smoke screen
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Thursday, 11 November 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/25/throbbing-gristles-peter-sleazy-christopherson-dies-aged-55/
:(
― Lindsey Lohan is the new Extreme Noise Terror (onimo), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Aww RIP Sleazy.
― 4 out of 5 Fenriz agree. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Did "X-TG" make it to Italy? That story seems to suggest not.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:21 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
if he died in the midst of beefing w/ Gen then that is sad upon sad
― cthulhu thuggin (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
started a new thread for this... He deserves it...
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:31 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP dude
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa they're doing double-CD versions of the first four albums with extras on the 2nd discs... would love to get more detailed tracklisting if anybody knows.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yesssssssss. I was just thinking they needed badly to do something like this. As long as the second disc isn't just modern live stuff.
― Jheri Curlnelius (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 October 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
Each release in this 'Time Capsule' series, comes with an additional disc of selected TG live performances culled from our TG24 archive recordings. They are selected to represent TG live performances specific to the original release year of each album.
I'd be surprised if there was any original-era live stuff left in the archives that hasn't already seen an official release, but let's see.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Thursday, 13 October 2011 07:38 (twelve years ago) link
it'll be from the 24 Hours of collection i assume from that press release. it's the internet age, it wouldn't kill somebody to make that whole set commercially available again surely?
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty cool. i've listened to some of that 24 hours set and there is some incredible stuff.
― tylerw, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
YES!
The new reissues sound ~sublime~
Just listening to DOA 3rd & Final now, it sounds fucking great. I'm not sure whether this unmasks the original as a horribly bad pressing, or that it actually improved this much, but this reissue sounds so much wider in scope, so much deeper. There's bass-y sounds on here I never even noticed before on the originals!
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
I am gonna buy the hell out of all these reissues.
― sleeve, Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
Really? Shit. I passed on DOA because I got a nice second hand vinyl copy recently. Hoping to get my Heathen Earth and 20 Jazz Funk Greats soon though. Sooooo looking forward to getting the latter on vinyl now you write this though.
― kraudive, Saturday, 5 November 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
Well I don't know what to tell you (and congrats on your vinyl copy regardless!), but this just sounds... amazing. There's a depth I haven't heard on the original vinyl pressings, it sounds so much more spacious. Apologies if that sounds vague, don't know how else to describe it, but it sounds so much 'richer'. At long last.
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 6 November 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Hey are you talkin' vinyl reissue or the CD?
― bear has little fear of hades (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 6 November 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I recall that the vinyl reissues had appeared (and went, apparently) some months ago.
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 6 November 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
2nd Annual Report CD and vinyl were listed in the Forced Exposure update I got this morning...
― sleeve, Sunday, 6 November 2011 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
The vinyl reissues came out last week. I know because I bought the lot.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Sunday, 6 November 2011 10:30 (twelve years ago) link
I meant the cd's btw
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh. I thought you were speaking vinyl.
― kraudive, Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
Still waiting for the vinyls to arrive, but can't imagine them being any less great than the cd's tbh
― Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 7 November 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, so yet another reissue series happening:
Throbbing Gristle and Mute announce a series of reissues, set to start on the 40th anniversary of their debut album release, The Second Annual Report. On November 3, 2017 The Second Annual Report, presented as a limited edition white vinyl release in the original packaging and also on double CD, and 20 Jazz Funk Greats, on green vinyl and double CD, will be released. Accompanying these releases will be The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide to Throbbing Gristle with an updated tracklisting that will include “Almost A Kiss” (from 2007’s Part Two: Endless Not). This will be the first time The Taste Of TG is available on vinyl and will be presented on double red vinyl alongside a CD and digital release.November’s anniversary releases will be followed by further catalog releases in January and April 2018. January 26, 2018D.o.A. The Third And Final ReportHeathen EarthPart Two: Endless Not April 27, 2018Mission Of Dead SoulsGreatest HitsJourney Through A BodyIn The Shadow Of The Sun 2017 saw Throbbing Gristle’s catalog available on streaming services for the first time. This was the initial stage of Mute releasing the band’s entire classic catalog physically and digitally. Mute and Throbbing Gristle will continue the reissues series, creating previously unreleased box sets and making available long out-of-print and important pieces of work.
November’s anniversary releases will be followed by further catalog releases in January and April 2018. January 26, 2018D.o.A. The Third And Final ReportHeathen EarthPart Two: Endless Not April 27, 2018Mission Of Dead SoulsGreatest HitsJourney Through A BodyIn The Shadow Of The Sun 2017 saw Throbbing Gristle’s catalog available on streaming services for the first time. This was the initial stage of Mute releasing the band’s entire classic catalog physically and digitally. Mute and Throbbing Gristle will continue the reissues series, creating previously unreleased box sets and making available long out-of-print and important pieces of work.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Not seeing anything whether this is just a straight replication of the previous 2-CD reissues a few years back. Which I'm holding onto, obviously.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
yeah I really don't get this, those 2CDs from 2011 are definitive IMO
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
that being said I'm curious as to what extra tracks might be in that second batch
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
It looks like the 2011 are OOP? They're pretty expensive on Discogs/Amazon etc
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
oh well if this is just a straight repress that makes more sense
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 August 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AOc0VL7L7I
All you American politicians who lie down in front of wrecked cars. . . .
Shit, which song is that?
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:57 (six years ago) link
Talk of bands as dogs has reminded me of the episode of the ITV sitcom "Only When I Laugh" when Figgis put money on a greyhound called Throbbing Gristle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FfKh5JeAk
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 April 2021 11:43 (three years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/30303-chris-carter-bakers-dozen-favourite-albums-throbbing-gristle
Nice Baker's Dozen by Chris. The accompanying pieces are full of interesting tidbits, like this one on an amazing triple bill that never was (from the The Man Machine entry)
Fast forward 28 years… while Throbbing Gristle were recording in Berlin in 2006 and our manager took us to see this enormous dilapidated old power station that was being converted into a new music venue, it was to become the Kraftwerk, which is German for power station. A plan was hatched between our Throbbing Gristle manager and our former Chris & Cosey tour manager, who is also Kraftwerk's (the band) manager, to have a triple bill of Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin and Throbbing Gristle play on the opening night at Kraftwerk (the venue). The problem was that Genesis detested Kraftwerk (the band) and Aphex Twin. His favourite insult was to snarl “they’re nothing more than a laptop band”, it tiresomely became one of Gen’s favourite put-downs for electronic bands, well that and “they’re just knob twiddlers". It would've been an awesome night but Gen hated the notion of ’supporting’ Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin and completely nixed the idea and refused to be involved.
― willem, Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
Cosey Fanni Tutti talking about Art Sex magic and things on Book Shambles as well as her forthcoming work on female pioneers including Delia Derbyshire which is why she was on the recent biography I assumehttps://open.spotify.com/episode/1t8tBddehjYtfZqqUtb2NI?si=86cbeba00ace43b1
― Stevolende, Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
So Chris heard a bootleg cassette copy of Joe Meek's "I Hear a New World" in the late 60s? Far be it from me to say he might be telling porkies there but...
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
Ha, busted! I never realised until I looked it up just now that the original 60's release was a 7" and the album (actually a compilation then, right) only became available in the 90's. But since he lived just across the studio he maybe smooth talked someone into giving him a ropey mono tape ;)
― willem, Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
to be fair he does say "tape", it could easily have been a reel
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
oh, whoops, no he does say "cassette", hmm
― sleeve, Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
i have heard him talk about the joe meek tape multiple times previously so am gonna believe he had it.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
TG is one of those bands that I've been meaning to really "get to" forever. Eventually.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
(xp) In the late 60s though? When he was still a schoolboy? Could be a misprint/misquote.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
Also, famously, there are no synthesizers on "Irrlicht".
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
In the late 60s though? When he was still a schoolboy?
no, i haven't heard him claim that so wonder if it is a misquote. i will ask him, some day.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 5 August 2021 16:59 (two years ago) link
Raymond WHAT
you just need to start at the beginning with 2nd Annual Report and go in order, don't sleep on the singles
― sleeve, Friday, 6 August 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
here:
2nd Annual Report LP (Nov. '77)United/Zyklon B Zombie 7" (May 1978)D.O.A Third And Final Report LP (Dec. 4 1978)We Hate You Little Girls/Five Knuckle Shuffle 7" (May 1979)20 Jazz Funk Greats LP (Dec. 1979)Heathen Earth LP (June 1980)Adrenalin/Distant Dreams/Subhuman/Something Came Over Me dual 7" release (Oct. 23 1980)
and then move on to the live stuff if you like this
other opinions may vary! "Thee Psychick Sacrifice" in its original 2Lp format is prob my fave live document
― sleeve, Friday, 6 August 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
I only got into them a few years ago and this 2 disc comp was the perfect gsteway:
https://www.discogs.com/Throbbing-Gristle-Throbbing-Gristles-Greatest-Hits-Entertainment-Through-Pain/release/14103048
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 6 August 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
I'd take 2nd Annual Report over all their other records put together; they were one of these groups like Buffalo Springfield, whose members were pulling in so many different directions, that they started falling apart almost immediately. Their debut is the one where it feels like they all have a common goal - scary space music.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 6 August 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link
oh c'mon, Heathen Earth is just as coherent imo
― sleeve, Friday, 6 August 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
Second annual report sounds pretty great so far
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 6 August 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
Are those anniversary 2cds from about 10yrs ago still available. Just occurring to me that I heard TG pretty much invented the limited edition in rock or industrial music. & those paired studio lp, bonus which I think included contemporary singles to whichever lp plus I think a relevant live set to each lp.
― Stevolende, Friday, 6 August 2021 04:24 (two years ago) link
I'd take 2nd Annual Report over all their other records put together; they were one of these groups like Buffalo Springfield, whose members were pulling in so many different directions, that they started falling apart almost immediately.
That might be what happened with Buffalo Springfield but that's not what happened with TG and, whether it is or not, they both made great records anyway. TG's official four albums are great. The live stuff defines YMMV.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Friday, 6 August 2021 06:55 (two years ago) link