Throbbing Gristle
20 Jazz Funk Greats (2CD)
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Originally released in 1979, 20 Jazz Funk Greats is Throbbing Gristle's pop-influenced masterwork. It's hard to believe the beautiful, conventionally-attractive Cosey Fanni Tutti on this album's front cover previously gave herself milk and blood enemas in front of a live audience. Additionally, the song "Hot On The Heels Of Love" is far removed from the dissonant nihilism of the previous TG albums. It's a sleek, minimal synth-pop song that foreshadows Tutti's later work as Chris & Cosey. Still, 20 Jazz Funk Greats is underpinned by a profound distance from accessibility. The breezy luminosity of "Persuasion" and "Six Six Sixties" is still marked with casual bits of distortion and absurdism. Preceding dark synth-pop (and everything else), TG's third album is far ahead of its time and still sounds as relevant as ever. The CD version includes a bonus CD of live recordings, including two versions of the manic classic, "Discipline." The 8-page full-color book includes visual ephemera and previously-unpublished photographs. Cover artwork has been painstakingly restored from the original source material.
This edition
Double CD. Remastered edition of Throbbing Gristle's best known and most suavely subversive LP, the one that completely re-defined the meaning of industrial music.
Format
Released in a 6-panel Digipak with an 8-sided booklet.
Recorded at the Studios of Industrial Records in the weeks ending September 3rd, 1979.
Release notes
Released in a 6-panel Digipak with an 8-sided booklet. Recorded at the Studios of Industrial Records in the weeks ending September 3rd, 1979.
| 1-1 | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | 2:45 | |
| 1-2 | Beachy Head | 3:37 | |
| 1-3 | Still Walking | 4:49 | |
| 1-4 | Tanith | 2:11 | |
| 1-5 | Convincing People | 4:49 | |
| 1-6 | Exotica | 2:51 | |
| 1-7 | Hot On The Heels Of Love | 4:21 | |
| 1-8 | Persuasion | 6:34 | |
| 1-9 | Walkabout | 3:00 | |
| 1-10 | What A Day | 4:35 | |
| 1-11 | Six Six Sixties | 2:07 | |
| 1979 Live Bonus CD: | |||
| 2-1 | Weapon Training | 1:31 | |
| 2-2 | Convincing People | 6:07 | |
| 2-3 | They Make No Say | 5:23 | |
| 2-4 | Five Knuckle Shuffle | 6:22 | |
| 2-5 | His Arm Was Her Leg | 3:46 | |
| 2-6 | See You Are | 5:41 | |
| 2-7 | What A Day | 6:12 | |
| 2-8 | Discipline (Manchester) | 8:06 | |
| 2-9 | Discipline (Berlin) | 10:49 | |
- Genesis P-Orridge
- Bass Guitar [Bass Guitars], Violin, Vibraphone [Vibes], Synthesizer [Synthesiser], Vocals, Lyrics By (1-2 to 1-6, 1-8 to 1-11)
- Throbbing Gristle
- Composed By [All Songs], Performer [All Songs Played By]
- Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Lead Guitar [Satellite Lead Guitar], Guitar [Gizmo Guitar], Synthesizer [Synthesiser], Cornet, Vocals, Lyrics By (1-7)
- Peter Christopherson
- Lyrics By (1-1), Tape, Vibraphone [Vibes], Cornet, Vocals
- Chris Carter
- Synthesizer [Roland Synthesisers], Sequencer [Sequencers], Percussion [Rhythms], Vocals
