Line #6 YMMV/ThrobbingGristle


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2	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The band's entire MO was to be as ugly and brutal as possible... until other like-minded artists caught on to what they were doing.
3	* CreepyAwesome: Say what you want about them, but you'd certainly be head bobbing if you heard discipline live.
4	* CrossesTheLineTwice: "Zyklon B Zombie", "We Hate You (Little Girls)", "Last Exit", "Dead Ed", many of their early live shows...
5	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
6	** "United" and its 17-second album reprise.
7	** Also, "You can't have anarchy ''and'' have music!"
8	** The intro to their Sheffield University show in 1980:
9	--->Uh, we're Throbbing Gristle, and we'd just like to make a small announcement: all the sounds you hear tonight are generated live as we're playing, there are no prepared backing tapes and no Revoxes.\
10	''(message repeats verbatim, [[BlatantLies on tape.]])''
11	* FridgeBrilliance: 'Hamburger Lady' makes more sense as a song when you realize that it's taken from the perspective of the burn victim herself. The "heartbeat" drum, random murmurs, and the distorted chirps and synthesizer growls are effectively her in a coma.
12	* HarsherInHindsight: 'Weeping' becomes more chilling than usual when taken into account that it's not only about suicide, but one of [[Music/JoyDivision Ian Curtis']] favorite songs, to the point where it is said he would ring up Genesis P-Orridge and simply sing the song before hanging up. [[MadnessMantra Not long before his suicide.]]
13	* HilariousInHindsight: "United" was funny enough as a StealthParody, but once you consider Genesis' attempts at achieving ''[[{{Hermaphrodite}} pandrogeny,]]" it takes on a completely different meaning.
14	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The final live performances in 1981.
15	* NauseaFuel: "Slug Bait", "Hamburger Lady", parts of "Very Friendly".
16	* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/ThrobbingGristle Plenty]].
17	* OlderThanTheyThink: Established in 1975, Throbbing Gristle are widely considered to be the UrExample of Main/{{Industrial}}, but Music/CabaretVoltaire and COUM Transmissions (the latter containing members from Throbbing Gristle) preceded them by '''2 and 6 years''', respectively.
18	* RefugeInAudacity: Pretty much their whole reason for existing.
19	* SignatureSong: Generally, "United" (as unrepresentative of their sound as it is) and, to a lesser extent, "Hamburger Lady", are their best-known songs. It helps that the first actually charted on the UK Indie Chart.
20	* TearJerker:
21	** "Weeping" and "Almost a Kiss".
22	** "Hamburger Lady" is a combination of this and NightmareFuel. Genesis delivers a soft, calm and somewhat depressed sounding voice put through a vocoder while describing a woman so horribly burnt and in such horrible pain she resembles hamburger meat. While it's most upfrontly horrifying, it's also intensely sad at the same time, which is helped immensely by the extremely minimalistic instrumentation.
23	* TheWoobie: It's hard not to feel absolutely horrible for the woman described in "Hamburger Lady", who is completely burnt from the waist up and will spend the rest of her life in strict medical care while feeling intense pain.

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