Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits

Throbbing Gristle

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B000003Z4V
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,262 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Listening, March 29, 2004

By	Kelly Doran (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews

Throbbing Gristle and their front man Genesis P-orrrige have been creating and then confounding the pop culture dialectic since 1976. Genesis P-orridige not only invented industrial music but also founded the first independent record label to promote it. If you listen to bands such as Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, or KMFDM, you owe a hand of gratitude to Throbbing Gristle; they invented the genre. This early industrial music was made mostly on homemade samplers and analog synthesizers made by band mates Sleazy and Chris Carter. Topics ranged from defecation, serial killers and burn victims. In short breaking many repressed late 70's and early 80's English social taboos. They made music than can only be described as pleasurable and disturbing at the same time. WARNING: Listen to this CD only in it's entirety from beginning to end, it like the Coum Transmissions performance art that inspired the music, is meant to be appreciated as art. All of it may not be immediately gratifying; it is metabolically designed to evoke physical and mental chemical reactions. ENJOY!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars TG - The Songs You Love So Well, February 21, 2000

By A Customer

I agree that this isn't a definitive TG collection - where is "Persuasion" or "Weeping" and nothing from "Heathen Earth" - but it's still enjoyable enough. "Slug Bait" is actually more listenable here backwards as "Tiab Guls". By the way one of your US reviewers mentioned something about "United" being a top 10 hit in the UK - in your dreams pal! I can only assume he's confusing this "United" with the identically titled top 10 hit of the same era by those well-known Industrial pioneers, Judas Priest!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Godlike, July 4, 2005

By	Frank Mehringer "Frank Mehr" (Cranford, NJ, Usa - Suburbia!!!!) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Stark, dangerous, beautiful, challenging. The word industrial can be misleading. If you consider Killing Joke (whom I adore) a bit challenging, then stay away from this. If you're open to music as art, music being arhythmic and confrontational then try this. This is legendary stuff. I first heard Subhuman in 1982 and it gave me shivers. It's 2005, I'm now 41, and it has the same effect. There are pieces that can lull a baby into sleep and pieces that make you want to bite your nails. It's the type of music that makes me want to personally thank the band for doing what they did.