Kraftwerk's savvy use of pop elements smuggled in a Trojan horse of electronic experimentalism to the broadest audience possible. While conscientious writing was already a part of the rap game, for Public Enemy's Chuck D, it was the game. As it turned out, they were right. Part heady avant-garde improv, part well-considered Molotov cocktail, all ways disorienting, Throbbing Gristle's debut steamrolled a new path for underground noiseniks by eschewing most of the formal rules of rock music — drums, guitars, melody and, on Side B, pulse entirely —going directly for the primal appeal of distortion. Healy was captured on TikTok telling a security guard to help a fan who had fallen and to "stop standing there like a bunch of dheads.
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