This is 'Killing Joke's' debut single, a 12" four track EP, which was very different to their later material, a blend of electronic and post punk sounds to come up with something different for its time.The first track 'Almost Red' nearly fools you into thinking it's 'Donna Summers' disco classic 'I Feel Love' with the repetitive synthesizer sound, but then the guitar and 'Jaz Coleman's' vocals enter and you know it's something different, for me this is one of 'Killing Joke's' best tracks. Next up is 'Nervous System' which starts of sounding like 'Gang Of Four' and then again the vocals enter and you know it's not. 'Are You Receiving Me' is the third track and this starts to sound a bit more like the
'Killing Joke' that most people will know. The final track 'Turn To red' is a dub track which is the weakest of the four. Note that 'Turn To Red' has runout that just keep going on for ever, so I have faded it out in this case.Band: Killing Joke
Label: Malicious Damage/Island
Year: 1979
Tracks:
1. Almost Red
2. Nervous System
3. Are You Receiving
4. Turn To Red
Ripped from glorious scratched vinyl:
See comment for the link - If you can't find the comment, go to http://asfm.blogspot.com/
If you like this you will have to buy a couple of albums to get all four of these tracks:
This one is reasonable if you want to hear tracks from across their releases (Only Turn to Red is on this one).
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Hi Carl, drop me a line (email in profile),
nice one gary, "turn to red" along with "change"(which i blew out a speaker on) and "chop,chop" all time fav. Killing Joke. thanks!
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The original was released independently as a 10 inch single on Malicious Damage Records with Nervous System on one side and Turn to Red and Are You Receiving on t'other (no Almost Red). I remember buying this (and I still have it) in Earth Records in Aylesbury, UK.
Hi Jeff, tanks for the comment, its good fun going through the old collection, I'd forgotten about this one
Hi Anon, thanks for the extra info, any chance of the scan of the cover of the original?
Gary,
The cover (actually just an insert) of the 10 inch is exactly the same as the 12 inch version - with the exception of mentioning 'Almost Red'. Hope that helps.
Thanks a lot! The first track is pretty strange but the other are really outstanding! Even better than my KJ's favourite "Night Time" LP
Hi anon thanks for the comment. I still love these tracks, for me these are still a few of their best.
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