Killing Joke are an influential UK punk/goth/rock/industrial band. Formed by Jaz Coleman (lead vocals), Big Paul Ferguson (drums), Martin 'Youth' Glover (bass) and Kenneth 'Geordie' Walker (guitar) in late 1978 or early 1979. According to Coleman, their manifesto was to "define the exquisite beauty of the atomic age in terms of style, sound and form".
Other notable members over the years include bassist Paul Raven and drummer Martin Atkins.
Discography
Albums
- Killing Joke (1981)
- What's THIS For...! (1981)
- Revelations (1982)
- Fire Dances (1983)
- Night Time (1985)
- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns (1986)
- Outside the Gate (1988)
- The Courtald Talks (1989)
- Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions (1990)
- Pandemonium (1994)
- BBC In Concert [live] (1996)
- Democracy (1996)
- Killing Joke (2003)
See also: list of musicians with multiple self-titled albums
Singles/EP's
- Turn To Red EP (1979)
- Birds of a Feather EP (1982)
- Ha! Killing Joke Live (1982)
- (1992)
- Change (1992)
- Pandemonium (12 Single) (1994)
- Pandemonium (CD Single) (1994)
- Millennium (1994)
- Democracy (Single) (1996)
- Love Like Blood/Intellect (1998)
- Seeing Red (UK CD) (2004)
Compilations
- Incomplete Collection 1980-1985 (1990)
- Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! (1992)
- Wilful Days (1995)
- (Remix Album) (1996)
- War Dance (Remix Album) (1998)
- No Way Out But Forward Go [live] (2001)
- The Unperverted Pantomime? (2003)
- Chaos for Breakfast (2004)
- For Beginners (2004)
Covered