Throbbing Gristle were dubbed "wreckers of civilisation" by Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn because of their 1976 exhibition "Prostitution" at the I.C.A. in London.
After terminating their first mission in 1981, TG split and the members went their seperate ways. Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti went on to form chris & cosey and started their label CTI (Conspiracy International) and recently carter tutti. Genesis P-Orridge and peter christopherson (Sleazy) went on to found psychic TV; later Sleazy and fellow PTV member Jhonn Balance left PTV to form Coil. Genesis P-Orridge still remains active with PTV3 and Thee Majesty. Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti are still recording, collaborating and touring and in 2001 became known as Carter Tutti. Cosey Fanni Tutti also has a successful career as an international artist (recently exhibiting at Tate Britian, Barbican, Los Angeles, Washington, Zurich). Peter Christopherson is now recording and performing live with Ivan Pavlov as Soi Song and solo as The Threshold Houseboys Choir.
In 2003 Throbbing Gristle regrouped.
The first new studio album from the regrouped TG was entitled 'Part Two: The Endless Not' and was released in 2007. Each of the initial CD pressings included one of a series of four different Totemic Gifts in either copper, bone, rubber or wood and the gifts were encased within the CD jewel case. The Totemic Gifts were handmade under Peter Christopherson's personal supervison in Thailand and each of the Totemic Gift CDs came in an edition of 1000.
TG have also recently released a limited edition DVD boxed set titled 'T G V'.
In 2007 TG performed live at the I.C.A. in London as a three-day installation entitled 'The Desert Shore'. This installation consisted of the band recording a cover version of Nico's classic album 'Desert Shore'. A limited edition of the live recording was later released on Industrial Records. In 2007 TG also performed a live 'soundtrack' concert to a series Derek Jarman films, with a full choir (conducted by Hildur Guðnadóttir) at the Turine Hall in Tate Modern.
In 2008 TG performed two special concerts in Barcelona and Paris entitled 'Thirty Second Annual Report'. These concerts were commemorative recreations of their first album:'Second Annual Report'. Both concerts will be available as a framed limited edition vinyl release (777 copies) in 2008.
On October 29th, 2010, Throbbing Gristle announced on their website that Genesis P Orridge had informed them that she was no longer willing to perform with Throbbing Gristle and would be returning to her home in New York. Chris, Cosey and Peter would finish the tour under the name X-TG.
Throbbing Gristle - the founders of the musical Industrial - of art, which is based on experimental music-expressed with active use of samples and inharmonious combinations of sounds, as well as visualization and avant-garde live performances, often unpleasant and repulsive to the average layman. Musically TG absorbed the influence of experimental music pioneers of the 60s, such as the Fifty Foot Hose, The Velvet Underground, Can, as well as classical composers John Cage and La Monte Young.
Key member of Throbbing Gristle can formally assume a man named Neil Megson, better known as Genesis P-Orridge. Neil was born in 1950 in Manchester, in a family involved in theatrical and musical activity. His father was a jazz musician. As a child, Neil was interested in the occult, his grandmother was a psychic. At age 15, Neil began to develop a character named Genesis P-Orridge, but until 1971, all the records released under the name of Early Worm. His first record he released in 1968, it is based on improvisation on homemade instruments. In 1969, he enrolled at Hull University and created the first "sound lab" where not only make music, but hid from everyday life. Laboratories were among the devices not only cassette recorders and other devices for recording and playback of sound, but also model railway. Early Worm designed the cover artist John Cage. His book Silence was one of the main sources of inspiration for the P-Orridge. At Hull University, he studied not long, and in the same '69 safely departed from him, went to London, where he lived for a while in the commune of Exploding Galaxy. The members of the commune refused to normal life, the concept of private property and personal life, as well as the class structure of Britain. In the commune practiced discipline and costumed role play. Back in Hull, P-Orridge founded comic musical theater company with Cosey Fanni Tutti.
After some time, this group was transformed into a performance-art-shock group COUM Transmissions, focusing on sex, taboos, and paranormal phenomena. In 1971, Genesis even learned magic from William S. Burroughs. In 1973 he joined a COUM Peter «Sleazy» Christopherson, who is considered one of the founders of the concert sampler. His sampler consisted of a number of connected together cassette recorders and controllers. Cosey worked as a secretary, stripper, pornographic and erotic model. Famous show "Prostitution", held in 1976 at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), included a display of pictures of naked Tutti, and her porn pictures. The show included a striptease, tampax in the glass and guards transvestites. Prostitutes, punks, men in suits and the usual inquisitive were hired to mingle with visitors to the gallery. All this even caused debate in Parliament. Members of the House of Commons demanded an explanation from the Minister of Culture, and the P-Orrige and Tutti were declared "destroyers of civilization." But this is not long in coming, and a report on the show in the newspaper Fleet Street. However, the organizers received original, cutting out the review of the newspaper and making it another one of the exhibits. Until the end, in a shocking performance COUM Transmissions involved only Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson. These people and became the nucleus of the future band Throbbing Gristle.
Throbbing Gristle was founded October 18, 1976 in the ICA, a rock band from 4 participants. For Genesis, Cosey and Peter'u joined Chris Carter. Name to Yorkshire slang means "erect penis" (although the term 'throbbing gristle' can be employed in relation to the heart). In an episode of the comedy TV show 80's "Only When I Laugh", written by Yorkshireman Eric Chappell, character Figgis, refers to a greyhound named Throbbing Gristle. It is unlikely that the TV censors of the time were aware of all the values of this phrase when they were given the good scenario.
The first performance took place in Throbbing Gristle Air Gallery in London on 6 July 1976. The band played in one room, while in the next room sounded different music. Peter worked on the special effects and led to the idea of artificial scars, and Chris was cutting himself with a razor.
His first creative team christened word Industrial.
At this point, the headquarters of Throbbing Gristle was the home of 10 on Martello Street in East London, the team of artists address anti-West End. Living and working spaces, P-Orridge and Tutti also has a mailing address of their own record label, Industrial Records. IR logo has faded high-contrast black-and-white photograph of the main ovens of Auschwitz. In 1977, they released their debut record, "2nd Annual Report". Originally released on Industrial Records in the amount of 786 copies, it was reprinted later, thanks to the great demand among the public. Also for six years on Industrial Records were released works by such artists as Monte Cazazza, The Leather Nun, Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, Surgical Penis Klinik (SPK), Elisabeth Welch, Dorothy, Clock DVA, Richard H. Kirk, Cabaret Voltaire, as well as the famous writer William S. Burroughs. All these people and groups should be considered artists present original Industrial.
Throbbing Gristle confrontational performances were based on the annoying artistic images, including pornography and photographs of Nazi concentration camps. All this gave the band a rather bad name. However, the group always has a clear opinion that their mission - to cry out and explore the dark and obsessive sides of the human condition, rather than to make attractive music. Throbbing Gristle pioneered the use of pre-recorded samples, and extensive use of special effects to create special, terribly distorted background, usually accompanied by the rhythmic verses or colloquial speech Genesis P-Orridge. Live entertainment group is always quite different from their studio work. In addition to the studio albums were vypusheno many recordings of concerts TG.
Throbbing Gristle latest single was «Discipline.» A recent release Industrial Records was named "Nothing Here But The Recordings", a best-of-album of tape archive William S. Burroughs, who gave the P-Orridge and Sleazy access to records. The last show TG, Mission Of Dead Souls, was held in May 1981 in San Francisco. Soon after this, Genesis and Paula P-Orridge (née Alaura O'Dell) were married in Tijuana. Throbbing Gristle ceased to exist. Industrial Records were closed and former members heralded the end of the industrial era in the music and the beginning of the post-industrial. After that, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson created a project Psychic TV, thus becoming one of the founders not only industrial, but also acid house. Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter continued to issue records under the name Chris and Cosey. Christopherson later became half of Coil, he created with fellow Psychic TV, John Balance. All participants TG have sponsored a considerable number of films and books.
Many years later, the group got together again. The first show after a break of almost two decades, passed in 2004, Astoria Theatre, London. This was followed by two concerts in Italy in 2005 and the show in Berlin from 31 December 2005 to 1 January 2006. Also completed recording the first in many years album. In April 2007, in light of the album «Part Two - The Endless Not», well met as music critics and fans.
October 29, 2010 P-Orridge announced its withdrawal from the group. The three remaining members continued to tour in Europe under the name X-TG.
November 24, 2010 another member of the team, Peter Christopherson, died in his sleep
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Discipline
Throbbing Gristle Lyrics
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We need some discipline here
Discipline, some discipline
We need some discipline in here
We need some discipline in here
Discipline, got discipline
Some discipline, discipline
I want some discipline in here
Are you listening, guys?
Are you ready now?
Are you listening, more or less?
Are you ready now?
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
Do what I say, do what I say
I want some discipline
Discipline
Discipline
I want some discipline in here
Are you listening, boys?
Are you ready, boys?
Are you listening, girls?
Are you ready, girls?
I want some discipline
Discipline
Discipline
Discipline
Hey Berliners, hey Americans
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline
Some discipline in here
Discipline, discipline
I want some discipline
You out there
Yeah, you right there
Just some discipline now
I want some discipline in here
That's not good enough for me
Not good enough, you know
Not good enough for me
Not good enough, you know
I want some discipline
Discipline of your wife
Discipline of your life
Discipline
I want some discipline in here
Ahhhh, ahhhh
Now discipline
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
Discipline, discipline
Discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
That's not the word
That's not the word
That's not the word
That's not the word
I want some discipline
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline right now
I want some discipline
Discipline in here
Just get in here
Discipline, get in here, yeah
Discipline in here
Ah, some discipline in here
Ah, some discipline in here
Ah, some discipline in here
That's not the way, that's not the way
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
Say it now, yeah, oh, oh
Say it now, oh, this is the word, oh
I want some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
I rargh rargh rargh rargh rargh rargh rargh
That's a good boy, that's a big boy
I want some discipline in here
That's not the word, that's not right
Let's get some discipline in here
I want some discipline in here
Some discipline in here
I want discipline
I want discipline
I want discipline
I want discipline
I want discipline
In here, in here, in heeeere
I want some discipline in here
Yeah, yeah, aw yah, what
Aw yah, what, yah yah, oh, like that
Oh, la la la la, oh, ya ya ya ya, oh, ya ya ya ya, oh...
[Screaming and howling]
Discipline
Yeah discipline
I want you to be different
So come, be disci-disciplined
Oh, aaaah, ooooh
Disciplined, yeah
I want some discipline
Ooooh
Uh, what, whoooo
Ho hoooo
You know we want some discipline
You know we want some discipline
You hear we make some discipline
Come and see this
Come and see this
I think we hear something, oh yeah
No yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, noooo, no
Ahhhh
Where's the, where's the, rest of you?
Rest of, rest of, rest of you, huh?
The lyrics to Throbbing Gristle's song "Discipline" are a repetitive plea for the need for discipline. The song opens with the repetition of the word “Discipline” followed by the line “We need some discipline here” before leading into the same plea repeated in different ways. The lyrics are delivered in a commanding tone with a sense of urgency and insistence on obedience. The song is not only about societal discipline, but also about self-discipline as it mentions the need to discipline oneself and one's life. The repeated use of the word “discipline” could be seen as an attempt to strip away any other meaning or context and focus solely on the importance of discipline.
The song's repetition and use of a commanding tone could be seen as a critique on authoritarianism and the idea that discipline needs to be enforced rather than embraced. The lyrics may also be interpreted as a more personal reflection on the need for self-discipline as a means of self-improvement and achieving personal goals. Overall, "Discipline" is a provocative and thought-provoking piece of music that invites the listener to consider the role of discipline in society and personal life.
Line by Line Meaning
Discipline, discipline
We need everyone to become disciplined
We need some discipline here
We need everyone to become disciplined right now
Discipline, some discipline
We need everyone to become disciplined immediately
Discipline, got discipline
We need to maintain discipline
I want some discipline in here
I want everyone to become disciplined right now
Some discipline, discipline
We need everyone to become disciplined right now
Are you listening, guys?
Are you paying attention?
Are you ready now?
Are you prepared to become disciplined?
Are you listening, more or less?
Are you all listening on some level?
I want some discipline
I want everyone to become disciplined right now
Do what I say, do what I say
Everyone needs to follow my instructions
Are you listening, boys?
Are you men listening?
Are you ready, boys?
Are you men prepared?
Are you listening, girls?
Are you women listening?
Are you ready, girls?
Are you women prepared?
Hey Berliners, hey Americans
I am calling out to everyone in Berlin and America
Some discipline in here
Everyone needs to become disciplined right now
You out there
I am addressing everyone listening
That's not good enough for me
What we are currently doing is unacceptable
Not good enough, you know
We need to do better
Discipline of your wife
You need to be disciplined in your relationship with your wife
Discipline of your life
You need to be disciplined in your life overall
Ah, some discipline in here
We need everyone to become more disciplined
That's not the way, that's not the way
We are not doing things correctly
Say it now, yeah, oh, oh
Everyone needs to say it out loud
This is the word, oh
The word is 'discipline'
I rargh rargh rargh rargh rargh rargh rargh
I am making an animal-like noise to communicate my frustration
That's a good boy, that's a big boy
Well done, you are being disciplined
That's not the word, that's not right
We need to say the correct word
Some discipline in here
We need everyone to become more disciplined
I want discipline
I want everyone to become more disciplined
In here, in here, in heeeere
I want everyone to become more disciplined right now
Discipline in here
Everyone needs to become more disciplined right now
Just get in here
Everyone needs to be present and become disciplined right now
Yeah discipline
We need to become more disciplined
I want you to be different
I want everyone to change their behavior
So come, be disci-disciplined
Come on, become disciplined
You know we want some discipline
We all want to become more disciplined
You hear we make some discipline
We are creating a disciplined environment
Contributed by Kaylee K. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@tuckercarlsonbot
"ny of the machines I used in TG were cassette machines that were
stripped down and altered to play backward and forward and four tracks
at once, the speed variable by flywheels. The very first sampling device
there ever was, as far as I know, was manufactured by Mountain Hardware
for Apple computers. It was designed to reproduce voice samples, and
had a very limited selection of pitches. I was using that onstage in '79
or '80, which was before the first Fairlight was used commercially. So
I've always had a soft spot for sampling"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christopherson
@jacklacey
"real industrial, yo" is one of the greatest YouTube descriptions I've ever seen. 14 years strong.
@Raitor33
Right on the fucking spot, frankly
@jeezjacob
Damn this is og youtube
@Hiro_Protagonist
plz like it comment more than 24 ty m8
@ViViVex
Real shit
@WirSindVerl0ren
@jacklacey I come back yearly just to unlike and relike this comment.
@altosaxophonie
this is a certified hood classic
@SlyHikari03
Before Industrial meant synths and distortion, it meant “anything is a instrument, even that trash can down the street”.
@muellermilchkokos2266
I tried to impress my 54 years old mom with some dirty glitch hop. Then she said: "Search for Throbbing Gristle. Then we talk about dirty music." ...She won -.-''
@csansolo
She knew her stuff.