[kj] more on Seeing Red/Crue.
Graeme Rowland
crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Dec 23 11:43:03 EST 2004
Yes Alex
Why LC was even on the album when Zennon is way better
is beyond me!
LC sounds like a cartoonish sop to nu-metal fashion
--- Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Agreed. "Seeing Red" was (a) more timely and topical
> (b) retained
> elements of 'classic' Killing Joke (c) was certainly
> more melodic and
> (d) expressed a sentiment that was a great deal less
> BANAL than "Loose
> Cannon".
>
> Why it wasn't the first single, I'll never know.
> Why "Loose Cannon"
> was *EVER* a single (first or last or whatever) is
> also beyond me.
>
> "Seems like they just sort....walked away from
> it...."
>
> I think it was the management they (wisely) walked
> away from. And so
> too then the album and its subsequent promotion.
>
> That all said, I don't think it's their NEW
> management's (whomever they
> might be) idea to tour with Motley Crue. I'm
> inclined to think that has
> more to do with Raven's friendship with Nikki Sixx
> (and Sixx's
> supposedly fanatical fandom of the Joke).
>
> Incidentally, I heard the new Crue single yesterday.
> It's godawful. The
> Crue shouldn't try to be anything their not. They're
> a stupid metal
> band, and so they should stay. Introspection and
> youthful angst does
> not suit them. Big haired idiocy, libido and hollow
> exhortations of
> rebellion does.
>
> Alex in NYC
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 01:12 PM,
> FlumeDC at aol.com wrote:
>
> > While most of us had to take a few spins to get
> comfortable with KJ03,
> > as discussed here - it was painfully clear to me
> that Seeing Red had
> > all the IMMEDIATE impact that we love about the
> best elements of KJ
> > and it delivered it all in that track. Why that
> one wasn't exploited
> > and promoted to the hilt just mystifies me. It
> was a total winner in
> > every possible way...everyone I played it for
> loved it: from skeptical
> > KJ veterans to the uninitiated beginners, the
> reaction was the same.
> > It's a gem and stands tall in their
> repetoire...sez me anyway.
> >
> > Seems like they just sort of ...walked away from
> it....
> >
> > Go figure.
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