Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits: Entertainment Through Pain

by Throbbing Gristle

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: October 1981
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 38:29
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare

Album Notes & Community Reviews

With a deeply ironic title, this posthumous compilation offers a relatively accessible entry point into the foundational English group's confrontational, anti-commercial catalog. It traces their pioneering manipulation of tape loops, synthesized noise, and provocative imagery that birthed the industrial music genre.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, noisy, scary, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Hamburger Lady (4:09)
  2. Hot on the Heels of Love (4:20)
  3. Subhuman (2:52)
  4. AB/7A (4:23)
  5. Six Six Sixties (2:05)
  6. Blood on the Floor (1:00)
  7. 20 Jazz Funk Greats (2:43)
  8. Tiab Guls (4:18)
  9. United (4:03)
  10. What a Day (4:35)
  11. Adrenalin (3:55)

Credits

  • Godwin Logie - edited by
  • Duckie Simpson - written-by
  • Michael Rose - written-by

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