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File Name:Killing Joke - Complete Discography
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line-up...

Jaz Coleman - vocals, keyboards
Kevin "Geordie" Walker - guitars
Martin "Youth" Glover - bass
Paul Ferguson - drummer
Reza Ughin - Keyboards (2005-)






a little history...

[There's so much history around Killing Joke that it would take more than few lines to tell about it all; so, here's the shortest part...]



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Killing Joke are an English post-punk rock band formed in 1979. Founding members Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (vocal, keyboards and arrangements) and Geordie Walker (guitars) have been the only constant members.
Original drummer "Big Paul" Ferguson once described their music as "the sound of the earth vomiting". Killing Joke's music typically consists of metallic guitars and heavy, tribal, and danceable rhythms. Coleman's vocals are sometimes in a talk-sing style, sometimes a malevolent-sounding growl and sometimes emotional and melodic.
Dark, ominous synthesizer loops and even sweeping, gothic keyboards appear to varying degrees, and indeed were a song-driving element on their mid 80s albums.
Geordie never plays solos, but his unique style has earned him praise from the likes of Edward Van Halen and Jimmy Page.
The songs on Killing Joke's early singles were primitive punk rock sometimes mixed with electronic (Nervous System) and (Turn to Red). Their 'Nervous System/Turn To
Red' EP came to the attention of legendary DJ John Peel, who was keen to champion the band's urgent new sound and gave them extensive airplay. They quickly progressed this sound into something denser, more aggressive, and more akin to heavy metal, as heard on their first two albums, Killing Joke (1980) and the more abrasive What's
THIS For...! (1981).
Killing Joke became notorious largely due to the controversies that arose from their imagery and the most known episode was using for the cover of band's compilation album, Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!, a photo of a priest walking among rows of soldiers offering Fascist salutes. The common misconception of their times was that
they were fascist, but they only used disturbing imagery as an irony of the modern world who become more and more materialist.
Killing Joke's 3rd album, Revelations, was released in 1982 and, after a small
episode when the entire band moved to Iceland to survive the Apocalypse (!!), they came back to England with a new bassist, Paul Raven, and later on in 1983 they produced the 4th album, Revelation, which has a relatively calmer style than before.
Mixing their sound with a slightly pop style, and with Coleman singing and not
growling, Killing Joke had developed a variation of new wave on their fifth album, Night Time (1985) and their sixth - Brighter than a Thousand Suns (1986).
Because Coleman began a solo album (in 1987) with experimental music very different from the band style and because he didn't have money to produce, he was adviced to produce it under the name of Killing Joke. The result is the most controversial album
of the band - Outside the Gate (1988) - being built around Coleman's orchestral
keyboards instead of Geordie's distinctive guitar riffs.
Towards the end of 1988, Coleman and Geordie decided to get Killing Joke up and running again as a live band, and, after enrolling Martin Atkins as a drummer & Dave "Taif" Ball as their bass player, the band played their first gigs in almost two years in December 1988 without playing anything from their last two albums (and
never again since that time).
After the leaving of Taif, their bass player, this was replaced by Paul Raven and the new line-up released th Killing Joke's 8th album, the ferocious Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions that included some of the heaviest, noisiest and harshest music ever to appear on a Killing Joke record, although the progressive
musical spirit of the previous two albums remained as well.
A Killing Joke anthology, Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!, was released in 1992, and during its production, Geordie was re-acquainted with Youth, who suggested that they reform the band with himself back on bass.
(Killing Joke sued Nirvana at the end of 1993, alleging that the riff for the
latter's song "Come as You Are" was copied from the riff for their song "Eighties", but the lawsuit was dropped after the sudden death of Kurt Cobain.)
The reactivated Killing Joke released two strong and well-received albums ,
Pandemonium (1994) and Democracy (1996), which saw the band shift back to the simpler arrangements of their early albums. After the producing of these albums, the band went into a hiatus of silence untill 2002, when Coleman, Geordie, Youth and later on, Raven, reformed Killing Joke and produced the second self-titled album a
year later. The War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq were cited as major factors in their reforming, and this is reflected in the lyrical content of much of the album, based on themes of war, government control and Armageddon. The album was their heaviest to date.
Opting for simplicity and raw energy for their last album to date, the band recorded their last album in the basement rehearsal space of Faust Studios, going for live takes with the minimum of overdubs. The result was Hosannas from the Basements of
Hell, released in April 2006.
On October 20th 2007 Paul Raven died of heart failure prior to a recording session in Geneva, Switzerland.
Recently, in september, a world tour started and is to be followed by their next studio album sometime in spring 2009.

albums (320k)...

Killing Joke [1980]
What's THIS for...! [1981]
Revelations [1982]
Fire Dances [1983]
Night Time [1985]
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns [1986]
Outside The Gate [1988]
Extremities Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions [1990]
Laugh  I Nearly Bought One! [1990]
Pandemonium [1994]
Democracy [1996]
Killing Joke [2003]
Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell [2006]

Besides the studio albums, I've added few songs from their earlier sessions (19 songs) and a collection of Singles & Rarities.

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Genre:Punk
Subgenre:Post Punk
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