Favourite Throbbing Gristle track 77- 79

[adamcoan]

As the title says, just one. Ridiculous task i will readily admit.

So, come on, let's ave em !!!

[Mr. FOLLARD]

I heard something once by them that was quite good. But I'm blowed if I can remember the name

[adamcoan]

Dec 29, 2023 20:37:04 GMT Mr. FOLLARD said:

I heard something once by them that was quite good. But I'm blowed if I can remember the name

Hopefully this thread will open your mind and ears, refresh your memory.

[Mr. FOLLARD]

So post some selectiones

[DarknessFish]

I think the Manchester Factory gig is one of the finest live albums ever recorded. Gen is clearly in an odd mood at returning to Manc, internal tensions were raging, and they started adding more structure to their sound around this time. The version of What a Day here is industrial perfection. Zip forwards to 35 mins, YouTube won't let me link to a specific time via phone:

[adamcoan]

Career through the streets of Prague Johnny boy listening to this beauty.

[adamcoan]

EPIC.

[DarknessFish]

I might be wrong, but I think See You Are was a one-off at that same Factory gig, I don't remember hearing any other recording of it. Remarkable to come up with something like that, dunno I it was improvised or what, but it's a proper glistening steel monolith of a track.

[adamcoan]

Ain't it. Once you start listening to them, the funny vocals, odd squeels and the sound of jet engines played backwards, cut into pieces and spliced together again, you accept that you are in a world where even a cocktail of drugs cannot take you. This band , who have an obviously deranged magik influenced pervert or libertine ( depending on what you keep in your bedroom draw) as a ' vocalist, a rather pretty lady, strangely reminiscent of Mick Fleetwood and a couple of civil servants take you on a trip where you swear you will never touch absinthe again.

Yet, there, out on the edge of your comfort zone. Lie Throbbing Gristle. Was a band ever better named ?

[Sneelock]

I hope this isn't the one that shows as "unavailable" upthread but I'll stand by it either way.



they could be almost pretty. it's easy to forget that about them. the only chance I ever had to see them was ALL the way out in Culver Fucking City when I had a dinky little motorcycle. I took a pass.

"united" is the first thing I heard by them and while uncharacteristic it provoked me to buy things with their name on them.
they were pretty big for me for quite a while. then I lived with other people and they thought listening to that sort of thing meant I need counseling or something. maybe I did.

2nd Annual Report and ...jazz funk greats still strike me as pretty great. I liked that Chris & Cosey stuff too, especially "Trance"

[rayge]

I like the Chris & Cosey stuff too.

Come to think of it, I have a more positive memory of all the bands they splintered into - Coil and Psychic TV - than of TG themselves, probably because I was into punk and doll by doll and The Only Ones and working in an ad agency in those years. A very dark time. 

Can't listen to anything posted upthread because sound has gone on my laptop.

another pointless post

[Stacy Heydon]

Mostly dreadful, although 'Hot on the Heels of Love' did help to invent techno. Really the less Genesis was involved the better they probably were.

[DarknessFish]

Just pointing out that United and HOTHOL weren't that much of outliers in TG's output, there was always room for synthpop efforts like this:



And



Chris Carter also did some nifty solo synthpop instrumentals around this time, too:

[Sneelock]

there's something to that as evidenced by that pic where GPO is wearing a YMO shirt.

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[quaco]

Probably "Hamburger Lady" I guess just because it stands out as sort of a classic, but their albums are pretty consistent throughout. It's hard to pick favorites. DoA is a beautiful album. "Slug Bait" is also very powerful, still.