130. Change by Killing Joke 1980

1980. In my small flat in Fitzroy north I'm in the bedroom putting stuff away when i hear my girlfriend Ange putting on records. which is odd because i usually do all the record playing in this relationship. Anyway each song she puts on is like something I've never heard before which is a bit disconcerting because I pride myself in knowing my record collection inside and out. I walk out to the living and she doesn't look happy. maybe we had an argument that morning but I can't remember.
"What are you playing? " I ask.
"You buy all these records and you never listen to them!"
Angela had been playing the b-sides of all my singles to make a point about my habit of buying so many records. She was right. In some ways. Often b-sides were just that, b-sides. But then she put on Change by Killing Joke. This was a record I bought just for the b-side. Never a fan of the killing joke i had heard this played on RRR and thought it amazing. Actually her action got to me to check out a lot of b-sides after she went home. So it all turned out good. Though the pickings were slim.
later I would play this song at Barbarellas. Until one day it disappeared along with a whole box of singles I accidentally left at the front door of Barbarellas. some one nicked it. I was devastated and it took me a long time and the advent of mp3s to get myself another copy. I sounds as fresh today as it did then. Killer!