Persausion just tipping out Hot on the Heels of Love.
I've got a little biscuit tin To keep your panties in
Oh yeah
― Raw Patrick, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
o man i haven't listened to this album since high school
i was way into them back then a couple times i just drove around in the parking lot blasting "we hate you (little girls)"
― thorn, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
another time i listened to 20 jfg w/ a girl in the car and she said it was giving her a headache
― thorn, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
time to get stoned
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 1 June 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
automatic thread bump this poll is hella stoned
― thorn, Sunday, 1 June 2008 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hot on the Heels"
― Mordy, Sunday, 1 June 2008 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hot on the Heels of Love" for me 2
Oh my goodness gracious what a good record
― kenan, Sunday, 1 June 2008 06:20 (fifteen years ago) link
the only reason Still Walking is my fave now is cuz I have listened to this record for a long time and it is the only track that keeps on giving, that I discover new things about.
20 years ago I would have said Hot On The Heels or Walkabout.
― sleeve, Sunday, 1 June 2008 07:21 (fifteen years ago) link
well aren't you just awesome.
― kenan, Sunday, 1 June 2008 08:01 (fifteen years ago) link
'walkabout', then 'hot on the heels', then 'convincing people'.
i could never take 'persuasion' seriously after the panties bit!
― haitch, Sunday, 1 June 2008 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
hot on the heels...
and they played an amazingly heavy version of it when i saw TG live last year...
― Jack Battery-Pack, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I fucking love "Convincing People" but the point of TG records isn't individual tracks, right?
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
"What A Day", because it reminds me of living in a city and working at a stupid job that I hate, staggering home through crowds of commuters shouting to myself "WHAT A DAY!!! AAAAAAAAARRGGGHHH!!!"
― snoball, Sunday, 1 June 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"Persuasion" for me, but only just, over "Six Sixties Sixties" "Convincing People", "What a Day"
― Tom D., Sunday, 1 June 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
'convincing people,' barely. it always reminds me of 'i won't grow up' from the peter pan musical.
― poortheatre, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
over the years it keeps changing. today it is "convincing people".
― stirmonster, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoah.
― Drew Daniel, Monday, 2 June 2008 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link
What a record..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 September 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
not enough jazz funk
― mark s, Friday, 25 September 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
If only there was enough jazz funk
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
any jazz funk is too much.
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
There is a major jazz head I know who bought this as a teenager when it came out genuinely thinking he was getting a comp of 20 Jazz Funk Greats. He persevered with it (as you do at that age) and to this day is a big TG fan even though they bear zero relation to absolutely anything else he likes.
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I was actually listening to some of this yesterday, I edited a version of "Walkabout" for my radio show next Monday.
― sleeve, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
There is also a "Walkabout" edit on this - https://www.discogs.com/Sonic-Assassins-Show-Up-Be-Counted/release/1690955
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Awesome
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 September 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
i salute this intrepid person tbh, correct approach and correct result
― mark s, Friday, 25 September 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
This has probably been addressed somewhere, but did anyone from Throbbing Gristle ever address their personal relationship to the genre of jazz funk? The cover and titles were supposed to evoke "something you would find in a Woolworth's bargain bin," but Jazz funk was still a thriving genre at the time! The cover itself looks more like a Cowsills or Osmonds album than anything Herbie Hancock or Billy Cobham would have released.
― peace, man, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
I may have posted this previously but kind of related, there is a Jazz Funk DJ i know who was in his late teens when it came out and who bought it by mistake, so was successfully duped by it. He persevered with it and says it is one of his all time favourite records even though he likes and listens to nothing else whatsoever that is vaguely similar.
As far as i know nobody in TG was into Jazz Funk.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I saw your post just above! That is cool and I'm glad it worked out well for someone.
I guess my question is, were they specifically taking aim at jazz-funk, or was it picked for the absurdity?
I'm trying to think of a good analogy for modern times. Maybe like if 100 gecs put out a record called 20 Afrofuturist Neo-Soul Greats with an album cover lifted from Five for Fighting.
― peace, man, Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
i think it was picked for the absurdity rarher then them having a particular issue with jazz-funk.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link