Worried that if I just sit around my flat listening to Throbbing Gristle all day, I might start baying myself, I venture outside. This proves to be the biggest error of judgment I have made since embarking on the project in the first place. It's difficult to know exactly what would be the ideal activity to engage in while Throbbing Gristle provide the soundtrack. But I can reveal that shopping in central London is not among them. A journey by Tube is even more like a descent into some netherworld of the damned than usual. The heaving crowds of Oxford Street, nerve- jangling at the best of times, are rendered nightmarish.
(via Cos)
there was a 50 CD Merzbow boxed set, yes (done by Melbourne-based label Extreme). somebody blogged about listening to 2 albums per day. Somewhere in England they played it all over a weekend in some art gallery, a year or two ago.
I have 4 Merzbow CDs (one of them's the Merzbox "sampler"), but only one TG. oh, and 6 Nurse With Wound ones, and 1 by Current 93 (which consists of every piece of work David Tibet has done, at least as C93, all played at the same time. it's fascinating). that makes 12 hours of...confusion.
yeah, yeah, yeah...
a few weeks ago I spent the best part of three afternoons and evenings listening to the Jandek orgy (http://tisue.net/jandek/press.html#WHRB). Now that's difficult!
I got the first seven "Televisions Greatest Hits" compilations a few years back as a magazine subscription deal. I haven't been game to listen to any of them all the way through...
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Fri Jan 31 07:59:40 2003
Aww they can do better than that! How about every Merzbow (http://www.hut.fi/~omertalo/Merzbow.html) album in a row? He's got about fifty of them.