Laugh I Nearly Bought One

Killing Joke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Plate Caroline
• ASIN: B000000HSH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,946 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Turn to Red

2. Pssyche [Live]

3. Requiem

4. Wardance

5. Follow the Leaders

6. Unspeakable

7. Butcher

8. Exit

9. The Hum

10. Empire Song

11. Chop-Chop

12. Sun Goes Down

13. Eighties

14. Darkness Before Dawn

15. Love Like Blood

16. Wintergardens [#]

17. Age of Greed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUSICAL JUGGERNAUT FROM THE MOST UNUSUAL BAND EVER..., December 3, 1999

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B. G. Shultz "pyfr" (Rockwall, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Laugh I Nearly Bought One (Audio CD)

Killing Joke has to be the most uncompromising band to have ever signed a record contract. Their albums, especially the first four, are so dissonant that they're almost unlistenable. Of course, that's the Joke's charm. They've remained themselves and continued to influence bands as huge as Nirvana, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, and Soundgarden, to name a few. This CD is an ideal introduction for anyone not familiar with the Joke. A few of the tracks are rare gems that one would be hard pressed to find elsewhere (Pssyche, Sun Goes Down, Turn To Red). The rest of the songs give the listener a fairly sweeping example of this band's wonderful career. Give the songs "Requiem" and "Follow The Leaders" a spin and then marvel over the fact that these pulsating quasi-industrial pieces were written as long ago as 1980 and 1981, respectively. As a bonus, the cover of the CD is a famous photo of a Catholic priest fraternizing with Nazis. Killing Joke put this picture on a flyer for a show in Glasgow- and were consequently banned from playing the gig by the furious club owner. Don't hesitate on this one- Killing Joke was and is a musical phenomenon. This disc will reaffirm that notion.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant overview of the band's earlier period., April 6, 2005

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Michael Stack (North Chelmsford, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Laugh I Nearly Bought One (Audio CD)

"Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!" is a superb compilation of material from Killing Joke's work from 1979 through 1990, with a track listing that I probably could have picked myself. It covers the band's history, but rather than making any attempt at evenness between releases, it picks tracks based on value and importance.

Admittedly, there's substitutions I'd make, but any fan would say this of any compilation-- you've got the essentials on this one and get a good vision of the bands evolution, from its early days as a post-punk genre blending monster singing about the coming armaggedon scenerios ("Wardance", "Unspeakable") to the later, smoother, more disenfranchised with the modern era feel of the later material ("Sun Goes Down", "Eighties"). To top it off, you even get a blazing live version fo "Pssyche" from the long unavailable "Ha!" EP.

As an introduction to the band, this is probably the way to go-- for fans, this is less essential (barring the aformentioned "Pssyche").

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The sky is turning grey..., May 19, 2004

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Barbara Streisands Love Slave (MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laugh I Nearly Bought One (Audio CD)

This is a good collection of Killing Joke tunes. Definately good for any new-comer to the group. It has some classics such as "Eighties", "Wardance", "Follow The Leaders", and "Wintergardens". There's also some rare tracks such as "Turn To Red", "Sun Goes Down" and a live version of "Pssyche". Even though there are quite a few great songs left off such as "Let's All Go (To The Fire Dances)" and "A New Day", this is still a great collection. Pick up a copy today.