[kj] Anniversaries - Brighter 86 / Democracy 96 / Hosannas 06

[bongo]

btats = great
demo = good
ho's = off'n'on

:)





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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:38 AM, fatpotanga . <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Btats is a wonderful album. It was very good live. So there. I think the
> cd with what were B sides added (victory, ecstacy, goodbye to the village
> etc)  probably taints the experience a little.
>
> Democracy was a complete disappointment - would love to hear it with all
> the loops Youth removed but that ain't gonna happen.
> Ho's-Anus (as raven once referred to it on here) is killing joke at their
> most destructive. It's not a bad album (terrible mix - car speaker ffs?!)
> but for me epitomises the fat drunkenness of the time. If raven hadn't have
> passed it would have marked the beginning of the end. I didn't like the
> direction they were headed. The video to the title track is almost as
> embarrassing as the SOJA rap.
> On 12 Apr 2016 17:15, "wessidetempest ." <wessidetempest at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> BTATS is the most consistent album of the three. My least favorite of
>> that era and I like the songs more live.
>>
>> Democracy has some solid songs with some filler and goofy production. You
>> can tell everyone was burned out on each other and Killing Joke as a whole.
>>
>> Hossannass is my least favorite even it had some of thee best Geordie
>> riffs ever. It's a "could've been so much more" kind. Record. Songs are to
>> long. Recording stinks. Jaz is probably at his worst vocally and lyrically.
>> You can tell they blew all of the production money on cigars and brandy and
>> whatever else.
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 3:50 AM, C Jr <nomeanswhat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> BTATS - a good album, some pretty solid songs, despite the 'poppier'
>> sound, production and textures... its heart is in the right place, good
>> lyrics and mood throughout... Neither their best, nor worst... A logic and
>> understandable step in the band's evolution, I'd say.
>>
>> DEMOCRACY - one of my favorite KJ albums... I love almost everything
>> about it, even the murky production... had Mass and Four Stations made the
>> cut, it would probably be my favorite of the bunch.
>>
>> HFTBOH - I concur that most of the songs are a bit too long, still, I
>> like the album... it's a step down from 2003's return, but also a necessary
>> transition into Absolut Dissent territory.
>>
>>
>>
>> Apart from OTG, KJ is yet to disappoint me.
>>
>>
>> mvh
>> -Jr.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:08 AM, T.B. <planetary at socal.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> For me, Id rank these three from best to worst as:
>>>
>>> Democracy - I actually love about half this album.  The drums are kind
>>> of plodding and indistinct, buried in the wall of sound production (that
>>> reminds me of Steve Brown's work on The Cult's aborted "Peace" album) on
>>> most tracks but the title track, Absent Friends and Lanterns are standouts
>>> that I never get tired of hearing. If "Mass" and Four Stations Of The Sun"
>>> had made the album instead of a couple lesser tracks, this would rank much
>>> closer to Pandemonium.
>>>
>>> Hosannas - Probably the closest thing to hearing Geordie's raw demos.
>>> It's far from a good album, but some songs have an almost hypnotic quality,
>>> "Judas Goat" being the best example.  I'd almost like to hear this album
>>> with no vocals, it would probably work better for me.
>>>
>>> Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - I actually went and pulled my original
>>> EG cd of this album today and attempted to give it a listen for the first
>>> time in several years....  I (still) really do not like anything about this
>>> album, the dated production, especially regarding the drums and the
>>> synth-heavy angle they took with this album utterly kill this one for me.
>>> I never would have guessed Big Paul played on this album without looking at
>>> the credits.  For me, this album is in a dead heat with Outside The Gate as
>>> worst KJ album - I suppose it's no shock they are consecutive albums in the
>>> bands period of steep creative decline.
>>>
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