[kj] Who is this guy and why does he have nice things to say about KJ?

[Rheinhold Squeegee]

Speaking of "That 80's Show," all 13 episodes are available on YouTube. It ran on Fox for a single season in 2002 as an unrelated spin-off of "That 70's Show." The theme song was, in fact, a bland, faceless cover of KJ's "Eighties" and can be heard at the 5:04 mark here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYehEvk1NaU

Watch at your peril.


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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:08:51 -0500
Subject: Re: [kj] Who is this guy and why does he have nice things to	say	about	KJ?

Yep, you're right about how loads of people know / have heard of the Joke - way more than you might expect, given KJ's lack of chart success and the exposure that comes with it.  I think partly it's the memorable name...




Jamie






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Ah, fair point -- yeah, missed that.




I think "big in the 80's" is relative, though. My mother-in-law (now in her OWN 80's) lived in the UK, and she spotted me wearing a Killing Joke shirt last summer and mentioned something like "Oh, i remember them." That fact that a woman with relatively zero connection to punk rock had heard their name suggests that -- while it didn't seem that way at the time -- Killing Joke were relatively "big." Are "known" and 'big" the same thing?





Remember, a dreadful cover of "Eighties" even made its way into being the theme song for a strenuously abortive American sit.com in the 90s.





Whether they care to admit it or not, lots of people do know Killing Joke.





Alex in NYC

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Sure, but NFJ says he "worked with a band called Killing Joke".... that sounds like more than sharing a producer.








....I like the idea that the Joke were big in the eighties, btw.  Can't say that it seemed that way at the time!










Jamie










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The connection is Chris Kimsey, who also produced the Joke (and is lengthily interviewed -- or so I've been told -- in "the Death and Resurrection Show".










-Alex in NYC




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CM: Apart from your father, who has made the most impact on you in life?


NFJ:
 I know the answer immediately. I worked with a band called Killing Joke
 who were a big band in the 80's, and their guitarist is a guy called 
Geordie Walker. He was the first experience I had of Rock and Roll. It 
was his aura, and I said "Whoa, you have the thing that everybody talks 
about", he had the thing that the Sex Pistols and James Brown had. He 
made the biggest impact on me; he gave me the biggest compliment. I was 
on holiday in Spain, and I was stood in a vineyard, soaking up the 
atmosphere and I got a phone call from him and he asked what I was doing
 and then he said "You know what Noah; you are an enigma to me". I 
replied with "I don't know what to say but I'll take that as a 
compliment as you are the meaning of Rock and Roll to me".  





http://www.contactmusic.com/interview/noah-francis-johnson-2014





Noah Francis Johnson


He's a 50-year-old adult contemporary soul singer, born in Wales and produced by Chris Kimsey. I would be curious to know the connection, since he indicates he knows Geordie personally. The music is what it is. I'm not going to slam someone's honest effort just because I dislike the genre as a whole.


 		 	   		  














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