[kj] "Singles Collection" US release: Warning

[Mark Kolmar]

Which A-sides are missing? Maybe I can get pissed off again about that,
instead of, you know, the topics of the songs.


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:


> Amazon has it for $14 with a release date of June 4.

>

> *But it appears to be a two-disc set only*, without the 3rd rarities

> disc. Fairly warned, be ye. Just buy it from Amazon UK; the price comes out

> about the same anyway.

>

> *Two CD set. 2013 collection from the British Post-Punk legends fronted

> by Jaz Coleman. With a fierce intelligence plus a thirst for esoteric

> knowledge that matches a music that is visceral and almost spiritual in its

> primal spirit, Killing Joke are like no other band. This is a group who

> came out of Punk and then set out on one of the most remarkable and

> idiosyncratic journeys ever. The Singles Collection 1979 -2012 captures

> their ever-evolving story with a series of dark, apocalyptic songs, they

> have successfully combined Disco and Funk and a shamanic wisdom with the

> dark side of the Punk fall-out. Their influence has been enormous, with an

> unlikely roll-call of musicians taking their cues from the KJ catalogue -

> from Nirvana to most modern American Metal to many DJs and dance music

> mavericks. few, however, coming close to the band's innate power. 33

> tracks. *

>

> I have it already, of course, and am still quietly smoldering over the

> absence of "Turn to Red, " "Pssyche" or "Change" instead of two tracks from

> OTG and "Fresh Fever" just because they released it on a split single for

> Record Store Day.

>

> Also, "New Uprising" needed to be on that 3rd disc.

>

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