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Media Type: CD
Artist: THROBBING GRISTLE
Title: D.O.A.
Street Release Date: 11/29/1993
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Track Listing

1. I.B.M.
2. Hit by a Rock
3. United
4. Valley of the Shadow of 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
14. Five Knuckle Shuffle
15. We Hate You (Little Girls)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142299 in Music
• Brand: THROBBING GRISTLE
• Released on: 1993-12-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

freaky, but in a good way.....
For those who think they've heard it all....Throbbing Gristle is the sound of the begining of the end. Truly frightening. Screaming, tape loops, random noise collages, recorded conversations, primitive synthesizers. Revolutionary and hugely influential, and this is over 25 years old ! D.O.A. makes Skinny Puppy sound like Snoopy, makes Ministry sound like a church choir, and makes Nine Inch Nails sound like sewing needles. I'm only sorry it took me this long to discover Throbbing Gristle.

a little bit of this, a little bit of that...
here's those plucky kids from TG to entertain you on this, their second release & first one to be primarily studio recordings. at this point in their career (3 years after forming), perhaps they were tired of being pigeonholed as a sick all-noise band, so they begin to stretch out by including a solo recording from each throbbing member. as they each contribute something different to the mix, plus they were a band where each person stood out with a unique personality, i'd like to compare each solo recording with the solo equivalent of another band that released solo material from all 4 members that year: kiss. sleazy's "valley of the shadow..." is, like peter criss' entire album, filler. also, if you're gonna be all dark & gross & ... well, sleazy, at least try not to be BORING! speaking of boring, here's cosey's "hometime", which compares to paul stanley's solo; it SOUNDS like TG (very atmospheric with found sound overlaid), but it just kind of lays there, quite inert. at least its half as long as sleazy's, so its here and gone before you know it. chris' "ab/7" is the epiphany of the album. its a SONG - a melodic, danceable, catchy one. chris always seemed out of place in TG (the musician vs the "artistes"), but this short piece established he had a future on his own, just like ace frehley's rockin' lp. which leaves us with little gen, who so obviously is the gene simmons of the group, but here, he catches you off guard. "weeping" is a very heartfelt sad song about gen being dumped by paul stanley, very original sounding, and extremely suprising, much like gene singing "when you wish upon a star", except much much much better.
all this said, the group compositions in the studio ("Dead on Arrival", "Hamburger Lady", "IBM") are among the best they ever did, and the live cuts "hit by a rock" and "blood on the floor" are the first outright signs of TG possessing a "normal" sense of humor (or at least as normal a sense as they could possess).
a cool platter!

The real beginning...
Coming out of the aural sludgefest of '2nd Annual Report', Throbbing Gristle started wresting its noise into song-like structures on this release. And it does work. Like the following release, '20 Jazz-funk Greats', this is a seminally-important release from the early period of industrial music from the people who pioneered the term. Hints of the more polished, sequenced electronics that were to come can be found on 'AB/7A', but by and large, this album is more the domain of the noise-mass approach from their prior release, with things wrested into more 'manageable' chunks. But by no means does this mean this is a 'basic sophomore' effort; rather, this is where the real ride begins for those wanting to get deeper into TG's catalog.