It's certainly up there with change/requiem or tension/follow the leaders or turn to red/nervous system/are you receiving.Let's play a new game.It's called let's spot the 'b-side' such is the quality of genius
I'm 56 and only just realizing how good they are. It must be the times because this year I've got out my Rage Against The Machine and Cypress Hill stuff and fuck what anyone sez!
When i listen this in 1979, i was 18/19....it was like a bomb....in my mind and body...Yeah Chameleons is right one of the best single ever..and the best punk industrial band ever...The real beginning of industrurial music is this song....for ever!!! Killing Joke for ever..i've always the 45 rpm....YEAH with this cover.....!!!
I had a similar experience with 'Let's All Go' - a girl I really fancied for ages dancing to it in a club. A few months later I was going out with her. Great!
This is fantastic. I remember when I first heard them. I was 14 and picked up the “Wilful Days” single. Then got this single which is long gone, still have Wilful Days though. These singles along with TSOL Dance With Me were the soundtrack to 1987-88 for me.
i was born in 1998 and this is before my time but this is my most favourite shit ever. i cant describe how fckn awesome shit like this is. i did grow up with metallica and all the classics but killing joke is also one of my favourites ! i miss this in music of today
You're a youngun. That's cool. I am 62. Also a musician. I first heard Killing Joke in 1980 and loved them ever since. In 1988 my band played backup for them in Toronto. They did two nights. So much for all that nonsense about baby boomers and gen z. We're all the same mate. Damn cool.
I know this band since 1981 (when I was around your age) and still love them. Good to hear that you as a young lad discovered them and love their music...... Beter laat dan nooit. After 40 years they are still incredible.
One day Killing Joke will be recognised for their musical talent. This band got me through 10 years of University (BSc, MA, PhD) studying and to get to Prof. Everything Jazz says is correct + Geordie rhythms etc
Aren't they already? I know them since at least 1986, and I always had the impression that they're not only respected but revered. And this adoration (nudge nudge) has only grown.
On 26 October 1979,[3] the EP was officially released in 10" format by Malicious Damage. Melody Maker made it Single of the Week on 10 November 1979.[4] A supportive namecheck by John Lydon in NME[5] secured more interest in the new band.
Jester (KJ band manager was my friend) and he died in 2006, That was a personal tragedy for me - 6 months helping him with terminal cancer,That makes me angry - he was such a nice guy, he never got the help he needed. The last 4 months of hios life he was calling me very day, No one helped him excepot me.
Saw Kiling Joke at Stroud leisure centre @ 1982. I was going to stay in to watch Starsky and Hutch, so glad my buddy (rip) persuaded me to go. Transfixed was an understatement.
@@vintagecool My dad has been following them since that length of time as well. He got me into them away back in the 90's when i heard him blaring the Pandemonium album when i was a wee lassie. Just checked my dad's vinyl collection and he does have this. Saw them at the Glasgow Barrowlands with my partner and my mum and dad and Killing Joke were fucking amazing!
prophetic that line and what follows, a warning ignored, like 1984 and animal farm, on we go, turning the screw that leads to madness, getting tighter, lets keep going. the future was written in the past and we did it anyway. great song all the same.
This song is pure vitriol. The way they deliver these psychotic vocals makes you want to come out and break stuff. How could they pack so much bile in one song?
Awesome sound, first heard this on John Peels show, when I saw them again in the 2000s with my wife, the 2 songs she liked were Love like blood and Eighties...they played neither. What's with bands that don't like to play their hits!
When the civilised world collapses, The Joke will have called it. One of the best versions of one of their best: rough as hell, relentlessly driving and spitting vitriol and blood. Absolute fucking classic.
lyrics You're alone in the pack You're feeling like you wanna go home You're feeling life's finished,but you keep on going The reason is there You won't find it till you've been and gone cos you're living a hoax! Someones got you sussed! Dull your brain, or seek inspiration You feel illusion,and then you finally say transfer Transorm a machine, to play with your head So you can stand back and watch,or take part and learn If you don't know the game,then you're still part of it Because out on the streets it's strange To see the show Knowing full well that you're on the range Dodge the bullets! or carry the gun,the choice is yours Look at the controller A Nazi with a social degree A middle-class hero A rapist with your eyes on me Increase your masturbation, three cheers for the nuns you fuck You'd wipe out spastics if you had the chance,but Jesus wouldn't like it No
this is 5 mins of the most paranoid/truly frightening music ever released......Manson/ Rammstein are just camp pantomime dames compared to this....REAL artists
I was still at school Si too, aged 15 when I saw them at the CND gig at Trafalgar Square in 1980. The Pop Group played too. Both groups changed my life forever 😀
I've just had a dance round the living room like a mad old git. Brilliant tune
👍 🎵=🔑
Wardance / Psyche - one of the best singles in the history of mankind.
I would struggle to argue with that
ain’t that the bloody truth
@@mrjgm7340 my copy got stolen i had to get one later on at some expense but i have to have it
Say it again
It's certainly up there with change/requiem or tension/follow the leaders or turn to red/nervous system/are you receiving.Let's play a new game.It's called let's spot the 'b-side' such is the quality of genius
I'm 56 and only just realizing how good they are. It must be the times because this year I've got out my Rage Against The Machine and Cypress Hill stuff and fuck what anyone sez!
I was listening to this in the early 80s and it has NEVER dated, such is musical genius.
When i listen this in 1979, i was 18/19....it was like a bomb....in my mind and body...Yeah Chameleons is right one of the best single ever..and the best punk industrial band ever...The real beginning of industrurial music is this song....for ever!!! Killing Joke for ever..i've always the 45 rpm....YEAH with this cover.....!!!
Heard this for the first time last year - didn't realise it's 40 years old! Love it!!!
I love it for 40 years, Killing Joke changed music and me also.
Killing Joke- Running while others still crawl. Since 1980.
One of their very best songs. Very intense. Cracking version and single along with Wardance.
Holy fuck this song is brilliant. Some of the greatest riffs ive ever heard.
Geordie Walker is my all time fave guitarist
@@davidpattee3472 he's certainly very good and makes playing the guitar look effortless when I've seen them live. Regards.
@@Snwman_not anymore
Love Killing Joke. A kid in the early 80's listening to this.🌞
I can remember many years ago while in a nightclub watching a girl getting down on the dance floor to this with strobe flashing on her. Fantastic.
which club was it?
69gillingham69
Somewhere up Park street in Bristol.
WolvoExPunk1
Not really, she knew how to move though 👍
I had a similar experience with 'Let's All Go' - a girl I really fancied for ages dancing to it in a club. A few months later I was going out with her. Great!
Yes used to play this in the Brunel Rooms Swindon 1982.Great stuff
that bass!!!
i've seen KJ in Paris in November and Youth have always the same incredible punk sound!!!!!
That Guitar !!
I love their first album,imagine if it had been recorded at the same session and sound as this?.Amazing!
This is fantastic. I remember when I first heard them. I was 14 and picked up the “Wilful Days” single. Then got this single which is long gone, still have Wilful Days though. These singles along with TSOL Dance With Me were the soundtrack to 1987-88 for me.
i was born in 1998 and this is before my time but this is my most favourite shit ever. i cant describe how fckn awesome shit like this is. i did grow up with metallica and all the classics but killing joke is also one of my favourites ! i miss this in music of today
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so its fuck off Metallica from young Martin .
...good job
You're a youngun. That's cool. I am 62. Also a musician. I first heard Killing Joke in 1980 and loved them ever since. In 1988 my band played backup for them in Toronto. They did two nights. So much for all that nonsense about baby boomers and gen z. We're all the same mate. Damn cool.
I know this band since 1981 (when I was around your age) and still love them. Good to hear that you as a young lad discovered them and love their music...... Beter laat dan nooit. After 40 years they are still incredible.
@@johnchristian1545 thats awesome
Unforgettable tune. Monumental.
Fuck this song was ahead of its time, simply brilliant!!!
You know. This - the B side of the second single. That focused and together, and still makes the hackles rise 44 years later. Fucking phenomenal.
One day Killing Joke will be recognised for their musical talent. This band got me through 10 years of University (BSc, MA, PhD) studying and to get to Prof. Everything Jazz says is correct + Geordie rhythms etc
Rascly Rascalot ...His name is Jaz.
Aren't they already? I know them since at least 1986, and I always had the impression that they're not only respected but revered. And this adoration (nudge nudge) has only grown.
pp
This original version is still my favorite song from this era.
Loved this song so much, I learned to play it (the bass part) and got goose bumps every time. Killing Joke was such an awesome band
Now, this is a song you end a concert with.
Haven`t heard this in 30years.Some really heavy lyrics!
one of my fav bands, n certainly a song that gives me the "dancing kind of chills" when I listen up...
Punk techno with an actual message
one of my favorite bands of all time. powerful and cathartic love em
Still listening in 2020 ....
yes it never gets bored...still perfect after many years (40 I guess)
@@MD-ru5vs 2024
On 26 October 1979,[3] the EP was officially released in 10" format by Malicious Damage. Melody Maker made it Single of the Week on 10 November 1979.[4] A supportive namecheck by John Lydon in NME[5] secured more interest in the new band.
Great song, great hard hitting lyrics. Just great
Part of my childhood, love it
"Big" Paul Ferguson, the human drum machine
Agreed. If only he hadn't got so cringey Johnny Rotten on that last verse where he sings.
@@blackmore4 best part of the song!
this tune get's the hairs on the back o' me neck every time..
Ain't heard this single in years..... Class🔊✌️
masterpiece breathe it in
Jester (KJ band manager was my friend) and he died in 2006, That was a personal tragedy for me - 6 months helping him with terminal cancer,That makes me angry - he was such a nice guy, he never got the help he needed. The last 4 months of hios life he was calling me very day, No one helped him excepot me.
God Bless Him 💫
that last verse is killer
Birth of industrial metal IMO. Late 70's Peel session.
Limit club Sheffield early 80's when we were all young and brilliant ..
Saw Kiling Joke at Stroud leisure centre @ 1982. I was going to stay in to watch Starsky and Hutch, so glad my buddy (rip) persuaded me to go. Transfixed was an understatement.
I love this comment ian mate 😉
one of the best songs ever
Brilliant!
Takes me back in time !!
this is pure adrenaline
Intense and brilliant song. I'm sure my dad has this on vinyl.
I've been following them for over about 40 years, live still pushing the edge of madness!
@@vintagecool My dad has been following them since that length of time as well. He got me into them away back in the 90's when i heard him blaring the Pandemonium album when i was a wee lassie. Just checked my dad's vinyl collection and he does have this. Saw them at the Glasgow Barrowlands with my partner and my mum and dad and Killing Joke were fucking amazing!
@@SorceressEdea7196, i'm happy there are still people with fine tast. Tanks, Lucretia ! Have a Fine weekend X
@@SorceressEdea7196 Was your dad "dad dancing"?
@@mjh5437 Naw.
Saw a guy dancing to this before a gig at the nite club in Edinburgh 1980 what a tune then the same guy danced to c30 c60 c90 go and got a kicking lol
that bassline! Youth!
LOOK AT THE CONTROLLER.!!!! love that line.Awesome song.
prophetic that line and what follows, a warning ignored, like 1984 and animal farm, on we go, turning the screw that leads to madness, getting tighter, lets keep going. the future was written in the past and we did it anyway. great song all the same.
a nazi with a social degree.
This used be called Demolition Disco back in the day ... still as powerful and vital now as it was then ... music today is SHIT!
isn,t it one of the most sinister tunes you,ve ever heard????
Try crass .mother
@@robbiebanks9182 or reality asylum , but that is a poem
@@robbiebanks9182 i have it
@@patthewoodboy i have it,but not as sinister!!
this is fuckin' brilliant..must have been amazing ''live''...
It was. Lyceum, London early 80s
13 when this was released and loved it ever since.....
Saw these dudes perform back in 1980 in Liverpool. Fuck me side Sally , they rock.
This song is pure vitriol. The way they deliver these psychotic vocals makes you want to come out and break stuff. How could they pack so much bile in one song?
Asolutely fucking awesome!
This song puts me inside Munch's "The Scream"
i love this..so raw!
Awesome sound, first heard this on John Peels show, when I saw them again in the 2000s with my wife, the 2 songs she liked were Love like blood and Eighties...they played neither. What's with bands that don't like to play their hits!
this song is a hidden gem
Killing Joke is awesome just like this song !
Absolute the best
Greatest song by the greatest band evet
Killing joke were ahead of their time...
Much better then there random noises stuff from about 1985 - current, before 1985 they were Punk.
that scream at the start gets me everytime
Memorize the lyrics live the Life. The Sound of the Sunburst Gibson Les Paul is enough to hypnotize the Cranium.
EXCELENTE PARTICIPACION EN LOS VOCALES DEL BATERISTA PAUL FERGUSON... LO MAXIMO
Seth Vise KILLING JOKE -CR7?....ESTÀ VISTO QUE NADIE ES PERFECTO. JEJEJE UN SALUDO, AMIGO
still sounds out of this world
"Look at the controller - a nazi with a social degree". How did he know Boris was on the way?
Boris is Classics, it's the Left who take social degrees
What a band. Genius
Just brilliant..
This was the last song we used to listen to before going into town ....
Raw gem yah
simply fantastic
liked it the first time i heard it round at a friends house when it came out, he put it on the stereo and boom this.
Classic ❤
When the civilised world collapses, The Joke will have called it. One of the best versions of one of their best: rough as hell, relentlessly driving and spitting vitriol and blood. Absolute fucking classic.
lyrics You're alone in the pack
You're feeling like you wanna go home
You're feeling life's finished,but you keep on going
The reason is there
You won't find it till you've been and gone cos you're living a hoax!
Someones got you sussed!
Dull your brain, or seek inspiration
You feel illusion,and then you finally say transfer
Transorm a machine, to play with your head
So you can stand back and watch,or take part and learn
If you don't know the game,then you're still part of it
Because out on the streets it's strange
To see the show
Knowing full well that you're on the range
Dodge the bullets! or carry the gun,the choice is yours
Look at the controller
A Nazi with a social degree
A middle-class hero
A rapist with your eyes on me
Increase your masturbation, three cheers for the nuns you fuck
You'd wipe out spastics if you had the chance,but Jesus wouldn't like it
No
thanks for the last three lines of the madness.
I knew I was not dreaming about the nuns I fuck.
lol
I think its "to the nuns you fuck"
Look at the controller a Zionist with a fatal decree
I remember Killing Joke and Husker Du....allot of their material. in Tucson! we had a quaint scene up until about 93.
this is 5 mins of the most paranoid/truly frightening music ever released......Manson/ Rammstein are just camp pantomime dames compared to this....REAL artists
you married lol
when I first heard it I went out and bought .. still have the vinyl .. awesome tune
It is a serious band with a serious way of playing music.
Dance to it in my teens days 🤫
@@fismith3488 yep they were something special live ..
@j clm Spot on!
Just picked up a near mint copy of this 7in single from Tallbird records in Chesterfield for the princely sum of £8. HA.
Wow MOSTechnology !! Put more music up ! Glad I found you Lol ! xxx
Guitar playing on an epic scale ........
Jaw dropping song
extreme vibe and power !!😆
For ever! Thank you for this share!
You're living a hoax, someone's got you sussed - welcome to 2021 !!
Wow.bought this when it was first out when i was at school
I was still at school Si too, aged 15 when I saw them at the CND gig at Trafalgar Square in 1980. The Pop Group played too. Both groups changed my life forever 😀
The live recording on "Ha"" is so much better.
Hadn't heard that before thanks for the heads up. Tis an excellent album
Just recently read they were to be the opening act for Joy Divisions aborted US tour in '80...can you imagine?
The last time I saw Killing Joke live was at the Trafalgar Square demo gig, London 1980 th-cam.com/video/XZuab8Yknlw/w-d-xo.html
Si -Co -I wore my original down to a squeak lol Fantastic Jokes best by far!!! London Punx
A Masterpiece!!!!!
A STAR IS BORN.
keep this away from grandma,
she might tip over and spill the kittens
Thunk miaow miaow
Unless granny was there and listened it live
Killing joke...at their best!!!!!!
The lyrics are incredible
Great hearing it again and again Si-Co London Punx
Sooooo angry !!!! Love it.
Punk rock with a disco bass, would Jesus like it? I dunno......
It's still as aggressive as it was 40 years ago
picked this single up in charity shop recently with the very rare call up papers insert in mint condition for £1. What a find!
All time favorit
Love this
Loaudis band I’ve ever seen Nottingham boat club they was spot on killing joke under estimated