Nightmare Fuel / Throbbing Gristle

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• Live Albums:
  • Many of their live concerts were notorious for being up front with their Sensory Abuse and visuals, where they would assault the audience with a barrage of loud noises and flashing visuals. There's a very good reason why it was called Muzak from the Death Factory, and this was no ordinary phrase – much of TG's visual imagery was gruesome, vulgar or outright cruel; drawing from the worst of humanity.
    • The cassette releases of said concerts were mixed to the point that you felt like you were there watching them - almost being surrealistic.
  • Many of their live-only songs like 'Five Knuckle Shuffle', 'Discipline', 'Her Arm was His Leg', 'Weapons Training / See You Are' and 'Tesco Disco'.
• The Second Annual Report
  • "Slug Bait", in which Genesis gives a detailed first-person description of a Mau Mau uprising atrocity.
  • "After Cease to Exist" is quiet. Too quiet, in fact. Its eerie calmness is quite unsettling – don't listen to it late at night.
• D.O.A.: The Third and Final Annual Report
  • "Hamburger Lady", which combines cold, mechanical electronics and thoroughly effects-fed vocals, with lyrics taken from a medical letter involving a severe burn-ward victim.
    • Mercifully, it appears that the letter is actually fictional. Or are they...
  • "E.coli". Even if you don't know what E.coli is (It's a species of bacteria that can cause a really bad infection of the digestive tract), the song is very ominous and discordant sounding.
  • "Hometime" is a rather spooky piece with a child speaking with unsettling sounds making most of the piece. Doesn't help if you have headphones, and live versions end up sounding extremely discordant.
  • After finding out Ian Curtis liked it, "Weeping" becomes very spooky to listen to.
• 20 Jazz Funk Greats
  • "Persuasion" is built around a tape of a desperately pleading woman, with jarring guitar, two-note bass, and monotonous vocals, the song is essentially about emotionally abusing a woman to get her to shed her clothes.
  • "What a Day", with Gen's insane ranting and the jerky, grinding, screeching music counts as this.
• "Very Friendly", off The First Annual Report. It's like "Slug Bait", but with one of the Moors killings and its immediate aftermath. It spares not even the most minor of poetics, and it lasts about 18 minutes. Genesis sounds more or less detached, but gets more enthusiastic as s/he carries on, culminating in perhaps the most frightening sound s/he ever made with h/er mouth.
  And then he made a strange noise... and then he died! And he was just a lump of stuff.
• "Zyklon B Zombie". It's hard to make out the lyrics (which are, unsurprisingly, about a concentration camp prisoner being led into a gas chamber), but the droning, muted vocals and subject matter are bad enough.
• "Adrenalin" is an odd example – it's pretty accessible, but it's also taken at a nervous, frantic pace and features menacing, monotone vocals and odd, fragmented samples. Not to mention how eerily repetitive the whole song is...
• Lyre Liar:
  "Lyyyrree liiiaarr, lyyyree liiee.."
• "Ugliness is a Form of Genius"" sounds like the soundtrack to a redneck Eldritch Location.

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