The lyrics for Power Electronics constitute a literally style of its own, even because some lyricists are heavily inspired by transgressive Literature and the like. Take Philip Best, for example. I don't really know if Tomkins aswell is interested in it, but his lyrics are very well written nihilistic anectodes filled with subtle dark irony and uncompromised acid wit. The same goes for Best, whose lyrics for Consumer Electronics I don't know if they're really available, which is a shame because I can't make everything of what he is saying.
Best himself has a doctoral thesis entitled "Apocalypticism in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard and Thomas Pynchon", and also a doctorate in English literature. Aside from his work on Amphetamine Sulphate, obviously. His mark is his acid and ironic lyrics, delivered in unmistakeably vocal fashion. The same could be stated about Tomkins. Blue Rabbit has such images ("thoughts! images! sounds!") whose cryptic connotations couldn't fit in a better album, sonically speaking. Many songs from Whitehouse have lyrics which I've been obsessed with since my teenage years. Never Forget Death, Halogen, Told, Quality Time, Just Like a Cunt & a Cunt like You, Philosophy, Daddo, Cruise (Force the Truth), Why You Never Became a Dancer, Cut Hands has the Solution, almost everything from the last two albums..
Many lyrics from the genre stand out in its abrasiveness, but instead of wholly citing them, I'm going to remark some of my favorite lines from such music.
"OR PERHAPS YOU SHOULD OPEN YOUR EYES A BIT MORE THAN YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH." (Whitehouse - Dyad)
"SO THIS IS WHAT YOU SPENT YOUR TIME DOING WAITING FOR SALLY'S DAUGHTER TO GROW UP.
I KNOW YOU'RE FOND OF QUESTIONS SO HERE ARE SOME FUCKING ANSWERS." (WH - Ruthless Babysitting)
"Cunt's so vulgar..." (WH - Vulgar)
"CUT HANDS HAS THE SOLUTION.
WE WILL FEED YOU TO EVERY HUNGRY BIRD
WE WILL FEED YOU TO EVERY STARVING ANIMAL
AND WE WILL LET THEM EAT FAT TILL THEY'RE FULL
AND WE WILL LET THEM DRINK BLOOD TILL THEY'RE DRUNK
AND I TELL YOU: IT'S HELPING
WHILE I TELL YOU: YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THIIING!" (Wh - Cut Hands has the Solution)
"It was just and ordinary day in Manchester..." (Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly)
"FUCKING FEMINISTS... I HATE FEMINISTS... WOMANHATER!" (Con-Dom, Comando Terreur)
"ARE WE TALKING?
OR IS IT INTERROGATION" (Grunt - Interrogation Paranoia)
"TEN YEARS WASTED ON A PROSTITUTE" (Deathpile - The First Whore)
"I have to go to war, I have a fist...
I have to go to war, I have a fist...
I have to go to war, I have a fist...
I have to go to war, I have a fist... (x100)" (Bizarre Uproar - Melting Pot of Cultures)
and many more...
By the way, is there a thread for "favorite Noise samples"? Seems like a good idea to me.