[kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with reference to KJ

[paul mcdonald]

putting a heap of reverb and delay on your guitar does not a killing joke song make. mina loy does have the synth pulse of Unspeakable tho.Ever noticed billys songs got shitter after he shaved his head.
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  From: Michael Garcia 
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  As musch as I like quite a few songs on the album, I dont see anything related to KJ on it.....track 6 does start off sounding very early chameleons like though....
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    From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Alexander Smith
    Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:00 PM
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    Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Bill Corgan review with reference to KJ



    "Spectral presence" of Killing Joke?

    Corgan *WISHES*.


    Alex in NYC


    On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 09:08 PM, Michael Garcia wrote:


      I was reading the review of Bily Corgans new album (which I will not be ashamed to admit has really grown on me) and the reviewer made a reference to KJ toward the end. See below.
       
      Cheers,
      MIchael
       
      Amazon.co.uk Review
      The past is a foreign country but the new dawn alluded to by the title of Billy Corgan's debut solo album TheFutureEmbrace is actually an overcast day in an Eighties post-punk Britain of raincoats, chimneys, riots and run-down heavy industry. That might not seem like much of a surprise - Smashing Pumpkins were neither cheery, Anglophobic or much given to enjoying luxurious sunny afternoon teas in thatched Devonian hostelries - but while TheFutureEmbrace is very much the inverse of Zwan's lighter but all-too-brief psych-pop caress, Corgan, to his credit, has avoided any back-peddling to the salad days of Smashing Pumpkins' biblical bombast. This is much more subtle, brittle and chilly, the inner rage of yore making way for sceptical deliberation and John Foxx synthetics. Corgan's admiral influences are obvious - the grey wash and wintry equanimity of Bowie's Neukoln phase, the phallanx of distantly shimmering flanged guitars recall The Banshees, the archaic and relentlessly mechanic drum machine summons forth the austerity of early Human League. The Cure's Gothfather Robert Smith stoops forward for an unlikely duet on a cover of Barry Gibb's "To Love Somebody" (Joy Division's "The Eternal" meets David Sylvian's Japan) while Corgan's own "Sorrows (in blue)" suggests he's actually more of a fan of the Bee Gees than his public may care to conceed. Others may sense the spectral presence of Killing Joke (both in "DIA" and in the tense, metropolitan meltdown of "Mina Loy") but while 1981 in England was no laughing matter TheFutureEmbrace at least allows one to reminisce from an extremely safe distance. --Kevin Maidment
       

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      From: Thomas Kennedy [mailto:tkennedy1999 at sbcglobal.net]
      Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:40 AM
      To: michael_garcia at alamedanet.net
      Subject: Re: [kj] OT: My band - Electric Jesus

      good stuff, Michael!......I like "Big Wheel" the best.
       
      I sent you a friend invite on myspace - let's do a show sometime - my band's called LURID BLISS.  L8R,
       
      Tom.

      michael_garcia at alamedanet.net wrote:

      I know I don't post very often but I put some rough mixes up of 3 songs
      from our forthcoming CD if anyone is interested in hearing what we
      sound like. We're here - http://www.myspace.com/electricjesusband

      I'd love some feedback - good or bad.

      Cheers!

      Michael

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