cortempond said:
KOD were incredible, saw them twice in concert and Julian was able to get that guitar sound perfect. It's too bad they broke up.
they were absolutely the soundtrack to my late teenage years, although i must admit they don't now resonate emotionally in the same way. i saw them live once, at king tut's in glasgow circa 1994: they were absolutely incandescent, so good i missed the last bus home to edinburgh in order to see the encore. rock!
they also had the best strobe light ever (although OMD in 1991 run them close). it was like the end of eraserhead.
i haven't got the rarities CD thing, but my friend andrew (who has a wonderful band called swimmer one, who don't sound anything like KoD but are shot through with their influence nevertheless) did me a tape of various B-sides etc. i must dig it out.
Are you going to pick up the Depeche Mode remix set? What does anyone think about it, other than flogging a dead horse into glue?
hmmmm. it's sitting there in the iTunes music store, daring me to buy it. but i haven't succumbed yet. when i posted that last message, i was rediscovering my immense (and partly forgotten) love for the mode: however, from what i've heard i don't think i hear/enjoy the same things about their music as most of their remixers.
that said: i know one day i'll be bored and i'll download it. there's a richard x mix of enjoy the silence that i'd quite like to hear, but i don't think it's on the album.