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Journey Through a Body

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Released
  
April 1982

Length
  
39:17

Release date
  
April 1982

Recorded
  
March 1981

Artist
  
Throbbing Gristle

Genre
  
Industrial music

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Journey Through a Body (1982)
  
In the Shadow of the Sun (1984)

Label
  
Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien

Similar
  
Throbbing Gristle albums, Industrial music albums

Throbbing gristle journey through a body


Journey Through a Body is a studio album by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle, released in Germany in April 1982 through record label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien.

Contents

Throbbing gristle medicine


Background

The album was recorded in Rome in March 1981 in the RAI studios without pre-planning any songs. The work was a piece of "radio art" commissioned by Italian national radio.

Release

Journey Through a Body was released in Germany in April 1982 through record label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien.

The album was reissued in the UK in 1993.

Critical reception

The Wire magazine called it the group's "scariest" album.

Songs

1Medicine15:22
2Catholic Sex (For Paula)8:10
3Exotic Functions4:18

References

Journey Through a Body Wikipedia