Today its the 20 Jazz Funk Greats day
Isn’t every day 20 Jazz Funk Greats day?
Favorite album from one of my favorite bands. TG love forever.
Throbbing Gristle live at Coachella 2009.
Awesome jams from one of the best groups ever. I’ve always loved some of their more free jazzy jams the most, so I dig this. But I mean, I dig all of their discography I’ve heard, though I’ll admit I still haven’t heard all of it.
Throbbing Gristle at Centro Iberico.
Pretty sure I’ve seen this comic / illustration on another TG related thing, perhaps a different flyer? Regardless it’s fucking awesome.
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My old Noise / No Wave improv band The Murder Party covering Throbbing Gristle’s Discipline. Taken from our last show. Ripped directly from video.
I did about 8 shows with The Murder Party, which is my record to date. Other projects are tied with three shows, most only had one.
chris n’ cosey <3
It’s been quite awhile since I listened to them, but Chris and Cosey are probably my overall favorite of the Throbbing Gristle splinter groups. I really like some Psychic TV stuff, but not all of it (mostly the early stuff then the acid house stuff, some of the weird pop is ok but not for me, though hearing Genesis sing “Good Vibrations” is pretty surreal) and I honestly never really got into Coil as much.
“We took the photograph at the most famous suicide spot in England, which is called Beachy Head. The picture is not what it seems at all…Neither is the music once you take it home and buy it. We had this idea in our mind that someone would quite innocently come into a record store and see and think that they would be getting 20 really good jazz funk greats. Then they’d put it on when they got home and they’d just get decimated.” - Cosey Fanni Tutti
My mom saw this album in my gf’s car once and mistook it for a jazz record.
It’s always been my favorite TG record, though I dig pretty much all of their output. One of my fave bands, though I’m not a completist with their output.
When I was a teenager they were kind of weirdly an identity for me, I’d ramble on about them and early industrial music to everyone around me, even though I only had this record and only kinda knew what the fuck I was talking about.
But yeah, I love me some Throbbing Gistle yo.
