[kj] MMXII first listen:

[Rheinhold Squeegee]

Well, in my pre-CD days, we would simply find promo copies of unreleased albums in the used shops and listen to them prior to the release date anyway. At least now I'm actually paying the artist.
 
Now, you kids get out of my yard. It's my ball now. Mine. 
 
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:35:38 +0200
From: 65snoopy at gmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII first listen:

Nice blog post Alex and to a degree I'm with you - my girlfriend always asks why I don't just
download a new LP from itunes instead of adding yet another ugly plastic CD case (or even
more space-consuming vinyl LP) to the
groaning shelves - and my answer is always the same, I want the physical product with
the artwork etc etc. Why? I don't really know, my only answer being that I'm old and this
is what I've always known. Talking to my 17-year-old nephew, who finds it hilarious that
I still buy vinyl, is always an interesting experience - he loves music (he is quite an
accomplished guitarist and is in a band) but the actual physical music products he owns
can fit into a shoebox.
But as for waiting for the official release date and excitedly running home with a CD/LP
as I once used to do, I guess those days really are over, at least as far as KJ and a handful
of other bands are concerned. It feels like months since I placed my order for MMXII and
I've been itching to hear it. Getting to hear the early snippets I equate with the days when I used
to hole up in my bedroom listening to the John Peel show hoping that he'd play a new song
from one of my favourite bands a few weeks before the single/album was actually released - 
if I could have gone to Amazon back then to hear a 30-second clip, I would have.

And I also experienced the same emotions upon seeing the Adorations sleeve for the first time...

n



On 27 March 2012 15:07, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:





As I've been laboriously documenting in some recent blog posts (notably the two linked below, if you give a flying fuck), I'm becoming more and more Luddite-ish and resentful as I grow older, lamenting the old days when we'd anticipate a new album and then finally get our hands on it (as a tactile artifact), and then immerse ourselves in it, track by track and in the chronological order as was intended by the band. Nowadays, everything is about immediate gratification and uber-convenience. God forbid you should have to wait for anything or take your time to experience something in its uninterrupted wholeness. 


As such, I've resisted downloading the leaked record. Sure, I've heard "Rapture" and the mighty "In Cythera," but I've managed to eschew hearing anything else. I really want that pristine experience wherein I am able to enjoy the album from back to front while holding the artwork in my hands. Call me old fashioned. I don't give a fuck.


But, as I go through my e-mail, I can't help but read some of the comments from those who have listened. I think it's indeed a testament to the versatility of Killing Joke that opinions are so divided. After all, consider the relatively vast shifts in style and sound within the band's own catalog -- from stentorian guitar crunch and barely human vocals to elegiac melodies, danceable rhythms and the graceful tolling of "the bell."  Unlike, say, AC/DC, Motorhead or the Ramones (great bands, all), Killing Joke have never simply been about one solitary thing.


I'm trying to shut out the opinions until I get my hands on it and hear for myself ... but hear it the right way.


http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/03/retromania-and-the-return-of-the-joke.html


http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2012/03/the-virtual-line.html


Alex in NYC










On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Neil Perry wrote:

oooh, harsh words... ;)

Have been blasting it for most of the day and I'm liking everything to varying
degrees aside from Pole Shift and Fema (finally coming round to Glitch). A few tracks
are stunning, a few are great and some are ok. But I'm enjoying the variety - AD was
many versions of the same song plus ESS and Ghosts - whereas this is coming
from many different directions. Half of these songs and half from AD would have made for
a stunning album -  for my tastes, anyway. For now, Trance, Primobile, Hallows, Cythera and Colony are
on heavy rotation, songs that I think piss all over most of the last 2 albums. 




On 27 March 2012 14:24, Stephen Robinson <heiferboy at robinsonworld.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

Weakest album since Democracy, there, I've said it.


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