[kj] ESS: the best single in decades?

[jon chapman]

i can only see it being played in clubs at kicking out time...................it's still a below average song. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:58:41 +0200
From: 65snoopy at gmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] ESS: the best single in decades?

I agree.
I have been playing it daily and it gives me goosebumps every time. I don't know why.
But I like the return to more danceable tunes after the grunt and sludge of recent albums - sometimes Geordie
works better with 'less is more'. And I love the fact that Jaz is singing again. But mostly I like the fact they
can still come up with a musical leap like this, something I wasn't expecting. The Killing Joke sound was
getting very predictable.
Thing is, when KJ have previously tried to write a pop hit, I've detested those songs - Me Or You, A New Day etc - 
but ESS is pure genius I think. Maybe they weren't trying to write a pop hit this time? I don't think it is their
best single by a long shot - Follow the Leader, Empire Song, Eighties, LLB, Millennium, etc etc - but
it is probably their best chance of having a hit in a very very long time.
I believe this could be HUGE in clubs, and consequently maybe radio, if of course there is promotion and marketing
and all the rest. Which going by recent history, is a big IF.

N



On 31 August 2010 00:31, Javier Garcia <jagargal at lycos.com> wrote:

Have listened European Superstate almost daily, this track grows prety fast on me. I think it´s really an awesome song. And beyond that I think Killing Joke may have the best single in many, many ages. 

It's Killing Joke at their best -ok not so much guitar, but still it has great ingredients- and is also very radio-friendly. 
Great they´re planing to release it a a single but they will have to pressure the record company in a serious way so they make a nice effort promoting this track; if they don´t do it they will be wasting a pretty good opportunity to put a song with good rotation on the radio, and who knows? maybe a hit. 

What do you guys think? 


Javier 
mexico.city 
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