Force The Hand of Chance [Enhanced] [Import]

Product Description
Following the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle--the band that coined the term "Industrial Music"--the involved musicians went on to a variety of projects. Psychic TV is the brainchild of TG "vocalist" and ringleader Genesis P-Orridge. Force The Hand Of Chance is PTV's first album. It is a strange and difficult affair--though quite not entirely in the way one might expect given the band's pedigree. Originally released in 1982 and sleeved with a rather graphic and elaboratevisual double entendre (sadly replaced on subsequent editions), Force opens with the deceptively soothing "Just Drifting"--complete with easy-listening strings and P-Orridge's actually singing. This odd, sweet style of song-which also typifies the brilliant "Stolen Kisses"--is made especially unsettling because of the tension created by not allowing the music to devolve into the anticipated cathartic white-noise implosions. Each of the album's string-suffused tracks seems tofunction as a kind of musical analogy of Buddhist tantric sex theories. Though there are noisier tracks (like the Gristle-like "Ov Power"), Force is exactly what P-Orridge clearlyintended it to be--a masterpiece of subverted expectations. Classic.

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Average customer rating: Some amazing music Pastoral Excursions Great album Do not buy this CD... A true 'cult record'

Force the Hand of Chance Psychic TV Manufacturer: Cleopatra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001JT9 Release Date: 1995-08-15

Tracks:

1. Just Drifting (For Caresse)
2. Terminus-xtul
3. Stolen Kisses
4. Caresse
5. Guiltless
6. No Go Go
7. Ov Power (Radio Promo Mix)
8. Message From The Temple
9. Thee Full Pack (For Bachir Attar)
10. Catalan
11. Just Drifting (Midnight)
12. Bubbles
13. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

Some amazing music.......2006-07-08

I'll start off by saying, " The first song, Just Drifting (for Caresse), sucks. I don't understand why it's on the CD let alone opens the CD." Just Drifting is so sickly sweet that I want to dismember John Denver and force feed his remains to the members of ABBA. Enough said...

Overlooking that first song, the rest of the CD has some absolutely amazing songs. I'm especially partial to Stolen Kisses and Ov Power.

I'm an avid Throbbing Gristle fan and didn't know what to expect from Psychic TV. I was surprised at the range of sounds and emotions. I was even more surprised by the occasional pop music. At times, I heard Soft Cell type music and rhythms.

I strongly recommend this CD.

Pastoral Excursions.......2002-04-12

One finds a melodic, gentle and almost bucolic Psychic TV here, introduced by the folksy, tender Just Drifting, followed by the long spoken poem Terminus X-Tul. Stolen Kisses shares a title with a later song by Chris & Cosey, and I was rather disappointed to discover it wasn't THAT one - it's pleasant enough, though, in a sort of folk-pop way, like The Lovin' Spoonful or Francoise Hardy. Caresse is a lovely orchestral piece that ends with a baby crying, No Go Go is a gripping electronic sound collage, while Ov Power sounds a bit like Public Image Limited's "Metal Box" album. The beautiful Message From The Temple offers very practical advice on utilising the power of mind over some of the most eerie music on the album and is my favorite track. The instrumental Bubbles sounds like it was recorded through a vocoder but it has the most addictive melody, while the hidden track 13, perhaps called The Process, is another sinister collage of sound and voice. This album reveals its gems by repeated listening. A very diverse collection, but you won't find any techno beats or traditional rock amongst these often poetic, always interesting pieces.

Great album.......2001-03-10

While it is true that this is not the original album, it does succeed in giving PTV fans a chance to hear their early efforts without having to pay excessive prices for CDs.

So if you enjoy cutting-edge or advante garde music, this CD is for you. It's very esoteric, and the songs vary from straight-up, Beach Boys-like pop ("Drifting" "Stolen Kisses") to menacing ("Terminus" "Thee Full Pack") to twisted dancey stuff ("Ov Power") and back again. This album has some great moments in regards to Genessis' lyrics and voice -- something that was missing off later albums. You also get the skinny on the whole "Temple of Psychic Youth" movement, which is novel in its own right, at least as far as rock bands are concerned.

For the curious or uninitiated, check out "Hex Sex, The Singles" which is a collection of more poppy/dance stuff and is a good introduction into the world of PTV -- and again, you won't have to pay import prices. :-)

Welcome to the temple...

Do not buy this CD..........2001-01-18

...if you are legitimately interested in the album. Cleopatra Records, rather than mastering the CD from the master tapes, decided it would be a good idea to master the CD from an old vinyl copy from their personal collection. The sound quality, overall, is poor, and the stereo separation is off dramatically. If you really want this album, search out the Japanese 2CD, typically referred to as "Force the Hands of Chants," which also contains the "Themes 1" album. This was actually mastered from the original tapes and is crisp in quality. Also watch out for the Cleopatra reissues of Kraftwerk records, as they were mastered in the same fashion, and I would not be surprised if other "classic" reissues from Cleopatra (Hawkwind, Syd Barrett, etc.) were done in the same way.

A true 'cult record'.......2000-04-11

This record marked Genesis P-Orridge and "Sleazy" Christopherson's departure from Throbbing Gristle, and their turn in a direction signposted by the philosophies and practices of Aleister Crowley and his principles of Thelema. At the same time, you had a number of other artists and factions emerging from the UK industrial scene with the same or a similar set of directions; 23 Skidoo emerged from the same period, and the roots of Current 93 can be found around this same time period. This album, though, was more pop-oriented in its musical thrust than David Tibet's efforts of the period, and as such, it had and still has a really creepy feel to it, the feel you get from running across some mysterious object with some darkly powerful portent that you're not exactly meant to understand. Lots of dark menace here, notably "Terminus", and the weird 'brainwash-tape'-like "Message From Thee Temple", which lays down some of the precepts of Genesis P-Orridge's own Temple ov Psychick Youth. This CD also includes some tracks from an extra EP included with some of the LP copies, and these are also of the same quality. Interesting, and certainly disquieting, listening.

Average customer rating:

Force the Hand of Chance Psychic TV Manufacturer: Some Bizzare ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000024VNF Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

1. Just Drifting
2. Terminus
3. Stolen Kisses
4. Caresse
5. Guiltless
6. No Go Go
7. Ov Power
8. Message from the Temple
9. Message from the Temple [Multimedia Track]
10. Terminus [Multimedia Track]

Album Description

Following the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle--the band that coined the term "Industrial Music"--the involved musicians went on to a variety of projects. Psychic TV is the brainchild of TG "vocalist" and ringleader Genesis P-Orridge. Force The Hand Of Chance is PTV's first album. It is a strange and difficult affair--though quite not entirely in the way one might expect given the band's pedigree. Originally released in 1982 and sleeved with a rather graphic and elaboratevisual double entendre (sadly replaced on subsequent editions), Force opens with the deceptively soothing "Just Drifting"--complete with easy-listening strings and P-Orridge's actually singing. This odd, sweet style of song-which also typifies the brilliant "Stolen Kisses"--is made especially unsettling because of the tension created by not allowing the music to devolve into the anticipated cathartic white-noise implosions. Each of the album's string-suffused tracks seems tofunction as a kind of musical analogy of Buddhist tantric sex theories. Though there are noisier tracks (like the Gristle-like "Ov Power"), Force is exactly what P-Orridge clearlyintended it to be--a masterpiece of subverted expectations. Classic.

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