Night Time

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Rolling Stones associate and producer Chris Kimsey succeeded in his mission to water the band’s savagery down and sell more records, but he lost much of what made the group unique along the way. Ned Raggett of AllMusic remarked that "" Eighties" turned out to be the retrospectively most well-known song, due to a surprising and not always remembered example of Killing Joke's influence -- Nirvana, of all groups, thoroughly cloned the watery guitar line at the heart of the track for " Come as You Are"". As mentioned from other reviews each one of the albums' songs are great and it really is a matter of personal taste, they all loosely stick to the same sound. Notice just how big the songs sound; although you could trace them back to work like “Pssyche”, this LP is where I feel like KJ’s future tendencies start to properly come to the fore, emphasising the grandiose edge of their sound in mesmerising fashion above anything else - except here it takes that approach within an extremely likeable poppy atmosphere instead of the harshness of metal, and they would go on to become perhaps the best band in all of that genre thanks to what they had already perfected here.

And I know Love Like Blood is KJ’s biggest hit but it does very little for me - it’s well produced but there’s not much of a song there and Coleman keeps singing the hook as “I love my butt”. We need to start adressing that bands polishing their sound is not necessarily a bad thing, and this album may be the best proof of that.

Can't believe I never tried them being into that era of indie, and having heard of them, bit thinking they were a minor band. I must also consider on their level “Tabazan”, but even the coldwave-leaning “Europe” might be my favourite track by pre-metal KJ. All told, i prefer the goth-slanted Killing Joke, and this has as good a slant as any of their albums. Those who aren't cool with synths coming up-front in the Killing Joke mix might not be into this album, as might those who aren't into Jaz's off-beat philosophies and perspectives.

and it would be even more definitive if it weren’t on the same album as the deserving classic “Love Like Blood”. The tracks are noticeably shorter and more concise than other efforts as well, but definitely more rock than pop to my ears. Night Time is the fifth studio album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, released in February 1985 by E. In general, the album wastes powerhouse drummer Paul Ferguson who isn’t given a lot to do, and everything feels neutered. By adding a little polish to their violent industrial post-punk racket, Killing Joke briefly became very popular in 1985, with “Love Like Blood” competing with the likes of Duran Duran and Madonna on the airwaves.It might be Killing Joke’s, but it’s not at all far removed from what you might expect by that description. Killing Joke argueably hit their commercial peak with Night Time, an album that contains a lot of the dissonant sounds of their earlier works but also a much more accessible style of songwriting. The album was remastered and reissued on CD in 2008 with nine bonus tracks, including 1984 Kid Jensen BBC radio sessions, the non-album single " A New Day" and the previously-unreleased complete version of "Blue Feather" (previously only available as an instrumental remix on the B-side to "Love Like Blood"). The opening title track is an excellent slab of club music for vampires with great programmed drums and guitar work, catchy and slick yet with a dash of nastiness that shows what the record should have been.