Psychic TV

   
Artist: Psychic TV

   Genre(s): 
Avantgarde
   Other
   Industrial
   Rock
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Electric Newspaper.Issue Three

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Do You Want Revenge?

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 7


   
 Were You Ever Bullied At School - Do You Want Revenge CD1

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 7


   
 Third Tablet Of Acid

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 18


   
 Origin Of The Species Volume Two! [CD2]

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Origin Of The Species Volume Two! [CD1]

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 18


   
 Fourth Tablet Of Acid

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Towards Thee Infinite Beat

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 Trip Reset

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11


   
 Ultradrug

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 God Star (The Singles Pt. 2)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Collected 12 inches

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 8


   
 Cold Blue Torch

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 8


   
 Beauty From Thee Beast - Thee Best Ov Psychic Tv and Genesis P.orridge - 1995

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 13


   
 Tarot Ov Abomination

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 1


   
 Mein*goett*in*gen

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 2


   
 Hex Sex: The Singles, Pt. 1

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


   
 Electric Newspaper Issue One

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 1


   
 A Hollow Cost

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 1


   
 Themes 2: A Prayer For Derek Jarman

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 6


   
 Sugarmorphoses

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


   
 Rare and Alive

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 14


   
 Peak Hour

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 11


   
 Kondole 1, 2 and 3

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 3


   
 Al-Or-Al. Thee Transmutation Ov Memory

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 4


   
 Cold Dark Matter

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 1


   
 Live In Stockholm

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 1


   
 Bregenz

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 2


   
 Beyond Thee Infinite Beat

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 8


   
 Origin of the Species II

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 9


   
 Origin of the Species

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 Allegory and Self

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 14


   
 Mouth Of The Night

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 11


   
 Descending

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 9


   
 Pagan Day

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 14


   
 N.Y. Scum Haters

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 2


   
 Dreams Less Sweet

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 19


   
 Force The Hand Of Chance

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 13

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After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial rock kit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohorts Peter Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti, plus Geoff Rushton, formed Psychic TV in 1979 as a means of chronic their confrontational, shock-oriented access to music and their multimedia hot performances. Psychic TV draws a great deal of its inspiration from the literary tube, including situationist philosophy, William Burroughs (a professed winnow), the Marquis de Sade, and Philip K. Dick. The grouping too claims to be the mouthpiece for its own quasi-religious group, the Temple Ov Psychick Youth. P-Orridge has been branded a grievous deviate in several publications, and police raided his home in 1992, seizing videos, books, and magazines next a television show concerning child clapperclaw in which a Psychic TV carrying into action artwork tV was shown out of context of use.


As for the music itself, Psychic TV's before years continued in the experimental vein of Throbbing Gristle's work, circumferent melodic pop, just listenable white dissonance, gentle ballads, industrial found-sound collages, spoken scripture pieces, and experiments with ethnical instruments and world music, all laced together by a dadaist sensitiveness. Force the Hand of Chance, the group's number one album, was released in 1982; during the '80s, Psychic TV's colossal output signal totaled over 20 albums. Much of this stemmed from a publicity stunt origin in 1986 for which the group attempted to release unitary live album, each from a different country, on the 23rd of each calendar month for 23 months. Even though the mathematical group didn't quite an attain its goal, the 14 albums Psychic TV released in 18 months were sufficiency to catch the group into the Guinness Book of World Records. Christopherson and Rushton both left field the group kinda early on to form Coil, and Psychic TV has since suit an open-ended corporate with contributors such as Alex Fergusson, at one time of Alternative TV. Psychic TV scored a small-scale U.K. pop strike in 1986 with "Godstar," a tribute to Rolling Stones guitar player Brian Jones, and 1988 saw the group's low album release in America with Allegory and Self.


Beginning in 1988, P-Orridge became a pioneer on the British golf club and gush setting. Records from the Chicago mansion shot by Frankie Knuckles and Farley Jackmaster Funk made their way to London, and when P-Orridge noticed the word "caustic" on one of them, he dubbed the British psychedelic sport "caustic house" and began recording and experimenting with the style on Jack the Tab: Acid Tablets, Vol. 1 and Towards Thee Infinite Beat. P-Orridge has since released albums under the name Psychic TV as well as using a mixed bag of aliases to produce "compilation" albums actually featuring all his own music. Several Psychic TV collections, as well as new material, appeared in the '90s; the charles Herbert Best of the retrospectives are the iI singles compilations Curse Sex and Godstar, and the 1999 overview Best Ov: Time's Up. New Psychic TV material took a backseat as P-Orridge's commitment to his spoken word project Thee Majesty and a unexampled philosophy he dubbed "Pandrogeny" occupied his fourth dimension. It was the latter that had him sledding under the tongue for breast implants and enforcing the use of the pronoun s/he. PTV work began over again in 2003 with iI days of touring stellar to studio work. A unexampled album was delayed when Throbbing Gristle reunited for a inadequate time, just work resumed in 2006. The ruined intersection, Hellhole Is Invisible...Heaven Is Here, arrived a year later.