Killing Joke - Let's All Go (To The Fire Dances)

[kingofpunk1977]

A great record

[ashbackwards]

A million bands owe their sound to Killing Joke. Completely unacknowledged. Listen to their first album. They invented the sound that would come 5 or 6 years later with NNN, Skinny Puppy, and most of those goth bands. Between them and the Stranglers, still fresh and new today, the most unsung influential bands ever.

[DakotaLee924]

Is this supposed to be like an ocult thing?

[ducatlineable]

@DakotaLee924 I think is sufi, drumy :)

[blaklodge]

Jaz probably doesn't give a shit...Geniuses don't waste their time being bitter and thinking bout what could've been

[UncleSlim64]

Which single were KJ performing on TOTP when Youth was the group's bassman, and Jaz was replaced with a showroom dummy clad in a sword-fencing outfit, and placed behind an Oberheim synthesizer (he was absent from the band at the time, believed to have decamped to Iceland)? This was either late 70s-early 80s. 

[jrmarrero96]

@UncleSlim64 The song was called "Empire Song" off of their third album Revelations released in 1982.

[shovel20]

Originality and innovation currently doesn't exist it makes my arm itch.

just speaking on behalf of factory music now days

[errcycoo]

best song by these guys i think

[kbrebach]

ahhhh man an old fav. they were so monstrous live. a wall of sound you could climb.

[vaex23]

cool band i only knew their song "eighties"

[pyratree55]

Freaky video but amazing song. Not sure why but it reminds me of christmas.

[sizedoctor]

this is happiest killing joke song,very different from requiem.

[101Volts]

If you heard this song and have watched Labyrinth did one scene from the movie remind you of this song? (I'm trying not to spoil much)

[00012WW]

I've about 5,000 cds (heavy, dark, gothic, elettronic) and i've heard much more but i am proud to say among my favorities 5 cds there is "brighter than a thousnad suns"... band beyond time

[charredTower417]

Great song.

[syntaxerrorss]

does anyone know what bass raven is playing?

[ojingoh]

The bass is a Wal, classic english bass.

[PeterBParker]

Coleman looks like the Joker here...the Killing Joke and the Joker have always been inteetined in my head.... not because of the Killing Joke book, but becuase of the style of teh make up and name. if Joker made a band he would probsbly call it "The Killing Joke"... i love this band.

[PeterBParker]

intwined not "inteetined"

[birdman869]

I listened to Killing Joke briefly in the 80's. But In the last 3 yrs I've realized I'm a big fan.

[jmiester25]

dude they're coming out with a new album in April CAN"T FUCKIN WAIT ive been a BIG TIME KJ fan since 2007 and they're are my 4th favorite band of all time and i listen to them on a regular basis. never get tired of them.

[Denta92]

God this band fucking ROCKS!

Every week I find atleast one more Killing Joke song I've not heard that kicks ass!

[OtantalizingO]

Love this album, but sad to say in my opinion the remaster ruined it.. like they have tuned down the drums,, sounds like coffee tins with plastic lids, then played trough computer speakers and then recorded. sorry but that's how it feels when i hear it, luckily i still got the old pressing.

[jmiester25]

i do too. got it imported from Germany last summer

[Melkvision]

I went to see Killing Joke in Brussels on the 29th & 30th of September last year.

After the second show, I fell off a roof and woke up in hospital with two shattered feet. I now have a £1200 hospital bill and when I got back to England I spent 2 months in hospital having my feet re-built. A year on and I've only just started walking again.

It was all worth it. Seeing Killing Joke live is like nothing else. :)

[doctorw2]

this must be about guy fawkes day.

[creamstripe]

Such a handsome face with a serious smeller on it. HOT and talented.

Excellent band. Love them.

[may301985]

i miss RAVEN he was badass

[Star042181]

I think he looks like Ted Danson, specially in adorations...dont you guys think?

[101Volts]

I think I'm going to be buying even more albums this year. Who's with me?

[modsleix6]

Paul Raven R.I.P...

[goonies3000]

This is the greatest band ever.

[BradfordX2]

love the guitar riffs

[kozcrap]

Absolutely love the solo.

[bretadounitedfc]

Is it just me or does Mark Ratner look like Jaz Coleman?

[SilverSpoonsFan81]

I had to look up who Mark Ratner was, but yes, he does in this video. I was actually thinking the same thing, but did not know that actor's name.

[bretadounitedfc]

yes, Brian Backer from Fast times at ridgemont high!

[doctorw2]

i remeber when this first came out i danced myself into a coma.

[mojosoundny]

SWEEET

[ellonche]

I love this song!!!

[CRAPCANNONS]

Thank you for posting this.

[poolsidenyc]

Back then bands were doing things that, while not necessarily popular, were different. Trying to do something apart and finding their own combos that worked. The Joke were a band that just never stopped trying. They copied nobody unlike the easy street chumps coming out today.  Now the philosophy is "you want to be a good band...then just rip off a good band". Participation not innovation. In short...Posers as we used to call them way back in the 80's.

[ne0nsurf]

you said it perfectly poolside. and imo that's what the 80s were about. originality and inovation.

[ajarnfrankie]

@poolsidenyc - I agree, but some of the poseur bands were fun even though they didn't have anything to say like the KJ...

[jmiester25]

@poolsidenyc and everybody ripped off Killing Joke. their debut album never got the credit it deserved, considering what it did for the musical world. people have walked all over Killing Joke and the fact that they are modest about their unpopular success is amazing. i respect them because they said "we may have never had a number one album, but because Killing Joke is used as a reference point, that's when you find success."

[TheRealCritique]

KJ weren't a dead-end. The current generation is the dead end. The Killers are bad watered down 80s underground retread, and they didnt get some ideas from 80s bands, they got their entire identity from them. This isnt my fave KJ song, and he does look a bit fruity in that get-up. At the time it was frightening. Noone said KJ was the hardest band out there, but most harder bands these days are stupid cookie monster b*tches and metal morons.

[FiberFinger]

Hmm...that's a good point.

[DZMOR]

I need a louder laptop so i can fully enjoy this as it is meant

[FiberFinger]

This song is fun and visceral.

[HoboBeatz]

this is relevant to today's retro-obsessed culture

[SexVampireBite]

Happy House! hehe Just kidding.

[SamSlovick]

can't believe I thought this was hard in the 80's... and now ... a waste of band width...

[LegledTrepteg]

Going to see KJ in October in NYC -

commenting, just realised how Ian MacKaye/Minor Threat/Fugazi took off from this style of vocals - the chorus esp.

[GaySingleMulatto]

Okay that Neanderthal woman doesn't look trustworthy... She's, gaunt, and hungry. It's clear that an excellerator was employed to ignite the flames. There is no record of prehistoric man having liquid fuel - okay maybe blubber - okay, okay. Anyway if the kid is dreaming about the fire, or the set from Dr. Kiligari, or no, hey, wait, why would you leave a 9-5 job, grow your curly hair long, force it up and then run to dance around a fire at midnight? I'm not sure it's the Republican choice.

[heialeks]

sick video. looks like the Killer's front man got some ideas from this dude.

[DYKEPALS]

interesting evolutionary dead-end, musically speaking

[scubacop]

im sorry, maybe i dont understand what you are inferring, but it seems like you are implying that music such as this had no impact on later day modern music...

Killing Joke were extremely influential to some of the most influential acts during the 90s and early 2000, actually...

[NoNoseProduction]

I dont think hes talking about Killing Joke, just the style of this song, and yes i agree this song is a dead end song, if you contrast KJ with their later songs and not this one you will see them influencing other bands, but this song is well to dead end, its strange i can't really compare it to anything.

[GotMeWrong1984]

Chris Cornell and Soundgarden in particular.

[1066essexx]

raven on bass great band he will be missed

[Tobylifehater]

I never saw this the first time around. Was this a nod to the Adicts or did the Adicts steal their schtickt? Too many similarities to be a coincidence.

[marvelguy6]

whos the kid

[birdman869]

they remind me of early Cult

[fashion4ever06]

this video sucks and is scary make a different one!

[marvelguy6]

ok im not crazy but i have custom killing joke action figures

[kinghadbar]

These guys are kinda rockin.

And obvious Jodorowsky fans.

[fashion4ever06]

these are not cool at all!

[kinghadbar]

You kiddin? Look at the hair. And the way he's just slappin bass without a care in the world because it's the 80's. HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SUCH NONSENSE

[boilingblacksea]

You guys are my heroes for posting all these KJ vids. Love this song!

[tsrorexx]

Love this track.

[blackthorn1965]

There Is No one Like The Joke!