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

[Karen Weil]

I have to agree about "Me or You" -- it at first seems infectious, but then goes stale quickly. Not a good mainstream attempt.
"New Day" is decent -- I actually find the video more annoying than the song.  I'm fond of "Blue Feather." If the band had put together an album for 1984, it indeed would have been a good fit.

Cheers,

Karen W.
the States 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neil Perry 
  To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke's 1979 song "You're Being Followed"


  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>
    To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
    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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