Throbbing Gristle- United

[fondetforme]

Incredibly powerfull song, It doesn't need megawatts to make you explode. Bravo.

... is it about the Manchester famous football team ? (I'm french, sorry).

[TheDragonbuster100]

I bet it'd be good to have sex to this song....

[JivemasterJ]

I'm 27, and I like sticking my finger up my butthole!

[Photonzos]

corny pap

[sabalouie2000]

classic...cant stop it.

[NotComingBack01]

Can't stop it.

[vzlanod]

One of the songs that I would like to be played at my funeral.

[left4deadlover123]

Hey, I'm 13 and I love TG.

[ShereKhan77]

@left4deadlover123 how did you find it? i heard about them in the form of almost a "rumor" then i heard hamburger lady.then i took it upon myself to investigate.it is rare to see young people into art and expression of this level.seeing your comment i will say "there is hope for the future".i been into them since i was 15.im 34 now.check out coil and or psychic tv.those groups have members of TG.they are a bit different.have fun.

[left4deadlover123]

@ShereKhan77 When my friend came back from Wave Gotik Treffen

[Ratmannfucketh]

@ShereKhan77 Current 93 also does similar stuff and I think they have some members from here sometimes. And of course there's hope in the future, I'm 14 and a friend was looking into David Tibet a bit after I showed him Current 93 and found these guys and told me. Psychic TV can do some good stuff, but some is absolute crap, to be frank.

[ShereKhan77]

@Ratmannfucketh sol invictus "sacrifice of sweden" it has mention of british nationalists called "black shirts" that i believe were depicted in pink floyd the wall.sir oswald mosley.stay with death in june.look into loung corps."drown a rose" and "life under siege" there are alot of death in june i think you would like.you are young,im under the impression that the groups mentions are very much ocult material.be your own person.you know the deal.genesis was a brian jones fan lol

[Ratmannfucketh]

@ShereKhan77 That's very poorly worded, but thanks for listing some Neofolk artists I haven't heard of.

[MrAnthony10111]

@left4deadlover123 and your also going to love killing people when your 31

[left4deadlover123]

@MrAnthony10111 Thanks :L

[cornishpastie9]

@left4deadlover123

I'm [age] and like [the content of this video].

Instant likes!

[left4deadlover123]

@cornishpastie9 Haha

[Ranjidzumquadrat]

@left4deadlover123 Congratulations Faggot.

[megalithix]

I'm having a TG lapse! I had this on clear-vinyl when it first came out. A unique excursion for them, into melody and ordered electronics - and a bloody beauty at that!

[maldoror97]

Hmmmm, this is not the Tg version of this song i remember.

[ChrisHenniker]

Anyone think Genesis P.Orridge is a good storyteller? Wasn't he also influenced by Anton La Vey, Crowley, William S Borroughs, etc?

If I was promoting Singapore, I'll use this song to accompany 24hrs in the life of the city in 30 seconds. The city of the future needs a song from the future, so this is ideal.

[ShereKhan77]

@ChrisHenniker not so much with la vey but yes i agree.

[ScrewLimbBizkit]

@ChrisHenniker

He can be a brilliant story teller, but other times he just sounds like a senile old man rambling.

But when he's good, he's really fucking good.

[BPCpresents]

Love is the law...love is the law...love is the law...

[KrelinLV]

@BPCpresents Reminds me of A.Crowley's 'Love is the law, love under will'.

[pozzi0]

Time will be us

We are everywhere

There is no why

absolutely best love song ever, full stop.

[ChrisHenniker]

"Love is the law." Notice the Aleister Crowley reference, anybody? Great little love song.

[bissia]

@ChrisHenniker yep who may have borrowed it from Francois Rabelais which himself may have been inspired by Augustine of Hippo who ... well the law may not need be anyone else motto, just a process ... such as love maybe ...

Great tune indeed

[ShereKhan77]

@bissia i always say "never to quote another's words".i was doing some studies and i found myself looking up augustine.i encourage people to find their own ways.as you know relativity applies."if you are compared to ones who are great,one must be great as well" and all that sort of thing ;)

[sabalouie2000]

i dAnZ & FREaK AGAIN

[Karunadevidasi]

This and Skinny Puppys Far to Frail, Incision and Smothered Hope give me orgasms! All that electo/industial OOOOO BABY MORE!!!!

[ScrewLimbBizkit]

I just realized how great this song is.

Can I have suggestions for other bands that sound like this? (This particular song, not TG in general).

[fickifickmaster]

@ScrewLimbBizkit Kraftwerk

[Thrillkisser]

I just love this song and that is all. :-)

[ShellyPhD]

METAL 666

[jonofthesun]

isnt this the birth of industrial and in turn all electronic music?

[Rayimix3000]

@jonofthesun No.

[fickifickmaster]

@jonofthesun no, you can trace electronic music back to krautrock groups like Can, Neu!, Faust, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, etc. Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' was a big electronic album in 1974. "United" isn't industrial but some of their stuff might count as such. Industrial tends to be more "clangy" like Einsturzende Neubauten (spelling?) who came a bit later, hope that sheds some light, cheers!

[lukeisareilly]

@jonofthesun Industrial wasn't the birth of electronic music.

Kraftwerk and Silver Apples were around before TG

[LySeRgIa2]

I don't understand what the fuckers below me are saying, arguing like why you should I like this and wikipedia and ass sucking. Whatever.

If it sounds good you should listen to it, if your mind allows you. There are very few individuals left in the world, and we are individuals who listen to TG. We are not norms. I would hope the majority of TG's listeners are individuals not followers, and a few of them close to as strange as me XD

[Yesaaaay]

so wait...this is where industrial started? :D

[lukeisareilly]

@Yesaaaay This is pretty unrepresentative of Throbbing Gristle's style to be honest

[taoist77]

@lukeisareilly Indeed!



[OctoSnuffaluffagus]

@Yesaaaay more or less, pretty damn close.

[gummboote]

The intro bears a distinct resemblance to Lynsey de Paul's "Sugar Me".

[aLdOKaLdO2]

woww this is sooo awfulll!!! horrribleee, i know it may have a story or some backgrounds i dont understand, but for meee this sux bigtime, can someone explain to me why this is so great to you, you may even convince me to become a new T.G fan ñ________ñ , by the way i found this video by accident lol

[L0kiHyena]

@aLdOKaLdO2 Well I have always felt that to truly appreciate TG you must have an IQ of at least 100, which is average. So I guess that rules you out buddy.

[aLdOKaLdO2]

@L0kiHyena u rude troll D:

[L0kiHyena]

@aLdOKaLdO2

[xNukeUx]

@aLdOKaLdO2 Well, this is one of their more cohesive... 'songs'. The entire dead with TG is making cool sounds to say something much bigger. The way someone likes TG isn't the same way they like other types of music. Someone likes TG simply because of its sheer strangeness and originality; not because it's necessarily... "good" music. I find it inspiring. It is definitely an acquired taste. Hope this is moderately helpful.

[theenside]

@xNukeUx well said!

[pozzi0]

best love song ever..nothing smoochy, from song's name to atmosphere..

its great ahahah

[10Hours1Minute]

Wouw Primus???? what the fuk..

[TheEpisteme]

@10Hours1Minute I wouldn't say underground but Primus is 'alternative.' The only people I know who are familiar with Primus are people in their 30s and younger people who like listening to weird shit most people aren't into.

[GenoClown]

LOL @ Both Responses*

[GenoClown]

Industrial is a lie, there is only Electronica. Post Punk is a lie, there is only New Wave.

[predtime]

@GenoClown That's not what wikipedia says :o

[DimensionsofChange]

@GenoClown I'd say Electronica is the lie and that there is only industrial and electro, but outside of gristle, I never listen to anything else that is industrial.

[GenoClown]

@DimensionsofChange LOL

[DimensionsofChange]

@GenoClown Well excuse me, but wasn't electronica some late 90s club music fad? 

[GenoClown]

@DimensionsofChange LOL

[DimensionsofChange]

@GenoClown I'm gonna play the born in 92 card here. And the I like stuff with guitars and pianos and verses and chorus cad as well.

[GenoClown]

@DimensionsofChange Countered by my born in '95 card. What do you mean by the second part?

[DimensionsofChange]

@GenoClown I mean aside from Gristle, Primus, Gary Numan, Devo, the human League, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa I don't really go into "underground" or "alternative" music often. Industrial, Electronica, Post Punk and new Wave are just words in Wikipedia articles to me. I'm more of a classic rock type guy.

[GenoClown]

@DimensionsofChange Good. It's probably easier to find someone with common interest. New Wave=ALL of that Human League-y stuff. The '80s keyboard and synth stuff. Post Punk is nothing. Everything that people try to call Post Punk sounds like New Wave, just not as Pop-y... Because everyone wants to be their own thing and be different, because it's so cool... So now there are a billion genres and 90% of them are only applied to one band who made the name. So music-wise, Wikipedia is 90% b/s.

[DimensionsofChange]

@GenoClown I'll believe that. I've alway felt that post-punk was just the missing link between Punk and New Wave, but the only "post-punk" band I've heard is the Tubeway army.

[theridiida]

@DimensionsofChange For a taster of post-punk, try The Fall, (early) Gang of Four, Television, The Chameleons, Wire, Magazine, Killing Joke, The Birthday Party (to name just a few of the big ones).

[aLdOKaLdO2]

@DimensionsofChange you should suck my ass, and stop acting like wikipedia u_u

[DimensionsofChange]

@aLdOKaLdO2 Well excuse me, Mr. I was alive prior to the 90s. where else should a person get their music history. Music snobs such as yourself, who seem to enjoy having there asses sucked? Or, books, which I found to have as much bull shit, speculation and hype as wikipedia or any other self appointed expert.

[theridiida]

@GenoClown "Industrial is a lie, there is only Electronica. Post Punk is a lie, there is only New Wave."

I realise you say you were born in '95 (bless you), but it doesn't seem like you've quite acclimatized with the massive array of artists you're dismissing with that comment.

Many industrial bands did not rely on or even use electronic instrumentation; likewise, many post-punk bands were not a part of the new wave movement - they were simply people who played in non-pop bands post-'78.

[GenoClown]

@theridiida You don't have to know ANYTHING about music to know that everything labeled "Post-Punk" sounds like New Wave. That's because they're the same thing... "No, New Wave is so much poppier, Post-Punk is much darker"--blah blah fucking blah, insert hipster terminology here, I've heard it before. It's wrong. You're wrong. I suppose you also buy the "New Romanticism" bullshit as well? And unless you're talking about some other genre that's also called Industrial, the same applies.

[2ndpinkberlin]

@GenoClown What about Einsturzende Neubauten?? They were industrial, and rarely used electronic instruments in their early days. They built their instruments out of scrap metal and broken machines. It was noisy, angry, and raw. It was industrial indeed... electronica? not quite.

[GenoClown]

@2ndpinkberlin Metal with talking instead of screaming, barking, and squealing. \m/

[DarthTwitch]

@GenoClown Not...exactly. You have HEARD of "industrial"....right?

[GenoClown]

@DarthTwitch What is a industrial? How do I heard? 

[Zunesrthebest]

The first song I heard from them was Hamburger Lady. This is the second song I heard from them. Such a strange transition from a completely disturbed song to a futuristic, videogame-esque song

[fantaskmusic]

Excellent.

[AdobeGillis]

This shit's on Glee! HAHAHAHA!

[Isosyth]

@AdobeGillis You best be fuckin joking...

[AdobeGillis]

@Isosyth Rest assured, I am. I hope...

[Isosyth]

@AdobeGillis Oh thank god. You almost gave me a heart attack.

[AdobeGillis]

@Isosyth It's a foul notion, but what if even TG isn't safe from their clutches?? United, underneath all the experimentation and subharmonics is just a pop song after all.

[adam364]

great song! a guy born in 1985 told me this is one of his favorite bands. guess they are still inspiring people.

[Shindig109]

@adam364 88 for me and yea...still doin it

[Isosyth]

@adam364 92 here and it's one of my favorite bands. Unfortunately none of my friends seem to share my opinion of them...

[ekhighvoltage]

I wonder what Orridge is doing these days. Hmmmmmm

[thetruerock]

@ekhighvoltage I know he shouldn't have gotten Throbbing Gristle back together cause it sure is a horrible version of the classic band.

[dianabernoulli]

iunaihted

[dogbitedownmyleg]

They accidently made it to the charts.... Everyone's entitle to one screw up! One of my favorite TG efforts

[weaselidiotu]

u-ni-ted?

[swineburn]

Kluster Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle Kluster Cluster Kluster Throbbing Gristle

[salman1165]

we'll miss Sleazy.

[angelforfreedom]

Source Bless, Sleazy! :)

[paulpetroleum]

RIP Sleazy :(

[Braleven]

Needs moar stompyness! xD

[mozchick2]

I heard about these guys when I saw "Hamburger Lady" listed somewhere as one of the creepiest songs of all time . . . and now their my new favorite band.

[NotComingBack01]

@mozchick2 me too! They're fairly underrated.

[whatsthisfor519]

Let's not forget that this was actually a parody of punk/new wave. It is probably TG's most bearable song, even one of their few tracks that could actually be labelled as a "song".

[tjodolF2]

@whatsthisfor519 I'm not convinced it was a parody when it was recorded; GPO rewrites history every now and then to keep himself relevant, and absurd as it sounds today, comedy was actually hip for a while - and at that time, he claimed the song was a parody (and "Zyklon B Zombie" too). Because it was convenient to him, not because it was true or he expected anyone to believe him.

[MrVersipellis]

@whatsthisfor519 Isn't Zyklon B Zombie a parody of metal/punk and this is new wave/synthpop?

[swineburn]

@MrVersipellis No, it's a song about gassing Jews in concentration camps.

[MrVersipellis]

@swineburn Yeah, even I know that, but didn't genesis itself say that the music itself was meant to be parodying punk?

[swineburn]

@MrVersipellis That would make sense, but I'm really not sure.

[thetruerock]

@swineburn stupid ass!!!!!

[UltimateGCX]

where can i download this?



[millbrook79]

ive still got the 7 inch single of this with zyklon b zombie on the b side. great stuff

[MrVersipellis]

Oh wow, a TG song that actually sounds like musix XD I thiught all their songs were liek Slug Bait??

[powrxplor69]

@MrVersipellis

You should check out "Hot on the Heels of Love"...even better & catchier than this one imo

[MrVersipellis]

@powrxplor69 Okay cheers

[creepbehindyourback2]

TOTAL SHITREWF

[UltimateGCX]

3 people are deaf

[whaip]

wow...I'VE DONE.

I've listen to this ear-screwing bunch of shit the whole song.

[krcrulez677]

pretty sure this is the first industrial song....ever

[sabalouie2000]

aaahh the dark memories.

[Yeahyeahyeah1964]

This is worse than the National Noise Conspiracy for christ sakes

[zearon]

This band is so ridiculously bad.

[xaxaupua]

Petite enjoyable psychotics

[Eisonhawk]

this really is got to be their biggest hit to date, no? delish

[ZLUGGO]

Great tune. But I do not wish to become a woman.

[karlinloy]

einfach coolness

[UltraUser007]

@karlinloy Jawoll!;-)



[MINERSSTRIKE]

When you listen to this it's so obvious where Mr. Oakey and chaps got their inspiration. Still, imitation's the best form of flattery

[DimensionsofChange]

the only way you could dance to this was the way the Gothic kid on South Park dances.

[BboyFlimsy]

@DimensionsofChange

I bet Ian Curtis could dance to this.

[BboyFlimsy]

@DimensionsofChange

I bet Ian Curtis could dance to this. Well, not anymore obviously.

[DimensionsofChange]

@BboyFlimsy Gary numan could dance to this if he took a ton of downers

[BboyFlimsy]

@DimensionsofChange That he could.

[DimensionsofChange]

@BboyFlimsy Frank Zappa could dance to it if prostate cancer wasn't an asshole. But then hat about that one tranny guy from the human league give him a mic stand and he'll go to united town

[Rayimix3000]

@BboyFlimsy Ian Curtis was a fucking pussy!

[eatshitgoogle]

@Rayimix3000 so is yo momma!

[BboyFlimsy]

@Rayimix3000 Your opinion, I think he was awesome though.

[cock1t]

This is one of the quintessential Death Disco tracks, along with Warm Leatherette by The Normal and This is not a love song by P.I.L. takes me to an awsome era of my life, I remember hearing this for the first time and the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.

[cheetah7769]

i fell in love to this song.

[jive230]

@avatarcgn: nee, aus den 70ern... godfather of techno

[djbethell]

The best TG track ever.

Love is the Law indeed.

[avatarcgn]

das ist aus den 80igern?

[MagnitudePerson]

Underated Industrial song!

Listen to the sounds!! Pure Industrial!!!

[darfiss616]

@MagnitudePerson back to the roots ^^

[OctoSnuffaluffagus]

@MagnitudePerson I think throbbing gristle came up with the term 'industrial' to describe music. Too bad, because they were so original and now there is a whole "genre" of industrial music and they are being classified within their own creation, how ironic.

[detectivepope]

@MagnitudePerson  original industrial you mean. no TG no NIN

[DimensionsofChange]

An industrial song that makes fun of New wave, and I thought I knew what ridiculous

[DimensionsofChange]

@DimensionsofChange was*

[drinkinsin]

music being born plecenta and all, it's not pretty but it grows.

[MeggieCMeggieDooo]

still looking for more tracks that i only know the lyrics of, not the names of the songs! one has this chorus that is composed of wolves howling

[Zeptis1337]

listen to that fucking kick: there's the roots of hard dance there.

[thedigitalcollective]

this is about him.i mean it can apply in life aswell,this is what genisis talks about.thanks for posting this.

[spookygothu]

Nha nêm vêm a musica até que tem enredo, mas tá mau de sampler não muda o track enteiro.

Os caras começarao a scena mas tipo nem por isso são melhores

[freizeitfilm]

Klasse ,danke für 's einstellen !

[Xplode42]

about fucking time someone posts this song. they have yet to post the worm waits its turn, though.

[rariborou]

A classic song-- tuneful, but a bit ominous as well (ZombieElectroPop??). Thanks for posting it!

[00lucky7]

its from the very first maker of industrial music

[felipemanson]

A melhor banda, a melhor música, incrível.