''Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions'' is the eighth studio album by English

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band

Killing Joke Killing Joke are an English rock music, rock band from Notting Hill, London, England, formed in 1979 by Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards), Paul Ferguson (drums), Geordie Walker (guitar) and Youth (musician), Youth (bass). Their first album, ''Ki ...

, released in November 1990 by Noise Records. After the commercial failure of their previous album ''

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'' in 1988, singer Jaz Coleman and guitarist

Geordie Walker Kevin "Geordie" Walker (born 18 December 1960) is an English rock musician, best known as the guitarist of post-punk group Killing Joke. His unorthodox style of electric guitar playing is widely acclaimed. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin hailed Walk ...

were the last remaining members of the group. In December 1988, they recruited new musicians to perform a one-off concert in Porchester and premiered new songs, including early versions of "Extremities" and "The Beautiful Dead". The band didn't have any support of a record company anymore:

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had fired them and their label

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sued them. Coleman stated that it was a very stressful period of time for him and Walker. The new material was more intense, the band performed it live during a US tour in 1989. ''Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions'' was recorded in 1990 for a German independent label: bassist Paul Raven was called back before entering into the studio. Drummer

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, formerly of

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and

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, had joined the band in 1988 and co-composed the songs with Coleman and Walker. "

Money Is Not Our God "Money Is Not Our God" is Killing Joke's second and only official single from their eighth studio album, ''Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions''. It was released only in Germany on 3 January 1991 by the Aggressive Rockproduktionen ...

" was the leading single of the album. The new line-up toured extensively to support the album in 1991.

Content

Musical style

''Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions'' saw a return to prominent guitars after the synthesised sound on previous album ''

''. ''

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'' wrote, "Perhaps inspired by all the new industrial bands aping their early style, Killing Joke reformed for a tour, demonstrating new resolve to recapture the old formula", describing it as having "all the intoxicating intensity and righteous fury missing from ''Outside the Gate'' mated to a timelier

-like feel." It was recorded shortly after Jaz Coleman's Arabic-influenced album with

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's Anne Dudley, ''

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''. The riff from "Intravenous" would be reprised on 2006's "Majestic".

Artwork

The eyes on the cover of the album belong to actor

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, as featured in the film ''

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''.. The top pair is original, the other three are upside down, and the cover for the cassette version shows all four pairs original. The back of the CD bears two

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; the second, "semper imitatum nunquam idem", means: "always imitated, never replicated".

Release

''Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions'' was released in November 1990 by the German label Noise Records. It was re-released on 15 October 2007 by

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in three editions: double LP, normal CD and a Deluxe Edition with a CD and a

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. "

" was the only single released from the album, and failed to chart. The double LP edition features the track "Age of Greed (Live)" as a bonus, whereas both CD reissues also feature four tracks from a very rare 1989 cassette demo. One of these tracks, "Jubilation", is actually an early version of "The Beautiful Dead" and had been released previously on a flexi disc. Of the other tracks, only "The Fanatic" was known, having been performed live at several concerts in 1989. The Deluxe Edition featured all bonus tracks on a separate

, with the DVD side containing the

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for "Money Is Not Our God".

Reception

In his retrospective review, Ned Raggett of

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wrote that the album " ecapturesthe sprawling spirit of the early days" of the band.

Track listing

; Cassette version

Personnel

; Killing Joke * Jaz Coleman - vocals, keyboards,

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* Kevin "Geordie" Walker - guitar, production * Paul Raven - bass guitar (tracks 1–11), production * Dave "Taif" Ball - bass guitar (tracks 12–16), production *

- drums, vocals, production ; Additional personnel * John Bechdel - programming, sampler (tracks 1–11) * Dave Kovacevic - synthesizer (track 16) ; Technical * Martin Rex (as J.M. Rex) - production,

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, mixing * Michael Butterworth - engineering assistance * Dominic Robson - engineering assistance * Shawn Cymbalisty - engineering assistance (Marcus Studios) * Geoff Pryce - technical engineer (Marcus Studios) * Malcolm Haywood - photography * Birgit Nielsen - artwork * Henni Hell - artwork * Paul Raven - art direction

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions 1990 albums Killing Joke albums Industrial rock albums Post-punk albums by English artists Candlelight Records albums