D.o.A. The Third and Final Report

I honestly can't get over the entirely unnecessary imagery of the young sleeping girl on the album cover. Add to that the deliberate inaccessibility of the music, and I'm not conflicted at all with giving this 1 star.

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I was in a turbulent airplane when I listened, and as Pitchfork suggested about this album, it was indeed nauseating. While some of the sounds and ideas were interesting, I simply can’t say I liked it—and I struggle to imagine anyone choosing to listen to this except to induce vomiting.

P.S. — I highly advise against listening to the track “Dead on Arrival” while your airplane is bumping about through a storm.

P.P.S. — Also, the child’s voice on “Hometime” is a jump scare. Which is weird, because they honestly seem like a nice kid.

P.P.P.S. — I liked track 9, “AB/7A.” So that’s nice.

Not my style. Industrial has value, but it’s a tough listen. I’m sure this was much more innovative in its time when there was less stuff like it.

It will never become my favourite album, but I don't have these feelings of hatred this seems to flame in some others in the reviews here.

In the afterwaves of Punk, several new forms of music emerged. In Britain it was mostly the post-punk and in the US it was the art-rock that came about. But from around the years between 77 and 82 the whole music scene around the world found new ways to express itself. Restless, experimental, searching for new boundaries.

And Throbbing Gristle is no exception. It really feels these are visual artists that try and put their ideas to music. Disturbing, bleak ideas. With imagery to match. And inadvertently lay the foundation that would later become a million selling music-style dubbed Industrial, named after Throbbing Gristle's own record label.

A highly influential album, and something that's not supposed to be pretty, but made to disturb you. And that's probably why this is never going to be anything other than divisive.

My wife on the other hand was physically relieved when I turned the album off though.

I know that must have been cool at and groundbreaking int he 70's, but ow my ears. No thank you.

This seemed like something I should like a lot, and instead it annoyed me.

Bad music. I hate anyone who likes this.