Track Listings (2) - Disc #1| All Artists: Throbbing Gristle Title: Grief Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Thirsty Ear Release Date: 6/19/2001 Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Goth & Industrial, Experimental Music, Progressive, Progressive Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 700435710429, 5037300056227 |
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Grief was originally an unofficial bootleg. By popular demand it is now being released on Thirsty Ear Records for the first time. Grief consists of two tracks, Camera and Telephone. Camera is a collage of interviews and... more » |
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Album Description Grief was originally an unofficial bootleg. By popular demand it is now being released on Thirsty Ear Records for the first time. Grief consists of two tracks, Camera and Telephone. Camera is a collage of interviews and broadcasts. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsIf you flick the 'balance' knob, an interesting interview Winthrop Harrison | Seattle, WA United States | 09/27/2001 (2 out of 5 stars) "Wow! A new Throbbing Gristle release! Hardly. This is a great example of what I've always felt about TG. Weird and scary, but also a bit of a prank. This disc - not old, clearly a recent side-scrape of the Throbbing Gristle (media/aural) barrel - is only for TG fanatics. I am one of that lot, so I'll give up the punchline. This CD contains interviews with Genesis P'Orridge, Japanese/Russian & 'cut-up'/'found sound'/ambient noise. The trickery lies with the mixing, like the Velvet Underground's "Gift".SPOILER: if you want to hear the intersting thoughts of Genesis, shift your stereo Balance knob to hard left. If you want to hear Throbbing Gristle demos, switch your Balance knob to hard right. Either way, it's a pain. Throbbing Gristle in a nutshell. There's no music of worth here, and you'd be mad to make this one of your first TG purchases." Throbbing Gristle - 'Grief' (Yeeah!/Almafame) Mike Reed | USA | 12/20/2004 (3 out of 5 stars) "'Grief' was originally put out as a bootleg,but BEFORE the label Thirsty Ear put it out as a legit release,the UK label Yeeah!/Almafame had released it on theirs.'Grief' is a rather strange CD to have a copy of.If you're a new/er Gristle fan,you might want to check out a few of their main lp's/reissues FIRST.Then,if you like what you hear,go ahead and get 'Grief'.Two cuts here of lengthy(how would one put it?)indepth sound collages.I liked "Camera"(24:29)a bit better than I did "Telephone"(23:03).But,then again,Throbbing Gristle has always been considered to be,like mutated industrial.Their line-up(sometimes I have a tough time remembering)is:Genesis P-Orridge-bass&clarinet,Chris Carter-keyboards&synthesizer,Peter Christopherson-sound effects and Casey Fanni Tutti-guitar&vocals.Their influences come from Faust,Can and Silver Apples.Could appeal to fans of Clock DVA,Front Line Assembly and Controlled Bleeding.Pretty much aimed toward completists." The TG "interview disc"... **sort of** Mike Reed | 07/27/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "There is no information on the sleeve of this CD, and I won't pretend to know a whole lot about it's contents, but purely from a listening standpoint, here is my impression: This is an interesting CD as it appears to be a string of interviews with Throbbing Gristle (Mostly Genesis P-Orridge talking) set to classic TG-brand music. I didn't immediately care for it at first, but it improves with repeated listenings, and is very interesting to listen to (even if it's a little hard to follow at times). The voices in the interviews are sometimes modified (echoed so that you hear each word 2 or 3 times), so you have to REALLY listen to hear what they are talking about. And some of the topics are quite interesting. Genesis talks of being arrested for sending out some postcards with pornography on them, about a man who records the voices of the dead and how he uses them in live shows & recordings (I THINK you can actually hear these voices weaved in as he is talking about this -- along with the GRISTLER humming away, and what sounds like subliminal symphony music somewhere in the mix (which I have heard on other TG records, especially if I fall asleep my subconcious can hear this spooky music way back there clearly) - very cool stuff). With this information you may think this is something you could pass on, but in my opinion, if you are a TG fan, you MUST get this, it's a real treat."
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