[kj] Fire Dances

[bongo]

Fire Dances was the first full KJ album I heard,  funnily enough looking
out over the waters of east coast NZ towards Killing Joke Island.. (Great
Barrier Island is off the coast of the beaches i grew up on)
Was already well into music, but this was so different from the rest of the
stuff I was listening to - even the punk stuff..
My mate never got his tape back, and I remember a couple of years later
selling it to some girl outside a record shop on Queen Street after i just
acquired An Incomplete Collection.  She saw my passion and knew this was a
band to follow...

On Thu, 16 Aug. 2018, 05:58 Were Wolf, <werewolf68 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Fire Dances along with Revelations, Night Time and Brighter Than A
> Thousand Suns are my favs.
>
>
> Enjoy:
>
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETNFX-s6Q4
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETNFX-s6Q4>
> Killing Joke - 1983.12.16 - The Tube
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETNFX-s6Q4>
> www.youtube.com
> 00:14 Dominator 03:39 Eighties 06:30 Frenzy
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQhNEyAf0I
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQhNEyAf0I>
> Killing Joke - Let's All Go (To The Fire Dances)
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQhNEyAf0I>
> www.youtube.com
> Official video of Killing Joke performing Let's All Go (To The Fire
> Dances) from the album Fire Dances. Buy It Here: http://smarturl.it/66pysq
> Like Killing Joke on ...
>
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> *From:* Gathering <gathering-bounces at misera.net> on behalf of jpwhkj---
> via Gathering <gathering at misera.net>
> *Sent:* 12 August 2018 06:53
> *To:* gathering at misera.net
> *Cc:* jpwhkj at aol.com
> *Subject:* Re: [kj] Fire Dances
>
> It was the first album to come out after I fell in love with the Joke, and
> my first-ever Joke gig (indeed my second-ever gig) was on the Fire Dances
> tour.  Me and my best mate played the album to death that summer, and soon
> enough I had a pair of bleached jeans with KILLING written down the front
> of one leg in bleach, and JOKE down the back - in the Fire Dances font
> (thank you, mum).  They're still in a bag upstairs somewhere.
>
> So, listening to it now courtesy of youtube, I can't hear those drums
> crashing in without being transported back to the summer of 1983.  At the
> time (as far as I can recall) I thought it was Jaz imagining some
> post-nuclear world, or maybe some distant past... so the total silliness of
> it the lyrics didn't really register on teenage-me.  But yes, they are
> silly.
>
> That said, they're better than
> what-I-did-on-my-holidays-by-Jeremy-Coleman-aged-9 aka Outside The Gate.
> And to be honest, most Joke lyrics from the mid or late eighties onwards
> have been some shade of silly.  For what it's worth, I suspect that the
> departure of Big Paul in 1987 or 1988 removed a key component of KJ's
> creative base, and we had a couple of decades of conspiracy-theory lyrics
> combined with chugging guitars as a result.
>
> Musically (and lyrically) it did have a striking unity of character
> though.  You can't listen to a Fire Dances track and think it's from any
> other album.  Admittedly most KJ albums have quite a distinctive character
> of their own - each one very Killing Joke, but also different from the
> others - but I think Fire Dances has it more than most.  I'm listening to
> Feast of Blaze at the moment, which on the vinyl was the opening track of
> side 2, and once again I'm back in 1983, watching the needle drop onto the
> vinyl, the red and yellow centre spinning round...
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HG <hgrey1935 at gmail.com>
> To: gathering <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 6:23
> Subject: [kj] Fire Dances
>
> Been listening to this album tonight and have such a love/hate
> relationship with it. The first album post-Jaz Iceland meltdown and the
> first new songs without Youth. Some great riffs by Geordie and great
> drumming by Paul, but the lyrics and song titles leave me flat and seem
> juvenile. Fun and Games? Song and Dance? Let's All Go to the Fire
> Dances?? Who were they trying to appeal to with this album? Lust Almighty
> gets the award for best tune with worst lyrics. Still looking forward to
> seeing them in SF in Sept...
>
> Harold
> San Jose, CA
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