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net 

> ] On Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard

> Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012 4:49 p.m.

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012

>

> Here's my Top 10 for 2012 :)

>

>

> http://souciant.com/2012/12/olivers-top-10-for-2012/

>

>

> -0liver

>

>

>

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Mike Cooper <mike at coopersurf.fsnet.co.uk 

> > wrote:

> I think 2012 has been a really good year for music so my top ten  

> would be the following:

>

> Killing Joke:                          

> MMXII                                  despite being from the boys  

> this is by far and away the greatest album of the year despite any  

> bias!!

>

> Mark Lannegan                 Blues Funeral                     a  

> truly beautiful album, heart and soul abound.

>

> Public Image Ltd               This is  

> PIL                             not popular with everyone but I love  

> it.

>

> Godspeed You Black Emperor    Allelujah! Don’t Bend  

> Ascend!                   Oldish songs but great to have them back  

> at last – mesmerising.

>

>

> The Stranglers                    

> Giants                                   Brilliant, best thing they  

> have done in decades and through pure luck I have back stage passes  

> for their Brum show in March

>

> ZZ Top                                   La  

> Futura                             I have to say it is deep down and  

> dirty – loving it!

>

> The Meteors                      Doing The Lords Work    Been a fan  

> from day one but this is their best album since Wreckin Crew in the  

> late 80’s.  Not sure how they just seem to have hit it right – great  

> version of Paranoid too.

>

> Dead Can Dance               Anastasis                              

> Welcome back – wonderful

>

> Bad Brains                           Into the Future                  

> I love this band and this is up there with the best of them.

>

> Swans                                   The  

> Seer                              epic

>

> Bubbling under:                Viv Albertine, Jah Wobble/Keith  

> Levine, Bill, Fry Adrian Sherwood

>

> Best reissue:                      The Beat -           I Just Can’t  

> Stop It

>                                                  

> Mogwai                Wrenched Virile Lore

>

> Best Film                              Batman Dark Knight Rises /  

> Killer Joe

>

> TV Show                              Homeland, Fresh Meat

>

> Best Gig                               Killing Joke, PIL, Sea of Bees,

>

> Hero/ine                              Wiggins, Hannah Cockcroft,

>

> Twat of the Year               Clegg, Rebecca Brooks, Saville  

> legacy, John Terry,

>

> Event                                    Olympics, Swindon Town  

> Promotion

>

> Crap of the year               50 Sheds of Grey, weather,

>

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net 

> ] On Behalf Of adrianwason at btinternet.com

> Sent: 28 December 2012 09:54

> To: Jim Harper; A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

>

> Subject: Re: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012

>

> i listened to rude awakening the other day.

> caprice is still awesome and the whole album is vey consistent  

> unlike other Prong albums.

> i love everything about this album even the artwork/packaging is  

> great.

> what a line uo they had then!

>

> i picked up made in Germany which if you think is a filter of all  

> Rammsteins stuff.

> I managed to filter it down even further to Mein Teil/Ich Will/Sonne  

> & Mein Land......

>

> at one stage i thought 2012 was the best killing joke release yet  

> but i played extremities at full blast all the way through last week  

> and it just confirmed what i thought that extremities is still the  

> best release ever

>

> i think 2012 outclasses pandemonium as poleshift/fema camp/colony  

> collapse etc are far superior to anything on that album

>

>

> --- On Wed, 26/12/12, Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>

> From: Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>

> Subject: Re: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012

> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net 

> >

> Date: Wednesday, 26 December, 2012, 12:42

>

> Okay, my turn. As usual, most of my purchases have been past albums,  

> but I did pick up a few 2012 releases:

>

> Killing Joke: MMXII. Really like this one. It's had more play than  

> any of their albums since Pandemonium. Not uniformly fantastic, but  

> the good tracks are really bloody good.

>

> Swans: The Seer. Not a huge Swans fan, but I do like what I've  

> heard. I've been in a much more up-tempo musical mood, so I haven't  

> listened to this one a great deal but I do think it's pretty damn  

> good.

>

> LM.C: Strong Pop. LM.C are a visual kei band who are probably best  

> described as electro-rock. Bouncy and relentlessly chirpy, Strong  

> Pop might be their best album. Live they simply explode: stupidly  

> loud, the guitars now in drop-C. Best show I've seen in a while.

>

> Honourable Mention goes to The GazzettE for Division. Not been much  

> of a fan of visual kei band The GazzettE in the past, but Division  

> has some bloody good material on. Unfortunately they choose to  

> separate the songs into one side of melodic rock and one side of  

> industrial/techno-flavoured metal. Side 2 is fantastic, but side 1  

> drags. If they'd put the best few songs from side 1 in with side 2,  

> the album would have been a giant. Other bands- most obviously the  

> much-missed VK icons D'espairsRay- managed to blend the pounding  

> riffs and the melody pretty well. It's a shame, because Division  

> could have been brilliant.

>

> Best reissues goes to the Japanese editions of This Mortal Coil's  

> back catalogue: Blood, It'll End In Tears, Filigree & Shadow. All  

> excellent.

>

> If we're including compilations, my awards go to Propaganda's Noise  

> And Girls Come Out To Play and An Introduction To... Laibach.

>

> My favourite musical discovery of 2012 would be legendary Japanese  

> 1980s metal band Dead End.

>

> Checking iTunes, it seems the albums I've been listening to most in  

> the past years are MMXII, Prong's Rude Awakening, Rammstein's Made  

> in Germany, 3.2.1. by Zilch, Dead End's Zero and Schweinstein by  

> Schwein. Pretty much an industrial year, I guess!

>

> I'll shut up now.

>

> Jim.

>

> From: "Phillipps, Marc" <Marc.Phillipps at nclondon.nhs.uk>

> To: Gathering at address-not-supplied.nhs.net

> Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 12:28

> Subject: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012

>

> Must be time to do this:

> The Unwinding Hours – Afterlives  (Craig proving there is life after  

> Aereogramme)

> Neurosis – Honor Found In Decay

> Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense (with an  

> honourable mention to the Man Vs Melody EP)

>

> Killing Joke – MMXII (of course!)

>

> Mogwai – A Wrenched Virile Lore (OK, it’s a remix album but it  

> deserves a mention of its own)

>

> British Theatre - Dyed in the Wool Ghost (EP) – (Ex Oceansize –  

> absolutely brilliant)

>

> Knifeworld – Clairvoyant Fortnight (EP)

>

> Meshuggah – Koloss

>

> Deftones - Koi No Yokan

>

> Swans – The Seer

>

> So, what have I missed this year?

>

>

> Marc

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