[kj] Track-by-track: Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman talks MMXII

[Paul Rangecroft]

You're being followed!

"Put the mp3 player down. We know who you are listening to. We have
orders from the new government..."

On 3/30/12, The Stranger <letranger789 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree, Paul.  Well said.  That's how I enjoy the songs as well.  The music

> and themes speak to a part of me that is that is not rational, that is more

> primal.  A part which has a nagging suspicion that all is not well in the

> world and in myself.  I liked what Jaz said in a recent interview about

> learning to recognize or confront your own dark side or "shadow self".  I

> feel that their music helps me to do that in some ways.  It's like shining a

> light on the dark places within myself, forcing me to acknowledge that those

> feelings (fear, paranoia, frustration, anger) exist within me, and, on some

> level, I feel this allows me to consider those feelings and be more mindful

> of them...  rather than to just get lost by reveling in them.  This

> nastiness exists within myself and, I presume, within the majority of the

> population.  If we are to overcome it, we must first recognize it.  No way

> out but forward go!!  If you suffer from the

>  underworld, the only cure can be found in the underworld.....underworld...

> :)))))

>

> I had a tasty little journey into paranoia as I listened to the album for

> the first time the other night.  As the first notes of Pole Shift oozed into

> my ear cavities from the headphones I was wearing, I looked down on the dusk

> covered Manhattan sidewalk that I strode upon to see.....a red laser light

> dancing at my feet!  My mind raced!  Was I being targeted by a psychopath

> with a gun?!  Was the prying government somehow aware that I was listening

> to the anti-establishment views of these British gadflies and marking me

> with new technology for tracking purposes?!?  Was it that odd, grey, Jetsons

> style hovering trash compactor, on the cover of the new album, floating in

> the stratosphere, making it's presence known and communicating that I was

> known....and being watched??!!??   Or was it a stupid kid with a laser

> pointer?  I didn't know but I watched as my mind wandered and went

> to ridiculous places and considered irrational

>  possibilities....  I suspect that Jaz and the boys allow their minds to do

> the same when they write their lyrics.  Well, whatever it was, I survived

> the nefarious laser of doom and was granted the perfect emotional atmosphere

> within which to hear this massive work of art while trodding through the

> dark streets of the grand metropolis called New York City in the year 2012.

>

> Killing Joke, I love you!!!

>

> :))))))

>

> Adam