Grief

Throbbing Gristle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thirsty Ear
• ASIN: B00005K9UJ
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #488,377 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Camera

2. Telephone

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars if you flick the 'balance' knob, an interesting interview, September 27, 2001

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Winthrop Harrison "winharrison" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grief (Audio CD)

Wow! A new Throbbing Gristle release! Hardly. This is a great example of what I've always felt about TG. Weird and scary, but also a bit of a prank. This disc - not old, clearly a recent side-scrape of the Throbbing Gristle (media/aural) barrel - is only for TG fanatics. I am one of that lot, so I'll give up the punchline. This CD contains interviews with Genesis P'Orridge, Japanese/Russian & 'cut-up'/'found sound'/ambient noise. The trickery lies with the mixing, like the Velvet Underground's "Gift".

SPOILER: if you want to hear the intersting thoughts of Genesis, shift your stereo Balance knob to hard left. If you want to hear Throbbing Gristle demos, switch your Balance knob to hard right. Either way, it's a pain. Throbbing Gristle in a nutshell. There's no music of worth here, and you'd be mad to make this one of your first TG purchases.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Throbbing Gristle - 'Grief' (Yeeah!/Almafame), December 19, 2004

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grief (Audio CD)

'Grief' was originally put out as a bootleg,but BEFORE the label Thirsty Ear put it out as a legit release,the UK label Yeeah!/Almafame had released it on theirs.'Grief' is a rather strange CD to have a copy of.If you're a new/er Gristle fan,you might want to check out a few of their main lp's/reissues FIRST.Then,if you like what you hear,go ahead and get 'Grief'.Two cuts here of lengthy(how would one put it?)indepth sound collages.I liked "Camera"(24:29)a bit better than I did "Telephone"(23:03).But,then again,Throbbing Gristle has always been considered to be,like mutated industrial.Their line-up(sometimes I have a tough time remembering)is:Genesis P-Orridge-bass&clarinet,Chris Carter-keyboards&synthesizer,Peter Christopherson-sound effects and Casey Fanni Tutti-guitar&vocals.Their influences come from Faust,Can and Silver Apples.Could appeal to fans of Clock DVA,Front Line Assembly and Controlled Bleeding.Pretty much aimed toward completists.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars avoid this CD!, January 10, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Grief (Audio CD)

Rubbish - sounds like a tape put together by a TG fan in about 1985 or thereabouts. Basically, this is some interviews with G P-O and radio programmes in a variety of languages mixed with some TG live pieces and put into split stereo. That makes it sound vaguely interesting, but it's not. Not one for TG obsessives, or anyone really.
A real rip-off to reissue this on CD, esp as there are a load of great TG concert tapes around that have yet to make the transfer to CD (ok, i know they're on the boxset, but who the [...] has the time or money for that?).
I took this back to the shop and exchanged it immediately, and i have a high tolerance for TG bilge.