[kj] Releases of the year - 2012

[Mike Cooper]

Alex thank you for bringing Firewater into my life being checking them out
from your list and they are excellent.  Ordered that album and the covers
album immediately.  Call of the Wild are mightily fine too.

 

Cheers

 

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Alexander Smith
Sent: 31 December 2012 14:04
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Releases of the year - 2012

 

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

 

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

 

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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