History Music / ThrobbingGristle

** The innocent-looking cover of ''20 Jazz-Funk Greats'' has the band on Beachy Head, a popular suicide spot.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Something Came Over Me"(the studio cut), "Five Knuckle Shuffle"

* AffectionateParody: "Hot on the Heels of Love" for GiorgioMoroder, of whom the band were professed fans.

* Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson (tapes, found sounds, horns, vibraphone, synthesizer; also a member of the Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} studio; also also one half of the duo {{Music/Coil}})

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: They touched on a ''very'' wide variety of different genres ({{Ambient}}, PunkRock, Lounge Music / Exotica, SynthPop, proto-{{Techno}} / HouseMusic, Spoken Word and more-or-less pure noise, among others), though it generally all counts as {{Industrial}} due to its noisiness and overall menacing feel.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[RefugeInAudacity This is]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice just one]] [[ThoseWackyNazis of their]] [[BadassPreacher album covers]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:And this is what the band looked like in 1981. Left to right: Christopherson, Carter, Cosey, P-Orridge and friend.]]

* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Genesis became one by choice as part of an unrelated project.

* LogicBomb: See DisobeyThisMessage.

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[[caption-width-right:246:[[RefugeInAudacity This is]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice just one]] [[ThoseWackyNazis of their]] [[BadassPreacher album covers]].]]

[[caption-width-right:350:And this is what the band looked like in 1981. Left to right: Christopherson, Carter, Cosey and P-Orridge.]]

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: A hard 9 at their softest. Most of their material is a solid 11.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: They stay at the 10-11 ranges of the scale. Yes, their music is downright brutal even to this day. Back when they were first starting out, they were far, '''far''' off the scale.

* LeadBassist: Genesis P-orridge

* ScaryMusicHarmlessMusic: Inverted. Despite the harshness of their music and their twisted lyrics, the band members didn't look that intimidating, and they came across as friendly and well-adjusted off-stage.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The title and cover of ''20 Jazz Funk Greats'', which were deliberately designed to make the album look much more populist than it is.

* {{Deconstruction}}

Widely recognized as the UrExample and TropeNamer of the genre, Throbbing Gristle was an avant-garde {{industrial}} band from England, originally active from [[TheSeventies 1975]] to [[TheEighties 1981]]. They reunited in 2004, only to disband again in 2010 after the death of Peter Christopherson. Though they are oft overlooked these days, the group was notorious in the [[TheSeventies 70s]] for their transgressive, gruesome live shows and extremely dark lyrical content, which covered (among other things) {{serial killer}}s, cynical political/social commentary, and feelings of angry helplessness that followed the [[TheSixties 1960s]]; this effectively set the tone for future industrial bands, whose subject matter rarely strayed far from these themes. They also founded Industrial Records, the label which gave the {{industrial}} genre its name, and published many of its earlier exponents.

Widely recognized as the UrExample of the genre, Throbbing Gristle was an avant-garde {{industrial}} band from England, originally active from [[TheSeventies 1975]] to [[TheEighties 1981]]. They reunited in 2004, only to disband again in 2010 after the death of Peter Christopherson. Though they are oft overlooked these days, the group was notorious in the [[TheSeventies 70s]] for their transgressive, gruesome live shows and extremely dark lyrical content, which covered (among other things) {{serial killer}}s, cynical political/social commentary, and feelings of angry helplessness that followed the [[TheSixties 1960s]]; this effectively set the tone for future industrial bands, whose subject matter rarely strayed far from these themes. They also founded Industrial Records, the label which gave the {{industrial}} genre its name, and published many of its earlier exponents.

* BreakupBreakout:
** Sleazy joined with Jhonn Balance and formed Music/{{Coil}}
** Chris and Cosey have been performing as a duo for years.
** Genesis went on to form Psychic TV.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Several of their songs included it. "Slug Bait - Live at Brighton" from their first album chillingly included the confession of a child rapist turned killer.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: All of the band members come off as extremely affable in interviews, standing in stark contrast to the brutality of their music. Genesis P-Orridge [[http://arthurmag.com/2010/10/22/my-top-ten-favorite-psychedelic-folk-songs-by-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-2004/ is a huge fan of folk music]], surprisingly enough.