Killing Joke Songs - Eighties, Exorcism, Sanity, Love Like Blood, Adorations, Change, America, Money Is Not Our God, the Beautiful Dead (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Eighties, Exorcism, Sanity, Love Like Blood, Adorations, Change, America, Money Is Not Our God, the Beautiful Dead, Kings and Queens, My Love of This Land, Empire Song, Requiem, Me or You?, Follow the Leaders, Let's All Go, Nervous System, a New Day, Wardance, Chop-Chop, Birds of a Feather, We Have Joy, Love Like Blood/intellect. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Eighties" is Killing Joke's first single off their fifth studio album, Night Time. It was originally released in April, 1984 under E'G Records as a 12" and 7" single and was produced by Chris Kimsey. The 12" single A-side featured the track "Eighties (Serious Dance Mix)" with "Eighties" and "Eighties (The Coming Mix)" as B-sides. The 7" single exempted the "Serious Dance Mix" and instead, featured "Eighties" as the A-side. Also, the 7" single was sold with a bonus 7" single of "Let's All Go (to the Fire Dances)." The single reached number sixty in the UK Singles Chart, but received less recognition than the 1992 song "Come as You Are" by the US band Nirvana, which had a similar riff. A short snippet of "Eighties" was the opening theme to the short-lived 2002 Fox sitcom That '80s Show. According to drummer Paul Ferguson, "Eighties," like other music by Killing Joke, was "aggressive music. It's not polite entertainment...we've got songs in the dance charts...as far as I'm concerned, Killing Joke is dance music. I'm not at all displeased with getting into the disco charts. I think it shows great hope for the world." In a 2004 interview with Alex Smith, Ferguson described the band's music as "the sound of the earth vomiting. Im never quite sure whether to be offended by the question of 'are we Punk' or not, because, I loved Punk music, but w...http: //booksllc.net/?id=20668875