[kj] Killing Joke's 1979 song "You're Being Followed"

[Neil Perry]

Aargh!
 I have to say some of these tracks were responsible for the only other
major wobble
in my relationship with KJ music (the other being OTG, of course).
Mr Or You is simply the cheesiest piece of crud they have ever turned out,
which as Raven
once confirmed was a bare-faced attempt to get in the charts and make some
money (nothing wrong
with that, just wish the song had been better...).

And New Day - always loved the guitar, hated everything else about it, and
New Culture and
All Play Rebel I find equally forgettable. Long may this album remain
'missing'!

('Blue Feather', however, I think is stunning.)

N

2009/12/13 <jpwhkj at aol.com>


> Yes, there's a group of songs that fall into the "1st-ep" style that didn't

> make it onto vinyl:

>

> Nuclear Boy

> Malicious Boogie

> Animal

> You're Being Followed

>

> If you add those to the 4 tracks on the first ep, they could have done an

> album... maybe with Pssyche as a taster for the new direction!

>

> But the real "missing" KJ album is from 1984.

>

> Eighties

> New Day

> All Play Rebel

> New Culture

> Blue Feather

> Me Or You

>

> I wonder what else they wrote then that never saw the light of day?

>

> Jamie

>

>

>  -----Original Message-----

> From: B. Oliver Sheppard <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

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> Sent: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:06

> Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke's 1979 song "You're Being Followed"

>

> Shame. I really like how "You're Being Followed" sounds, here, in that live

> version. A simple, almost metal, riff.

>

> I can imagine a 4-song EP with "Are You Receiving?" "You're Being

> Followed," etc. being released late 1978 or early 1979.

>

> I think "You're Being Followed" actually shows a lot of promise. "You're

> being followed! / So be a joker!" as the lyrics say. Hey, I dig it.

>

> :)

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> Phillipps Marc wrote:

> > As far as I am aware the only recorded version of that track appeared on

> > The Unperverted Pantomime along with Malicious Boogie and Animal

> >

> > I guess they are tracks that didn't make the grade for the first album

> > (they would've sounded out of place anyway) >

> >

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