"Adorations" | ||||
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Single by Killing Joke | ||||
from the album Brighter than a Thousand Suns | ||||
A-side | "Adorations (The Extended Mix)" | |||
B-side | "Exile" "Ecstasy (The Extended Mix)" |
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Released | August, 1986 | |||
Format |
12" single 7" single Cassette maxi single |
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Genre | Post-punk, new wave, coldwave | |||
Length | 17:39 | |||
Label |
E.G. Records Virgin Records Virgin Schallplatten GmbH |
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Songwriter(s) |
Jaz Coleman Kevin "Geordie" Walker Paul Raven Paul Ferguson |
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Producer(s) |
Chris Kimsey Stewart Levine |
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"Adorations" is Killing Joke's first single from their sixth studio album, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, released in August 1986.
"Adorations" was released in several versions including remixes.
The 12", released by E.G. Records in the UK, Virgin Records in Spain, and Virgin Schallplatten GmbH in Germany, featured "Adorations (The Extended Mix)" as the A-side, with the B-side of "Exile" and "Ecstasy (The Extended Mix)".
"Adorations (The Supernatural Mix)" was also released on 12" vinyl in the UK and featured "Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" and "Exile" as B-sides.
The 7" vinyl single, released in the UK, France, and Spain, featured a shortened, non-remixed version of the original "Adorations" from the album, with "Exile" as its B-side. E.G. also released a 7" limited-edition double vinyl single exclusively in the UK featuring the remix of "Adorations" as the A-side, "Exile" as the B-side, "Ecstasy" as the C-side, and "Adorations (Instrumental Mix)" as the D-side.
The cassette maxi release of "Adorations" featured "Adorations (The Extended Mix)" and "Ecstasy" as side one and "Exile" and "Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" as side two.
All of the releases were mixed by Julian Mendelsohn and Zeus B. Held, and produced by Chris Kimsey and Stewart Levine.
"Adorations" was the first single to display Killing Joke's "new sound". There was some appreciation: Kerrang! described "Adorations" as "a brilliant, uplifting slice of swooning synth romanticism, with Jaz Coleman in full croon. A guilty KJ pleasure if there ever was one." However, reviews were mixed at best. As described by Jaz Coleman in a 1991 MTV interview, "We went through hell." This was primarily because the members of Killing Joke did not agree on songwriting direction, and as a result, Paul Raven and Paul Ferguson were fired in 1988 by Coleman.