[kj] Tribal Freedom

[ade]

I've banged-on about this myself before - for my tastes, it's only the
production
that lets it down.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On
Behalf Of Michael Halsted
  Sent: 06 December 2006 20:39
  To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
  Subject: Re: [kj] Tribal Freedom


  I don't "hate" the album.  I just find it very
  hard to listen to.  The production, to my ears,
  is abyssmal.  I can understand how it sounds good
  in a car (mentioned in a thread months ago).
  I could imagine that road noise would help mask
  all that midrange mess and make it an awesome
  album to drive to.

  I've been flirting with dumping it into DP5 and
  try to do some EQ'ing to make it less muddy/murky.
  Just haven't gotten around to it.

  I like Hosannas better than Outside The Gate but
  it is no S/T or What's This For...and I did like
  Democracy.

  ...and on the subject of remasters, is the plan
  still and Geordie remixed / remastered BTATS?
  Would be interesting...(though I'm not sure what
  could be done to A Southern Sky...a little cringe-
  worthy...)



  Neil Perry wrote:
    An old friend of mine who saw KJ with me in 1982 and who
    has hardly listened to them since thinks Hosannas is amazing
    (I made them listen to it). She knew instantly it was Killing Joke.

    (And you're thinking, so... what...)

    Thing is, I just don't get it; I don't understand why some
    gatherers think Hosannas is so bad. I'm listening to a
    career-spanning CD I made right now and the Hosannas
    tracks sit perfectly, mixed up with everything else. Nothing to make
    you think, Ooh, this must have been their shit period.
    Judas Goat? Stunning. Invocation, Majestic (which has a
    *very* Firedances-y section in it), Lightbringer, Walking With Gods -
    fantastic stuff. Dripping with the essence of Killing Joke.
    Implosion would have sat comfortably on Extremities. Like
    I say, I Just. Don't. Get. It. I hope for your sakes it isn't their
last.

    N



    Leigh Newton <angrytomhanks at yahoo.com> wrote:
      Korn? Christina Aguliria? Have you been frozen in ice since 1999 or
something? Hosannas is a horrible album by a once great band. Every band
starts to suck eventually. Unless they call it quits first. It's hard to
come to terms with the eventual suckitude but, darnitall, it's the right
thing to do.

      ----- Original Message ----
      From: B. Oliver Sheppard
      To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
      Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 10:29:03 PM
      Subject: Re: [kj] Tribal Freedom


      You mean to like Korn or like Christina Aguilera standards?

      Hosannas was great. One of the Top 10 LPs of 2006, in any event.

      -Oliver






----------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Gathering mailing list
Gathering at misera.net
http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/gathering/attachments/20061206/e4440556/attachment.html