Killing Joke - Unspeakable / Exit (Generation 80, Belgium 1981) [Stereo]
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2013
- An early Belgian TV appearance in 1981, Killing Joke making a good job of miming to tracks from the album 'What's THIS For...!' which was released the same year. I've removed the video mono audio source from this and synced it with the stereo source for the tracks instead, which I think adds to the awesome vintage visual performance...
I used some slow mo' at the end of the second track which works well to complete the song... 
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RIP Geordie Walker, legend.
Man, I saw you leave this comment last night but I just couldn't believe it, a legend indeed, have great memories of seeing the band live late 1970's and early 80's, always felt they were in a different league to what other bands were doing at the time, RIP Geordie.
Jaz mugging for the camera during Unspeakable is hysterical. The close-up shots are gold. Geordie was cool as fuck. Love this band.
Jaz's facial expressions are priceless also weird to see Geordie minus the golden harp.
SO NICE TO JAZ COLEMAN IN HIS PURE MADNESS AND INSANITY PHASE. !
Unspeakable is one of their best tracks.
Jaz Coleman at his scary best.
There is so much great Killing Joke footage to see. This early stuff is absolute gold...
Absolutely agree 👍.
they just sound so much darker and incredibly modern compared to everything else from that time.
That very fact, as well as the band producing great music, is something that drew me towards them from the very beginning..
Thats why I was so into them to the point of obbessive. It was like a time machine.
ever heard of bauhaus
As dark as the first Banshees, but more violent yes
You brought two too many.....
And here they are :still playing,still performing in 2022! Never sold ! Allways the same !
You know what's unspeakable? The idea of Geordie playing a Stratocaster.
And the idea of Youth paying a Fender too!
I guess they were not theirs, but what the TV station had in stock for any full playback stuff like this.
The bands often did not bring their own gear.
@@mercatorjubio3804 nah ... Geordie played solids early on ...
@@richardblais5232
He had an SG as far as I remember and also one or two Les Pauls in the old days, but never a Strat.
@@mercatorjubio3804 What's he playing on this clip ? go to 04:09 ruclips.net/video/VLHPF-kXpRc/видео.html
Tribal drumming, discordant, hollow, metallic sounding guitar, rock steady bass and atmospheric keyboards = Killing Joke! Oh, I almost forgot Jaz's Unspeakable voice and manic, schizophrenic persona! What more could any psychotic music buff need?
Very true, but that drum riff sounds uncannily like Pink Floyd's Saucerful Of Secrets, from....1968. I have nothing but good things to say about KJ
Damien Hurts or Moving Away From The Pulsebeat By Buzzcocks
Very good description, couldn't agree more LOL
A psychosis?
@@damienhurts8863 and Youth ended up working with David Gilmore on the collaboration Album 'Metallic Spheres' by The Orb
Nothing compares to the awesome power of killing joke
Agree. I saw them at a festival about ten years ago. They were like a sonic assault on the senses.
The power of the music of Killing Joke 😊
Hypnotic sound and raw and intense musical arrangement. Drums are very tom driven and i love that deep sound. Its all mesmerizing.
Big Paul is a criminally underated drummer.
Tribal and dark
Jaz, showing us what Mel Gibson would have looked like if he was in Apocalypse Now. Amazing band. And so democratic in talent.
Killing Joke is a Miracle ...
I can't stop watching this video.
The Cure
Bauhaus
Joy Division
The Chameleons
Killing Joke
These were the bands that pushed the frontiers of Post Punk and Dark Wave, but of these bands, Killing Joke were consistently mesmerizing.
Thanks for sharing.
Siouxsie And The Banshees were the first band to make that stuff. All those bands said in interviews that Siouxsie And The Banshees influenced them.
@@carljules3123 I'm a huge Siouxsie fan always was, I think KJ's influence was mostly on American Post Punk Industrial Metal etc like NiN, Ministry, GodFlesh, Metallica, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Lamb of God. Both bands had sublime guitarists.
I love your list except I’d substitute The Chameleons for Siouxsie 🖤
the virgin prunes/ uk decay/ gang of four/ the gun club/ tones on tails/ bush tetras/ 23 skidoo/ a certain ratio/ section 25/ theater of hate/ and so on...
Swans
This sounds SO much ahead of time!! The video is from 1981, looks like from the seventies, but sounds like Trent Reznor from NIN made it in the late 90s or 2000s. That's incredible.
" I wonder who chose the colour scheme - it's very nice"
Just brilliant!
This is just the coolest a band could hope to look and sound like. And this is them holding back!
A mesmerising performance, even when miming for euro tv!! This is where the internet shines when we can watch stuff we may never have seen. Yes we are living in the EIGHTIES hahaHA
"MESMERISING" Is the Word and key ingredient.
@@robertroberts2666 it's actually addicting too. I have watched this video a bunch of times and never get tired of it.
Hahahaha!! Brilliant! Jaz is completely off his rocker.
Yes, he looks like a pretty crazy guy 🤣
This is the best 9 mins on RUclips... no contest.
The best
Maybe it'll grow on me...idk. My favorite as far as this band goes is the live version with the warpaint to "THE WAIT". I've watched that one about 50 times. This song justmakes me want to go listen to Danzig's song "Unspeakable"...so far.
amen
Great Band...Great Songs ....
But KJ miming at low volume in a badly lit studio recorded on 'video tape' the best thing on YT??... I doubt it..
@@ianstukenborg437 You means this one? ruclips.net/video/soDr07aKt_c/видео.html
Tribal drumming at it's best, Big Paul thank you thank you for rejoining the best band in the world
fuck.yes.
They always got good drums
I found the band because of Nirvana and I heard that Come As You Are sounds like Eighties, so I looked up Eighties and loved it. Listened to only Eighties for about 5 or 6 months straight and decided to listen to their other songs. Great decision, I love all of their songs now. Have been bingeing them for the past week and now I am here.
I love Jaz and all the members of the band, all the music videos are entertaining and fun. This is now my favorite band of all time.
I am also currently a teenager and hope to make my own music. Definitely will have inspiration from these guys!
Last thing I'm going to say is Jaz's faces! I love them!
I love hearing stories like this, being in my senior years now, I grew up listening to some great bands around 1976 - 1983 with fond memories of seeing so many live back then (KJ included) but I know what it's like to find amazing bands from the past who grip your imagination and understand where you're coming from, glad you didn't stop at 'Eighties'. It was great when Nirvana came along, Sonic Youth too, they really did have the spirit of that time..
@@rp61productions Man, how I would love to go back to the eighties or even the nineties to see my favorite bands perform. My father is taking me to my first concert (Guns N Roses) when quarantine is over and I hope KJ is a band I can see someday.
I have been listening to all sorts of music my entire life and I hope that I can bring back good rock. I really connect with music, and the riffs and drum beats and lyrics that KJ creates I connect with. Same with Nirvana and all of the other bands I listen to.
I started playing guitar a year ago, just learned some KJ riffs today actually. I know a little piano, but not much. I want to learn drums and bass as well if I do end up being a solo artist. But I might have a band, who knows.
@@dacoolestzzz All sounds good pal, good luck with any future musical choices you take..
Good to hear, Killing Joke has an awesome backcatalog. I've become obsessed with them in the last two years, although I saw them live on the tour which would be Raven's last, really wish I had appreciated it all more. I'm in my mid 30s so I missed a lot of important shows myself. Bands like Skinny Puppy and a lot of 80s and early 90s industrial caused me to take up playing music. They, like Killing Joke, and many who came from the punk mentality were totally unlike the big rock bands that I do love but are so big it makes us feel small in comparison; from an entertainment experience it is awesome. But music and creativity is not just a dreamlike unobtainable entertainment profession - it something historically most people engaged in creating. To say the least Killing Joke definitely inspires me, especially the lyrics...Jaz has been right about a lot of stuff! hahaha.
They also inspire me to clean up my studio, as I've been a musician for a long time and a writer - all that started in an attempt at being a one man band, which was a success in some ways haha. I read your post further down where you mentioned wanted to create music. I urge everyone to be creative as I was saying above - it's not "just a hobby" if you don't get money or any of that non-sense, pretty soon nobody will be making money if touring ceases much longer. So who cares? We could look at the bad and mourn, and trust me I do. But the possibilities opened up are great too. Humans have had live music back to our tribal roots before any civilization we know. I can easily see us going back to those tribal gatherings in modern age; meeting in small groups to play music and build community in the coming years if this doesn't let up. It sure won't be the internet that can replace what we used to get from larger scale meet ups and talking to people in the street.
So I think in times like these we have to make art, work with our own hands and just not get stuck in the "sit and wait" routine because things may never be normal as we used to know it. I don't think I saw what an artist means to society until this past year where due to endless postponements a lot of people put off album releases....I think for the first time there's a demand for real music again. By real I mean, like the punks before us, music that about heart instead of pure skill and commercial polish; a social gathering not just a virtuosity contest. Time will tell!
I have another story. I only knew the excellent "Love Like Blood", later bought a best of and liked a few songs, didn't regret it, but was more into EBM. Then a new genre came up called "Industrial Metal" and "Pandemonium" is one of my all time favourites. Still follow them up to this day. Also like watching interviews with Jaz. He's unique.
Fantastically dark songs. There was a group called 1919 who took "Unspeakable" and made whole albums out of that sound.
Off to see KJ tonight in London for another gathering of the faithful - They're opening with Unspeakable which is a real call to arms.
I was there at the Roundhouse and was blown away when they started with it. Fantastic.
Madness is another good lead in.
I was a casual KJ fan until I saw this video and I became way more interested in their music
Monjeseñal Anyone who has not, in the least, been interested in the Joke has not, in the least, been interested in music as far as Iam concerned!
Same here. So much great material they have brilliant
Yep, they are pretty good
Awesome band
Geordie is playing a Stratocaster here. Unusual to see him without his Gibson ES-295.
At 8:28 Geordie look at his Fender closer and seems to think "damn !, i forgot to connect it :))...
🤣🤣😄
Thank you, Boards of Canada!
Absolute gold
Ruhe in Frieden Geordie dein Gitarrensound war besonders.
holy shit. geordies playing a ... a... a STRAT ... i can just imagine the language when they handed that to him
haha early on he played a Les Paul often (from what I've seen on film) before the famous golden Gibson. Maybe the strat was his too. hmm
Its drive me on! Super song!
I love the album Firedances
Two great tribal drumming songs
So love this, amazing sounds love the bass
Best bass line ever along with Zep's Lemon Song, Primus' Old Diamondback Sturgeon, Morphines You're An Artist and My Bloody Valentine's She Loves You No Less.
Unspeakable sounds like something Al Jourgensen (Ministry) would have done during their 'Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste' period. I can see where Uncle Al got his inspiration from.
Ministry's album "The Land Of Rape Of Honey" uses the same font that appears on Killing Joke's "Revelations" in the album art. Also "Revelations" features a song called "The Land Of Milk and Honey"
If you had to list every band that has borrowed from KJ you would have a busy day.....
Also interesting to note is that Paul Raven, who joined Killing Joke after Martin Glover left in '82 would later go on to play in Ministry as well.
al is usually copying someone
It's funny you mention that, because in 1990 Killing Joke released an album that sounded a lot like Ministry did at that time. That might have been in part due to Martin Adkins being the drummer for that one (having been part of the Ministry circle already specifically Pigface) but it's an album like none other in their catalogue. It's called Extremities Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions, in some ways their most extreme album and in some ways their least characteristic.
😅my fave KJ song. Great video
Jaz is frightening in this
Al Jorgenseng's Ministry really took a lot of their music & sound, energy from Killing Joke. I mean just listen to this... Killing Joke just were ahead of the rest of the pack.
I think about 30 years ahead of them.
100% agree, pretty much sums up why I'm a Minstry fan
the Ministry song “Breathe” is definitely in the same vein as Unspeakable
Loved KILLING JOKE back in these earlier days. I saw them in Barrie, Ontario in the early 80's at an outdoor festival in the middle of a sunny day. They pulled off a great set, shocking many who had come to see the Go-Go's and other lighter fare. These guys injected a huge amount of energy into the crowd. Not so sure everybody appreciated / understood their music. That one show made me a KJ fan for life.
Barrie? God damn. I grew up in Oshawa. I'm SOOOOOOO jealous. Never got into KJ until some alt rock friends in a band turned me onto them in the early 90's. Now one of my all time fave bands. You have a memory to cherish, forever!
@@SCROGY actually it was Oakville, and I saw them for the first time, and life has never been the same again ... ruclips.net/video/cfWmtv8s_VE/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/cfWmtv8s_VE/видео.html ... go to 0:42
Generation 80 , met Fabienne Van der Meersch? Op zaterdagavond, fantastisch .
Time capsule.
From before the Iceland apocalypse period. Love it.
gotta love early KJ!
This video is hypnotic. What an amazing performance. And thanks for the edit and upload!
Whats this for i played until the stylis hit the slipmat . Best album ever.
Whenever I get too spiritual a bit of Joke puts me right.
But KJ are an extremely spiritual (and esoteric) band
Jazz Colman looks like he s been down a coalmine with that face/killing joke forever
Perfect symbolism for a Thatcherite Britain.
The tribal drumming on "Exit" makes me feel sounds like some tracks of Adam and The Ants
Thank you so much for showing this,a true piece of art
Loving this. Good job! They still put out amazing music. This is a real treat!
I need a time machine.
Ça c'est la punk music ....bravo
Love this!
Genius
Gran Cancion Y Jaz Como Siempre Muy Chingon
Thanks for posting. I used to have this on a Various Artists video. Didn't think I'd see it on here!
Wspaniały zespół. Niesamowite brzmienie. Zawsze brzmi świeżo
MESSSMERRIZZZEDD...HYPPPNOOOTIZEEDD.....I love this so much.
Reading Mark Lanegans autobiography, it’s clear Kiedis’ brother is a piece of work too!
No paro de verlo
Yo del pasado prepárate....
Sheeeeet
This so great!!!!!!
Awesome upload! It's one of those bands I didn't like at first; so, after a couple of listens I have opened up to the facial expressions and yells.
Exit is a great tune
really cool to see, despite lip-sync
top vid m8 , I love this!
Great Soundtrack for an unspeakable new chapter in maths.
^^ iteror "Hyperfractal big numbers"
Well done !
Epic!
LYRICS HER(E)
Facts and figures the clocks turn backwards
Facts and figures turn anticlockwise
Many signposts leading to the same place
I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice
Unspeakable!
Keep running 'cos it's nightmare time
Every direction leading to the same place
I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice
I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice
Unspeakable!
Trop puissant en concert jadis respect les rebelles yooo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
1.37 pmsl ...love the Joke
Recuerdazos de altura compai
thank you
Geordie doesn't need to make an effort. Listen to the riffs! A great clip.
That Gretsch is poetry - always has been in his hands ....
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I wish they would have stuck with this sound.
🖤
KJ kicks ass !
Whatever drugs they were on... I want some!
Good shit from our mate Jaz.
These guys playing this old show reminds me of some British flick I seen once where Vincent Price is making like super human people and this one goes around killing a bunch of people and gets his arm chipped off but still like runs ten miles to go jump in a tank of acid or something.. lol
Can't believe that set making all those drums? Not what they used in the studio
Jaz Coleman (a veces) pone cara-de-integrante-de-Kraftwerk...
3 dislikes must be fxxking mad.
Jaz ...
Unspeakable is a hell of a great track and perhaps presages the path they took thereafter. Shh...
The devil i thought ,,saw this tour in Detroit
y'en a pas d'autres ...
Nice work with the slo-mo. I thought it was part of the broadcast until I read your description
Jaz Coleman is blacked up and appearing to do a sort of Jimmy Savile impression in slow motion. That makes this *easily* the weirdest video I've seen this week.
Fuck are you on about..? Stop talking shit, he looks nothing like him at all...
psychotic Moroccan cheese vendor is the description most often used for jaz
Yes, I can see that in pantheon of cheese vendors, Jaz is indeed one the greats.
Reminds me a bit of Peter Gabriel No Self Control
Studio version.Its not live.
Yeh I think the info I give in the video description covers that, I think people are smart enough to work that out for themselves anyway..
toadly BITCHEN!!!
Not live sadly.