D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

this album is everything that punk pretends to be.

Just random noise. It's heartwarming to know that a complete lack of musical talent or ability is no barrier to creating an influential album. With that in mind, I hereby announce that my innovative pop duo 'Bumblecheek and the Reverb' is working on its debut album, to be titled 'Sexual Overcoat'. I fully expect inclusion in the next edition of the '1001 albums...' book. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: AB/7A Date listened: 07/06/22

if someone tells you they are really in to throbbing gristle you've either accidentally walked in to a BDSM club or you're talking to someone who is such a music aficionado they've decided the way to keep themselves in their ivory tower is to listen to something extremely close to unlistenable because you proles don't get it. that being said, i'd rather listen to this than kanye or beyonce. what's the safe word again?

Massive banger after massive banger. Huge soaring choruses, exquisite melodies and perfectly polished pop hooks. An earworm if ever there was one.

Bad music. I hate anyone who likes this.

What the fuck 0/5

This is some weird ass shit I'm grateful to have learned about today.

I can feel the rhythm coursing through my veins. The remarkable thing about it is that some people think it's a joke and just random industrial noises, but those of us who are in the biz, know how powerful and influential this record is. It's breathtaking in its ruthlessness. It's not afraid to go to places you never knew you needed to go. A masterful triumph of heavyweight crescendos and thunderous beats. Danger lies around every corner. Beware.

I'm surprised more people haven't taken the time to review this album, for good or for bad. Thumbs up to anyone who gave it a shot. Yes, it's a difficult listen, but it's also pretty fascinating. I doubt I would listen to this again in its entirety, but it was interesting. You'd be hard pressed to find many musical acts as adventurous as Throbbing Gristle is on this album. They really push the boundaries of what you can call music, and also for our tolerance as listeners. Their palette is noise - blips, feedback, guitar distortion, fragments of conversations. Sometimes the effect is oddly musical, sometimes it's aggressively grating. The lyrics, if you care to look them up, can get disturbing. The general vibe is definitely creepy, but in the middle, a bright, synth-y song like "AB/7A." Go figure. There are some interesting ideas here, but I think the arrangement of the songs could have been a little more precise, like ordering the the songs so they flow better. The way they're organized now, they come off as tonally a little haphazard. I also think they could have dropped a couple of tracks and had a much tighter album. As for my review, I've been back and forth between 2 and 3 stars. That's not because I think it's bad necessarily, but because it's really challenging (and I like challenging stuff). Intellectually I appreciate it, but it's also unsettling in a way I didn't enjoy. Fave Songs: AB/7A, Dead on Arrival, Weeping

Honestly not bad. I cannot believe this is the lowest rated album on this entire website. Sometimes your brain needs to be challenged a bit, and this was a very interesting series of sound experiments. i can totally see how this is the grandfather to NIN.

Went into this with low expectations, but it turned out to be quite an interesting album. Experimental and unsettling at times, but it kept me intrigued.

Well that was a cheery start to Monday morning. It's not exactly Britney Spears. Pleasant, but you'd be hard pushed to call it music. More of a project.

I knew I would be in for some pearl-clutching reviews when this album was generated this morning and, 1001 albums generator users, god bless ya, you didn’t disappoint. I won’t pretend that this is an easy listen. It’s challenging and it’s not an album I see myself revisiting often, even though there are songs here that I did enjoy and I am currently on my second listen of D.o.A. It boils down to this: on a personal level, I’m not the type to shut down or shy away when faced with sounds, music or ideas that do not comport with generally accepted norms. Doing so is effectively placing yourself inside a box, limiting what music can be. There were undoubtedly purists who wrote off the electric guitar as an abomination or nothing but “noise” at its inception, just like many here write off Throbbing Gristle’s electronic experimentation as noise or unlistenable garbage. …and you know what? It’s not really your fault, your brain has been conditioned since birth to be wary of unknown and unconventional sounds. It’s not surprising that many shut down and want nothing to do with music like this in any way: it is the appropriate response based on your conditioning. Your body and mind are reacting as they are “supposed to”. These are sounds that you do not encounter in day to day life, so it makes perfect sense that would they make people uncomfortable. But it might be worth asking, “Why?”. After all, it is just sound on a disc. These sounds do not come from anything that represents an existential or harmful threat to us: they were made by machines we control and they literally only exist in the sonic ether, which you have chosen to temporarily engage with. When you stop engaging with them, they are gone, with no meaningful harm done to your person. It’s only sound.

Wow. My first thought was thank god it wasn't more punk. My second was noisy! Really grew on me though as it poured its sinister sampling sound down my ears. Dark and sombre. I've never heard of Throbbing Gristle but will check out their other stuff now for sure. Amazing such a challenging sound got released. Definitely not dinner party music! Best tracks - Hamburger Lady, AB/7A, E-Coli. I need to listen to this again.

Grinding, burbling synths and processed vocal samples. Yet surprisingly soothing. Maybe there’s something wrong with me.

I found this album to be quite interesting. While it's not something I would listen to regularly, I didn't find it to be the inaccessible barrage of noise a lot of "industrial" albums are. At times I found it to actually be almost relaxing, more akin to an ambient work. The use of spoken word recordings on a couple tracks such as Valley of the Shadow of Death and Hometime had the feeling of being in a cafe or watching someone's old home recordings. The punk-like tracks Hit By a Rock and Blood on the Floor are pretty standard of the time. Then there are the tracks in the middle that experiment more with the synth and vocal effects, to varying degrees of success, but some are actually quite good. There are also a few tracks that lean more towards the noisy/industrial side like I.B.M, Dead on Arrival and Walls of Sound that I could do without. Overall I think this is interesting piece of musical history. Very experimental, it gets a few things right and a few things wrong. I'm glad I got to listen. Fav Tracks: Hamburger Lady, AB/7A, E-Coli

What a wonderful album, it has so many of Throbbing Gristles biggest hits like 'Hit By A Rock', 'Valley of the Shadow of Death', 'AB/7A' and the all time classic 'Death Threats'. They made such sweet sounds back in the 70's, you have to wonder how many babies were conceived listening to this timeless album. Everything about it is wonderful; the classic songwriting of Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, the gorgeous vocal harmonies, the immaculate string arrangements, the sparkling production. I could go on and on. No seriously, this was terrible. It was like being sat in a dentist chair having all my teeth pulled out without anesthetic. How the F**k does this qualify as music??? There's nothing clever or ground breaking or artistic about it. It's just a pile of garbage. Stop wasting my f**king time with this nonsense!!!!!!

A+ for the band name A+ for the confusion in the ratings/reviews A+ for really being an original album that should be listened to A+ for being experimental AF A+ for insane level of influence Guys, I had a great time. Y'all can go listen to another Britpop album.

If nothing else, this sounds like nothing else that had been put on record at that time. A real mix of styles, from Weeping to AB/7A, I love all aspects of this album. You could say AB/7A owes a debt to Kraftwerk, but Hamburger Lady sounds unlike any other artist (thankfully). In equal parts uplifting and downright scary, this is not an album I would sit down and listen to very often, but certainly one that has had a massive influence in my subsequent musical taste.

Protean horrors.

This is totally my jam

Another bit of wierd serendipity, I get this the day after going to see cosey fanni tutti talking in my local library....this is pretty special and wonderfully odd. All the negative comments make me love it more. I'd rather listen to this back to back than more MOR classic rock that makes me want to claw my eyes out.

Creepy. Weird. Kind of cool? Maybe? Probably not. I thought I enjoyed industrial music. This album makes me feel like a schizophrenic. Fave tracks: AB/7A

Would I listen to this or reach for it regularly? No - is it completely fascinating and an essential listen? Absolutely yes. Hamburger Lady for example is great. The abba one is a fun piece of krautrock. Some of the soundscapes created here elsewhere are just fantastic. I love that they stuck actual death threats from their answer machine onto the record, and effectively respond to them with a wall of noise.

Congratulations, you experiment with what you could make music out of. And you do it in the worst way possible. Out of the first 4 tracks, literally only one of them has any melodic value. The only reason "I.B.M." is the third most played track on the album is that it's the opener and a good amount of people shut off the record before they get a minute in. Most of these tracks are nothing more than either shock value or an academic study into the extremities of meshing various sounds with abrasive electronic effects, but even then little to no worth could be found in comparison to their more refined follow-up "20 Jazz Funk Greats" which actually served as the primary influence of the industrial genre. As a fan of noise rock, I quite fancy the chaotic "Hit by a Rock", but really the album starts with "Dead on Arrival," one of the two tracks alongside "AB/7A" as a harsh response to Kraftwerk. "Weeping" is a personal favorite of mine if only cause they managed to make something that sounds like it came from The Madcap Laughs even more disturbing than anything Syd Barrett came up with. Good for a couple of listens but you get a bit tired of the 5.5-minute length. Next, we have "Hamburger Lady", and if you're wondering why it's the most popular song, it's cause it's actually quite notorious as being one of the most unsettling songs in music history. Personally, I find it intriguing but nothing more emotional, unfortunately. Only one of the next 5 tracks is actually melodic, the beforementioned Kraftwerk-esque "AB/7A", which has nice school cafeteria ambiance in the background and hilariously gruesome lyrics. Brilliant. Finally, we end with an ironically bad punk closer "Blood on the Floor". I fancy it. I give 1 star to albums that have no worth or interest at all. This is not a 1-star album. I'd listen to "Hit By a Rock" or "Weeping" again for pleasure. There's plenty to revisit for curiosity and to share with others, whether to shock them or show them something of note. However, I would advise never listening to the album in its entirety ever again. Favorites: Hit By a Rock, Weeping, Hamburger Lady

Ok...what the F&^% was that? Most of the album isn't music. The tracks that can be called music are 'interesting' but does that make it good? Is this something I want to listen to?

It's completely legitimate to put Throbbing Gristle in this kind of list. I'm glad I listened to it. Genesis P Orridge was an auteur of some note. It is, of course, absolute garbage and anyone who says they like it, or would buy it, or would listen to it more than once, is a fraud.

I liked that song where the modems were talking about rising up against humanity, and the one where the little girl got run over by the garbage truck. The one where the scientists were conducting lab experiments about the effects of white noise and radio waves on rats with cancer was interesting, but didn't quite connect with me. 1 star.

Yeah, no.

I hate that I have to give any stars to this. This is shameful to include on this list.

For having the second-lowest rating on this site (as of writing this), I expected it to be a lot worse. It turns out it’s just…boring. It reminded of Boards of Canada but industrial. It was very light on any actual music or rhythm but I didn’t mind it at all. It’s interesting this is from the late 70s; I would have guessed mid to late 90s. Consider me confused why this is so hated.

That sure throbbed my gristle.

Weird. I didn't enjoy this AT ALL! Would be a 1, but bonus star for badass band name! Ye must worship the THROBBING GRISTLE!

This one didn't speak to me

I think this is my new worst album on here. I was listening to it in the car, and thought something had gone wrong with the car. Turning down the stereo fixed it.

This is NOT music.

This album just sounds like the last recording found on your dad's phone after he goes missing in the Belanglo State Forest and you spend the rest of your life convinced that he was abducted by aliens. Good album if you're an audiophile (or...) and like listening to beep boop random noises and being freaked out (Hamburger Lady put me on edge) - but this shit isn't music. At all.

I do not like the space noises

I would like to send a bag of gummy dicks packed in glitter to the person who wrote this list for making me listen to such nonsense.

Absolute trash. This isn't music. It is random noise and is an unorganized mess. Several songs were skipped. Burn it down.

Horrible. Many tracks didn’t even have lyrics, just noise on top of electronic noise “. When there were ‘lyrics’ it was spoken word garbage

This is definitely the worst album I’ve listened to yet. At least electronic music can be enjoyed and has direction. This is pure nonsense and a collection of noises. 0.0/10

All I can say is - literally oh my days blud.

Err yeah, I've heard of them was quite excited to engage with their notorious avant garde sounds. I can't lie I really wanted to like this, in electronica they have this rep early pioneers and all. But it was a large bag of rat infested goats shit. Im sure they had cerebral laughs making it, I was just glad when it was over.

Not sure where the music in this one was.... Its just some experimental sounds with dinner table chatter in the background

I'm presuming they've been included as a joke. because there's NOTHING on display here of anything resembling musicianship or song craft. truly awful

Had given this album a try before out of curiosity but still do not see why this is an "essential" album - experimental pre-industrial 70s music that deliberately sounds ugly and lo-fi (it sounds exactly as what you would expect it to sound like). The follow-up "20 Jazz Funk Greats" is better (more pop) and would be a more appropriate choice for this list (i assume it is included as well).

At one point during Weeping, I went to the toilet and, forgetting that my lights are connected to the extractor fan turned them on then immediately turned my volume up, because I didn’t want to miss what was going on in the album. I genuinely wasn’t sure what I was expected from Throbbing Gristle, I think it was possibly something closer to Big Black, but what D.O.A. ended up being was, if unexpected, never less than compelling. I mean, it’s also terrifying. There were points when I genuinely felt paranoid and anxious when listening to it. And although the most interesting tracks, the hard-to-hear spoken word recordings, felt pretty voyeuristic at times, it felt voyeuristic in the same way that watching Hitchcock does. It places the listener in an interesting position where listening feels both wrong, and like the most natural thing it the world simultaneously. It’s the audio equivalent of a horror movie, and all I can say is that all of the coolest people, and most of the best artists, I’ve ever known have been as appreciative of horror as they have other great pieces of art. I’m glad I took the time to listen to this album, and I’m not sure I ever want to hear it again

Äntligen något bra. Jag har fått lyssna på den ena dåliga plattan efter den andre. Hårdrock och Hip-hop. Blir förundrad över att den har så låga poäng. Folk har ingen kultur i kroppen. Har radar Throbbing Gristle med Genesis P-Orridge i spetsen hit efter hit. Ska jag försöka säga något negativt med plattan så ska det väl vara att de inte fick med singelversionen av United. 16 sekunder är lite för kort.

This album is so ridiculously ahead of its time that it is absolutely staggering that they pulled this off in the 70s. It is disconcerting, perspective shifting industrial/experimental music that I hear in so much of what came later. As the originators of the industrial genre (even having a record label named Industrial), Throbbing Gristle's influence can be felt across genres. It may be an uncomfortable album, but it is certainly essential.

What makes this good and not just complete nonsense? I have no idea but good it certainly is. Unusual, weird, noisy, and really really good.

Pointedly ugly music can be sublime in combination with the right elements: it can overwhelm, it can frighten, it can rock. “D.O.A” sometimes does each of these, but overall feels more like documentary to me, a personal rendering to what it felt like to live in the arse-end of Britain’s industrial-social decay. As such, often it is ugly-ugly. I’d never got round to this record before as I’d assumed it would be a admirably miserable listen, so I’m relieved there’s much of what makes their successors great in this, though it is frequently too on-the-nose for my taste. Rounding up to a 4 as a lot of the discourse here is “this is not art/it’s just random noise”, which is so basic the basic riposte is demanded: you couldn’t make this if you tried, lame-o!

makes me feel sick in the head, i like it ### interesting listen! i can really see how this would've been a big inspiration for industrial and noise, it remind me of a lot of more modern stuff i've heard

Disturbing and strangely soothing at the same time. Those looking for songs will be disappointed but as a collection of industrial atmospheres, this does the job really well.

I don't want to like this because I feel like only a pretentious music snob would like this just to prove they are smarter than everyone else. They "get it" and you don't. Well, I don't "get it" either, but somehow this "music" tickles my ADD infected brain just right. I listened to this 3 times, and it somehow got better each time. It somehow has a calming effect on me. I feel like I could sleep to this twisted shit. The only part I didn't like was when the kid yells "mama." That's probably just because I have PTSD from having a toddler. I don't know if or when I'll listen to this again, but I liked it. 7.5/10

Very influential album

The name "Throbbing Gristle" makes me recoil and shudder every single time I encounter it. I think that's what they were going for. Well done. This was not a popular morning drive accompaniment, and the passenger kept turning the volume down during the first two tracks. I sort of appreciate this more that it's from 1978. It seems a little more daring in that context than even if it was from 10 years later. Was this an enjoyable listen? No. But did I have genuine reactions? Yes. Each track was a different experience! It must have been a good day because I was intrigued and engaged all through. Wow.

The song titles pretty much had me ready for something that was way off the beaten path and I wasn’t disappointed. The first time through I thought I might cut myself. The second time through I think I did. The second time through I decided to put it on while I was working. I sort of fell into a zen-like state while I was working and it served perfectly to keep things interested as I focused on my various tasks. It lended a sinister darkness to my workday which proved surprisingly productive. Somehow this horror show wormed its way into my heart. I really like this and at some point may love it.

Maybe I am a bit damaged, but I was expecting something truly awful and unlistenable here. Instead there is a huge variety on this groundbreaking record with the common theme being snapshots of industrial Britain in a time where the British music scene was trying to find its way in a tumultuous musical decade. The most difficult part of the record was the final two tracks 'Walls of Sound' and ' Blood on the Floor' which were both difficult but by no means horrible. The road leading to the closing tracks is however truly entertaining and diverse. From the rhythmic and enjoyable 'I.B.M.' the record visits a moody atmospheric (and sometimes scary) place on 'Valley of the Shadow of Death' and 'E-Coli'. On 'Hamburger Lady', Throbbing Gristle also gives their idea for the imaginary soundtrack to a spaghetti western set in a rundown factory in northern England. The band is also surprisingly groovy at times, especially when channeling their inner role as direct descendants of krautrock as is evident on the groovy 'AB/7A' and 'Dead on Arrival' - an awesome combination of space lasers and machine throttles. Further listens are of course warranted, but I imagine it is more likely to yield and extra star than make me think less of this record.

I went into this on high alert. Then I started letting my guard down after the extremely fun sped up rendition of the single “United”. A question came up: “Why do I not actively hate this?” Then it dawned on me. Nothing really overstays its welcome. The krautrock influence is apparent but this is still something completely new and groundbreaking - especially for a ‘78 release! I was equally curious, horrified and alienated - just as I believe was intended.

As clearly as much of this isn't music, it performs the same function. The formal elements have clearly been picked up by the modern ambient community, sans much ugliness. As interesting is the motorik sometimes present: Throbbing Gristle didn't come from nowhere. Deranged, though.

A fun listen but there wasn't enough in the longer tracks to keep my attention throughout. "Hamburger Lady" is great, and "I.B.M." and "AB/7A" are each a unique kind of banger.

Full marks for being different and influential and pushing the DIY envelope in arty ways. However, on substance, this is moderately interesting at best and often primitive-sounding. Much of it barely qualifies as music or, for that matter, a record. "Found sound" (especially answering machine content) jumped the shark quite some time ago, no? One might be just intrigued enough to explore a touch more of the catalog (liking soundscapes, obscurities and irrelevant artistic endeavors as much as one tends to do), but it’s certainly not a no-brainer and one’s skeptical about finding much else worthwhile.

Not the worst album on the list, like reviews would suggest,but I do not think my family is going to let me choose the road trip playlist anymore

Is this album a collection of songs? Is this a song? Am I listening to a song or working in a factory in 1980? Is this reality? What I'm doing listening to it? Who am I? I need to give this album an extra star for predicting 1978 how AI-generated songs would look like in 2023. Impressive.

D.o.A: The Third and Final Report is the second album by English industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. In this album the band continued toying with industrial music - which is a genre of music that uses harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes. Defined in simple terms, industrial music is the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music". The genre began as a blend of noisy patterns from electronic devices and punk rock. This album was one of the early works of industrial music and was an "essential, nauseating masterpiece". I'm not sure I would echo that previous sentence, but this was an interesting album. Less music and instead more random sounds strewn together in rhythmic patterns. It was definitely trippy, but not something I would ever go out of my way to listen to. Also, what's with the little girl on the album cover? I read they gave away a calendar of her with the first 1,000 album purchases. That's more than a little weird - but I guess it wasn't weird for the late 70's.

What a horrible band name. Starting the first song is only distortion or static and some hospital equipment beeps which promises that this album is going to be a slog. This is not music, this is a collection of annoying sounds. The second song is better solely by the fact that someone is singing and there is definitely a bass being played. Then they play their big debut single at 16x speed or rewinding or whatever. More found sound, this time a foul mouthed conversation over some "musical-ish" sounds and rain. Two alternate conversations, if this was the sound of a restaurant I was in, I'd leave. Einstürzende Neubauten heard this album and thought, "Hey, we can do this in German." It's hard to decide who did it worse. Dead On Arrival has the most music and is still somehow worse than the songs made up of annoying noises. That this album exists is a testament to the condition of modern humanity that enough freedom and leisure time and income exists to make this possible. Now it's the idiotic babble of a child over weird space-age sounds. The kid does have a cute voice. And know it's scientists talking about e. coli. These "songs" are terrible. It's hard to know if the songs with terrible tape recorded talking are better or worse than the songs with no human voices at all. That was a truly terrible experience.

An experimental art album that doesn't land in the slightest. I know that art can be subjective in any medium, but for this to be in a list of "1001 albums to listen to before you die" means that the makers were definitely scrapping the bottom of the barrel to fill the list. 1/10, and that's only because there could have been potential for someone these to launch into at least a mediocre song.

I'm not sure it is possible to like this. As a statement piece, it takes some cojones. Many aspects seem deliberately placed to annoy. While a lot of it is actually quite intriguing, the overall effect is to make the annoying even more annoying. As an "art" piece, it sure does provoke a response. But that response is not to like it.

What in the fuck did I just listen to

Where to start…like most people , this was not an easy listen. Walking down Tottenham High Road, it was tough ti distinguish between background noise and the “music”. Either way, respect to Throbbing Gristle for doing this, the record company for releasing it, the % of people of were inspired by this to make something better. ✊

Yeah I'm not interested in this. No digs against anyone who does enjoy this, but I find nothing to enjoy here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PJnc8BFTk so che ho già usato questa similitudine, ma ditemi che non è la stessa cosa. 41 minuti della mia vita che non mi verranno mai restituiti.

13 SPOOKY/UNSETTLING AMBIENT CREEPYPASTA SONGS [ROYALTY FREE, LINK IN DESCRIPTION] Every time I have thought about this and how they are definitely capable of creating an atmosphere with their unsettling ambient tracks, I am reminded of how I had to sit around and listen to a whole track with someone wailing hit by a rock and just get annoyed again. And what is with this nonce cover art? Makes you wonder what one of the lead composers was doing when he died in Thailand back in 2010 Highlight: AB/7A

I.B.M. lets you experience life inside one of those room-sized computers they had in the 1970s. Hit by a Rock opens with someone being tortured just outside that same room? United came and went, didn't notice it Valley of the Shadow of the Death is clearly just a result of a Dictaphone being left in a council housing flat somewhere. I'm convinced this whole track is raw audio. Dead on Arrival, this shit is ass Weeping Hamburger Lady is more of the same random noise, which is good because it signals to me that the album does not have a change of heart in its second half to be something at least entertaining. Who gives a shit about the rest of the songs? Not the guys 'performing' it, that's for sure. I feel about these 42 minutes of noise as I imagine a lot of people do about modern/post-modern art. It's bullshit, and I don't know what level of degeneration of your frontal cortex/serotonin imbalance you have to have for this to be enjoyable. This shit sucks, anything higher than a 1 is a Christ-like level of charity and generosity. Music critics should be rounded up and forced to break rocks in that labour camp from the start of Rambo 2.

There's nothing about this album that can redeem it from its cover art. The music may be influential in industrial circles, but child exploitation is neither edgy nor provocative, it's disgusting.

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable", said the Mexican poet and academic, Cesar A. Cruz. I would append; “Within reason.” Challenging art can be important, rewarding and memorable. Or just entertaining aural puzzles and experiences. Sometimes we seek it out and get what we came for. But to subject another person to this abrasive annoyance, boredom, or pain like this is beyond me. And beyond what I want to tolerate. I can only guess or sense that the origin of this art is their own special, twisted and malevolent form of abject alienation. Or maybe not so much experience worth sharing, but a joy they get from inflicting it. And I don't wish to study it further. The cover art and track names were informative sign posts. I won't reveal the rare and special insults that come to mind for this group.

Mostly annoying. I probably would've told myself that I liked this when I went through a bit of a "noise rock is cool, anything "weird" is good 'cuz most people won't like it and I like to feel superior" phase in my early 20s. I barely survived this.

Groupe inconnu. Mais où est la musique ? Il faut attendre le 9eme morceau pour écouter quelque chose qui y ressemble (AB/7A). C'est tellement barré que je me suis laissé emporter par ma curiosité et suis allé au bout ... mais absolument rien me donnerait envie de subir une seconde fois cette torture. => 1/5

influence hin oder her, this sucks lol

This album is abysmal. I’m sad I’m the only one doing this right now since I have no one to complain to about this.

Sounds like a test CD from a HiFi magazine for calibrating your system.

Seriously? The only folks that listen to this are introverted boys too smart for their own health, and men with high IQs and no ability to use it for good. Padded cells and heavy meds get them thru the day. Why remaster this shit?

This is a joke. Whoever added this to the list needs to do standup. Nothing worth listening to in the whole runtime.

Biggest pile of shit I've ever heard!!

Anti Music… Do not get why it is important to listen to this before I die. Wast of time really

Previous reviewer in 2022 said it was the lowest rated album on the list. I checked and in May 2024 it had climbed to second lowest. So here is my 1 in hope it drops to its rightful place. (I did try to listen but I’m on holiday and it was spoiling it) 1/5 21/5/24

Nr. 168/1001 I.B.M. 1/5 Hit by a Rock 1/5 United NR Valley of the Shadow of the Death 1/5 Dead on Arrival 1/5 Weeping 1/5 Hamburger Lady 1/5 AB/7A 2/5 E-Coli 1/5 Death Threats NR Walls of Sound 1/5 Blood on the Floor 1/5 Average: 1,1 That was unlistenable to me. I wouldn't call this music. Just random sounds.

cant say I’m feeling this one. It feels more in the realm of disturbed ambience, rather than industrial (with some exceptions like Walls of Sound). A bunch of it is just noise that isn’t necessarily irritating, but it’s also not interesting. It didn’t get much reaction from me other than boredom. A couple of the actually “songs” remind my of Chrome…but again, not really interesting. Do people like this for the challenging and subversive nature, or do people genuinely enjoy the way these sounds are arranged? I’m pretty open minded, but this ain’t it. AB/7A is a pretty rad track though.

Sorry, da fehlt mir das Verständnis. Kann mir nicht vorstellen, wie jemand das herstellen und verkaufen kann. Respektive kaufen...

Absolutely trash. > Throbbing Gristle's confrontational live performances and use of often disturbing imagery, including pornography and photographs of Nazi concentration camps, earned the group a notorious reputation, but they maintained that their mission was to challenge and explore the darker and obsessive sides of the human condition rather than to make attractive music. If this was a person it wouldn’t be allowed within 5 miles of a school, and it shouldn’t be within 500 miles of this list.

Look, noise, dissonance, distortion, horrible grating unlistenable garbage, can all be an effective tools in the right context, but they can't be the entire album.

tfw you're listening to a Throbbing Gristle track but then you realize that actually someone just sent a fax to your voicemail inbox by mistake

Nah.

no bueno

This really begs the question "what is music?" Then immediately answers "not this." This was terrible and I didn't even get halfway through the album. Just pure noise to me. 0.5/5

its all noises? I can respect the boundary pushing but its just not even listenable as an album. Also using nazi imagery to be provocative and edgy is gross.

Throbbing Gristle is a strong band name. Just reading it makes me feel nauseous. I’m expecting maybe punk or some obscure type of metal? Once again, Apple Music simply says alternative which could mean anything! Let’s listen! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: none It feels like I’m being trolled today. Each track here is either ambient droning and noise, or otherwise literally the background sounds of being sat in a bar. It is ridiculous how this can even be considered music, never mind essential music. This might be one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. If this was the first album I’d ever listened to, I’d probably never listen to another. I’d rather shit in my hands and clap than listen to this again.

Not my proudest fap.

Wow. This is garbage! I genuinely don't see the value in this at all. Most of the songs aren't songs. In order for me to call something a song, you have to have some sense of rhythm, melody, or ideally, both. There's only like two songs on here that fit that and they both suck. The rest of the album is just pure noise. Sometimes it's just talking, other times it is literally just random noise. One songs on here was originally an actual song, but for whatever reason why sped up to become 16 seconds of sped-up garbage. I hate this. This infuriates me. This might be my least favorite album of all time. Everything here is stupid. I can't even call this music. Fuck this album. 1/5.