[kj] Hamburger Lady????

[Alex Smith]

See now, before the SBE gigs, this is exactly the type of post that would've gotten on my nerves, but having met the estimable Peter West, I know he's just being silly (in the head) as is his inimitable forte. 

That said, to explain the thought process behind the endeavors -- artistic or otherwise -- of Throbbing Gristle is something that takes veritable tomes to do (and hats off to Simon Ford for doing it, ala "Wreckers of Civilization: the story of Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle"....not beach reading by any stretch). They were neither manic depressives nor squeaky clean rich kids, and they *ASSUREDLY* did not have shit for brains.  As far as dressing weird, only Genesis P-Orridge took up that particular baton (and fucking ran with it). By and large, TG looked like garden variety citizens, but made some of the most viscerally harrowing and gorgeously ugly music to ever grace audiotape. In terms of subject matter, TG concentrated on the very things that plague the human psyche, making their art more provocative than simple three chord punk rock In their own words: Throbbing Gristle delivered "entertainment through pain" and engaged in "nothing short of a total war on contemporary perceptions". To write them off -- let alone to call them shoegazers (if you heard even a nanosecond of their output, you'd realize this is an inaccurate description) -- is to make yourself look wildly and woefully misinformed.

Alex in NYC





-----Original Message-----
From: "peter.west410" <peter.west410 at ntlworld.com>
Sent: Apr 15, 2005 6:33 PM
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Subject: Re: [kj] Hamburger Lady????

What a stupid depressing subject to sing about.Why do they do it?
     Are they manic depressives or do they just have shit for brains?
Or do they enjoy wallowing in human misery?Or are they squeaky clean rich
kids who dress and act weird just to hide their true persona?
   Stupid shoegazers who should enjoy the sunshine and smell the roses.
              PW

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Smith" <vassifer at earthlink.net>
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
<gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Hamburger Lady????


>
> No, "Hamburger Lady" is a Throbbing Gristle "song" about a woman in a
> burn unit who has been scarred so badly that she looks like hamburger
> meat.
>
> Alex in NYC
>
>




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