Killing Joke is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year with the release of the new The Singles Collection: 1979-2012 compilation and by playing a very limited number of U.S. concerts, beginning April 19 at New York City’s Irving Plaza — and we’ve got a pair of tickets to the NYC tour kick-off to award one lucky Slicing Up Eyeballs reader.
TO ENTER: Simply drop a comment at the bottom of this post naming your favorite Killing Joke song and offering a few thoughts on what makes it so great.
RULES: We’ll take entries until 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 16. After that point, we’ll select one winner at random and contact him or her via e-mail — so please remember to use legit addresses when you enter. The winner will need to be able to show photo ID at will call to pick up the tickets. One entry per person.
Of, if you’d rather just get tickets now, they’re currently on sale.
Requiem” is an excellent song,
Requiem”
Killing Joke’s self titled debut is a masterpiece. So I am going to offer up another single that is one of my all time faves – Money Is Not Our God from Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions. Words to live by if you ask me.
“Change” has always been a favorite of mine. It is a departure from the punk sound and into aggressive dance(?) rock. The song has a great beat in other words.
Grew up in rural Minnesota. Saw the video for “Eighties” c. 1985. Watched MTV for three weeks straight, hoping they would play it again. They never did. After April will have seen KJ 18 times since 1989.
I’m partial to the tracks on “What’s This For…”, and of those, although very difficult to choose just one, I’ll have to go with ‘Tension’. It just all comes together on that one — the maniacal drums, the driving beat, the frantic lyrics and frenetic pace.
Love it.
“Money Is Not Our God” — sounds meets message.
Eighties all the way! I’m stuck there, that’s why! Never seen ’em live — PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME PICK ME
“War Dance” is the song that got me into Killing Joke. With industrial noises, tribal drums and Coleman’s warbled vocal assault – this was a song unlike anything I’d ever heard, and I knew it would be a band I’d follow for a long time.
“Night Time” just because you made me choose a song… the whole album is perfect! I like it because of the dark, goth feel with the screeching guitars and the lyrics.
“Eighties” sums it all for this website. Close second would be “To Hell with Poverty”
My bad. “Gang of Four” does the close second
I meant “Change” as close second
Requiem – It was the first KJ song that I ever heard and I’ve been hooked ever since. Still one of my favorite songs by any artist.
“Darkness Before Dawn” rocks with a fury, yet creates a textured dreamscape in the mind, and for me is their defining moment.
“Change” from the very first album. May be the heaviest dance song ever…
You’ll Never Get To Me – Killing Joke (2003)
“The Wait”,or any other song from 1980 Lp!!So powerful…35 years later,it still rocks!
Thanks Slicing Up Eyeballs for giving us a chance to see Jaz,Youth,Geordie and Paul live!!
Eighties
Mathematics of Chaos
I love this song for it’s lazer precision musical production and for the lyrics which uncover the hypocrisy of our so called civilized society.
Seeing Red(Krooner Remix)..NO ONE writes political songs like Jaz & the boys and the Krooner Remix is made to be played loud and get you to think.KJ have never sold out and to me thats why they are special. They love the followers and if you dont like them then f**k you.
Anything off of Brighter Than A Thousand Suns…Adorations, Sanity, A Southern Sky are all great. But I doubt they play any of these anymore in their set…
‘Livin’ in the eighties” Like most of us!
‘Sanity’ because it reminds me of a time in the early nineties,when I fell in love with a Serbian guy while back-packing. I ended up spending a little time in Belgrade,and listening to ‘Brighter than a thousand suns’ constantly,while talking about the war which had just started in Croatia,and learning all about the history of his country. We had to break up as we couldn’t visit each other any more,due to the war.The song ‘Sanity’ will always remind me of the sadness in him,and of the insanity of war,but also how memories are kept alive by such powerful songs.
Love Like Blood. I discovered Killing Joke in junior high school, right when I was learning to question the world around me. It’s beat, atmospheric textures, and lyrics helped provide the soundtrack and reinforcement for an awkward teenage me; trying to walk his own path, in a sterile Texas suburbia wasteland.
Kings & Queens. picked up that EP at Poptones in Niagara Falls Canada and played new grooves into it. Is Poptones still around?
Let’s All Go The Fire Dances! Makes me DANCE!!!!!
Pssyche- it is the perfect KJ song. It has all the signature aspects of a KJ song- the funky bass, Geordie’s guitar, brilliant lyrics. Though the studio version is excellent, it’s the Ha! version that really kills.
wardance.. it rocks
They are in the top 3 for bands and musicians. The songs are always changing depending on the mood.
Lately it’s been either
Seeing Red – Gets me moving and appropriate for the times.
or
European Super State – Didn’t know they had this in them. Last two albums have been exceptional.
Favorite song by KJ is Eighties. I am a child of the 80’s and I first heard the song in the movie Weird Science. I loved the song from the moment I heard it for the 1st time and it caused me to seek out the band and attain their catalog. As a result they r now my favorite band and I simply can’t get enough of them ever.
“Rapture”. Pure Timeless Classic! It makes me “Escape from flesh, Transcend the earthly.”
European Superstate – it’s the way I’m short-wired.
All right, thanks for all of your entries. The winner has been selected and notified via e-mail.
Who won??
I don’t see my entry here..it was awaiting moderation over the weekend…I voted for Rapture
duh I refreshed and it’s there. lol but who won? really????