Psychic TV
Biography
After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial rock outfit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohorts Peter Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti, plus Geoff Rushton, formed Psychic TV in 1979 as a means of continuing their confrontational, shock-oriented approach to music and their multimedia live performances. Psychic TV draws much of its inspiration from the literary underground, including situationist philosophy, William Burroughs (a professed fan), the Marquis de Sade, and Philip K. Dick. The group also claims to be the mouthpiece for its own quasi-religious group, the Temple Ov Psychick Youth. P-Orridge has been branded a dangerous deviant in several publications, and police raided his home in 1992, seizing videos, books, and magazines following a television show concerning child abuse in which a Psychic TV performance art video was shown out of context.
As for the music itself, Psychic TV's earlier years continued in the experimental vein of Throbbing Gristle's work, encompassing melodic pop, barely listenable white noise, gentle ballads, industrial found-sound collages, spoken word pieces, and experiments with ethnic instruments and world music, all tied together by a dadaist sensibility.
Selected Discography
cept for love is colder than death no one is ALLOWED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE BUT ANGEL OF ANARCHY. I MEAN IT.
GENESIS P. ORRIDGE |
||
my two favorite songs right now-bliss-ps y c h i c tv and art of suicide by ea-favorite band GALLHAMMERGA L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R G A L L H A M M E R ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
|
||
now here is a good band the leader is obsessed with brian jones and gets operations so he can look exactly like his girlfriend,h e ' s english,live d in communes and was living in brooklyn and if all of that isn't cool-what is ?
|
||
good vibrations is one song hard to mess with but orridge makes it work-could have been more weirded out-the original is heaven
|
||
bliss is something trasured,vio l e n c e so carefully measured and little girl what are you carrying in the cage,is it my bird that died and every single night i dream i've lost my home.bliss is something trasured and violence so carefully measured.
|
||
my favorite band right now,not the gristle i love the gristle but its ptv-for now
|
||
my favorite dance band for now lets talk about now now is the time and time can't end and yet we seem to end but ending is an illusion and birth and death and snapdragons are not remembered just tempered and souls are cold and kind and fanciful-fan c y to see you here,didn't even see you coming.
|
||
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2006 All Media Guide, LLC.