The Second Annual Report Of THROBBING GRISTLE / 1977 torrent

The Second Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle

Thobbing Gristle

1977


CD / 2004 / 320Kbps



Tracklist:
1 Industrial Introduction
2 Slug Bait - ICA
3 Slug Bait - Live At Southampton
4 Slug Bait - Live At Brighton
5 Maggot Death - Live At Rat Club
6 Maggot Death - Studio
7 Maggot Death - Southampton
8 Maggot Death - Brighton
9 After Cease To Exist - The Original Soundtrack To The Coum Transmissions Film
10 Zyclon B Zombie*
11 United*


Originally released on LP in 1977 by Industrial Records

Tracks 10 & 11 are bonus tracks taken from the United / Zyklon B Zombie 7" single, released in 1978


Personnel:

Genesis P-Orridge

Chris Carter

Cosey Fanni Tutti

Peter Christopherson


The Second Annual Report is the debut album by English industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle, released in November 1977 through Industrial Records. It is a combination of live and studio recordings which date from October 1976 to September 1977.

It's hard to say whether this was a raising or a lowering of the bar, but the bunker mentality of "Industrial" subculture as a power-obsessed stance of aesthetic nihilism wedded to nasty, lo-fi noise was born on this record, leaving a bloody trail for Wolf Eyes, Brainbombs, Prurient, and others to follow into the present moment. As if that were not prescient enough, Second Annual Report counterbalances the bloodthirsty yang of its first eight songs with the yin of its long, brooding final track, the gauzy, scuttling, 20-minute soundtrack to the Coum Transmissions film "After Cease to Exist".

Which is to say that, in 1977, TG already forecasted the ongoing migration of noise dudes toward new age, a sea-change which has been recursively washing over the underground for the past several years.