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{{short description|Song by Killing Joke}}
{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
| Name = Adorations
{{Use British English|date=July 2019}}
| Cover = Adorations_12"_ext_1986.jpg|
{{Infobox song
| Artist = [[Killing Joke]]
| name = Adorations
| from Album = [[Brighter than a Thousand Suns (album)|Brighter than a Thousand Suns]]
| cover = Adorations_12"_ext_1986.jpg
| A-side = "Adorations (the Extended mix)"
| alt =
| B-side = "Exile"<br>"Ecstasy (the Extended mix)"
| Released = {{Start date|August, 1986}}
| type = single
| artist = [[Killing Joke]]
| Format = [[12-inch single|12" single]]<br>[[7" single]]<br>[[maxi single{{!}}Cassette Maxi single]]
| album = [[Brighter than a Thousand Suns (album)|Brighter than a Thousand Suns]]
| Genre = [[Synthpop]]<br>[[New Wave music|New wave]]
| Length = 17:39
| A-side = Adorations (The Extended Mix)
| B-side = {{ubl|"Exile"|"Ecstasy (The Extended Mix)"}}
| Label = [[E'G Records]]<br>[[Virgin Records]]<br>[[Virgin Schallplatten GmbH]]
| released = {{Start date|August 1986}}
| Writer = [[Jaz Coleman]]<br>[[Kenneth Walker|Kevin "Geordie" Walker]]<br>[[Paul Raven]]<br>[[Paul Ferguson]]
| recorded =
| Producer = [[Chris Kimsey]]<br>[[Stewart Levine]]
| studio =
| Last single = "''[[Kings and Queens (Killing Joke song)|Kings and Queens]]''"<br>(1985)
| venue =
| This single = "'''''Adorations'''''"<br>(1986)
| genre = [[Post-punk]], [[new wave music|new wave]], [[cold wave (music)|cold wave]]
| Next single = "''[[Sanity (song)|Sanity]]''"<br>(1986)
| Misc =
| length = 17:39 (maxi single)<br>4:39 (album version)
| label = [[E.G. Records]]<br />[[Virgin Records]]<br />[[Virgin Schallplatten GmbH]]
{{Extra chronology 2
| writer = [[Jaz Coleman]]<br />[[Geordie Walker|Kevin "Geordie" Walker]]<br />[[Paul Raven (musician)|Paul Raven]]<br />[[Paul Ferguson]]
| Artist = [[Killing Joke]] cassette
| producer = [[Chris Kimsey]]<br />[[Stewart Levine]]
| Type = single
| prev_title = [[Kings and Queens (Killing Joke song)|Kings and Queens]]
| This single = "'''''Adorations<br>(The Cassette Maxi Single)'''''"<br>(1986)
| prev_year = 1985
| Next single = "''[[Sanity (song)|Sanity<br>(The Cassette Maxi Single)]]''"<br>(1986)
| next_title = [[Sanity (song)|Sanity]]
}}
| next_year = 1986
{{Extra tracklisting
| Album = [[Brighter than a Thousand Suns]]
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| Type = studio
| artist = [[Killing Joke]] cassette
| this_track = "'''Adortaions'''"
| type = single
| prev_title =
| track_no = 1
| prev_year =
| next_track = "[[Sanity (song){{!}}Sanity]]"
| title = Adorations (The Cassette Maxi Single)
| next_no = 2
| year = 1986
}}
| next_title = [[Sanity (song)|Sanity (The Cassette Maxi Single)]]
{{Extra album cover 2
| next_year = 1986
| Upper caption = Cassette Maxi Single Outerfold
}}
| Type = single
| Cover = Entire_fold_adorations_cassette_1986.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations Cassette Maxi Single Outerfold''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Upper caption = 12" Virgin Records release
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_Vigin_Germany_12"_A.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations 45 RPM Side A''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_Virgin_Germany_12"_B.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations 45 RPM Side B''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Upper caption = 12" Supernatural Mix release
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_Supernatural_Mix_12"_A.jpg
| Lower caption = ''The Supernatural Mix Side A Inner Sleeve''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Upper caption = 7" release
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_7"_release_A.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations Side A Inner Sleeve''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_7"_release_B.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations Side B Inner Sleeve''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Upper caption = 7" Double Vinyl release
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_Double_7"_A.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations Side A Inner Sleeve''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_Double_7"_D.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations Side D Inner Sleeve''
}}
{{Extra album cover 2
| Type = single
| Cover = Adorations_Double_7"_Innerfold.jpg
| Lower caption = ''Adorations Innerfold''
}}
}}
}}


'''''Adorations''''' is [[Killing Joke]]'s first single off their sixth studio album, ''[[Brighter than a Thousand Suns (album)|Brighter than a Thousand Suns]]''. It was released in August, 1986.<ref name="Discogs"> {{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/release/460568|title=Adorations|accessdate=24 December 2008}}</ref>
"'''Adorations'''" is [[Killing Joke]]'s first single from their sixth studio album, ''[[Brighter than a Thousand Suns (album)|Brighter than a Thousand Suns]]'', released in August 1986.<ref name="Discogs">{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/release/460568 |title=Adorations |publisher=Discogs |accessdate=24 December 2008}}</ref> All of the releases were mixed by [[Julian Mendelsohn]] and [[Zeus B. Held]], and produced by [[Chris Kimsey]] and [[Stewart Levine]].


The single was accompanied by a music video of the band performing the song in a cathedral.<ref>{{Citation|title=Killing Joke - Adorations|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-cYH8udSk&list=RDMMqV-cYH8udSk|language=en|access-date=2021-05-09}}</ref>
''Adorations'' was released as several version including remixes, and even on cassette. ''Adorations (the Extended mix)'' was featured as an A-side on a 12" vinyl, with the B-side of ''Exile'', and ''Ecstasy (the Extended mix)''. Both original versions of the songs were originally featured on the CD and cassette releases of ''Brighter than a Thousand Suns''. The single was released under [[E'G Records]] in the UK , [[Virgin Records]] in Spain, and [[Virgin Schallplatten GmbH]] in Germany. ''Adorations (the Supernatural mix)'' was also released on a 12" vinyl in the UK and featured ''Love Like Blood (the '86 Remix)'' and ''Exile'' as B-sides. The 7" vinyl single release feature ''Adorations'', a shortened, non-remixed, version of the original ''Adorations'' featured on their studio album, as an A-side, with ''Exile'' as its B-side. The single was released in the UK, France, and Spain. E'G Records also released a 7" limited edition double vinyl single exclusively in the UK, and featured 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.


== Track listings ==
Throughout all the releases, ''Adorations'' was mixed by [[Julian Mendelsohn]] and [[Zeus B. Held]], and produced by [[Chris Kimsey]] and [[Stewart Levine]].
"Adorations" was released in several versions including remixes. The 7" vinyl single, released in the UK, France, and Spain, was a shorter edit of "Adorations", with "Exile" (also from ''Brighter Than A Thousand Suns'') as its B-side. The 12" featured an extended mix as its [[A-side]], with "Exile" and an extended mix of "Ecstasy" on the B-side.


"Adorations (The Supernatural Mix)" was released on 12" vinyl in the UK and featured "[[Love Like Blood (song)|Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)]]" and "Exile" as B-sides.
==Reception==
''Adorations'' was the first taste the world received with this "new sound" that Killing Joke acquired. Though controversial to their previous work, appreciation was somewhat apparent. [[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."<ref name="Kerrang!"> {{cite web|url=http://www.kerrang.com/wheretostartwith/artists/killing_joke|title=Adorations|accessdate=17 February 2009}}</ref>.


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. A cassette maxi single was also released.
What ''Adorations'' consisted of appeared throughout ''Brighter than a Thousand Suns'', which overall, was not generally accepted, considering what Killing Joke was all about. As described by Jaz Coleman in a 1991 interview with MTV pertaining to their eighth studio album, ''[[Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions]]'', "we went through hell." This was primarily due to the fact that managing and producing was dismal, members of Killing Joke did not agree on the material to write, and as a result, Paul Raven and Paul Ferguson were fired in 1988 by Jaz himself. The next four years would come to be a "downfall" for Killing Joke, while releasing two unsuccessful albums, barely any producing, low marketing, and absent appreciation.


=== 7" single ===
Several blogs and forums have recorded that songs like ''Adorations'', ''[[Sanity]]'', and ''Chessboards'' are still favored by many fans, even to point that they are personal favorites. Though that may be true, reviewers from ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Allmusic.com'' have consistently stated that the downfall of Killing Joke began with ''Adorations''.
;Side A
#"Adorations" – 04:09<ref group="tln" name="JM">Mixed by Julian Mendelsohn</ref>


;Side B
==Track listings==
#"Exile" – 06:09
;7" single
Side A:
#"Adorations" (04:09)*


=== Limited double 7" single ===
Side B:
;Side A
#"Exile" (06:09)
#"Adorations" – 04:38<ref group="tln" name="JM" /><ref group="tln" name="CK">Produced by Chris Kimsey</ref>


;Side B
;7" limited edition double vinyl single
#"Exile" – 06:04<ref group="tln" name="CK" />
Side A:
#"Adorations" (04:38)* **


Side B:
;Side C
#"Ecstasy" – 04:08<ref group="tln" name="SL">Produced by Stewart Levine</ref>
#"Exile" (06:04)**


Side C:
;Side D
#"Adorations (Instrumental Mix)" – 04:02<ref group="tln" name="CK" /><ref group="tln" name="ZBH">Mixed by Zeus B. Held</ref>
#"Ecstasy" (04:08)***


=== 12" Extended Mix ===
Side D:
;Side A
#"Adorations (instrumental mix)" (04:02)** †
#"Adorations (The Extended Mix)" – 05:08<ref group="tln" name="JM" /><ref group="tln" name="CK" />


;Side B
;12" E'G Records Extended Mix
#"Exile" – 6:04<ref group="tln" name="CK" />
Side A:
#"Adorations (the Extended mix)" (05:08)* **
#"Ecstasy (The Extended Mix)" – 06:27<ref group="tln" name="SL" />


=== 12" Supernatural Mix ===
Side B:
;Side A
#"Exile" (6:04)**
#"Adorations (The Supernatural Mix)" – 06:34<ref group="tln" name="ZBH" />
#"Ecstasy (the Extended mix)" (06:27)***


;Side B
;12" Virgin Records Extended Mix
#"Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" – 06:17<ref group="tln" name="ZBH" />
Side A:
#"Exile" – 06:02<ref group="tln" name="ZBH" />
#"Adorations (the Extended mix)" (05:08)* **


=== Cassette Maxi single ===
Side B:
;Side One
#"Exile" (06:04)**
#"Adorations (The Supernatural mix)" – 06:41<ref group="tln" name="CK" /><ref group="tln" name="ZBH" />
#"Ecstasy (the Extended mix)" (06:30)***
#"Ecstasy" – 04:10<ref group="tln" name="SL" />


;Side Two
;12" Supernatural Mix†
#"Exile" (06:09<ref group="tln" name="CK" />
Side A:
#"Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" – 06:29<ref group="tln" name="CK" /><ref group="tln" name="ZBH" />
#"Adorations (the Supernatural mix)" (06:34)


=== Track listings notes ===
Side B:
{{Reflist|group=tln}}
#"Love Like Blood (the '86 Remix)" (06:17)
#"Exile" (06:02)


== Charts ==
;Cassette Maxi single
{|class="wikitable"
Side One:
!Year
#"Adorations (the Supernatural mix)" (06:41)** †
!Chart
#"Ecstasy" (04:10)***
!Peak<br />Position
|-
|align="center"| 1986
| [[UK Singles Chart]]<ref name="chartstats">[https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/ Official Charts Company - Killing Joke]. OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-05</ref>
|align="center"| 42
|}


== References ==
Side Two:
#"Exile" (06:09)**
#"Love Like Blood (the '86 Remix)" (06:29) ** †

(*) mixed by Julian Mendelsohn<br>(**) produced by Chris Kimsey<br>(***) produced by Stewart Levine<br>(†) mixed by Zeus B. Held

==References==
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==External links==
== External links ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFAVCYgcg3U Adorations music video]
*{{YouTube|qV-cYH8udSk|"Adorations" music video}}


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Latest revision as of 14:52, 27 November 2021

"Adorations"
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)"
ReleasedAugust 1986 (August 1986)
GenrePost-punk, new wave, cold wave
Length17:39 (maxi single)
4:39 (album version)
LabelE.G. Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Schallplatten GmbH
Songwriter(s)Jaz Coleman
Kevin "Geordie" Walker
Paul Raven
Paul Ferguson
Producer(s)Chris Kimsey
Stewart Levine
Killing Joke singles chronology
"Kings and Queens"
(1985) 		"Adorations"
(1986) 		"Sanity"
(1986)
Killing Joke cassette singles chronology
"Adorations (The Cassette Maxi Single)"
(1986) 		"Sanity (The Cassette Maxi Single)"
(1986)

"Adorations" is Killing Joke's first single from their sixth studio album, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, released in August 1986.[1] All of the releases were mixed by Julian Mendelsohn and Zeus B. Held, and produced by Chris Kimsey and Stewart Levine.

The single was accompanied by a music video of the band performing the song in a cathedral.[2]

Track listings

[edit]

"Adorations" was released in several versions including remixes. The 7" vinyl single, released in the UK, France, and Spain, was a shorter edit of "Adorations", with "Exile" (also from Brighter Than A Thousand Suns) as its B-side. The 12" featured an extended mix as its A-side, with "Exile" and an extended mix of "Ecstasy" on the B-side.

"Adorations (The Supernatural Mix)" was released on 12" vinyl in the UK and featured "Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" and "Exile" as B-sides.

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. A cassette maxi single was also released.

7" single

[edit]
Side A
  1. "Adorations" – 04:09[tln 1]
Side B
  1. "Exile" – 06:09

Limited double 7" single

[edit]
Side A
  1. "Adorations" – 04:38[tln 1][tln 2]
Side B
  1. "Exile" – 06:04[tln 2]
Side C
  1. "Ecstasy" – 04:08[tln 3]
Side D
  1. "Adorations (Instrumental Mix)" – 04:02[tln 2][tln 4]

12" Extended Mix

[edit]
Side A
  1. "Adorations (The Extended Mix)" – 05:08[tln 1][tln 2]
Side B
  1. "Exile" – 6:04[tln 2]
  2. "Ecstasy (The Extended Mix)" – 06:27[tln 3]

12" Supernatural Mix

[edit]
Side A
  1. "Adorations (The Supernatural Mix)" – 06:34[tln 4]
Side B
  1. "Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" – 06:17[tln 4]
  2. "Exile" – 06:02[tln 4]

Cassette Maxi single

[edit]
Side One
  1. "Adorations (The Supernatural mix)" – 06:41[tln 2][tln 4]
  2. "Ecstasy" – 04:10[tln 3]
Side Two
  1. "Exile" (06:09[tln 2]
  2. "Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" – 06:29[tln 2][tln 4]

Track listings notes

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  1. ^ a b c Mixed by Julian Mendelsohn
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Produced by Chris Kimsey
  3. ^ a b c Produced by Stewart Levine
  4. ^ a b c d e f Mixed by Zeus B. Held

Charts

[edit]
Year Chart Peak
Position
1986 UK Singles Chart[3] 42

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Adorations". Discogs. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
  2. ^ Killing Joke - Adorations, retrieved 9 May 2021
  3. ^ Official Charts Company - Killing Joke. OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved on 2010-07-05
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