Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams (1982)

Regular visitors to the blog should have realised by now that my musical tastes are quite wide, and in the early 80's I was quite partial to a bit of Industrial noise, with Throbbing Gristle being a particular favourite. '20 Jazz Funk Greats', 'Heathen Earth' and 'D.o.A. The Third Annual Report' are classics of the genre, and I bought all the 7" singles which they issued in the late 70's and early 80's, most of which I still have. I don't play them as much as I should as they are on vinyl and I've never got around to ripping them to mp3, so I hunted around for an album which collected them in one place. Apart from the 'Entertainment Through Pain' compilation which included a few of the sides, and the expanded re-issue which added in a few more, there wasn't really a comprehensive collection which had all the A and B-sides together, so here it is. When 'United' came out in 1977 it sounded so unlike anything else I'd heard that it introduced me to a whole new style of music, and pointed me towards bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, The Normal, and Clock DVA, and later on when Throbbing Gristle broke up, Psychic TV and Chris & Cosey. I'll admit that a couple of these tracks haven't aged well, but most of them are great examples of this style of music, and so this is where it all started, with a short run of 7" singles which broke new ground and started a new genre of music - Industrial.

Track listing

01 United (single 1978)
02 Zyklon B. Zombie (b-side of 'United')
03 We Hate You (Little Girls) (single 1979) 
04 Five Knuckle Shuffle (b-side of 'We Hate You (Little Girls)')
05 Subhuman (single 1980)
06 Something Came Over Me (b-sdie of 'Subhuman')
07 Adrenalin (single 1980)
08 Distant Dreams (Part Two) (b-side of 'Adrenalin')
09 Discipline (Berlin) (12" single 1981)  
10 Discipline (Manchester) (12" single 1981)