THE BEAT GOES ON
NEW YORK—During the summer of ’81, I wrote a review of London band Killing Joke’s second album What’s This For...! for the Village Voice; in it I described the killing joke ideology as exploitative nonsense, and Killing Joke’s music as an ugly, overwhelming, heavy metal-disco fusion that might be the first real advance in HM since the Stooges.
THE BEAT GOES ON
The Killing Joke Goes On (Forever)
NEW YORK—During the summer of ’81, I wrote a review of London band Killing Joke’s second album What’s This For...! for the Village Voice; in it I described the killing joke ideology as exploitative nonsense, and Killing Joke’s music as an ugly, overwhelming, heavy metal-disco fusion that might be the first real advance in HM since the Stooges. Ex-Jem Records publicist Rhonda Shore told me of their reaction: the band tore the article into little pieces, burned it, and suggested I never chance to meet them on the back streets.