This band was too far ahead of their time. When they came out, people were into disco leftovers and goofy-ass hair metal. Killing Joke was too heavy for the punk crowd, too dark for the new wave crowd, and just too abstract and disturbing for everyone else. What an absolutely badass ensemble!!!!
When i see K.J. touring this album, Jaz signed my ticket with quite a lot of the Lyrics. I shall treasure that for ages. Learning of Geordies passing a couple of days ago has bit me hard. There will never be another Killing Joke. R.I.P. GEORDIE x
@@gogoyubari366 when I see KJ performing at halftime at the Superbowl then I'll know they've made it. Til then they shall remain criminally underrated. Name the 10 biggest rock/metal/punk bands you can think of. KJ should reign over all of them. They should be a household name everyone is familiar with like U2, Springsteen and the Stones.
Every UA-cam music video theres some moron going "oMg ThEy ArE sOoOoO uNderRaTeD" in the comments section. The intelligent among us knows this translates as "I never even knew this band existed till i clicked on this".
It must be tricky to stick to the same sound and chords, when making music from a punk background All musicians will probably know about the rules of ( number of notes ) copied in a bar I don't think it bothers most bands from their influences I expect all bands try to stay original for a while, but in the commercial world it is really a bit of a risk The Cure rip off ( bass) dreams never end with 7' In between days 🤔 it was a good single I do remember Echo/The Bunnymen song Bring on the dancing horses being quite like New Order Probably their worst 12' ever in my opinion 👎 I don't think any band as tried to sound like The Chameleons, The Durutti Column or Joy Division KJ': are a very good with so much energy and brilliant guitar riffs 👏
Good points all around. I guess my main point is that KJ has been lost in the shuffle. I had never heard of them til about a year ago, but every album I've heard is fantastic. Just wish they got more love because they are not only unique, their albums are exceptionally well produced, and they maintained quality up through this millenium. They're a band's band for sure.
Bought this album in '85 . This is the first time I've played it in over 30 years & it still sounds Brilliant ! Outstanding tracks 'love like blood' & 'eighties' . Both in my favourite 100 singles of all time .Paul Raven R.I.P.
I just love the opening track Very bouncy with energy Just a unique sound with splendid guitar riffs Not forgetting the drums Catchy tunes that was really a dance album 🧟🤡😇🙌
Sadly, the best music of today only tries to rehash sounds from the past and is too stuck wallowing in nostalgia to do anything that hasn't been done before. I'm eagerly waiting for a movement where musicians actually do something that sounds NEW, but I feel like rock bands stopped trying to be innovative by the mid-90s. Everything since then is either shit or some sort of "revival" that just makes me want to listen to the original bands instead. There were a million bands in the 2010s trying to capture the post-punk sound from 40 years earlier, but none even came close to being as good as this.
Sure we do. Some amazing wave music from other parts of the world too. She Past Away from Turkey, Molchat Doma from Belarus. Have a listen to Savages, Ash Code, Twin Tribes, Second Still, The Soft Moon... And let's not forget Clan of Xymox still bringing out music. They released a song about Ukraine that'll make your blood chill: 'Save Our Souls'. Also, check out The Ghost of Bela Lugosi, maybe not postpunk or wave per se, but still, some great songs. Let's not pretend that music, however good or rebellious has the power to stop evil. It simply gives a voice to the pain evil causes.
You a when band is so good that you can put on their music from 1985' and people who have never heard of them tell you they're a breath of fresh air from all the shit music that's out there right now.
The first gig I ever attended was to see Killing Joke Tour and Perform this album at Leeds Metropolitan University. Mind blowing experience! R.I.P Kevin ' Geordie ' Walker. Hearts are Broken ❤
youtube showed me them 2 weeks ago. can t listen to anything else since then. they are SO great, why are they so less known? it s awesome, no way to don t listen to them at now. best greets from north germany. gonna listen to them in my old volvo now while watching the world burn to ground.
In my opinion, this and their original self-titled (the one with Requiem and The Wait) are their absolute best works. Their 1st album for how raw and heavy it is, this one for creativity and excellent production.
I was at the recording of this album..2 days we spent with them.. I was the first to listen to the album, Paul gave me a bottle of whisky and a chunk of hash to travel with .. I was 25 .. fuck time flies .
Had to have a friend record it and send it to me from the UK because my small town didn't even know who they were (1985). It's been that many years since I have heard it in entirety! Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!!
I got into these guys in about '87. As usual, a girl was involved ( thanks Andrea!) I quickly found this was my favourite album of theirs - not so her - she was more into the earlier "Fire Dances" and we had many an argument over which one was best - to which both of us walked away from them thinking we had won. Thanks for some great memories
I always tell fans of 1980s music that THIS album captures the decade better than any other band. Duran, Spandau, ABC or Heaven 17 can go f*ck a duck by comparison. The follow up "Brighter than a 1000 Suns" sustained that sound perfectly. This album was my introduction to the band and I am always discovering new songs, like their back catalogue is a true goldmine😊
A cult band is a band that is so good, original, unique and beautifully weird that the media and the marketing machine don't know how to sell them, thus it gets overlooked and ignored by the masses.
Im like all sorts of metal and heavy music. I discovered KJ years ago on my own and enjoy working through their discog. The first 2 albums are my fave and this one is also very good. I find their older albums are heavier and louder than any of the later ones even when they went full industrial. Like the bass on this album is absolutely insane... The Gut Wrenching bass guitar on Kings and Queens is one of the heaviest things ive ever heard... Coming from someone that listens to old school Thrash and Death mostly lol. Reminds me of say early Joy Division and how heavy some of their songs are as well. Just all about that ugly ballsy loose sickening bass guitar that can level buildings.
Great comment! "Heaviness" or intensity doesn't have to be about distorted, downtuned guitars or playing at a million miles per hour. Thanks for your thoughts, and for being open-minded enough to recognise and appreciate this.
Stunning album this. My first listen I'd only heard the 2 hits from the album. Been going through their stuff not come across a bad album. Got about 7 albums more to listen to😍
The opening track is very 80's but still very ominous and surreal, almost feels like a transition between 80's and early 90's in terms of vibe, very ahead of its time and definitely worthy of being named after the album. Stigmata Martyr by Bauhaus would probably be another one, the irony is that their Hollow Hills and Killing Joke's Eighties both have the Come As You Are riff, though with Eighties you could argue that Nirvana pretty much copy and pasted both the song structure and riff from Killing Joke lol
Admittedly I don’t know too much stuff from this band (yet) but they sound like a cross between The Cure and The Fixx which is pretty fucking awesome, really.
Best Post-Punk Killing Joke Albums. 1. Brighter than a Thousand Suns 1986 2. Night Time 1985 3. Outside the Gate 1988 Best Industrial Rock/Metal Killing Joke Albums. 1. Absolute Dissent 2010 2. Killing Joke 2003 3. MMXII 2012
Saw Killing Joke at Southampton Guildhall in 1985 on the Night Time tour. "Intense" doesn't even scratch the surface. Went in white......came out black and blue!
The rift from the track "eighties" has been taken and rearranged by Nirvana for "come as you are". It's played more slowly and 2 notes are added but it's the same bass line
The atmosphere of "Darkness before dawn" is a bit worrying. Always the impression to fly alone in a spacecraft before realizing i will crash on another planet. No need to buy LSD.
@@eldorado852 It depends on how you understand the word "commercial". "Night Time" is more commercial for the number of albums sold, "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" for the sound.
We used to rage around a big kitchen table giving plenty to this. We had one slight edit - Eighties obviously became 'A TEAM'! Try listening to it now without singing along with that slight change. You're welcome!!!!
Night Time 00:00
Darkness Before Dawn 05:02
Love Like Blood 10:20
Kings And Queens 17:09
Tabazan 21:47
Multitudes 26:24
Europe 31:19
Eighties 35:53
Que no
They are absolutely genious!
Did these guys ever sue Nirvana for using the music of 'Eighties' in 'Come As You Are'?
Or maybe Nirvana took the "Kanishka" intro riff from "Los Brujos" an Argentinian band
This band was too far ahead of their time. When they came out, people were into disco leftovers and goofy-ass hair metal. Killing Joke was too heavy for the punk crowd, too dark for the new wave crowd, and just too abstract and disturbing for everyone else. What an absolutely badass ensemble!!!!
do you reckon ?
The album was very succesaful though.
I'm so into it now it drives me crazy. Geordies tone is insane on point!
I agree they were dark.
But at this point in time we already had bauhaus,christian death,alien sex fiend ect ect which were darker......
@@avelinosilvadiasdon't forget SWANS. Don't tell me Ministry didnt totally rip them off
When i see K.J. touring this album, Jaz signed my ticket with quite a lot of the Lyrics. I shall treasure that for ages. Learning of Geordies passing a couple of days ago has bit me hard. There will never be another Killing Joke.
R.I.P. GEORDIE x
It's night time - and time to run from all your fears...
RIP Geordie Walker.
KJ is an underrated group.
each member is masterful, and united, they crystallize this era.
Only underrated by fools.
What makes you believe they're underrated? Did you travel the globe taking a survey from every citizen of the world?
@@gogoyubari366 when I see KJ performing at halftime at the Superbowl then I'll know they've made it. Til then they shall remain criminally underrated. Name the 10 biggest rock/metal/punk bands you can think of. KJ should reign over all of them. They should be a household name everyone is familiar with like U2, Springsteen and the Stones.
Every UA-cam music video theres some moron going "oMg ThEy ArE sOoOoO uNderRaTeD" in the comments section. The intelligent among us knows this translates as "I never even knew this band existed till i clicked on this".
Their Sound is unique! No one can copy it!
Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood rips the bassline from Love Like Blood. So many artists, from the Cure to LCD Soundsystem, have taken KJ's ideas.
There are only so many basslines and riffs to fit into a standard song format. Naturally people create the same stuff. No big deal.
also Nirvana took ideas from "Eighties" to create "Come as you are"
@@TheSeelenfrost the damned, life goes on , look it up
It must be tricky to stick to the same sound and chords, when making music from a punk background
All musicians will probably know about the rules of ( number of notes ) copied in a bar
I don't think it bothers most bands from their influences
I expect all bands try to stay original for a while, but in the commercial world it is really a bit of a risk
The Cure rip off ( bass) dreams never end with 7' In between days 🤔 it was a good single
I do remember Echo/The Bunnymen song Bring on the dancing horses being quite like New Order
Probably their worst 12' ever in my opinion 👎
I don't think any band as tried to sound like The Chameleons, The Durutti Column or Joy Division
KJ': are a very good with so much energy and brilliant guitar riffs 👏
Good points all around. I guess my main point is that KJ has been lost in the shuffle. I had never heard of them til about a year ago, but every album I've heard is fantastic. Just wish they got more love because they are not only unique, their albums are exceptionally well produced, and they maintained quality up through this millenium. They're a band's band for sure.
Bought this album in '85 . This is the first time I've played it in over 30 years & it still sounds Brilliant ! Outstanding tracks 'love like blood' & 'eighties' . Both in my favourite 100 singles of all time .Paul Raven R.I.P.
One of the greatest and MOST important bands..!! I feel so lucky,cause i saw them once.!!.Amazin' performance.!!!
Beautiful record. Anger, depression, despair, indignation, and poppiness. Unforgettable.
Bought this album the day it was released and come back to it all the time. Every track is utterly brilliant
I always thought the wood in Geordie’s guitar sounded like it was creaking and groaning. Still totally unique .
This disc just has an incredible atmosphere. Great songs and a weird, eerie vibe.
A great album. The Bass is amazing.
what isn't amazing about Killing Joke? or this album? :)
Paul Raven.. Raven king
And the drumming...and the vocals...and the guitar...oh wait, everything 😉
I agree... the bass definitely stands out here.
I just love the opening track
Very bouncy with energy
Just a unique sound with splendid guitar riffs
Not forgetting the drums
Catchy tunes that was really a dance album
🧟🤡😇🙌
Great band! We need musicians who take a stand against society the way these guys do, I don't know if we have any today. These guys ARE postpunk.
@@jackiethedetestator7342 Today's music is sh*t, so the answer is no.
Sadly, the best music of today only tries to rehash sounds from the past and is too stuck wallowing in nostalgia to do anything that hasn't been done before. I'm eagerly waiting for a movement where musicians actually do something that sounds NEW, but I feel like rock bands stopped trying to be innovative by the mid-90s. Everything since then is either shit or some sort of "revival" that just makes me want to listen to the original bands instead. There were a million bands in the 2010s trying to capture the post-punk sound from 40 years earlier, but none even came close to being as good as this.
@@t.n.3819 Agree. though I would argue nu metal had some investing/interesting elements to it into 2001/2002.
Grandpa takes ahoy.
Sure we do. Some amazing wave music from other parts of the world too. She Past Away from Turkey, Molchat Doma from Belarus. Have a listen to Savages, Ash Code, Twin Tribes, Second Still, The Soft Moon... And let's not forget Clan of Xymox still bringing out music. They released a song about Ukraine that'll make your blood chill: 'Save Our Souls'. Also, check out The Ghost of Bela Lugosi, maybe not postpunk or wave per se, but still, some great songs. Let's not pretend that music, however good or rebellious has the power to stop evil. It simply gives a voice to the pain evil causes.
You a when band is so good that you can put on their music from 1985' and people who have never heard of them tell you they're a breath of fresh air from all the shit music that's out there right now.
K.J. still kickin it 2022
This is very good. Especially Love Like Blood. Wasn't expecting it.
Eduarda Carolina, a great dance song too! Used to hear it in the clubs back in the day.
The photo cover of "love like blood" got me pregnant
I heard the sybreed cover first
80's KIlling Joke is amazing .... I wish i liked their stuff from the 90's and ongoing.
The planet's must of been in alignment...the perfect balance of brains and brawn
The first gig I ever attended was to see Killing Joke Tour and Perform this album at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Mind blowing experience!
R.I.P Kevin ' Geordie ' Walker.
Hearts are Broken ❤
Bought this on the day it came out .. it still frightens me! Magnificent.
youtube showed me them 2 weeks ago. can t listen to anything else since then. they are SO great, why are they so less known? it s awesome, no way to don t listen to them at now. best greets from north germany. gonna listen to them in my old volvo now while watching the world burn to ground.
they have been a global(underground) phenom since 1978. Even Nikki Sixx is into killing joke
Lucky you
Dont know what to say
The best KJ album i think
Brighter than a Thousand Suns is maybe better or just as good a least.
In my opinion, this and their original self-titled (the one with Requiem and The Wait) are their absolute best works. Their 1st album for how raw and heavy it is, this one for creativity and excellent production.
I was at the recording of this album..2 days we spent with them.. I was the first to listen to the album, Paul gave me a bottle of whisky and a chunk of hash to travel with ..
I was 25 .. fuck time flies .
Same here... I'm so lucky I got to see them!! They've inspired so many contemporary bands. They're very underrated
Had to have a friend record it and send it to me from the UK because my small town didn't even know who they were (1985). It's been that many years since I have heard it in entirety! Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!!
Great album Bro, thank you!!! 👏👏👏👏😉👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎵
What an amazing band.
I got into these guys in about '87. As usual, a girl was involved ( thanks Andrea!) I quickly found this was my favourite album of theirs - not so her - she was more into the earlier "Fire Dances" and we had many an argument over which one was best - to which both of us walked away from them thinking we had won. Thanks for some great memories
Conheci à banda através desse fantástico álbum, um dos melhores da banda e da década
Geordie Walker's guitar lines are so cool!
Fantastic Album ✨✨✨✨❣️
I always tell fans of 1980s music that THIS album captures the decade better than any other band. Duran, Spandau, ABC or Heaven 17 can go f*ck a duck by comparison.
The follow up "Brighter than a 1000 Suns" sustained that sound perfectly.
This album was my introduction to the band and I am always discovering new songs, like their back catalogue is a true goldmine😊
I mean ABC is ok tho
United by Killing Joke, a band that transcends throughout the ages.
I like how they ended up trying to make a more approachable album when they did this and it still came out tough as nails.
A cult band is a band that is so good, original, unique and beautifully weird that the media and the marketing machine don't know how to sell them, thus it gets overlooked and ignored by the masses.
Im like all sorts of metal and heavy music. I discovered KJ years ago on my own and enjoy working through their discog. The first 2 albums are my fave and this one is also very good. I find their older albums are heavier and louder than any of the later ones even when they went full industrial. Like the bass on this album is absolutely insane... The Gut Wrenching bass guitar on Kings and Queens is one of the heaviest things ive ever heard... Coming from someone that listens to old school Thrash and Death mostly lol. Reminds me of say early Joy Division and how heavy some of their songs are as well. Just all about that ugly ballsy loose sickening bass guitar that can level buildings.
Great comment! "Heaviness" or intensity doesn't have to be about distorted, downtuned guitars or playing at a million miles per hour. Thanks for your thoughts, and for being open-minded enough to recognise and appreciate this.
they are one of the few bands who improved over time I still like "Complications" though 40 something years later. Check out "The Great Cull"
Espectacular album, una banda grandiosa y hermosa, muchas gracias......
Stunning album this. My first listen I'd only heard the 2 hits from the album. Been going through their stuff not come across a bad album. Got about 7 albums more to listen to😍
Bought the album when released so fucking good sick listening to the shit after punk
I was 19 and totally submerged in Killing Jokes sound played this album all night long :)
This album is an absolute monster in a dark & eerie cave. :)
Maybe the best band in the world.
great post punk album.
The opening track is very 80's but still very ominous and surreal, almost feels like a transition between 80's and early 90's in terms of vibe, very ahead of its time and definitely worthy of being named after the album. Stigmata Martyr by Bauhaus would probably be another one, the irony is that their Hollow Hills and Killing Joke's Eighties both have the Come As You Are riff, though with Eighties you could argue that Nirvana pretty much copy and pasted both the song structure and riff from Killing Joke lol
Brilliant band. In Eighties I can hear a guitar riff that a future famous grunge band used in one of their signature tracks.
Admittedly I don’t know too much stuff from this band (yet) but they sound like a cross between The Cure and The Fixx which is pretty fucking awesome, really.
Anyone else gets war vibes with this album? It's both dark and liberating at the same time.
Oh yeah and Cold War especially vibes
My youth . Fantastic band live
Been listening to KJ since around 2002. Tabazan definitely influenced Manic Street Preachers, especially "Holy Bible." All the essences are there
My 2nd favourite KJ album
What's the first one?
@@israelramirez8694 Killing Joke (2003).
Best Post-Punk Killing Joke Albums.
1. Brighter than a Thousand Suns 1986
2. Night Time 1985
3. Outside the Gate 1988
Best Industrial Rock/Metal Killing Joke Albums.
1. Absolute Dissent 2010
2. Killing Joke 2003
3. MMXII 2012
for me, the best Best Industrial Rock/Metal Killing Joke Album is Hossanas from the Basements of Hell
@@abmendez7102 I agree
AMO ESSA BANDA FROM BRAZIL
Wot ! Incontournable !!! Chances to listen And sée to the Aéronef of Lille !!
I love this album too much!!!
Another great 80's band with such a different sound through decades
great group with immortal music my love like blood
The best Killing Joke. ;-)
I travel simple minds vibesss
Saw Killing Joke at Southampton Guildhall in 1985 on the Night Time tour. "Intense" doesn't even scratch the surface. Went in white......came out black and blue!
Hopefully gigs are not like that now 🙂 - what filtered out of that hedonistic eff everything era is actually refined
The rift from the track "eighties" has been taken and rearranged by Nirvana for "come as you are". It's played more slowly and 2 notes are added but it's the same bass line
Killing Joke......for the win.....
Masterpiece
sounds like...swords coming out of their instuments...that`s when u know u^ve come accross beyond this world
What the hell do you mean I can't make it louder?!
Solid album
Phenomenal album -- and dare I state it, their best.
just getting into kj euphoria and asteroid are my faves so fare but a lot of songs to get through still
Soundgarden owe these lads a drink. Listen to this and Jebus Christ Pose.
we miss you so much already geordie
Love Jaz Coleman's synthesizer music
idk why this got recommended to me but damn it's so good!
The atmosphere of "Darkness before dawn" is a bit worrying. Always the impression to fly alone in a spacecraft before realizing i will crash on another planet. No need to buy LSD.
The first album I bought 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
I’m just getting into this band the last song on this has a Nirvana sounding guitar riff
This looks like an album cover from the nighties, not 1985.
Thanks for the upload!
Amo este album
Their best and a masterpiece
BANDON QUE MARCO UNA EPOCA...EXCELENTE!!!
RIP GEORDIE FROM POLAND
Their most commercial album but it's still so good. I don't think they have one bad album, it's all brilliant.
Brighter than a thousand suns is more commercial for me.
@@eldorado852 It depends on how you understand the word "commercial". "Night Time" is more commercial for the number of albums sold, "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" for the sound.
RIP Geordie 😢
feel bad not have explored kj sooner.....and i'm older
great album !
Just the Bands Name says everything: Society is a Killing Joke! Ever got arrested by the Police just for living?
They put Eighties last just to fill up space but it would turn out to be their 2nd biggest hit
Wonderful yes
MASTERPEACE!
@. 💝💝. Thank You God. 😘
We used to rage around a big kitchen table giving plenty to this. We had one slight edit - Eighties obviously became 'A TEAM'! Try listening to it now without singing along with that slight change. You're welcome!!!!
I pity the fool. :)
Te amoooo!!!
Sounds like a very catchy Miami Vice theme in some weird way.
This band is between usual lines.
The loudest band ever live, fact!
Memories , with advertisements now.
Wow!!!...yes killing joke👍!!!!
Time For The Killing Joke!
thanks for this bro
Thanks for watching.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You would be surprised on the amount of bands that have tried to Rip off K.J.
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