And he had the BEST dry sense of humor! Funny as hell…Damnit. The world lost an amazing guy. I’m heartbroken 💔

I can't believe I never heard of Geordie or Killing Joke until he passed away (grew up in the 70's & 80's). Now bands like Metallica (Or Kirk's guitar style), and songs like Nirvana's "Come As You Are" make so much sense to me. I feel like I have been so sheltered my entire life! 😂

Who said he was underrated?

Cannot believe so many notes and tones came out of one guitar. It was just a swarm over your head and in your brain. Farewell sir

WHAT HE DIED ?? I JUST LEARNED BOUT THIS BAND THIS YEAR🥲

I'm with there buddy..painfully nostalgic

Exactly my feeling. I think there's a Welsh word - hiraeth - that is sharper and more sadly longing than the English "nostalgia". It's a heartfelt yearning for a fondly remembered past that cuts deep and is indeed bittersweet. Poppies by Teardrop Explodes or Public Image have the same effect on me. They put me in an exact time and place where the world was full of possibilities and i was bursting with raw energy 😁

That's the word I needed in my life, as I get this feeling more and more often lately

They don’t make them like this anymore, so they?

This song seemed to always set one up for the more serious matter played at the tail end of the evening out.

Angels at war. That's an excellent description. Fair play to you, sir.

Absolutely agree.

Absolutely this is a fantastic and timeless song you have awesome taste in music

I am diving for work in my car, and this song is a sound track was 13 when this song was arrived

Dang u guys had good music great track

Took me 2 hours on internet to find this song. Couldn't remember the name. Also Shape & Numan- change ur mind is a great number of 1985

Heard this today at work and remembered who it was immediately! Not heard it since 80s! Fab to find it again! ❤

I was there the very first time Paul picked up a bass. True story..

Good comment!👍 I remember seeing the gang back in the early eighties, in Hammersmith. Couldn't hear a thing properly for at least a couple of days! Great memories, thanks lads!!! ❤

Ok 🙏

All expiration dates

Time flies,rest in peace forever ❤

I only heard of killing joke through a friend who watched them play a lot of gigs in Sheffield. That said this song was there most commercially recognised tune.

So you ate the album?

@ronniedoorzon1576 And we all lived happily ever after.

"So cut the rose in full bloom" is classical wisdom (carpe diem). "Promised lands and fields that never fade in season", see Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell": why regret the everlasting sun, if we are sworn to a search for divine brightness - far from those who die as seasons turn.

Divine brightness being "brighter than a thousand suns", I'm pretty sure Jaz Coleman would concur!

_"Strength and beauty, destined to decay"_ As do all the works and dreams of man.

@@NotSoMuchFrankly Some works (of art notably) endure, and some dreams come true, though. But all of this is fleeting in the end, so I concur with your comment overall.

The thundering bass and drums riff too, it's like seeing a column of tanks advancing down your street... or fighter jets in the sky above. Brilliant song!

Every fucking time

@@louise_rose The Guitar Riff is the best thing, the first thing you hear and the best, the Riff is from another World.

@@jyejye1077 The song completely captures the Zeitgeist of the later Cold War, the fear of a nucle*r Armageddon and the feeling of having been sent in as players into a drama we had never been part of writing or asked to be in. I remember those days and the song is indeed a time-capsule. "Heartshine" by Mother Love Bone (recorded in 1989), with a similar thundering riff and pounding drums, does something similar - also a brilliant song and to me that one is also about a generation, not just one guy's anguish. Now we are almost there once again.

Every instrument used in this track is brilliant and striking. They all add their individual touch to it.

Had the luck to see them 3 times, original formation. No other band will ever mix metal, raw punk and dark wave at the same time and sound PERFECT and HOMOGENEOUS.

DAMN RIGHT

Yes it is Chelsey. You have great taste .

It's in my top 50. Once a song gets there, I don't bother deciding which is greater.

Certainly has power ... I'll grant you that...a leviathan of a song! 👍

You're killing me.

its in my top 25 and top 3 of the 80s

@@user-mf6cz5tu7u definitely

Glory to the workers party solidarity for all workers ✊⚒️

Absolutely such an amazing drummer who never got his due

Incredible - How on earth did He do that!?!

When you live in a world with John Bonham, Neil Peart, Stewart Copeland and Scott Rockenfield you're going to be overlooked.

As a drummer, I hated him LOL

The way he plays looks like just another normal day for him.. Incredible..!

(￣ー￣)ゞ

Me. Loved this back in the day as a teen in London and its still a banger.

Miguel Andres Cruz from Costa Rica reporting.

from mexico!

From Ukraine!

Hi I recommend A New 80's style indie rock Song Called 'Looking into the Mirror' By Robert Nix

Finding this now and this song is sick. They rock it and break all the expected norms throughout. They don't follow a pattern unless it is their own! Hahahaha. Awesome.

Better music then, most music nog sucks

Brilliant song, wonderfully played, sung and performed - a true generational anthem of those days and a classic now. It's right up there with the greatest songs of Joy Division or early (pre-arena rock) Simple Minds.

Here is my club from the 80's where we played this same music and danced like crazy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mM5dn9mo19-unps.html

They reckon it will come back again in a mutated form (well, that is what viruses tend to do), but then again, Spanish Flu mutated into something less obnoxious.

Let me know, I'll be one of your first customers.

All nice people dress in Black!

Can I play with my band?

Sounds good to me.

Truly incredible

Way ahead of his time. Nowadays you would call this "djent" or something like that.

Still gives me goosebumps!!!

"Dr feelgood"- esque

@@ahumanjustbeing2466 I’ve always wondered if Nikki sixx may have been influenced by this, or maybe flat out lifted it.

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tostare...👍🤭

Thought Martin Glover aka Youth was the bassist.

steph2k1uk Youth left before this time. This is Paul Raven’s period in the band (though IIRC Youth did return much later)

Ty all

What about the bass player? I think it's the bass that characterises Killing Joke. Youth is a world renowned bass player

I believe Geordie's secret to his 'wall of sound' is he records multiple tracks

@@CK-tx2lf It's Paul Raven playing here.

yes l like that

@@fastbike6764 No problem in recording this in one take using di and several amps, but probably multiple takes to make it sound a bit thicker

That's because it is.

Whoa that's crazy and beautiful to read. Killing Joke has had a lot of great material of 40 years, very diverse but bluntly put...a sort of punk period but with synth and some good writing, then came this era which was very underrated by fans at the time...Night Time (1985) and Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (1986) may be to your taste; especially the former since Love Like Blood is on it. From there it got more progy and then they got heavier, a bit industrial, not full on metal to my metal attuned ears but that's what music journalists will say : ) ha. Democracy (1996) is also great, took awhile to click. But for anyone reading Night Time is really work it start to finish, it was the bridge between the first big style jump. Glad I finally got into them in the past few years after numerous encounters; I had become so focused on singles and then life turned more introspective. A lot of people only like one or two albums because they can be so different in terms of face value aesthetic i.e. "rebellious uk punk" "new wave" "industrial" "shoegaze" all styles a good band can perform as can a skilled theater actor; playing a variety of roles with a pathos that is still their own. P.S. I sometimes read my uncle's old diaries and it is an amazing connection to have their voice in your head again. Be well friend.

I love this post. I feel that magic as I'm writing this. Thanks for sharing.

@@bobloco6823 I'm so happy I made you feel the bit of magic i felt reading this letter, have a great day my friend ❤

@@gr3y_eminence thank you so much ! I'm gonna listen to that as soon as I can !

Yep. It was great being in the NY metro area at the time. Cool clubs such as Kriptons and Backstage but good systems were hit and miss with other clubs.

As Lemmy famously said: "If its too loud, you're too old!". Roughly same age as you, grew up with this band in the UK, Thatchers Britain and all that, Killing Joke distilled and encapsulated the feeling of the time. Hear this, or "Eighties" and I'm transported back instantly. What a tune. What a band. What days to be alive.

Way to go brother

Lucky you. I have to make do with the video's. KJ was so underrated. Timeless.

Well we know this was a masterpiece when I herd it at the time ...give you goose bumps ...well the whole Brighter than a 1000s suns album including the cover. I was a teen and never heard of them and was just getting in post punk /punk. But the big airy (space), hollow sound was not originally theirs....they got that from The Chameleons. But the big sound with the muscular guitar riff became their finger print.

Almost the same as kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9abm8Jls5PUaKM.html

Riffs sound a bit like The Holy War by Thin Lizzy

​@@needahandleSure is taken from there

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ABSOLUTLEY

Still grabs hold immediately!

For sure

Ukraine?

Oh yes

+k3zza_ m4chin3_ Indeed, just thought the same thing

so this is early 80s?? really? you sure it's not earl;y 90s?

1985 was the year of release.

1985 , just middle 80's

1985...

Enorme!!!

She deserves

It sucks

You’re my new best friend. I saw them a few years ago in Melbourne in a fairly dodgy venue. It was fantastic.

Mötley Crüe anyone

Hi I recommend a Song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

Same here.

Sadly underrated!

I love this masterpiece ♥️

eu sou estilista aqui

So true mate

I built a time machine

I was 17 when it was released and believe me I was an awful lot into it and even more now !

Indeed. Feeling we live at the 80s

I've still got the 7" of it I bought back then when I was 20.

They have put out 30 albums not including live and compilation albums. Double Led Zeppelin’s output and more than Sabbath as well.

@@wanstedt0138 This may be an unpopular opinion. But I believe that bands/artists should make *less* music , not more.

@@APPEALtoFEAR I agree with you in many cases, but Killing Joke has been stunningly consistent over the course of their entire discography so far (barring a minor misstep into cheesy synth-pop in the late 80s). They've gone through so many stylistic phases but still manage to maintain the essence of their signature sound.

fan since forever

Same here, I have discovered this band right now and listening this song for the very 1st time

better late than never ;)

Same here. Amazing band

;)

What are, to you, some songs that do the same?

This song drove me to a suicide attempt after a beer binge 😭

Fuck that specific beer binge man! Hope you are ok now.

@@bilbobaggins4710 wow dude life is great! Hope you're well!

@@FMZ101 alone again or by the damned

It's an amazing track! I first heard it back in 1985. You're right, it's beautiful and haunting at the same time. Regards from Australia 💐

Also check this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbVgdJOJyL3daGw.html

Me too!

Same feeling than you for a Canadian of 51 !!

Same here....53... the Netherlands

Over 37 years ago? This song ist from 1985.

@@kuntakinte3922 ; Yes Toby, and I hope you found your Roots.

Bought this in 1985 - heading for 68 - what fun.

This is the best thing I've ever read about the 80s

For someone who grew up listening to the music of the '60s this would've been incredibly futuristic and almost completely alien. The musicians at the time would've known they were breaking new ground with the technology available to them, especially with synths and new production techniques. The newly-available tech influenced and inspired how the songs were written and recorded. Plus of course the rock and punk music of the '70s that the members of bands like Killing Joke would've grown up listening to. The Fixx is another band that springs to mind. It's a snapshot in time that can't be replicated again. Which isn't to say we can't still record new music like this. But it's arguably more difficult now because the same inspirations aren't there.

brilliant

the modern daY MUSIC IS CRAP.

I agree, i was born in 97 and always preferred listening to music from the 80's and 90's, and some early 2000's rock too. I absolutely can't stand Rap in any form, and i want to shoot myself whenever i walk into a bar and some shitty mumble rap is playing on the radio. And to be honest with you, most modern music these days is all Rap.

Agree 100% Love this as much today as in 80s😊

It will be.

listen to their album "brighter than a thousand suns" it's full of pearls like this one.

❤

Killing Jokes drummer is the f'n man!!!

Am I the only one to notice how some of the greater drummers use the simplest of drum kits?

Indeed. He's aware that only a thorough go will bring home the goods.

@@juancanet3883 I agree. Jimmy Chamberlain usually used a five piece set, to amazement.

Damn straight!🤘

Mötley Crue loved this riff so much that put it in Dr.Feelgood hahahahaha

On tour with Tool this year

Dude... Reign in the punctuation. Unless you're 14 obvs.

The Executioner Really? That’s good to hear!

@@MrSlanderer yeah but not now with this corona bullshit

@@bilbobaggins4710 unfortunately NOT with PAUL RAVEN,,,RIP Friend.

A lot of japanese visual key bands of the 90s used these kinds of chords. Check out old Luna Sea stuff as one such example.

G minor 7 (in D standard tuning of course) :D jguitar.com/chordsearch?chordsearch=Gm7&labels=none&tuning=4D%2C4G%2C5C%2C5F%2C5A%2C6D (the chord at the top right)

You should check gothic rock. These kinds of chords are the genre's defining aspects. This is gothic rock anyways. :)

this is a talented band indeed

This is period Gibson ES-295 for you.

Eu

yes

Lead singer Ronnie O'Sullivan in his other role

Here. From swiss too.

Holy corona

Thanks. That band is awesome. I am french 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

@@eliannavanius thank you 😃

@@leesydneybates1135 😊🤘🏻

Still appreciating this bloody brilliant track

@@vondefeo8586 thank you I'm glad someone is it's a forgotten classic have a good day 😃

Amazing tone. P90s chorus and distortion.

But the drums are unbelievable as well. Incredible tune.

Dude all good bands but music's was great before too deep purple, led zeplin, pink Floyd, go further back into the 60s the doors etc . Music is timeless when its good.

Richard Ikin The Cult, Rain

Pixies, Violent Femmes

Bauhaus

And The Sound, naturally

80s vibe? It's Dr feelgood a motley crue song