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Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain '1981/2019

Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain
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Album name Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain
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Date 1981/2019
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Play time 1:30:46
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
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Size 220 mb / 543 mb
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 Genesis P-Orridge was the Frank Zappa of experimental electronic music,
exploring virtually every notion and idea of performance that he could possibly
muster. And his period with Throbbing Gristle resulted in some of the most dense
and difficult music to ever see the light of day, a staggering thought even
decades after the bands demise. Turning the idea of rock music on its head and
injecting it with a lethal dose of electronica, Gristle were light years ahead
of their time and suffered endless persecution from the British government
because of their wild ideas. On this ironically titled collection, the band
offers 11 tracks that plant the seeds for a number of genres. Synth pop is here
in the primal, awkward guise of Adrenalin, while Hot on the Heels of Love may be
one of the very first techno songs ever. Subhuman would set the standard for the
type of ranting industrial rock that Skinny Puppy and Ministry would actually
have to water down, and Six Six Sixties is the sort of guitar-driven noise
narrative that would later find brief popularity with the New York City art rock
scene. Elsewhere, punk rises from the dead as a shambling zombie (Blood on the
Floor); Kraftwerk is reshaped into disco death jazz (20 Jazz Funk Greats);
United paves the way for P-Orridges own descent into pop; and the spine-chilling
What a Day is the closest they could ever come to having a rave-up. Beyond these
tracks, everything else sounds like it was recorded on a distant planet hundreds
of years ago, blending the primal sludge of early Residents with the demented
sonic experiments of Faust and Can. The results range from the eerie and ugly
(Tiab Guls) to the sublimely beautiful (AB/7A). This beauty is the primary
reason why Throbbing Gristle were as good as they were; it was so hard to
dismiss the band because these weird hooks and chunks of pop found their way
into the harshest noise experiments. Standing heads and tails above the rest of
their contemporaries, this is the best place to first discover Throbbing
Gristles difficult but rewarding body of work. Anyone with even a passing
interest in unusual and experimental music would do themselves a big favor by
checking this out. 
:: TRACKLIST ::

Disc: 1
 1. Hamburger Lady
 2. Hot OnThe Heels Of Love
 3. Subhuman
 4. AB/7A
 5. Six Six Sixties
 6. Blood On The Floor
 7. 20 Jazz Funk Greats
 8. Tiab Guls
 9. United
 10. What A Day
 11. Adrenalin

Disc: 2
 1. The Old Man Smiled (Alternative Mix) Previously Unreleased
 2. Zyklon B Zombie - 7 Single
 3. Dead On Arrival
 4. We Hate You (Little Girls)
 5. Five Knuckle Shuffle - 7 Single
 6. Discipline (Berlin - Edit) -12 Single
 7. Persuasion
 8. AB7A (AB7B Mix) Previously Unreleased
 9. Distant Dreams (Part Two) - 7 Single