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throbbing gristle - throbbing gristle bring you 20 jazz funk greats - industrial - cd

Genre: Wave / Pop / Rock - Proto House/Techno

1. 20 Jazz Funk Greats
2. Beachy Head
3. Still Walking
4. Tanith
5. Convincing People
6. Exotica
7. Hot On The Heels Of Love
8. Persuasion
9. Walkabout
10. What A Day
11. Six Six Sixties
12. Weapon Training (1979 Live Bonus CD)
13. Convincing People
14. They Make No Say
15. Five Knuckle Shuffle
16. His Arm Was Her Leg
17. See You Are
18. What A Day
19. Discipline (Manchester)
20. Discipline (Berlin)

2012 repress. 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 The 8-page full-color book includes visual ephemera and previously-unpublished photographs.