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TG Now

album by Throbbing Gristle

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7670197 ↗
Source-derived summary

TG Now is the seventh studio album by English industrial band Throbbing Gristle. It was released in 2004 through the band's own record label Industrial Records and was their first album of original material since 1982's Journey Through a Body.

Release

The album's 12" vinyl version was limited to 500 copies and the CD version was limited to 3,000 copies.

Editorial summary

“TG Now” enters the record as album by Throbbing Gristle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what album, Throbbing and Gristle can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-05-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around album, Throbbing and Gristle.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“TG Now” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, album, Throbbing and Gristle provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7670197. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 1982.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “TG Now”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow TG Now primary sources, TG Now archive and album research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “TG Now”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “TG Now” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.