I had a copy of "20 Jazz Funk Greats" a few years ago because i heard it was early roots to industrial music and i remember feeling like i wasn't "ready" for it or some dumbshit. I'll have to check it out. Any comments from anyone about TG? I would also like some opinions.
Posts: 30 | Location: LA | Registered: 02 May 2008
I had that album, didn't think it was all that great. I've actually listened to quite a few lectures on KFJC college radio about TG and their next project, Coil, which I vastly prefer. Coil strips away a lot of the goofy industrial stuff and focuses more on dark ambient and other weird stuff. Each album is shockingly different thought. I have heard probably 3 hours of Coil's music through that radio station and only an album (Sebvaggina, Go Back Into the Woods) via my own collection. One cool thing throbbing gristle did was use machines to create resonant sounds. Apparently they had one machine that would make you vomit if you entered the room with it. When recorded and pressed onto vinyl it induced nausea. I'm quite skeptical, but the ideas at work are cool. I'll see if I can find the lectures / interviews.
TG work better as a concept rather than a listening experience, what with all the importance of the visuals, and the constant fucking about with their sound...but they do have their moments, or their 24 hours, as that bloody live album shows us....us,or whoever it would be that can listen to 24 hrs of the bastards!!
But essentially, I would run to the shop and buy First Annual Report. Knowing yr tastes, I think with this little platter, you may have found the Holy Grail.
Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
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Well, fingers crossed you can get the films. I hope the picture quality brings out the truly eerie and odd ambience they create.
Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
Posts: 2332 | Location: The ever silent spaces of the East | Registered: 12 February 2007
Nah. I wish. But I have a mate, heavily into post-punk who saw them at the Astoria, London back a few years now.
He was blathering on about the fucking audacity of it or some such, how can they get away with that stuff...and how weird and disorientated he felt.
So I too wanna see all those films.
God, the UK in the late '70's...wow
Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
Posts: 2332 | Location: The ever silent spaces of the East | Registered: 12 February 2007
Actually the only album by Throbbing Gristle that I didn't like at all when I first listened to it was 20 Jazz Funk Greats.
Other than that, everything I've heard from them is ace and at about the same quality. A lot of it is not for very active listening but that's part of their appeal. If a gun was at my head and I had to pick a favorite I suppose I'd say Heathen Earth.
