[kj] review of new tunes

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

Well, speaking as someone who's not heard a single note of any of the new 
stuff yet (including Loose cannon) I find your review very comforting. This 
is particularly the case as - I think - you are a bit of a 'Revelations/Fire 
Dances' Joker like me rather than a 'Pandemonium/Dirt...' one. (Don't know 
why I think this - must be something you said once). It's not that I'm 
expecting KJ2 to sound anything like the early stuff though.

I never really liked 'Dirt...' (I'm not a Metaler) and although Pandemonium 
is good and has its great moments, I've been waiting for years for KJ to 
deliver something that has the 'F- me factor', as John Peel would say. Going 
by what most people seem to be saying on the Gathering, this is it!.



>From: "fluw" <fluwdot@earthlink.net>

>Subject: [kj] review of new tunes

>must start off by stating that technically, from the musicians and the 
>production, so far this record is nothing short of flawless 
>but................
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>loose cannon - very well executed rhythmically, menacing even,,,,  yet 
>rather unimaginative until the little bridge bit gives it a whole other 
>feeling, which was very very nice but not quite enough to save it. although 
>with some cornrows, "vibe magazine" style scowl and strut, it could be a 
>hit? not!
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>td&rs - sucks gooey donkey knob until the chorus, which is monstrous 
>verging on tremendous. still not quite
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>asteroid  - kinda fun, once. this is filler, plain and simple. would be the 
>best tune on a ministry album but considering it is killing joke this is 
>pure crap. absolute toss
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>seeing red -  a really good tune! exciting, with energy, vitality and a 
>great bridge via extremties, yet a total fuck off for the blink 182 type 
>guitar tone on the verse and an ending that goes flat. (damn)
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>implant - is a whole song ..it resolves and sounds like a band who worked 
>together to come up with something as opposed to professionals doing their 
>job very well.
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>zennon - wow ! fucking hell! where did that come from? a classic, tone, 
>riffs, sounds, arrangements and the ghost of hooky. that's two 'whole' 
>songs so far
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>dark forces - has nice space, great drums, production, killer bass grooves 
>and some welcome orchestration ( very slight hints of symphonic killing 
>joke maybe in the future). vocals are original and interesting. epic tune 
>almost
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>total invasion - wow! sad but true sample of the middle class college non 
>comittal pseudo activist chicky. great vocals, great lyrics, very 
>effective. this song is what pandemonium could have been with a youthless 
>production. chorus has hints of classic geordie, ringing power riffs, minus 
>the tone of course. sounds like geordie had a filter in the signal path 
>very cool...an electric mistress maybe?,,,wah set to position?
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>the score so far: 5 killer songs, 2 gallant near misses  &
>1 complete tosser
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>"I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's.
>I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create."
>-William Blake

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