80s...I had to push I had to suffer..Oohhhhhh...80s! I'm living in the 80s!

Eighties, get out of my way, I'm not for sale no more. Eighties, let's kamikaze 'til we get there.

Discovered them in middle school when my friend gave me a cassette with nothing but Killing Joke. There would be no Nirvana without this band.

Right on, good friend… Yeah, they definitely influenced Nirvana among others.

I had no idea Conan O'Brien did music before his comedy career.

Well now you know. Played in Killing Joke, wrote for The Simpsons and SNL. The guy did it all. /s

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What’s your favorite KJ track?

Hmmm. That first album has so many good tracks. Wardance and Complications in particular. Adorations is a great track from Brighter Than A Thousand Suns…It’s hard to pick just one. How about you?

Those are all great. I gotta go with Requiem!

That’s another fav. too. Good choice. I honestly couldn’t pick just one song.

Love Like Blood

One of the best songs of the 80s

Indeed. Good stuff.

Sign of a great band!

Yes, absolutely! I have a problem picking just one song from quite a few bands. It’s easier to pick favorite album, or era of a band’s career for me.

Great band. There's a great documentary on them that I watched this year. Their song Change has one of the best bass riffs. Edit: spelling

For sure. Was the documentary you watched called “The Death and Resurrection Show”? That’s a really good documentary, I loved it.

Sanity!!!

Shed our bodies heart and soul for love's sake.

Yes, that was it. I couldn't recall the name of it. I loved it, too. Thanks for the reminder.

Right on. Glad to help.

Civilizations wax and wane…

Under appreciated band.

Indeed.

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 because you're living a hoax!
Someones got you sussed!

Dull your brain or seek inspiration. You peel illusion and then you find it's a transfer. Drugs for the machine to play with your head. So you can stand back and watch or take part and learn.

they have some stellar post-80s albums as well.

pandemonium is pretty great as a comback album with youth returning

the self titled album from 2003 or so is fantastic.

and the most recent album isn't too shabby either! this is band that really has managed to continue to deliver over the years. if anything they've gotten angrier.

From the time my daughter was about 4-5, Adorations has been her favourite song… she’s 19 now, home from university for the holidays, and just surprised me with a bit of trivia…’did you know the singer is half Indian like me???’ Lol… I didn’t know… but lol, she was SO happy to find that out… that one of her heroes is just like her :)

Love this band so much… and love that my daughter is into them too :)

Thats awesome! I didn't know this about them! I'll have to dig a bit deeper!

That’s awesome! Representation matters. It’s really cool to find things like that out because it just brings their music to another level. I’m glad you and your daughter can find something in common with such a great band.

Great band, was pleasantly surprised when I got to see them open for Tool a couple years back.

Very cool. I’m sure that was a great show.

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I wonder how looking dangerous became a component of cool.

You’re so right on the money. My wife and I have talked a lot about representation over the years… how it used to bother her as a little kid that ‘no one’ in tv shows or movies looked like her etc… but living in Canada now, as our kids have grown up, it’s SO much better, and both our son and daughter see representation all over etc…

And that one little thing… playing her sone killing joke tunes when she was so little, thinking nothing more than ‘oh I always loved this album, I’ll play this in the car and see what she thinks’ lol… it’s so cool to see that she looks at Jaz now and sees ‘hey… this cool successful singer is half Indian like me’ :) lol… years ago I made her t-shirt of the ‘brighter than a thousand suns’ cover with his face on it…, she still wears it all the time, and has gotten some of her friends at school into the band because of it :)

A new generation of killing joke fans :)

It’s been that way for decades. Look at the “cool kids” from the 50’s… Leather jackets, smokes, hot rods etc.. I guess everybody digs the “bad guy” look.

I met them on the Pandemonium tour. Super nice guys. Jaz was happier to meet me than I was to meet him. This was 94(?) I think and I was super into the Internet already. I asked him if they had an email address or something where I could write to them. He exclaimed "I can't even change a plug!"

I had them sign my vinyl boxed set and Geordie turned to my friend and said "Wut shy write?" My friend shrugged and Geordie said "I'll just write 'fuck off' then." Narrator: And that he did.

Great show. Stabbing Westward opened up for them.

Well said. You sound like good parents. Your kids are lucky to have that. Not everyone gets to have that in their lives. Good on you, buddy.

I was just wondering why. Maybe because being a decent person involves giving up some freedom.

Because "The Fonz" was so slight of stature, I always thought his character was somewhat of a put on.

The two aren’t mutually exclusive though. I don’t think you have to give up anything. You can dress any way you want and still be a good person. Just because you may look intimidating to some, doesn’t mean you’re an asshole or someone to be feared.

Lol, good times. That’s a great story. They always seemed like really cool people.

If you are dressing to be fearful, some people will fear you. Or it can be cosplay like in a gay leather bar.

That says more about the person judging them rather than the other person. I’m pretty sure that dressing up for a night out at a leather bar isn’t what cosplay is. That’s just dressing for the surroundings.

I heard 80s the first time in skate video when I was a kid .. Later that year, I was suspended from Jr high school for wearing a Killing Joke nazi Pope shirt.

Absolutely worth it though, I imagine.

Dressing as Brando in The Wild One is quintessential cosplay.

Old School Cool - you’re goddamn right!

I know of these guys because of Metallica covering "The Wait" back in late '86 after they'd lost Cliff and Newsted took over.

The Garage Days EP. Yeah, I’m sure that a lot of people found out about, Killing Joke, Budgie, Diamond Head, Misfits, and Holocaust through that album.

Yep. Those are both pretty killer albums.

my goth band did a cover of Millenium wayyyyy back in the day, we were very young and not terribly good at that point, so you'll never hear it.

Somehow, that is the most 80's song from a band who's biggest hit is literally called "Eighties".

I've been spinning Pandemonium all Christmas break.

By that logic there would be no Killing Joke without The Damned because they stole that riff from the song 'Life Goes On'.

Great band.

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TIL!

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I believe Coleman’s ancestry is partially the inspiration for ‘The Pandys are Coming’