Throbbing Gristle – Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits (Vinyl)
The swells of "Hamburger Lady" start us off feeling nausea, and this bumpy ride builds in force from there. You can sense in this victory lap a kind of précis of their career arc that testifies to the strange tractor-beam effect of pop values on an experimental band.
The single element from Second Annual Report is "Tiab Guls", a backward version of "Slug Bait" that effectively censors the bloody lyrics by upstaging them into a blur. The perkiest and most uptempo high points of D.O.A. and 20 Jazz Greats dominate, and the cover, a pastiche of Arthur Lyman and Martin Denny exotica sleeves, tips its hats to the cover of 20 Jazz Greats as well.
But the real peaks are the spiky singles "United" and "Adrenalin", fantastically complete exercises in minimalistic synth-pop songwriting that imply an alternative universe in which Throbbing Gristle were just a fuzzier, more dyspeptic cousin to Depeche Mode and John Foxx.
LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Colour
Tracklist:
Left Shoe
A1 Hamburger Lady
A2 Hot On The Heels Of Love
A3 Subhuman
A4 AB/7A
A5 Six Six Sixties
A6 Blood On The Floor
Right Shoe
B1 20 Jazz Funk Greats
B2 Tiab Guls
B3 United
B4 What A Day
B5 Adrenalin
The swells of "Hamburger Lady" start us off feeling nausea, and this bumpy ride builds in force from there. You can sense in this victory lap a kind of précis of their career arc that testifies to the strange tractor-beam effect of pop values on an experimental band.
The single element from Second Annual Report is "Tiab Guls", a backward version of "Slug Bait" that effectively censors the bloody lyrics by upstaging them into a blur. The perkiest and most uptempo high points of D.O.A. and 20 Jazz Greats dominate, and the cover, a pastiche of Arthur Lyman and Martin Denny exotica sleeves, tips its hats to the cover of 20 Jazz Greats as well.
But the real peaks are the spiky singles "United" and "Adrenalin", fantastically complete exercises in minimalistic synth-pop songwriting that imply an alternative universe in which Throbbing Gristle were just a fuzzier, more dyspeptic cousin to Depeche Mode and John Foxx.
LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Colour
Tracklist:
Left Shoe
A1 Hamburger Lady
A2 Hot On The Heels Of Love
A3 Subhuman
A4 AB/7A
A5 Six Six Sixties
A6 Blood On The Floor
Right Shoe
B1 20 Jazz Funk Greats
B2 Tiab Guls
B3 United
B4 What A Day
B5 Adrenalin
Info columns
PRE-ORDERS
Flying Nun only debits your account for a pre-order when it has actually landed in our store. We believe this is fair because supply can often be unreliable - availability and release dates frequently change without notice. Pre-order with Flying Nun and you can cancel any time prior to the product arriving at our store.
OUT OF STOCK ITEMS
Flying Nun only make products available to purchase on our website when they are actually physically held at the store (except pre-orders). Vinyl availability from all local and international suppliers changes on a daily/hourly basis. Therefore, it is not possible to guarantee an online order for many items not currently held in stock.
SHIPPING
Flying Nun offers free shipping in Aotearoa New Zealand on orders over $80. We have record stores in both Auckland and Wellington and will ship your record from whichever store is nearest. We aim to pack send your order next business day. Pick ups are also available from both stores.