Throbbing Gristle

Screen13 · 11-15-2010, 10:55 PM

TG are great, although I'm more familiar with what happened after. Have to get more, seriously.

Coil did have some of the most mind-bending music and experiments out of the groups evolved from TG, the favorite of mine being Horse Rotorvator, although Gold is the Metal and Unnatural History provided some great music and sounds for some Summer nights. I respected, but did not really get into, the Love's Secret Domain stuff although "Windowpane" was good.

PTV - A very mixed bag, but I sort of got into Force the Hand of Chance, occasionally play Dreams Less Sweet, and still love the Mid 80's diversion into actually denting the lower reaches of the official UK Pop Chart with "Godstar" while also for a short while checking up on the Live Album series. When they went House, it was over for me for a while, but all respect is deserved. Groundbreaking.

Chris and Cosey - I loved the Core project they did with Monte, Robert Wyatt, Boyd Rice, Lustmord and others, but I'm going to have to get out my small collection again to hear if I was seriously missing out on something the first time out (which I'm sure I am).

I'm rooted with the Late 80's-Early 90's sounds, but they're still with me. This was also the time I got Apocalypse Culture (Feral House edition) and also found the Cereal Box article interesting. Also got the Re/Search Industrial Culture Handbook...classic reading!

robot29 · 11-17-2010, 01:43 PM

yah - me big TG fan - got into it circuitously via Psychic TV/Coil... "2nd annual report' is still high on my playlist even after 20 years of hearing it... there's a great book called 'Tape Delay' for those who don't know much about the early UK industrial scene - has tg, coil, foetus, hafler trio, einstudzen neubatun (sp?), foetus and a whole lotta others. worth picking up if you're so inclined.

Screen13 · 11-17-2010, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by robot29

yah - me big TG fan - got into it circuitously via Psychic TV/Coil... "2nd annual report' is still high on my playlist even after 20 years of hearing it... there's a great book called 'Tape Delay' for those who don't know much about the early UK industrial scene - has tg, coil, foetus, hafler trio, einstudzen neubatun (sp?), foetus and a whole lotta others. worth picking up if you're so inclined.

Einsturzende Neubauten and Foetus were clearly the gateways for me, as well as hanging out one day at a friend of a friend who had 20 Jazz Funk Greats. There were cutouts of Drawings of Patient OT (EN) and Hole (Foetus), and I bought them right there and then - PVC I think went out of business by then and there were cutouts that landed at my favorite (and now long gone) record store.

I also remember reading through Tape Delay at a library I once frequented. I have to get a copy of that book soon.

mayaz · 11-21-2010, 11:51 PM

They're first stuff is their best stuff to me.

~~James~~ · 11-25-2010, 10:30 AM

Peter Christopherson is dead.
R.I.P.

dankrsta · 11-25-2010, 10:57 AM

Oh man, I don't believe this, first John Balance a couple years ago and now Christopherson. I just read about it, apparently he died in sleep.
R.I.P.

bob. · 11-25-2010, 04:10 PM

i just read about this....man...he had always been my favorite of all the Gristle fab four...hmmm looks like tis to be a coil/throbbing gristle/threshold house boys choir/soi song week

edit...i suppose that Coil is now reunited in death

savannah · 11-26-2010, 06:11 PM

i read about this this morning,....

good ol sleezy

SATCHMO · 11-27-2010, 09:01 AM

Alas, poor Sleezy, I knew him MB...

TockTockTock · 11-27-2010, 04:22 PM

I don't get any of their music... It seems just like yelling and electrical sounds.

11-15-2010, 10:55 PM	#31 (permalink)
Screen13 Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,388	TG are great, although I'm more familiar with what happened after. Have to get more, seriously. Coil did have some of the most mind-bending music and experiments out of the groups evolved from TG, the favorite of mine being Horse Rotorvator, although Gold is the Metal and Unnatural History provided some great music and sounds for some Summer nights. I respected, but did not really get into, the Love's Secret Domain stuff although "Windowpane" was good. PTV - A very mixed bag, but I sort of got into Force the Hand of Chance, occasionally play Dreams Less Sweet, and still love the Mid 80's diversion into actually denting the lower reaches of the official UK Pop Chart with "Godstar" while also for a short while checking up on the Live Album series. When they went House, it was over for me for a while, but all respect is deserved. Groundbreaking. Chris and Cosey - I loved the Core project they did with Monte, Robert Wyatt, Boyd Rice, Lustmord and others, but I'm going to have to get out my small collection again to hear if I was seriously missing out on something the first time out (which I'm sure I am). I'm rooted with the Late 80's-Early 90's sounds, but they're still with me. This was also the time I got Apocalypse Culture (Feral House edition) and also found the Cereal Box article interesting. Also got the Re/Search Industrial Culture Handbook...classic reading! Last edited by Screen13; 11-15-2010 at 11:10 PM.

11-25-2010, 10:57 AM	#36 (permalink)
dankrsta ... Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,776	Oh man, I don't believe this, first John Balance a couple years ago and now Christopherson. I just read about it, apparently he died in sleep. R.I.P. __________________ Last.fm

11-25-2010, 04:10 PM	#37 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i just read about this....man...he had always been my favorite of all the Gristle fab four...hmmm looks like tis to be a coil/throbbing gristle/threshold house boys choir/soi song week edit...i suppose that Coil is now reunited in death __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

11-26-2010, 06:11 PM	#38 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	i read about this this morning,.... good ol sleezy __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

11-17-2010, 01:43 PM	#32 (permalink)
robot29 Groupie Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 7	yah - me big TG fan - got into it circuitously via Psychic TV/Coil... "2nd annual report' is still high on my playlist even after 20 years of hearing it... there's a great book called 'Tape Delay' for those who don't know much about the early UK industrial scene - has tg, coil, foetus, hafler trio, einstudzen neubatun (sp?), foetus and a whole lotta others. worth picking up if you're so inclined.

11-21-2010, 11:51 PM	#34 (permalink)
mayaz Groupie Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1	They're first stuff is their best stuff to me.

11-25-2010, 10:30 AM	#35 (permalink)
~~James~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 4,483	Peter Christopherson is dead. R.I.P.

11-27-2010, 09:01 AM	#39 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	Alas, poor Sleezy, I knew him MB...

11-27-2010, 04:22 PM	#40 (permalink)
TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	I don't get any of their music... It seems just like yelling and electrical sounds.