“The Second Annual Report” by Throbbing Gristle - album review
features in: (B-list) Album Chart of 1977 ● (B-list) Album Chart of the 1970s |
Very few fucks seem to be given on this mostly live lo-fi affair, the biggest majority of which was primitively recorded between October 1976 and September 1977 onto a Sony cassette recorder. They line-up: Genesis P-Orridge (bass, clarinet, guitar, violin, vocals), Chris Carter (synthesizers), Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitar, vocals) and Peter Christopherson (tape processing, trumpet). Contains three versions of “Slug Bait”, a song about eating a baby. You just know there's something worthwhile at the heart of their bleak new musical vision for electronic music, but it's too too distant to touch. Released September 1977.
The Jukebox Rebel
15–Feb–2009
Tracklist |
A1 | [01:04] Throbbing Gristle - Industrial Introduction [studio ’77 version] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A2 | [04:20] Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait [live 18 Oct ’76 edit] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A3 | [02:45] Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait [live 7 May ’77 edit] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A4 | [01:10] Throbbing Gristle - Slug Bait [live 26 Mar ’77 edit] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A5 | [02:59] Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death [live 22 May ’77 edit] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A6 | [04:34] Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death [studio version] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A7 | [01:37] Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death [live 7 May ’77 edit 2] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Avant-Garde |
A8 | [00:57] Throbbing Gristle - Maggot Death [live 26 Mar ’77 edit] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Speech / Chat |
B | [20:19] Throbbing Gristle - After Cease To Exist [1977 version] (Chris Carter, Christine Newby, Neil Megson, Peter Christopherson) Film Score / Incidental |