Psychic TV- Themes

Part I- Piano and Clarinet
Part II- Tibetan Human Thigh Bones
Part III- Cowbell, Bicycle Wheel, and Vibes
Part IV- New Guinea Headhunter's Pipe, Large and Small Drum
Part V- Piano and String Machine
Part VI- Recording Made at Jonestown, Guyana at the time of the Suicides
Part VII- African Initiation Drum and Animal Tusk Horn
Part VIII- Various Temple Bells, Gongs, Cymbals and Vibes

An album to be used "in...rituals as functional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen," and also meant to be a practical tool. Makes perfect sense to me. It's easy to picture some tribe or cult having ritual music like this. The functional/practical part seems subjective, to me. Try listening to this while doing anything creative (or even just take a walk) and there's a good chance the music can work its way in, invade your mind and the effect is pretty empowering. Hell, listening to this while walking through an old cemetery on a cold foggy day with an old manual camera and some black and white film was a hell of a lotta fun.
Recommended for Throbbing Gristle fans who may be turned off by how polished Psychic TV studio albums can be.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nbbsv8p5dlz6dl4

The First Annual Report Of Throbbing Gristle

I still have trouble understanding why TG didn't release this album until 2001 (was recorded in 1975, same year "Metal Machine Music" came out). I guess I can see why they opted to debut with "Second Annual Report," which is more realized and more antagonistic, but F.A.R. is still a great record. The sound isn't yet all enveloping, still hashing out their ideas, I guess. And untreated vocals? That may be one of the weirdest things about this. TG always seemed to want to disgust and hypnotize their audience, and this album got them off on a great start.
If you are new to TG this could be a good place to start...the building blocks that only get weirder...

http://www.mediafire.com/?bvqaza0fqpmhamg

in 2009

Throbbing Gristle- Mission Of Dead Souls: The Last Live Performance Of TG

More like their first last show in Golden Gate Park, May 29, 1981.
Another great live TG recording, even if you can hear some audience members chatting at times.
Seems to have been mastered a bit quietly, turned it up as loud as I could.
Once again I didn't separate the tracks on each side. There's usually improv. bleed-through between tracks, but it also adds to the live TG onslaught.

http://www.mediafire.com/?c84hpq1cd9ccb4o

Throbbing Gristle- Dimensia In Excelsis (Live in L.A. 22.5.1981)

Throbbing Gristle is one of the few, if only, bands whose live albums I prefer to studio.
This record is from their first ever U.S. show (SWA and 45 Grave opened) and to quote the liner notes, "probably the most viciously nihilistic holocaust of sheer emotional and sonic distortion they ever unleashed. This LP is a perfect document and distillation of the confrontation aspects of the Throbbing Gristle legend. Entertainment through pain. Release through intimidation."
Maybe that review was a bit over-blown, but it still rings true.

WARNING: I didn't break up the tracks on each side for 2 reasons: 1) Sometimes it's hard to tell where one track ends and another begins and more importantly 2) I think live albums stand stronger when you have to sit through the whole thing, like you would at the show. Sorry you have to be subjected to my preferences, but you aren't paying for this...
Also, there is a skip on the record a few minutes into side 2.

http://www.mediafire.com/?lwmmzjdimo5