Throbbing Gristle
20 Jazz Funk Greats
Label:  Mute 
Date:  12/2/1993
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Industrial
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      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.  
      Discipline (Berlin)    
      13.  
      Discipline (Manchester)    
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      The best English rock & roll has always been made by art students; this sometimes-pretentious, always-engaging foursome is no exception. Throbbing Gristle's unprecedented alignment of collage, propaganda, and noise even spawned an entire genre. This 1978 full-length (originally the third release on the group's Industrial label) was their uncharacteristically accessible electro-pop album. It's survived rather well--of note are the pleasantly monotonous, noisy synth-pop of "What a Day," the wholly improvised two-tracks of "Discipline," and the playful, ambient "Exotica," a tribute to Martin Denny that prefigures hipster cocktail culture by two decades. The group wasn't only boundary-pushing, they had a sense of humor (easily glimpsed in the cover art) that's sorely lacking in the industrial music created since Throbbing Gristle's demise in the late '70s. --Mike McGonigal