Night Time

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All tracks are written by Killing Joke ( Jaz Coleman, Paul Ferguson, Geordie Walker, Paul Raven), except as noted Side one No. At gunpoint I'd pick 'Night Time,' 'Love Like Blood' or the most infamous song to be ripped off by Nirvana 'Eighties,' although 'Kings and Queens' and 'Europe' are extremely close.

It might be Killing Joke’s, but it’s not at all far removed from what you might expect by that description.Like almost any ‘80s pop (and KJ) album, the song structures on here are pretty basic, and you certainly shouldn’t come in expecting anything subversive on that front. 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"). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.

Yet, contrarily to what can be said of their utterly forgettable next two albums, Night Time was no sell-out.When I first heard this album, the songs "Love Like Blood" and "Multitudes" were the initial ball-grabbers but after repeated listens, eventually I started diggin' the entire album. 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"". 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. Songs like “Eighties” and “Love Like Blood” put these guys into the mainstream, if only for a short while.