Killing Joke - Chessboards

[@URBANPERMACULTURE]

RIP Geordie Walker, a beautiful and powerful track that we are indebted to you forever for, farewell Brother.

[@backslash68]

This album easily wins the category "barely known total masterpiece"

[@rogueplanet1142]

It's totally known and completely loved by The Gatherers believe me ..

[@williamdavis7546]

My heart aches still after 30 years. What an absolutely beautiful collection of tracks. I now live in Arizona and I drive into the desert with KJ!!

[@nikolaostouloumis1573]

I can imagine how it is and how you are feeling

[@Helaw0lf]

I went walking to this song once in a mine town in Arizona.

[@t.n.3819]

@Nonpolarized I'm p sure they just meant their heart aches for this album because it's so good. You're taking what they wrote waaaaaaay too literally.

[@thegiftedone]

Arizona? With Rick Kane and the wave pool? 😎🤙🏼

[@deme9873]

How's your heart aching in Arizona ca. 2022 thanks to Killing Joke?

[@nathanhammond667]

I miss Jaz's voice sounding like this. A certain humble, melancholic, natural feel to it back in the day. I think you all know what I am saying. Perhaps not

[@eduardborau9018]

This album is a masterpiece

[@laurentduvergne5031]

Indeed !

[@d1654]

I look through your mind and tears run down... RIP Geordie Walker.

[@Babaziba]

I worked in a record store when this came out. After closing one night while we were cleaning up, the manager put this track on the store's sound system full blast. It became a tribal dance party.

[@laurentduvergne5031]

🤙👏

[@carriefawcett9990]

Omg that would've been EPIC!!!

[@MrGordonGartrelle]

Chessboards is unstoppable. It's a thundering freight train from the giddyup, then commuter rail during the chorus (not due to tempo but key) then back into a freight train. Repeat. Loved it since the 80s.

[@chaddeez8446]

Rick Kane surfed the Banzai Pipeline to this...

[@electricebb3337]

honestly one of my fav songs ever

[@suzannefitzgerald4473]

2024 and still listening

[@chadbailey1500]

I was lucky enough to have seen them on this tour. My ears rang for days afterwards. I can honestly say this is the only time I was at a concert where the entire audience just pulsed and grooved with every note as a single entity. I will NEVER forget that show!

[@dastroyer6070]

I know the band disliked the original release that was re-mixed, and preferred the restored Kimsey mixes that were released 21 years later, but this 1986 mix on Chessboards has such a wall of sound and power that blows you away, while the Kimsey mix is totally lacking that "punch" and bigger sound. This is the best version right here, blows me away each time I listen to it.

[@andyc787]

I absolutely love the original release and find the remixed version underpowered but at least it brings us all here discussing such a masterpiece.

[@moatrboat]

this is my favorite song of theirs

[@berndhuebner3289]

What a band so many brilliant songs They are best best band ever❤

[@freethefreeman]

We in our infancy, led down shining paths Shine, shine, shining paths, divine our disillusion Face our imperfection, I begin to wonder Onion peelings scattered, we've been crying crying. Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. Look at our condition, stand on concrete dias Lovers frail and naked move like pawns on chessboards I had no idea, I had no conception Where have we all come from? Where are we all going? Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. All these changes we shall witness I will try to understand Share your grief and your confusion, compassion in us cries No divine intervention, only moves on black and white Great schemes, great schemes are also made of these. Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down.

[@vixyvelasquez9898]

Azimuth Soriolev thanks 🖤

[@itkojecockot]

KJ is where punk music turns into art

[@chaddeez8446]

Fine wine my friend

[@laurentduvergne5031]

Brilliant ! 👌

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Rip mr walker💯🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@yannbongo]

The best 80' sound if this period. Powerful Darkness. Amazing guitar chords

[@andrewluchsinger]

One of my favorites and very underrated. Damn I miss the 80's. We had some of the best music produced back then. You won't see this today.

[@kenetic1228]

We were all in a special club to listen to this in the 80s. Ahead of our time. Welcome friends.

[@laurentduvergne5031]

😉👍

[@thegiftedone]

😎🫵🏻

[@masseyhemenway2657]

I couldn't agree more thank you so much for being part of the club. We were very lucky to grow up when we did.

[@chineyman2nd]

I'm just glad I came into this world just as the 80's started and I remember hearing this song in a movie called North Shore. The lyrics and sound makes it one of the best songs up to today.

[@laurentduvergne5031]

😉

[@annastatsea]

This musical work is beyond brilliant and beautiful. So many ages I get lost here in their sonic bliss.

[@URBANPERMACULTURE]

totally agree, sublime!

[@davidez5322]

Sanity chessboards Love of the masses ...

[@nathanhammond667]

Hate to say it, BUT it is perhaps my favorite lp (stem to stern) from KJ. I ACTUALLY liked the heavier key and synth influence. It filled the soundscape with more melody and warmth. TREMENDOUS LP!

[@lordflash4312]

Same, the underlying aggression and heavy sound is still everywhere on the album.

[@SoundsofDecay]

Bassline in the chorus is so simple but just makes the entire track

[@drewrosecrans9728]

It was awesome in 86& still rule in 2023🎹🎹🎹🎸🎸🎤🎹🥁

[@WarrenCromartie2]

Great song. Brilliant album.

[@Raelspark]

great song --- remarkable performance that keeps your attention and you get right into it. Tight drumming, good vocals, scary guitar playing.

[@amonwerner4346]

Raelspark very well said

[@deepfocus888]

Chandler: Kid's got potential. Vince: Maybe.

[@chrizkekoa5796]

He's so haole he don't even know he's haole lol 😂

[@rollacoastaride1937]

this album is a beautiful experience

[@Sr19769p]

No shit! It's amazing 👍👍

[@frackus101]

When the song ends and tears run down....

[@tedfreeman2709]

Stunningly great sound and I didn't think they got any more angular than FireDances tracks which I loved, but listening now to this again I am reminded how gorgeous they got with this album and the production here, it's a sound locked in time perhaps but for me, what a great time - and great song, this album had some good ones... super unique chords and of course Jaz is mensa so the lyrics always smart yet primal.

[@BEOPTAMYSTIC]

love this song, havent heard it for twenty yrs its beutiful

[@thegiftedone]

Next up is Arizona’s Rick Kane! 🤙🏼

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Greatest Album 👌👌👌👌 love KJ 🤘🤘my ultimate favorite album I love all of there content been a fan since ,86 I was 19

[@MrGordonGartrelle]

RIP Geordie for everything, including this relentless, roof-raising tune.

[@MrDevilman67]

man the guitar, bass, drums r just insane on this song , love it!

[@Aglassact77]

4:15 was a big reminder that something fucking HUGE has just happened. Killing Joke was the shit ...

[@MrGordonGartrelle]

YES

[@rollacoastaride1937]

GOD Bless Raven, wherever you stand

[@Sr19769p]

Damn right ❤

[@jpdicey789]

Got into them through listening to and loving Night Time. Just getting into this album, heard their first self titled album from I think 1980 after Night Time and wasn't too keen, first 2 songs were great but the rest of it was just noise. Went back and listened to their fourth album Fire Dances and at first I didn't like it but I slowly started really getting into it, especially the bonus tracks like Wilful Days, coming from someone who listens to a lot of punk and metal (alternative versions included e.g thrash, nu metal, post-hardcore, noise rock, grunge and alternative rock and metal genres more generally) it was probably one of the rawest, most ominous tracks I've heard, retrospectively I became a huge fan of the album, at first I wasn't as keen on this more commercially friendly style but I'm starting to really get into it.

[@Darkness_Before_Dawn]

We in our infancy, led down shining paths Shine, shine, shining paths, divine our disillusion Face our imperfection, I begin to wonder Onion peelings scattered, we've been crying crying. Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. Look at our condition, stand on concrete dias Lovers frail and naked move like pawns on chessboards I had no idea, I had no conception Where have we all come from? Where are we all going? Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. All these changes we shall witness I will try to understand Share your grief and your confusion, compassion in us cries No divine intervention, only moves on black and white Great schemes, great schemes are also made of these. Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. 🎵

[@johnnywaters108]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh really does bring tears rolldown

[@laurentduvergne5031]

So do I my friend!

[@aggviralbenbow834]

Yes your right there Frank! The sound was ramping up on this album. I liked that challenging vibe which was the Joke and this has plenty but melodic in equal measure. A masterpiece. If you want poor sound quality but something from an admirer of this lot then the album ‘collective Dissonance’ by Aggviral B3nbow is worth a go!

[@thegiftedone]

When Punk meets ART!………..Fuckn masterpiece!…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@laurentduvergne5031]

... Indeed !

[@tonysambrano1229]

Haha people still talking about Rick Kane, the greatest surfer Arizona has ever had. Thanks to Chandler and Turtle. 20+ years ago. If they ever remake The North Shore ... I promise to burn down Hollywood

[@chaddeez8446]

I hear Chandler is teaching you how to shape.

[@blackgumball]

+Chad deez "Yeah? NO!" haha....turtle.

[@deepfocus888]

Why you wanna call the cops?

[@tonysambrano1229]

I'm gonna go tell vince

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

You and I know who really won out there, don't we?

[@omarakamaax]

From the movie North SHore. ....... Great song to a great scene.

[@Sarconthewolf]

Powerful ! Driving pushing the limits song.

[@frankschalk7790]

I have been a huge fan of Night Time, the album right before this one, but somehow this album passed my radar for a very long time! But, HEY! It’s GREAT!! Very goth/new wave sounding, just like Night Time, but perhaps a bit more evolved in sound.

[@nathanhammond667]

Yeah! Still this ×÷=

[@Darth_Revan25]

Absolutely incredible.

[@vrindavanguj7361]

Heard this after 35 years, amazzzzzzinggggg. ❤❤❤

[@TxGameBred]

“Chandler? Thought he was dead...” “No..”

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Still awesome after 36 year's hand's down I was 19 year's old when my xgirlfriend turned me on to them even though I liked them back in 82 but I listen to track's of them & my xgirlfriend got me back into them thank u Hun where ever you are??🦇🦇🦇🦇

[@Oseanacoceanblue]

I open my eyes and tears rub down I open my mind and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down Beautiful

[@laurentduvergne5031]

Thanks !

[@eduardosampaio4850]

Surf on Hawaii!!!

[@shadowchaser8786]

"Share your grief and your confusion," compassion in us cries. The hold that lyric has on me, just by itself...

[@chillinmc]

The North Shore movie lead me here.

[@arug3899]

maybe my favourite Geordie riff

[@janhelmle8173]

This record is omg - fantastic

[@seanp8220]

Where Foo Fighters got their sound

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

Dave Grohl did some drumming on one of their albums, don't remember which.

[@seanp8220]

@@Jason_Van_Stone 2003 Killing Joke

[@marcelosors8554]

espetacular album, everyday i listen this music... since 1986

[@ramslucas5140]

Timeless

[@feegalindo7494]

Here, on the North Shore, we treat friends more better.

[@Sarconthewolf]

Powerful ! Driving, pushing the limits song.

[@MrBones103]

Lol yeah this song was spot on for that segment in North Shore....my favorite part "kids got potential......maybe" lol

[@GC0077]

Whenever anyone rides Waimea, this should be on a loud speaker.

[@chaddeez8446]

Plenty haole surfers, but we'll blow them away, brah.

[@deepfocus888]

@@chaddeez8446 Whatevas'....we go

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

You take his stuff?

[@GC0077]

@@Jason_Van_Stone Me no brah, I never take his stuff...

[@WahidnaMartz]

Come on Vince let's go pound em

[@orglassman6311]

underrated masterpiece

[@laurentduvergne5031]

... En effet !

[@garycollingwood4002]

" I use to belong to a CHESS CLUB "

[@joker71677]

I also just watched the north shore yet again and researched this song. Never remember hearing it anywhere other then the movie when I was a kid.

[@chutoi26]

Yess.. I was looking all over for this. wham.. Next... Rubicon..

[@ahmedildo4959]

when Gods walk the Earth you will know Killing Joke

[@MrDevilman67]

the thing i love about this band is there lyrics , love it!

[@allthingsbegin]

WoW! Absolutely amazing!

[@chaddeez8446]

Rick: What's a Barney? Turtle: It's like Barno... Barnyard... a haole to the max, a kook in and out of the water. Yeah?

[@titangalan8260]

Yeaaa! This is a TEMASOOO!!!

[@davidez5322]

Brighter than an thousands suns

[@frankblack9688]

Fuck surfing this song is 'special' & so is Jaz Coleman

[@kieron63]

Pisses me off they never do these classics live anymore! Is it a Youth not wanting to thing?

[@markko0313]

Genius

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Who's listening in August of 2024

[@annvassallo2604]

I am!

[@ilyas_elouchihi]

Me

[@vrindavanguj7361]

Nov 24 ❤😊

[@gustavogemelli2621]

North Shore!!!!

[@germanodias2862]

Brutal...

[@kinmanyuen]

got the LP for a euro... terific!

[@shaunduffy5180]

This is the band that Kurt nobrain of nirvomit plagiarized.

[@laurentduvergne5031]

😆😂🤣

[@pepsiguy52883]

NORTH SHORE WOOOOO

[@grahamjarman]

barnie!

[@henkdegroot5872]

Een zwaar onderschat pareltje, dit nummer....

[@laurentduvergne5031]

You right buddy ! 😊

[@teofilbosmann3190]

Jaz the best;)

[@ofmonadsandnomads9500]

Username 3 utr as in 3’ untranslated region? I see what you did there!

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

Hey 'Burkhart', you and I know who really won out there, don't we?

[@nadoanacleto]

Rick Kane´s first big wave (North Shore movie)

[@chaddeez8446]

Everybody give it up for Arizona's own RICK KANE!!!!!

[@josephjucutan9211]

I don't understand the lyrics mean but the music is cool. I remember this song from the 1987 movie the North Shore. " you barnie " .

[@basdau6487]

Erf, I'll try to give you a hint about the meaning of the lyrics. The whole idea could be "the more we move on and grow up, the more we can't understand what the fate is going to put us through. We could spend all our time on earth trying to figure out what will be our next act (move on the chessboard) but in vain, just like pawns we just submit to the game of life in a mix of frustration, sadness and hope as we're exposed to hard and hurting odds. Existence is absurd and yet we subconciently believe we can have full control on it, much to our despair."

[@GangrelDj]

Yôtoshite burning hell awaits led Kashmir little illusion Tsuki postmortem no golf

[@vilhenahc6345]

Foda!

[@johnnywaters108]

Kids got talent... maybe

[@mattglasson9103]

Kids got potential

[@conairvideoteam8017]

Maybe

[@andyskiles9542]

This album gets such a bad rap. It’s astounding.

[@billsmith4126]

fuckin. trippin music

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Rip mr walker💯🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@drewrosecrans9728]

Rip mr walker💯🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸