Post #789535 by HopeChest on Thu, Aug 30, 2018 10:30 AM

On 2018-08-30 08:16, tikitube wrote:

What's more interesting is that those of us who were into industrial were sorta anti-fad and anti-pop culture

I was really into industrial music as well and agree with this. The conscious rejection of that sort of stuff.

However, I also feel that, in whole, it describes a fairly particular and narrow slice of industrial fandom/fans, something like your stereotypical goths. While there were certainly a lot of folks who were rigidly like that, there was also a very tongue-in-cheek element of dark humour. I always thought it was hilarious that TG went as far as to dedicate that record to Martin Denny. When TG came out, I don't think there was anything less cool than exotica music - they were yer grandparents' records. So it still ran very much against the grain, playing those records after gigs and doing era-correct photo shoots. And going against the grain was the essence of Throbbing Gristle.

I've always felt that approach was one of the gateways that brought the punks to tiki.