20 Jazz Funk Greats
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20 Jazz Funk Greats
- Artist: Throbbing Gristle
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- Release Date: 1979
- Total Time: 61:16
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
It's a break in the clouds from Throbbing Gristle's pummeling noise and a first glimpse at the continuing pop influence on the TG/PTV axis, but 20 Jazz Funk Greats still isn't best described by its title. If there is such a thing as a funky Throbbing Gristle LP, however, this could well be it. "Hot on the Heels of Love," "Still Walking" and "Six Six Sixties" add only occasional bits of distortion between the rigid sequencer lines. 20 Jazz Funk Greats is the best compromise between TG's early industrial aesthetic and the reams of industrial-dance and dark synth-pop groups that used the album as a stepping stone to crossover appeal. ~ John Bush, Rovi| 20 Jarr Kinderen Voor (2005 Album by Various Artists) | |
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20 Jazz Funk Greats
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| Studio album by Throbbing Gristle | ||||
| Released | December 1979 | |||
| Recorded | August 1979 | |||
| Genre | Industrial | |||
| Length | 40:25 | |||
| Label | Industrial IR 0008 |
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| Producer | Brooks, Sinclair | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork Media | (10/10)[2] |
20 Jazz Funk Greats is the third full-length album by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The track "Still Walking" also appears on the live album Heathen Earth, although with a radically different structure. The album was the first and only fully studio album the band released during their first era, as both The Second Annual Report, and D.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle contained both live and studio recordings.
The album's cover photograph was taken at Beachy Head, a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex, and one of the world's most notorious suicide spots. On the 1991 Mute Records CD issue of the Industrial Records release an apparently dead and naked male body lay in front of the band.[3]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Throbbing Gristle.
| No. | Title | Length | |
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| 1. | "20 Jazz Funk Greats" | 2:51 | |
| 2. | "Beachy Head" | 3:42 | |
| 3. | "Still Walking" | 4:56 | |
| 4. | "Tanith" | 2:20 | |
| 5. | "Convincing People" | 4:54 | |
| 6. | "Exotica" | 2:53 | |
| 7. | "Hot on the Heels of Love" | 4:24 | |
| 8. | "Persuasion" | 6:36 | |
| 9. | "Walkabout" | 3:04 | |
| 10. | "What a Day" | 4:38 | |
| 11. | "Six Six Sixties" | 2:07 |
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 12. | "Discipline" (Berlin) | 10:45 | ||||||||
| 13. | "Discipline" (Manchester) | 8:06 | ||||||||
Personnel
- Cosey Fanni Tutti: vocals, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, cornet
- Genesis P-Orridge: vocals, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, bass, violin, clarinet
- Peter Christopherson: vocals, horns, synthesizers, tapes, drums
- Chris Carter: vocals, synthesizers,
References
- ^ Bush, John. 20 Jazz Funk Greats at Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
- ^ Pitchfork Media review
- ^ "20 jazz funk greats". 20jazzfunkgreats. http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2008/04/28/20-jazz-funk-greats. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
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