even aside from the really horrific context and lyrics of this song, I think there's something so fascinating about how just through the right combinations of volumes and pitches and discordant noises , a musician can hit this spot in the human brain that activates such primal terror and discomfort. it's really so amazing.
@@sansaraee ohh gosh. thank you. i didnt check the lyrics cause i was too absorbed trying to make sense of the instrumental which was frightening on its own
This sounds like the inner world of the hamburger lady. The siren and motor sounds are the traumatic memories of the ambulance rushing her to the hospital after the accident and the repeating "hamburger lady" represents the contempt of the nurses and the shame that her predicament is causing her. This song is not based on a real event, it's based off a poem by Blaster Al Ackerman but it's still very unnerving to imagine
except for me, i hear the "hamburger lady" chant as the chant that kids are calling her when they see her. Or what the THINKS in her mind that theyre calling her.
@@EphemeralProductions i also imagined it something like that at first thinking she'd own a small burger shop (where the accident happened) but the real reason is because the top of her body looks like burned minced hamburger meat...
На самом деле нет никакой гамбургер леди, это рассказ придуманный одним писателем что бы пощекотать нервы, он сам потом признался что придумал историю про обгоревшую девушку
I heard this like 4 years ago and I thought it was the scariest shit ever. Now I can actually come back and listen to it. Really interesting despite being so creepy. It's about intense suffering like hell would be, but it's from our very own world. Still so unnerving.
I can see how people could be creeped out by it. This would be great for a haunted attraction. Imagine going into a pitch black room hearing that, and seeing an actual Hamburger Lady show up out of nowhere. Ok, I'm getting chills down my spine. Wow. This song is interesting.
@@SnowWolvesStorm Its been three years since revisiting this video and now this is haunting me again, thanks to you! Hahaha, just kidding. I'd be terrified if it were part of a haunted attraction. I think it should take place in Hamburger Lady's bedroom or a theme of somewhere where she lives.
@@SnowWolvesStorm Oh, and the host at the attraction will have to tell us her backstory first to give the attendees pure dread and fear of what might come.
@@J0r-El Sorry to haunt you again. I still think that would be cool, in a house maybe at Halloween or a dark ride. Definitely have to have a host for the back story! Well anyway, it would be creepy and fun! Take care.
Some backstory, apparently it's about a lady who was burned so bad on the top part of her body no one could stand to look at her or stay with her. They described her upper body as if you put meatloaf in an oven and crushed it up (idk something like that) but pretty meaty or something. So pretty much it was like a doctor describing her. The qualified technicians are people who can stand to look at her and change her tubes etc, and there is a lack of them.
@@nickca420 Blaster procured a Portland Oregon Physicians report which discussed the case of an obese woman who was severely burned and brought into legacy emmanuel hospital in Portland in late 1979. This story or the lyrical content is very real., very real.
The scary thing is, this could happen to anyone. A sudden accident could turn your life into absolute shit in a matter of seconds, and there's no way to see it coming.
@@nooneinparticular1685 I used to be a delivery driver and I kept having a feeling i was going to hit and kill a pedestrian, but that's what kept it from happening.
Also make sure to chant ZAZAS ZAZAS NASATANADA ZAZAS while staying with your back at a open door. After you've chanted ZZNZ for about 30 minutes blindfold yourself and chant LIFTOACH QLIPHOTH ET GERMINET SATAN, ET GERMINET MOLOK.
And now let me bring back the creepiness. This song is about a woman with burns so severe that people couldn’t stand to look at her. The woman’s skin was described as looking like hamburger meat.
I cleared out other people’s parties’ with this more than once…it was almost 4am or later usually to be fair…also…I’d do it again. 😂 P.S- Litanies of Satan by my 🖤👑 🖤 Diamanda Galas works as well if not better at this!
It's ambient , Enya is ambient, "THROBBING GRISTLE" is ambient, remember it !!! "Hamburger lady" is similar to"Caribbean blue", remember it now and forever!!!BLESSED BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont know why people dont see this as music. This is a gorgeous track, it served its purpose to be "scary" The noises are very well put together, the dim screams are hypnotizing. This should be appreciated more, this is a true masterpiece.
I mean, I just can't see it as music. It's good art, which is portrayed in audio, but it's not music, it's not something you put in your playlist, it's something you listen to once and come back to every now and then to appreciate
I think the reason so many people see it as scary is a pretty good compliment. It's music in its own right, yes, but its purpose is to be scary and while making it scary it ending up not sounding like traditional music
Then you should listen to the entire album , songs like ´Weeping` etc ... the third and final report is still one of the most repulsive albums to have seen the light of day , that and SPK´s ´Liechenschrei` are BY faar the sickest Industrial albums ever . I was seriously horrified 1st time I listened to SPK ...
@@dongiacometti is it? You might be mistaking this for Thomas Bangalters “Rectum” from the movie Irreversible (which is the same director as Enter the Void). The songs do sound very similar tho.
Since I’ve heard two versions of “Hamburger Lady” back-to-back, I now consider the live version from Thee Psychick Sacrifice to be the creepiest version of this song. And the reason I say this comes down to two main elements: the horn and the lack of melody. When I went back to hear the original song, I noticed the horn itself had a tremolo effect. And while I will say the original version is disturbing, the effect on that horn stands out like a sore thumb and, in my opinion, hampers the overall experience. It sounds either like a sheep that has diarrhea or a turtle that is getting it on with a shoe. As for the version featured on, because it was recorded live, along with primitive quality of the recording itself, it complements the already disturbing song and overall creates a more immersive experience. As for my second point, when I mean that “Hamburger Lady” lacks melody, I mean that the lyrics are spoken throughout the song instead of being sung. Compare this song to other songs made by bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Ministry and Alice in Chains. And while they feature themes and subject matter that are comparable, if not darker than Throbbing Gristle’s most notorious song, what makes them less disturbing, to me, is that they’re sung in a melodic manner. I’m not sure why, but the sense of theatrics that comes from singing lyrics from songs like Joy Division’s “Day of the Lords” make them more digestible to me. But it’s one thing to make them digestible to the listener, it’s another to find an escape through those songs. But in “Hamburger Lady,” there is no escape throughout the song, as you have no choice but to hear observations from the technicians, as well as mockery that comes with it. And the way Genesis delivers the song’s lyrics, it’s delivered in a more conversational manner and gives the impression the titular character is remembering specific sentences and insults the technicians have uttered. With this considered, the lack of melody acts as the center of the song, not only accompanying the dissonant sounds and anxiety-ridden atmosphere, but also making the live version more complete. On a side note, I love how the comment section on this video is not only comprised of sincere comments regarding the song’s disturbing content, but also people that are fooling around with the song’s title. If that is not the Internet for you, then I don’t know what is! LOL
the live version is more fleshed out and more higher frequencies, the original recording more lofi and minimilistic, both good, I tend to prefer the original a bit more
The original with the broken-up vocals, and the heartbeat drumbeat in the background and the more “grinding” synth drone is the version that’s more harrowing to me. When I first heard of the song that’s the version I looked up and I didn’t listen to more than a few seconds before I went “nope!!!!” And turned it off. 😂
For anyone looking music similiar to this, look up "rectum" by Thomas Bangalter, who was one of the members of Daft Punk. It was composed by what is considered to be one of the most disturbing films ever made.
Alright. After years of trying out weird abstract music, this is definitely the most intense. This hits in the psychological sense. Pretty much I see this as One by Metallica with the intensity multiplied a thousand times. The main reason I see we enjoy One as a song is because the song itself makes no attempt to form a connection between the story and song. We see it as a hard rockin ballad, and forget about the meaning of the song completely. This here is basically the equivalent of the Caretaker, using sounds to paint a narrative violently. It's impossible to disconnect the music and story from each other. The fact that this is all very real unlike say, a Carcass song used to describe a realistic fictional scenario makes it the most uncomfortable listen I've had with a song.
@@hypnovertigo7200 I'd recommend trying Third eye foundation. Try the track called lions writing the bible and go on on from there. Some eerie stuff in there.
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I heard this song in high school on the fringes of the radio dial, probably from a nearby college radio station. It made me feel like there was hope that something existed other than white-bread, middle-class suburban hell. Just because it was something different.
Can we just take a second though to recognize the incredible talent of the synth player that played the "motor drone" sound almost identically through almost the whole 5 minutes?! (Chris Carter?) Fuckin awesome. :-D
The lyrics: By far worse is the hambuger lady, We must heal them for the qualified technicians, Worse, Alternating nights are automatic, She's lying there, Hamburger Lady Hamburger Lady She's dying, She is burned from the waist up, On her arm, Her ear is burned, Her eyelashes are burned, She can't hold things up, And even with medical advances, There's no end in sight, For hamburger lady, She wants me to tell you of her claim mind, From which the double play laying, The proping chair, Leave her, She's Burned from the waist down, Has to eat her life through tubes, Hamburger Lady Hamburger Lady She's okay if you change the tubes, Tubes in her legs, The tubes in her arms, She's okay, Then it came out and saw the burn net, Indeed in the account of killing, And it flashed on the carpet, And it flashed on the floor, The hamburger lady, She came to rest, Because of the burn she needs relief, From the medication, The qualified Technician, Hamburger Lady Hamburger Lady
On vacation on the Isle of Man a few months ago, I assumed it wouldn't be very sunny there and wore a sleeveless top with no sunscreen for all of one day. This song sums up the result of my mistake.
I've always been deeply affected by music, and as a child my father played this every now and then. It terrified me, and still does severely. It sounds like all the evil in the world merged into sound; buzzing over and over again. Like a swarm polluting the mind. I've struggled with anxiety and intrusive thoughts for many years, and to this day this sound brings me into fear and sometimes even panic from the thoughts and images that appear. Terrifying beyond description.
I understand. It is evil. It gives me bad thoughts. I hope that this disgusting band will get their comeuppance. Nobody should be shamed to hope that the people who made this trash get what they deserve.
‘I made contact with Blaster Al Ackerman.He'd been a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, so he became a medic. The trauma of what he saw was so disturbing that he subsequently found it really hard to fall asleep because he had such nightmares. He worked as a nurse in a hospital in Isle of Portland on the burn ward because he was really the only one who could cope with those injuries, having also dealt with them during the war. One of his patients he nicknamed "the Hamburger Lady." The words to my later song "Hamburger Lady" are exact quotes from his letter about the woman, who had been in a car crash and been stuck in the car while it was burning, 1:11 leaving her eyes and ears burned, blind, and deaf. She was trapped in this mutilated body, unable to speak or hear or see, not knowing what had happened to her. She just woke up, trapped in this body, in the dark, in pain, for the rest of her life. Trying to get my head around what that would be like resulted in the song. Al was truly and genuinely disinterested in being recognized, or in gal-leries, or anything else’ - quote by the songwriter, Genisis P-Orridge from his memoir
I honestly think this is the creepiest song I've ever heard! The sounds are scary enough, but then I stop to think that anyone could get into a horrible accident and become the hamburger lady! I love this for how horrifying it really is!
this song feels to me like what being bullied for years until you lose your sense of self and start viewing yourself as completely disgusting, repulsive, ugly, unlovable feels like
A radio station actually played this, regularly. WREK (GA Tech student station) had a late night show featuring experimental and industrial music. Name of the show was “Destroy All Music” if memory serves. As a teen I had also heard the backstory that it was based on an actual medical case, but I have no evidence to back that up
By far the worst is the hambuger lady We must heal them for the qualified technicians (qualified technicians, qualified technicians) Worst (worst) Alternating nights are automatic She's lying there Hamburger Lady (Hamburger Lady) Hamburger Lady (Hamburger Lady) She's dying, she's burned from the waist up (she's burned from the waist up) On her arm Her ear is burned up and her nose (her nose) Her eyelashes and fingers are burned, she can't anything And even with medical advances, there's no end in sight For the Hamburger Lady When somebody tells you that there is a level of pain beyond which the human mind Beyond which is the level of pain of the lady on the potty chair Unrelievedly Burned from the waist down That's what keeps her alive, the tubes And the nice nurses Hamburger Lady Hamburger Lady She's okay if you change the tubes Tubes in her legs, the tubes in her arms Then the medic came and when he came out and saw one of the burn nurses at the desk She was eating a can of Chilli-mac And he flashed on the carpet, he flashed on the floor The Hamburger Lady Stretch since she came to us Unrelievedly The qualified technicians Hamburger Lady Hamburger Lady Two minutes every three weeks and two minutes everyday Things around seep in pain, knowing pain Propping in the potty chair, keeps kneeled down Qualified technicians Haunting touch, keeps her alive Hamburger Lady, he flashed on the floor by Blaster Al Ackerman
there is a frequency in the background similiar to to the one used in the Irreversible soundtrack "rectum" which was composed by Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk. It is an inaudible frequency which causes nausea and even panic attacks in some people
Sounds like a song that'd play in the trenches of WWI/II. You're in an abandoned trench that, before abandoned, was a real bloodbath. The onimous whirring sound are fighter planes flying oiver the area, and the hamburger lady's the cause of the bloodbath. Allies and Axis fighted together against this anomaly.
Indeed , we need an ´Overlord` stripped of all Hollywood elements ... just the purest , undistilled horror and dread plus that which is beyond human comprehension - ´the hamburguer lady phenomenon leaving behind human remains which caused seasoned trench veterans to wretch at the sight. Green chlorine clouds were seen as a blessing in comparison . Great idea, that is truly the mind of a real Throbbing Gristle fan .
Actually mostly WWI since trenches were rarely used in WWII, then again, trenches may have been used to a small extent Also the verbal imagery used does in fact reflect the feeling of being in a trench during the war as burns from bombs are often similar to the burns described in the track
I can't imagine hearing this anywhere other by looking it up. If it came on the radio or auto play, something like that, I'd be fucking scared shitless.
Today i had the perfect idea of playing this after listening to Frankie Teardrop and i have the feeling that the next Song will be one of the Swans. The dessert of my "SundayAudioMindfuckMenue" will maybe be a little, nice Foetus Song. Awesome 🖤😄
It's ambient song, like Enya's "carribbean blue" , I think that Enya's"Caribbean blue is cover version of TG's "Hamburger lady", because it's a same genre-ambient ! "Domino Dancing" of "Pet Shop Boys is the cover version of Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop", because it's a same genre-synthpop !!! No fear, just relaxxx!!! Right, right!!!
I think the song is so scary to represent the "hamburguer lady" horror when she was being burned alive. When i heard this song for the first time i legit cried, something not even a horror movie ever did to me, and it still scares me so much til nowdays.
Such a sweet song. I sing it to my newborn at night. She's a good girl. Always asleep and doesn't demand too much. Actually, she doesn't demand anything. Last time we fed her was 2 weeks ago. :)
Oh my! Sounds just like my lill angel! Im so glad he's still with us. I play this while he eats, before bed, in the morning, and when i change his diapers! all his "friends" think 33 is too old to stay to with his parents but i couldn't be happier he is with us! *mama knows best*
Some people have villain songs. Others have songs that even other villains would be scared to hear in their own minds. The type of songs that villain songs would check under the bed for. The villain to other villain songs.
even aside from the really horrific context and lyrics of this song, I think there's something so fascinating about how just through the right combinations of volumes and pitches and discordant noises , a musician can hit this spot in the human brain that activates such primal terror and discomfort. it's really so amazing.
Ikr?? This song is literally one of my traumas, when i heard it for the first time i legit cried, something not even horror movies did to me.
whats the context?
@@f.t633 Basically a lady got burned so bad that her body looks like hamburger meat. The lyrics are also very easy to understand for context.p
*to read
@@sansaraee ohh gosh. thank you. i didnt check the lyrics cause i was too absorbed trying to make sense of the instrumental which was frightening on its own
This sounds like the inner world of the hamburger lady. The siren and motor sounds are the traumatic memories of the ambulance rushing her to the hospital after the accident and the repeating "hamburger lady" represents the contempt of the nurses and the shame that her predicament is causing her. This song is not based on a real event, it's based off a poem by Blaster Al Ackerman but it's still very unnerving to imagine
EXACTLY as i view it!!! I haven't seen anyone else describe my thoughts about it until I read your comment!!
except for me, i hear the "hamburger lady" chant as the chant that kids are calling her when they see her. Or what the THINKS in her mind that theyre calling her.
@@EphemeralProductions i also imagined it something like that at first thinking she'd own a small burger shop (where the accident happened) but the real reason is because the top of her body looks like burned minced hamburger meat...
But events like this happen everyday, so it is based on something very real. Some of the most horrific things don't make the news.
На самом деле нет никакой гамбургер леди, это рассказ придуманный одним писателем что бы пощекотать нервы, он сам потом признался что придумал историю про обгоревшую девушку
I heard this like 4 years ago and I thought it was the scariest shit ever. Now I can actually come back and listen to it. Really interesting despite being so creepy. It's about intense suffering like hell would be, but it's from our very own world. Still so unnerving.
it's scary at 2am when you're stoned out of your mind
@@Yovry bruh it's 2:01am now wth
@@Yovry dude weed
@@ronperlmanofficial7280 indeed
I just woke up n grooved out to The Commodores ‘Night Shift’ now I’m sitting randomly listening while having my morning joint✌️
I can see how people could be creeped out by it. This would be great for a haunted attraction. Imagine going into a pitch black room hearing that, and seeing an actual Hamburger Lady show up out of nowhere. Ok, I'm getting chills down my spine. Wow. This song is interesting.
Jorel, that would be cool as hell!
@@SnowWolvesStorm Its been three years since revisiting this video and now this is haunting me again, thanks to you! Hahaha, just kidding. I'd be terrified if it were part of a haunted attraction. I think it should take place in Hamburger Lady's bedroom or a theme of somewhere where she lives.
@@SnowWolvesStorm Oh, and the host at the attraction will have to tell us her backstory first to give the attendees pure dread and fear of what might come.
@@J0r-El Sorry to haunt you again. I still think that would be cool, in a house maybe at Halloween or a dark ride. Definitely have to have a host for the back story! Well anyway, it would be creepy and fun! Take care.
@@SnowWolvesStorm you too!
This song is the best advert for do not resuscitate orders I’ve ever heard
Some backstory, apparently it's about a lady who was burned so bad on the top part of her body no one could stand to look at her or stay with her. They described her upper body as if you put meatloaf in an oven and crushed it up (idk something like that) but pretty meaty or something. So pretty much it was like a doctor describing her.
The qualified technicians are people who can stand to look at her and change her tubes etc, and there is a lack of them.
It's not a true story. It was inspired by a letter by mail artist Blaster Al Ackerman, written to Genesis P. Orridge.
@@nickca420 dammit Jim. I'm a sociopath not a proctologist
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“like pretty meaty or something" idk why I laughed so hard at that xD
@@nickca420 Blaster procured a Portland Oregon Physicians report which discussed the case of an obese woman who was severely burned and brought into legacy emmanuel hospital in Portland in late 1979. This story or the lyrical content is very real., very real.
this shit was scary but then when the grammarly ad started playing at the end that was when it got terrifying
The scary thing is, this could happen to anyone. A sudden accident could turn your life into absolute shit in a matter of seconds, and there's no way to see it coming.
This knowledge looms over me throughouty workday as a delivery driver in the inner city :/
part of the horror of this and songs like it.
@@nooneinparticular1685 I used to be a delivery driver and I kept having a feeling i was going to hit and kill a pedestrian, but that's what kept it from happening.
yeah but why live in fear? also the sweet release of death is something we all get anyway.
@@bocolatebhipbookie it's true, constant fear is clearly unhealthy. But fear exists for a reason; it's there to warn us of possible outcomes.
The Hamburger Lady Challenge: Play this repeatedly in a dark room, alone. Last one to develop a mental illness wins.
Jokes on you I already have mental illnesses
If you cure the mental illness then redevelop it than you understand magick !
I used to go to sleep to this song.
Also make sure to chant ZAZAS ZAZAS NASATANADA ZAZAS while staying with your back at a open door. After you've chanted ZZNZ for about 30 minutes blindfold yourself and chant LIFTOACH QLIPHOTH ET GERMINET SATAN, ET GERMINET MOLOK.
Bet
This is the audio equivalent of LiveLeak footage
why did i laught at this (i dont even know what liveleak is)
@@smal5504 that's an enviable position to be in tbh; I'd recommend not looking it up.
That's a good description, actually. The lyrics stir up some unpleasant mental images
@@smal5504 If you don't know what the liveleak is.. you're probably too young to know
This is in the newly released VHS 1985, during a really creepy murder sequence. Had to see where it came from. Man, it fit the horror perfectly.
Amazing sequence
That's why I looked it up too. The only lyrics I could make out where hamburger lady"
I just watched. Wasn’t there a creepypasta surrounding this ? I swear I’ve heard it before the movie.
Even several years later, I still remember this melody (is it so unique?)
I just watched it, and, my god. I mean, damn. In a franchise that has stands out in the horror community, that whole segment was just... Damn.
The moment you imagine racecars driving in a circle at a NASCAR rally, with a lady selling hamburgers at the bleachers, the creepiness goes away
needed this after listening to this song in a dark room on a rainy night
Omg I can’t get that image out of my head now
It would trigger me again.
And now let me bring back the creepiness. This song is about a woman with burns so severe that people couldn’t stand to look at her. The woman’s skin was described as looking like hamburger meat.
@Charlie Diep I'm trying so hard to be a nascar enjoyer rn. I'm imaging nascars I'm rooting for lightening McQueen
This song would blow up with a lyrical lemonade video 💯💯💯
A gunna feature would definitely help this one top the charts
@@MyChannel-ww8mo that would be pretty LIT 🔥 if you know what i mean
can't wait for the babytron remix
@@k1dofficial nahhh 💀
@@masonphillips8752 imagine getting sturdy to this song
eating a cheeseburger while tripping on acid while listening to this song: not possible
it's possible but it will open a portal to the Astral world. and that sucks! try explaining that one to the Landlord.
I'd be freaking out lol
Challenge accepted.
Bad concoction
@@somethingsomething9704 Thinking about it though... Depending on the dosage, it might be EXTREMELY difficult. I'd rather not try it now myself. XD
Thanks V/H/S 85 for exposing me to the next feel good hit of the summer.
i played this in a jukebox at a diner and ruined the vibe
ahahahahahaha
lol, epic
Who would put this on a jukebox!!!!
legend
I cleared out other people’s parties’ with this more than once…it was almost 4am or later usually to be fair…also…I’d do it again. 😂
P.S- Litanies of Satan by my 🖤👑 🖤 Diamanda Galas works as well if not better at this!
This was me and my wife's first dance song at our wedding, good times
I’m not gonna lie that’s kinda weird bc this is like the scariest song ever
@@xzan8937 No that's We Hate You. Haha? haha.. oh im terrified
Turkey Wildman I was just joking
Dude....wtf
aww hell naww
This is basically what a fever dream feels like.
exactly. Can confirm lol
I can’t sleep on my back or my left side anymore.
Read 'Fever Dream' by Samanta Schweblin! If you like or are okay with reading 😁
and rabies
yo that's actually accurate
If music was a horror movie, it would be something like this..
Exactly what I say! Lol
Not a horror movie but Rose Glass used it in "Love Lies Bleeding"
2024 anyone 👍
Horror would be metal, this song is a whole snuff film
This isn't music, this is nightmare fuel.
Joe Caruso it’s better than this shit music today
It's ambient , Enya is ambient, "THROBBING GRISTLE" is ambient, remember it !!! "Hamburger lady" is similar to"Caribbean blue", remember it now and forever!!!BLESSED BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@ESRBrated Throbbing Gristle is Industrial, and Enya is New Age... Just saying.
you just describe so well what this song is all about
@@ESRBrated нет , это эмбиент!!!
I dont know why people dont see this as music.
This is a gorgeous track, it served its purpose to be "scary"
The noises are very well put together, the dim screams are hypnotizing.
This should be appreciated more, this is a true masterpiece.
I agree
weirdo
I mean, I just can't see it as music. It's good art, which is portrayed in audio, but it's not music, it's not something you put in your playlist, it's something you listen to once and come back to every now and then to appreciate
Hamburger lady off the actual album is on my playlist ftfy
I think the reason so many people see it as scary is a pretty good compliment. It's music in its own right, yes, but its purpose is to be scary and while making it scary it ending up not sounding like traditional music
this... thing should be a sound track in a horror movie
Actually it's part of the soundtrack of "Enter The Void"
Then you should listen to the entire album , songs like ´Weeping` etc ... the third and final report is still one of the most repulsive albums to have seen the light of day , that and SPK´s ´Liechenschrei` are BY faar the sickest Industrial albums ever . I was seriously horrified 1st time I listened to SPK ...
@@dongiacometti is it? You might be mistaking this for Thomas Bangalters “Rectum” from the movie Irreversible (which is the same director as Enter the Void). The songs do sound very similar tho.
It's sampled in Irreversible by Gasper Noe.
It now is, it was in VHS 85 that released yesterday, the director of sinister used it in the final scene
this music should have been played in that movie 'sinister' when ethan hawk was watching those films
ever since I saw that movie...seeing malamute dogs make me think of it. The Boards of Canada track at the end of the flick....excellent.
Most definitely, it should've. That movie was so frightening. I enjoyed it.
holy shit it has the same vibe you're right
Boards of Canada is way better.
Imagine being high off shrooms and this song is playing all while its storming and thundering outside.
Know what that is? The fucking apocalypse!
Fucking bad trip man...
That's so cool actually :)
T.S in a forest.
Something you experienced personally?
This activates my fight-or-flight response.
Since I’ve heard two versions of “Hamburger Lady” back-to-back, I now consider the live version from Thee Psychick Sacrifice to be the creepiest version of this song. And the reason I say this comes down to two main elements: the horn and the lack of melody.
When I went back to hear the original song, I noticed the horn itself had a tremolo effect. And while I will say the original version is disturbing, the effect on that horn stands out like a sore thumb and, in my opinion, hampers the overall experience. It sounds either like a sheep that has diarrhea or a turtle that is getting it on with a shoe. As for the version featured on, because it was recorded live, along with primitive quality of the recording itself, it complements the already disturbing song and overall creates a more immersive experience.
As for my second point, when I mean that “Hamburger Lady” lacks melody, I mean that the lyrics are spoken throughout the song instead of being sung. Compare this song to other songs made by bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Ministry and Alice in Chains. And while they feature themes and subject matter that are comparable, if not darker than Throbbing Gristle’s most notorious song, what makes them less disturbing, to me, is that they’re sung in a melodic manner. I’m not sure why, but the sense of theatrics that comes from singing lyrics from songs like Joy Division’s “Day of the Lords” make them more digestible to me. But it’s one thing to make them digestible to the listener, it’s another to find an escape through those songs. But in “Hamburger Lady,” there is no escape throughout the song, as you have no choice but to hear observations from the technicians, as well as mockery that comes with it. And the way Genesis delivers the song’s lyrics, it’s delivered in a more conversational manner and gives the impression the titular character is remembering specific sentences and insults the technicians have uttered. With this considered, the lack of melody acts as the center of the song, not only accompanying the dissonant sounds and anxiety-ridden atmosphere, but also making the live version more complete.
On a side note, I love how the comment section on this video is not only comprised of sincere comments regarding the song’s disturbing content, but also people that are fooling around with the song’s title. If that is not the Internet for you, then I don’t know what is! LOL
the live version is more fleshed out and more higher frequencies, the original recording more lofi and minimilistic, both good, I tend to prefer the original a bit more
Great read! Thank you for sharing.
@@NickSBaileywhich is the original?? there r so many versions
The original with the broken-up vocals, and the heartbeat drumbeat in the background and the more “grinding” synth drone is the version that’s more harrowing to me. When I first heard of the song that’s the version I looked up and I didn’t listen to more than a few seconds before I went “nope!!!!” And turned it off. 😂
@@z0mbzifrom DOA the third and final report
This is the theme song of all my worst nightmares. Throbbing Gristle is just amazing...the things they can do with sound.... =0
I've got a friend Who not thinking about it (until later) went into a store run by 2 gay guys and asked if they had Throbbing Gristle!
@@chrisprice705 hahaha!
The whole thing is scary, lyrics, story and the music
For anyone looking music similiar to this, look up "rectum" by Thomas Bangalter, who was one of the members of Daft Punk. It was composed by what is considered to be one of the most disturbing films ever made.
found you again. rectum from irreversible is good shit
I am NOT looking that up 💀💀💀
He probably was inspired by this, they sound similar.
@@caleviwinhe WAS inspired by this, is what I’ve heard. :D
Two good words to describe this would be: auditory agony.
Alright. After years of trying out weird abstract music, this is definitely the most intense. This hits in the psychological sense.
Pretty much I see this as One by Metallica with the intensity multiplied a thousand times. The main reason I see we enjoy One as a song is because the song itself makes no attempt to form a connection between the story and song. We see it as a hard rockin ballad, and forget about the meaning of the song completely. This here is basically the equivalent of the Caretaker, using sounds to paint a narrative violently. It's impossible to disconnect the music and story from each other. The fact that this is all very real unlike say, a Carcass song used to describe a realistic fictional scenario makes it the most uncomfortable listen I've had with a song.
@@--.._ there's many songs about death, even more about horrid ones, and this one probably gets to be the most realistic one
@@hypnovertigo7200 I'd recommend trying Third eye foundation. Try the track called lions writing the bible and go on on from there. Some eerie stuff in there.
@@hypnovertigo7200 lyrics are a joke, but the music sounds like cowfarts. Gross
Listened to crushed mary. It's like this. Its japanese volcaloid. I think that gives you an idea of what you're getting. Plus this. They are diffrent but fucking scary czcams.com/video/ZDwBv1Q2_Wg/video.html
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@@justanomorifan3059 nice sensory abuse
I came for the hamburger, I stayed for the lady.
This song is its own Creepypasta, I adore it.
I never thought I would get hooked on this kind of music, but it is
"But it is"?? 🤦🏻 But I am!!
The best music to listen while driving
Every now and then I remember this song exists...and I wish I didn't.
Me: yo pass the Aux
Friend: you better not play trash
Me:
I heard this song in high school on the fringes of the radio dial, probably from a nearby college radio station. It made me feel like there was hope that something existed other than white-bread, middle-class suburban hell. Just because it was something different.
Hell yes.
TG gives me the same feeling!
thank god things are different now! thank god we're a bunch of criminal worshipping degenerates now! so much better!
wow youre unique
under rated comment
Got a Burger King Ad before this
Whopper, Whopper, Whopper, Whopper
no just trumps farts after eating a hamburger porrn star
Ain’t no way
Hamburger your way
_Hamburger your way_
Can we just take a second though to recognize the incredible talent of the synth player that played the "motor drone" sound almost identically through almost the whole 5 minutes?! (Chris Carter?) Fuckin awesome. :-D
The lyrics:
By far worse is the hambuger lady,
We must heal them for the qualified technicians,
Worse,
Alternating nights are automatic,
She's lying there,
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
She's dying,
She is burned from the waist up,
On her arm,
Her ear is burned,
Her eyelashes are burned,
She can't hold things up,
And even with medical advances,
There's no end in sight,
For hamburger lady,
She wants me to tell you of her claim mind,
From which the double play laying,
The proping chair,
Leave her,
She's Burned from the waist down,
Has to eat her life through tubes,
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
She's okay if you change the tubes,
Tubes in her legs,
The tubes in her arms,
She's okay,
Then it came out and saw the burn net,
Indeed in the account of killing,
And it flashed on the carpet,
And it flashed on the floor,
The hamburger lady,
She came to rest,
Because of the burn she needs relief,
From the medication,
The qualified Technician,
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
*gulp* thank you
didnt even realise there were lyrics
"He came out and saw one of the burn nurses, eating a can of chilli-mac, and he flashed on the carpet and he flashed on the floor"
@@bezenby9804 flashed means projectile vomit, it took so long to find what it meant online 😭
At one point in the song I misheard a lyric and it sounds like 2:48 “I need tiddies, I need tiddies, I need to get tiddies, man.”
The most unique song and the most unique bands that are ever written!
Listening to this song for the first time at midnight was definitely a great choice.
The background droning is similar to the movie Irreversible. A sound that supposedly induces depression and anxiety in the listener.
On vacation on the Isle of Man a few months ago, I assumed it wouldn't be very sunny there and wore a sleeveless top with no sunscreen for all of one day. This song sums up the result of my mistake.
😂😂
Bought this album - The Third and Final Report - when it first came out. Took a while to understand and appreciate it, but it grew on me over time.
Who in all of God's green Earth thought this song was an okay thing to ever invent.
Me
Bruh I read that in peridots voice cause your profile picture
It's art. Art was meant to challenge, unsettle, shock, and get one thinking. Artists have done just that since the very beginning of artists
Thanks for being sane. These sadists who like the song deserve whatever they get.
Do not listen to these sick POS's. You are right. This is evil trash.
I've always been deeply affected by music, and as a child my father played this every now and then. It terrified me, and still does severely. It sounds like all the evil in the world merged into sound; buzzing over and over again. Like a swarm polluting the mind. I've struggled with anxiety and intrusive thoughts for many years, and to this day this sound brings me into fear and sometimes even panic from the thoughts and images that appear. Terrifying beyond description.
You dad is one evil mf
Was your dad mean to you
@@UNCLEFATT8675it sure does sound like it!! lol
I understand. It is evil. It gives me bad thoughts. I hope that this disgusting band will get their comeuppance. Nobody should be shamed to hope that the people who made this trash get what they deserve.
Thats because it is evil
Wow this was the first terrifying song I've come across. It does the job.
golden walrus lavender town was more scary in my opinion
This shit goes hard af at 3am
Finally a good Christian song for the family!
Blessed be
Wiccan. Islamic. Just relax . Asmr
well its not satanic so yeah you could concider it christian if you want
No.
I like hillsongs version of this song
‘I made contact with Blaster Al Ackerman.He'd been a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, so he became a medic. The trauma of what he saw was so disturbing that he subsequently found it really hard to fall asleep because he had such nightmares. He worked as a nurse in a hospital in Isle of Portland on the burn ward because he was really the only one who could cope with those injuries, having also dealt with them during the war. One of his patients he nicknamed "the Hamburger Lady." The words to my later song "Hamburger Lady" are exact quotes from his letter about the woman, who had been in a car crash and been stuck in the car while it was burning, 1:11 leaving her eyes and ears burned, blind, and deaf. She was trapped in this mutilated body, unable to speak or hear or see, not knowing what had happened to her. She just woke up, trapped in this body, in the dark, in pain, for the rest of her life. Trying to get my head around what that would be like resulted in the song. Al was truly and genuinely disinterested in being recognized, or in gal-leries, or anything else’ - quote by the songwriter, Genisis P-Orridge from his memoir
👏👏👏
I honestly think this is the creepiest song I've ever heard! The sounds are scary enough, but then I stop to think that anyone could get into a horrible accident and become the hamburger lady! I love this for how horrifying it really is!
YO THIS SONG SLAPS 🔥🔥🔥🔥
my favorite part is when she says ''hamburger lady''
😂😂
this song feels to me like what being bullied for years until you lose your sense of self and start viewing yourself as completely disgusting, repulsive, ugly, unlovable feels like
weird flex but ok
Kind of like the feeling of being in that downward spiral knowing you can’t get out of it in the middle of the night while being completely alone
WE GETTING OUTTA THE PSYCHE WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A radio station actually played this, regularly. WREK (GA Tech student station) had a late night show featuring experimental and industrial music. Name of the show was “Destroy All Music” if memory serves. As a teen I had also heard the backstory that it was based on an actual medical case, but I have no evidence to back that up
i understand how people are creeped out or upset by this but i love it. i love music as art, i love discordant weird music.
The new feel good hit of the summer! 😊
Hamburger Lady is a poem written by Blaster Al Ackerman. Throbbing Gristle chose to cover the poem over their unique sounds.
By far the worst is the hambuger lady
We must heal them for the qualified technicians (qualified technicians, qualified technicians)
Worst (worst)
Alternating nights are automatic
She's lying there
Hamburger Lady (Hamburger Lady)
Hamburger Lady (Hamburger Lady)
She's dying, she's burned from the waist up (she's burned from the waist up)
On her arm
Her ear is burned up and her nose (her nose)
Her eyelashes and fingers are burned, she can't anything
And even with medical advances, there's no end in sight
For the Hamburger Lady
When somebody tells you that there is a level of pain beyond which the human mind
Beyond which is the level of pain of the lady on the potty chair
Unrelievedly
Burned from the waist down
That's what keeps her alive, the tubes
And the nice nurses
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
She's okay if you change the tubes
Tubes in her legs, the tubes in her arms
Then the medic came and when he came out and saw one of the burn nurses at the desk
She was eating a can of Chilli-mac
And he flashed on the carpet, he flashed on the floor
The Hamburger Lady
Stretch since she came to us
Unrelievedly
The qualified technicians
Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady
Two minutes every three weeks and two minutes everyday
Things around seep in pain, knowing pain
Propping in the potty chair, keeps kneeled down
Qualified technicians
Haunting touch, keeps her alive
Hamburger Lady, he flashed on the floor
by Blaster Al Ackerman
this shit makes me have a visceral physical reaction, like it makes me nauseous bruh
there is a frequency in the background similiar to to the one used in the Irreversible soundtrack "rectum" which was composed by Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk. It is an inaudible frequency which causes nausea and even panic attacks in some people
@@tedthecommenter5364 TG must have known that. They used it to great effect in this song.
Sounds like a song that'd play in the trenches of WWI/II. You're in an abandoned trench that, before abandoned, was a real bloodbath. The onimous whirring sound are fighter planes flying oiver the area, and the hamburger lady's the cause of the bloodbath. Allies and Axis fighted together against this anomaly.
Indeed , we need an ´Overlord` stripped of all Hollywood elements ... just the purest , undistilled horror and dread plus that which is beyond human comprehension - ´the hamburguer lady phenomenon leaving behind human remains which caused seasoned trench veterans to wretch at the sight. Green chlorine clouds were seen as a blessing in comparison .
Great idea, that is truly the mind of a real Throbbing Gristle fan .
Actually mostly WWI since trenches were rarely used in WWII, then again, trenches may have been used to a small extent
Also the verbal imagery used does in fact reflect the feeling of being in a trench during the war as burns from bombs are often similar to the burns described in the track
look up the artist Otto Dix. His works are mostly ww1 era Germany. Matches the music perfectly
@@Tanzarian123 Cheers !
Say what!?
I'm starting to think that a jazz version of this song could work, it brings out the narrative and GPO's storytelling skills to the fore.
I could picture Tom Waits doin it! 😊. He probably would make it even scarier! Lol
Traumatic enough, great job :)
I love this song and hate it. its meaning and story is so haunting, its amazing.
It got less creepy when I realized the author of the story wrote it as a joke
@@stuffenjoyer2223 it wasn't a joke, he's a horror writer
It is not amazing. Stop being a sadistic person. Go to a therapist.
I tried this at karaoke I even brought a kazoo!
😂😂
Gettin out the burger shop wit this one 🔥
This is probably the most disturbing track I've listened to so far.
Try listening to Chrome - Jonestown.. Similar vibes.
listen to crushed mary my guy 🥰🥰
If you want something scary, listen to Naked City’s Absinthe Album
Thanks, I will. always looking for disturbing, noisey music!
thank you, fucking, lord farquaad
Thx load
never listen to this while you have a depersonalization/dissociation episode ddbjdkd
“Somebody help the hamburger lady”
Listend to this today with only candlelight while taking a bubble bath. I was scared to leave the tub after lol. Bad idea
😂
Your ears are bathed
Your nose is bathed
Your fingers and eyelashes are bathed
I want to get off this ride... I WANT TO GET OFF THIS RIDE!!!
I can't imagine hearing this anywhere other by looking it up. If it came on the radio or auto play, something like that, I'd be fucking scared shitless.
FR
If I were a radio DJ I'd almost certainly play this song.
this song is unsettling.
2020 helo
When the benadryl starts hitting
you need a key to open the beauty of TG. few has it. but when you have one, you'll see another complete form of beauty.
Bro its music its not that deep
@@woghat6130 expect nothing but pretentiousness from someone with a coil pfp lmao
i see what hes sayin but yeah being into noise doesn't make you enlightened lmao Its just a nice therapeutic genre for me
Слушаю это на ночь. Весьма комфортненько
Better than lil pump
Gucci Gang is a masterpiece.
We no longer talk about that boy in 2019
@@lisazoria2709 its obv this is better
@@lisazoria2709 shitpiece*
Nothing and I mean nothing is better than little pump lady!
I don't think I want to eat hamburgers anymore.....
This used to scare me in the 80's! Listened to it in a friend's dark basement! I was allowed to leave though... lol.
I didn't think an even scarier version of this audio existed but here I am, petrified again
This might sounds weird, but once you listen to this for a few times, it isn't scary. Makes good background music to work on
Today i had the perfect idea of playing this after listening to Frankie Teardrop and i have the feeling that the next Song will be one of the Swans. The dessert of my "SundayAudioMindfuckMenue" will maybe be a little, nice Foetus Song. Awesome 🖤😄
easy listening...just relax!
It's ambient song, like Enya's "carribbean blue" , I think that Enya's"Caribbean blue is cover version of TG's "Hamburger lady", because it's a same genre-ambient ! "Domino Dancing" of "Pet Shop Boys is the cover version of Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop", because it's a same genre-synthpop !!! No fear, just relaxxx!!! Right, right!!!
Blessed be
It's ambient
This would definitely fit in like an analog horror video.
Hambuuuurger Lady!
Here from watching VHS85
I think the song is so scary to represent the "hamburguer lady" horror when she was being burned alive. When i heard this song for the first time i legit cried, something not even a horror movie ever did to me, and it still scares me so much til nowdays.
The song starts after her burns were acquired, and represent her experience in the hospital.
V/H/S 85 📼
Now Love Lies Bleeding used it. Crazy this song was used in two films in the past year.
i was so shocked to hear this in love lies bleeding
Same......."thanks" Rose Glass lol
Such a sweet song. I sing it to my newborn at night. She's a good girl. Always asleep and doesn't demand too much. Actually, she doesn't demand anything. Last time we fed her was 2 weeks ago. :)
Oh my! Sounds just like my lill angel! Im so glad he's still with us. I play this while he eats, before bed, in the morning, and when i change his diapers!
all his "friends" think 33 is too old to stay to with his parents but i couldn't be happier he is with us! *mama knows best*
The Hamburger Lady is coming.
НЕЕЕЕТ ЗА ЧТОО ТОЛЬКО НЕ ОНА БОГ НЕ ЗАБЕРЁТ МОЮ ДУШУ
Run, quickly
Thanks, Scott Derrickson lmao
A very soothing and beautiful song and such a harrowing tale, Genesis P. Orridge was a next level visionary.
Oh my god, guys, i must born earlier to go to their concert!
Some people have villain songs. Others have songs that even other villains would be scared to hear in their own minds. The type of songs that villain songs would check under the bed for. The villain to other villain songs.
It's so beautiful.
No, its not. And you're picture is proof that you dont know beauty.
If this doesn't make you uncomfortable, there's something wrong with you
sadism
Masochism
Racism
Bro this is scary ngl
@@NightmareTrash88 fascism
The official soundtrack of my nightmares