Killing Joke

Killing Joke
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Základné informácie
Pôvod	Londýn, Anglicko, UK
Žáner(-re)	Post-punk; New Wave; Progresívny rock; Industriálny metal; Alternatívna hudba
Pôsobenie	1979-1996; 2002-súčasnosť
Vydavateľstvá	Candlelight Records; Cooking Vinyl; Zuma Recordings; Butterfly Recordings; Invisible Records; E.G. Records
Webstránka	www.killingjoke.com
Členovia skupiny
	Jaz Coleman; Kevin "Geordie" Walker; Paul Raven; Ben Calvert; Reza Udhin
Bývalí členovia
	Martin "Youth" Glover, Paul Ferguson, Martin Atkins, Dave Kovacevic
	Hudobný portál

Killing Joke je anglická rocková skupina založená v roku 1979. Zakladajúci členovia - spevák Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman a gitarista Geordie Walker sú jedinými členami kapely, ktorí vystupujú dodnes.

Ich žáner sa dá klasifikovať ako post-punk, alebo New Wave neskorých 70. rokov. Ich vplyv sa prejavil v skupinách ako Nirvana, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Big Black, Prong, Metallica, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Econoline Crush, Faith No More a Korn.

Diskografia

Albumy

Killing Joke (1980)
What's THIS For...! (1981)
Revelations (1982)
Fire Dances (1983)
Night Time (1985)
Brighter than a Thousand Suns (1986)
Outside the Gate (1988)
The Courtauld Talks (1989)
Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions (1990)
Pandemonium (1994)
Democracy (1996)
Killing Joke (2003)
Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (2006)
Absolute Dissent (2010)
MMXII (2012)

Single a EP

Turn To Red EP 10" (Okt 1979)
Nervous System 7" 12" (Dec 1979)
Wardance/Pѕyche 7" (Mar 1980)
Requiem/Change 7" 12" (Okt 1980)
Follow the Leaders/Tension 7" 10" (Máj 1981) – UK #55
Empire Song/Brilliant 7" (Mar 1982) – UK #43
Chop Chop/Good Samaritan 7" (Jun 1982)
Birds of a Feather/Sun Goes Down/Flock the B side 7" 12" (Okt 1982) – UK #64
Let's All Go/Dominator 7" 12" (Jun 1983) – UK #51
Me or You/Wilful Days 7" 12" (Okt 1983) – UK #57
Eighties/Eighties Common Mix 7" 12" (Apr 1984) – UK #60
A New Day/Dance Day 7" 12" (Jul 1984) – UK #56
Love Like Blood/Blue Feather 7" 12" (Feb 1985) – UK #16, Germany #24
Kings & Queens/The Madding Crowd 7" 12" (Mar 1985) – UK #58
Adorations/Exile 7" 12" (Aug 1986) – UK #42
Sanity/Goodbye to the Village 7" 12" (Okt 1986) – UK #70
America/Jihad 7" 12" (Apr 1988) – UK #77
My Love of This Land/Darkness Before Dawn 7" 12" (Jul 1988) – UK #89
Money is Not Our God CDs 12" (1991)
Change: The Youth Mixes CD (1992)
Exorcism CDs 10" (1994)
Millennium CDs 7" 12" (May 1994) – UK #34
Pandemonium CDs (Jul 1994) – UK #28
Pandemonium in Dub CDs (Jul 1994)
Jana CDs (Feb 1995) – UK #54
Jana Live EP (Feb 1995)
Jana/Millennium Double CDs (1995)
Democracy CDs (Mar 1996) – UK #39
Democracy dif. Mix CDs (Mar 1996)
Love Like Blood/Intellect (Mar 1998)
Loose Cannon 12" CDs DVDs (Jul 2003) – UK #25
Seeing Red CDs (2003)
Hosannas from the Basement of Hell/Afterburner/Universe B CDs (Apr 2006) – UK #74
Hosannas from the Basement of Hell/Afterburner (Alternate Vers.) Limited 7" (Apr 2006)

Koncertné albumy

Ha! 10 inch live EP (1982)
BBC In Concert (1996)
No Way Out But Forward Go (2001)
XXV Gathering: Let Us Prey (live, 2005)

Kompilácie

An Incomplete Collection 1980-1985 (1990)
Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! (1992)
Wilful Days (1995)
Alchemy: The Remixes (Remix Album) (1996)
Wardance (Remix Album) (1998)
The Unperverted Pantomime? (2003)
Chaos for Breakfast (2004)
For Beginners (2004)
Inside Extremities: Mixes, Rehearsals and Live (2007)
Bootleg Vinyl Archive Vol. 1 (2007)
Bootleg Vinyl Archive Vol. 2 (2007)

Externé odkazy

Oficiálna webstránka (po anglicky)