Throbbing-Gristle, An avant garde industrial music.

 

Ever heard Throbbing-Gristle? It's OK if your answer is nope. So do I. 5 minutes ago is the 1^st time I ever heard their song/grumble/murmur/screamo.

Hihi.

Throbbing Gristle ternyata salah satu pioneernya Industrial Music dari Inggris, they've been together for 35 Years (!) what a WOW.

Yah, walaupun engga 35 tahun terus menerus, aktif dari tahun 1975- 1981, vakum 24 tahun,, tahun 2004/5 mereka balik lagi – sampai sekarang.

Mereka sih buka cuma pemain music, mereka bisa dibilang seniman. I mean it, salah satu anggotanya, vocalist ceweknya sempet aktif jadi stripper. Hmm.

Terus ya, mereka juga nyiptain satu alat music elektro, aaah, gue lupa namanya, linknya lupa gue save, GRISTLEIZER? Ccck. Entar gue ubek-ubek dulu.

Anyhey, buat gue they do have interesting lyrics, kalo musiknya ….uum buat gue secara personal kurang klik, terlalu elektro – too much distortion – synthesizer- yah namanya juga industrial music. Mungkin yang suka screamo – bisa nemu koneksi ama music mereka.

 

Ini salah satu lirik dari satu single'nya yang terkenal.

 

FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE:

Even more fed up

You're gonna get fed up

You're gonna be fed up

You're gonna see fed up

You're gonna get fed up

Fed Up Fed Up Fed Up

You're gonna get set up

You're gonna go fed up

You're gonna go bed up

You're gonna go sped up

You're gonna be said up

You're gonna get set up

A set up a fed up a set up

I said what a get up

Am fed up Am fed up Am fed up

Am fuckin a fed up

Am fucking my bed up

Amphetamine

Am fucking amphetamine

I've had a lobotomy

A botom a botomy

Am always a victim

Am tired of the victim

A time of the victor

A try to assess me

A try to possess me

Assess possess amphetamine

A friend of mine

Here you are

We're here are two

Are you

You over there

You're the one I am

I am that lazy boy all over take some more I need some sleep

Just an animal a twisted up animal I want to be left alone

I want that not to assess me not to possess me not to attack me

Not to distract me I even get fed up

Fed up

Don't do this I do this All my friends do this Am fed up

Am fed up I put my feet up I wish I go to sleep

Fed up fed up fed up

Deaded Deaded

Empty bottles makin noise

Alcohol

I can see you fed up

In the corner asking

Gonna be set up all night set up

Fed up

Getting your way with a five pound note

 

 

Here's a bite about them taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle

Throbbing Gristle's confrontational live performances and use of often disturbing imagery, including pornography and photographs of Nazi concentration camps, gave the group a notorious reputation. However the group always maintained that their mission was to challenge and explore the darker and obsessive sides of the human condition rather than to make attractive music. Throbbing Gristle pioneered the use of pre-recorded tape-based 'samples'^{[citation needed]}, and made extensive use of special effects to produce a distinctive, highly distorted background, usually accompanied by lyrics or spoken-word performances by Cosey Fanni Tutti or Genesis P-Orridge. Though they asserted they wanted to provoke their audience into thinking for themselves rather than pushing any specific agenda (as evidenced by the song "Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think" on Heathen Earth), Throbbing Gristle also frequently associated with the anarchist punk scene. They even appeared on the infamous Crass pamphlet Toxic Grafity, with a condensation of their own propaganda parody series, Industrial News

 

You also can check sample of their songs at : http://brainwashed.com/tg/music.php. Be careful with your ear!

Enjoy the head banging – moshin – tripping on the electro world! Yay!

# aslilisa - May 2010