Throwback Thursdays Retro Video Project Pres; Killing Joke

This week on my Throwback Thursdays Retro Video Project; Killing joke.

Killing Joke's 1980 first album practically invented Industrial Rock. There had been Industrial bands since the mid seventies with groups like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and Destroy All Monsters. But these groups largely rejected traditional rock & roll lineups, riffs and song structures, aside from a few exceptions like Cabaret Voltaire's "Nag Nag Nag" or their cover of the Seeds' "No Escape'. Killing Joke however were clearly a rock and roll band with punishing riffs and pounding drums.

KILLING JOKE ~ "CHANGE";


For this song off the second 1981 album I used footage from the end of the 1916 German Expressionist Horror film "Homunculus". Although little known now this film was one of the influences on later horror films like "Frankenstein".

KILLING JOKE ~ "BLOODSPORT";


This instrumental off the first album uses an early American film "Fire".

KILLING JOKE ~ "$0.36";


This one, also off the first album, uses an earlier fireman film, Edwin S Porter's "Life Of An American Fireman from 1903. I also used this film for a Siouxsie & The Banshess film but decided to keep both versions.

KILLING JOKE ~ "TOMORROW'S DREAM";


Another song off the first album, this time using a short art film "Bad Burns" by Paul Sharits from 1982 made of spliced together strips of over-developed film. Note I had some sound problems on this one. Note also this is not a cover of the Black Sabbath song.

KILLING JOKE ~ "THE FALL OF BECAUSE";


This song off the second album uses a French Pathe film

KILLING JOKE ~ "HARLEQUIN";


This one is off of the fourth album, "Fire Dances", and uses a British film that features some early claymation

The Lego Will Rock

I swear I could watch these every day for the rest of my life;

JOY DIVISION ~ "TRANSMISSION";


JOY DIVISION ~ "SHE'S LOST CONTROL";


THE SEX PISTOLS ~ "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN";


KILLING JOKE ~ "REQUIEM";


THE DAMNED ~ "NEW ROSE";


MOTORHEAD ~ "ACE OF SPADES";


THE CULT ~ "SHE SELLS SANCTUARY";


AC/DC ~ "THUNDERSTRUCK";


IRON MAIDEN ~ "THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST";


IRON MAIDEN;


KISS ~ "DETROIT ROCK CITY";


ADAM ANT ~ "STAND AND DELIVER";


And I don't even like Kiss, in fact I loathe them. Now I await Lego Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Sabbath, Runaways and Van Halen;
BAUHAUS ~ "DARK ENTRIES";


SIOUXSIE ~ "HONG KONG GARDEN";


BLACK SABBATH ~ "PARANOID";


THE RUNAWAYS ~ "CHERRY BOMB";


VAN HALEN ~ "JUMP";

Punk Dinosaurs on the road again

It's summer (almost) which means that various punk and such figures of the misty past will be staggering out of the swamps to stalk the earth again. So far we have on the road; The New York Dolls (all two of 'em), The Stooges (with James Williamson) , X (full lineup), PIL, The Murder City Devils, The Misfits (Jerry Only living up to his name), The Diodes, Johnny and The G Rays, The Buzzcocks, The Zeros, The 222's, Porcelain Forehead, Mudhoney, Hole, The Ripchordz, New Bomb Turks, The Specials, The Blues Explosion, Killing Joke, GBH, The Guana Batz, The Avengers, The Business, Alice in Chains, Gang of Four, Killing Joke, Arson plus Modern English, The Psychedelic Furs, The Grapes of Wrath and Peter Murphy and while we're at it Iron Maiden, Faster Pussycat and The L.A. Guns. Last year even brought us the Sonics.
In the studio; Danzig, Green Day, Social Distortion, Naked Raygun, Pearl Jam.
Plus there is supposed to be some kind of reunion for Refused and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Obviously some of these are more welcome than others.

AND WITH THAT THOUGHT IN MIND HERE'S YOUR 80'S FLASHBACK;

MODERN ENGLISH ~ "I MELT WITH YOU";


THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS ~ "SISTER EUROPE";


THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS ~ "LOVE MY WAY";


THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS ~ "BLACKS/RADIO";


KILLING JOKE ~ "A NEW DAY";


KILLING JOKE ~ "EIGHTIES";


KILLING JOKE ~ "KINGS AND QUEENS";


KILLING JOKE ~ "LET'S ALL GOP TO THE FIRE DANCES";


THE DIODES ~ "CAT WALKER";


X ~ "TRUE LOVE";


X ~ "BREATHLESS";


THE 222'S ~ "LOW LIFE";


THE 222'S ~ "FUN FUN FUN";


THE 222'S ~ "THE FIRST STUDIO BOMB";


THE 222's ~ "I LOVE SUSAN";