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Throbbing Gristle

D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Breaking from the live sound of the previous Second Annual Report, D.O.A. finds the group assembling collages of computer noise (before connecting to the internet sounded almost friendly), cassette tapes on fast forward, looped feedback and tape hiss, surreptitiously recorded conversation, threatening phone calls, and much more, all to a grand alienating effect, the sound of a gray day in a British tower block after all the drugs have run out. Of course, this was the intended effect and the band succeed well enough. "Weeping," Genesis P-Orridge's version of a love ballad, loses itself among delayed strings and drones, a barely enunciated vocal, and a violin like a squeaky door. "Hamburger Lady" (about a burn victim) is even more repellent, but in a good way -- a genuinely scary listen. "AB/7A," on the other hand, approaches the pulsing electronics of Kraftwerk or early Yello. ¯ Ted Mills

Tracklist

• disc 1
  1. I.B.M.
  2. Hit By a Rock
  3. United
  4. Valley of the Shadow of the Death
  5. Dead On Arrival
  6. Weeping
  7. Hamburger Lady
  8. Hometime
  9. Ab/7a
  10. E-Coli
  11. Death Threats
  12. Walls of Sound
  13. Blood On the Floor
  disc 2
  1. Introduction [the Crypt 1978]
  2. It's Always the Way [Goldsmiths College, London 1978]
  3. Industrial Muzak [the Crypt 1978]
  4. Cabaret Voltaire [It College Wakefield 1978]
  5. Hamburger Lady [Goldsmiths College, London 1978]
  6. Ibm [Goldsmiths College, London 1978]
  7. New After Cease To Exist Soundtrack [Lfmc 1978]
  8. Whistling Song [the Crypt 1978]
  9. Mother Spunk [It College Wakefield 1978]
  10. Five Knuckle Shuffle [7" Single/Version]
  11. We Hate You (Little Girls) [7" Single/Version]