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Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group formed in Kingston upon Hull by Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, later joined by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter. They are widely regarded as pioneers of industrial music. Evolving from the experimental performance art group COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle made their public debut in October 1976 in the COUM exhibition Prostitution, and released their debut single "United/Zyklon B Zombie" and debut album The Second Annual Report the following year. P-Orridge's lyrics mainly revolved around mysticism, extremist political ideologies, sexuality, dark or underground aspects of society, and idiosyncratic manipulation of language inspired by the techniques of William S. Burroughs. The band released several subsequent studio and live albums—including D.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (1978), 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979), and Heathen Earth (1980)—on their own record label Industrial Records, building a reputation with their transgressive and confrontational aesthetics; they included the extensive use of disturbing visual imagery, such as ironic fascist and Nazi symbolism and pornography, as well as that of noise and sound manipulation influenced by the works of Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Throbbing Gristle dissolved in 1981 due to interpersonal differences; the individual members went on to participate in other projects, such as Psychic TV, Coil, and Chris & Cosey. The band was reformed in 2004, and released three more studio albums—TG Now (2004), Part Two (2007), and The Third Mind Movements (2009)—before disbanding again after P-Orridge's departure in October 2010 and Christopherson's death the following month. The band's final studio project, a cover version of the 1970 Nico album Desertshore entitled The Desertshore Installation, was released in 2012 under the moniker X-TG.

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Albums

  1. Best Of…. Volume II
    1976
  2. Best Of.... Volume I
    1976
  3. The Second Annual Report
    1977
  4. D.o.A. The Third and Final Report
    1978
  5. Pastimes / Industrial Muzac
    1979
  6. 20 Jazz Funk Greats
    1979
  7. Assume Power Focus
    1980
  8. Heathen Earth: The Live Sound of TG
    1980
  9. Führer Der Menschheit
    1981
  10. 2nd Annual Report
    1981
  11. Journey Through a Body
    1982
  12. CD1
    1986
  13. Very Friendly
    1987
  14. Grief
    1993
  15. Funk Beyond Jazz
    1993
  16. Giftgas
    1994
  17. Kreeme Horn
    1997
  18. TG Now
    2004
  19. Part Two: The Endless Not
    2007
  20. The Third Mind Movements
    2009

Other releases

  1. Music From the Death Factory
    1976
  2. United / Zyklon B Zombie
    1978
  3. We Hate You (Little Girls) / Five Knuckle Shuffle
    1979
  4. At the Brighton Polytechnic
    1979
  5. Adrenaline / Distant Dreams, Part Two
    1980
  6. Subhuman / Something Came Over Me
    1980
  7. Mission of Dead Souls: the Last Live Performance of TG
    1981
  8. Discipline
    1981
  9. Greatest Hits - Entertainment Through Pain
    1981
  10. Funeral in Berlin
    1981
  11. Thee Psychick Sacrifice
    1982
  12. New T.G. 1
    1982
  13. Rafters
    1982
  14. Éditions… Frankfurt… Berlin…
    1983
  15. 1978-11-11: Special Treatment: The Cryptic One, London, UK
    1984
  16. In the Shadow of the Sun
    1984
  17. Nothing Short of a Total War
    1984
  18. Sacrifice
    1986
  19. Once Upon a Time
    1990
  20. Live Box
    1993
  21. Live Volume 1 (1976–1978)
    1993
  22. Live Volume 3 (1978–1979)
    1993
  23. Live Volume 4 (1979–1980)
    1993
  24. Live Volume 2 (1977–1978)
    1993
  25. Blood Pressure
    1995
  26. Dimensia in Excelsis: Live in L.A. 22.5.1981
    1998
  27. TG24: 1 Hour Sample
    2002
  28. TG24
    2002
  29. TG+
    2004
  30. Mutant Throbbing Gristle
    2004
  31. The Taste of TG
    2004
  32. Live December 2004: A Souvenir of Camber Sands
    2004
  33. [untitled]
    2005
  34. Desertshore Installation
    2007
  35. TGV: The Video Archive of Throbbing Gristle
    2007
  36. Thirty-Second Annual Report
    2008
  37. Live December 2004 (A Souvenir Of Camber Sands)
    2019
  38. Part Two - The Endless Not / TG Now
    2019
  39. Live at the Coachella Festival
  40. 2009-04-16: Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Brooklyn, NY, USA