Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions

Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions
Studio album by Killing Joke
Released	November 1990 (1990-11)
Recorded	Townhouse studios, August 1990 (1990-08)
Genre	Post-punk Industrial metal
Length	65:08
Label	Noise
Producer	Killing Joke, Martin Rex
Killing Joke chronology
The Courtauld Talks (1989) Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions (1990) Pandemonium (1994)
Singles from Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions
"Money Is Not Our God" Released: January 1991 (1991-01)

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Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions is the ninth album of English post-punk group Killing Joke. It was released on CD and double LP in November 1990. This album featured both Martin Atkins (formerly of Public Image Ltd. and Brian Brain) on drums and Dave "Taif" Ball on bass-guitar.

The album was rereleased on October 15, 2007 by Candlelight Records in three editions: double LP, normal CD and a deluxe edition with a cd and a dual disc.

"Money Is Not Our God" was the only single from the album, and failed to chart.

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

Production and release

Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions saw a return to a rawer, guitar-based sound from the keyboards of their previous album Outside the Gate, and it was perhaps the closest they had come to making a metal album. The eyes on the cover of the album are not the band's, but belong to actor Conrad Veidt, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: the top pair is upside-down. The cover for the cassette version shows all four pairs upside-down. The back of the CD bears two Latin phrases: the first, "hoc volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas" means: "I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason", and was quoted from Roman poet Juvenal; the second, "semper imitatum nunquam idem" means: "always imitated, never replicated".

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 dual disc, with the DVD-side containing the music video for "Money Is Not Our God".

Track listing

All songs written by Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker and Martin Atkins.

1. "Money Is Not Our God" – 5:16
2. "Age of Greed" – 7:23
3. "The Beautiful Dead" – 5:57
4. "Extremities" – 5:19
5. "Intravenous" – 7:02
6. "Inside the Termite Mound" – 7:49
7. "Solitude" – 4:56
8. "North of the Border" – 5:52
9. "Slipstream" – 7:07
10. "Kaliyuga" – 2:08
11. "Struggle" – 6:13

2007 CD reissue bonus tracks

12. "The Party" (Demo) – 5:09
13. "The Fanatic" (Demo) – 4:22
14. "Solitude" (Demo) – 5:10
15. "Jubilation" (Demo) – 4:37
16. "Age of Greed" (Live) – 12:05

Cassette release

1. "Money Is Not Our God" – 5:26
2. "Age of Greed" – 6:49
3. "The Beautiful Dead" – 5:41
4. "Extremities" – 5:16
5. "Intravenous" – 6:58
6. "Inside the Termite Mound" – 8:03
7. "Solitude" – 4:56
8. "North of the Border" – 5:59
9. "Slipstream" – 7:05
10. "Kaliyuga-Struggle" - 8:18

Personnel

• Jaz Coleman - vocals, synthesizer
• Kevin "Geordie" Walker - guitar
• Paul Raven - bass guitar (tracks 1-11)
• Dave "Taif" Ball - bass guitar (tracks 12-16)
• Martin Atkins - drums, vocals
• John Bechdel - synthesizer (tracks 1-11)
• Dave Kovacevic - synthesizer (track 16)
• Hodge: Rapping

Production

• Produced By Killing Joke & J.M. Rex
• Engineer, Mixing: J.M. Rex
• Assistant & Second Engineers: Michael Butterworth & Dominic Robson