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)
| Details | | Producer: | Brooks, Sinclair | | Distributor: | Caroline Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Throbbing Gristle: Cosey Fanni Tutti (vocals, guitar, synthesizer, cornet); Peter Christopherson (vocals, cornet, vibraphone); Chris Carter (vocals, synthesizer); Genesis P-Orridge (violin, synthesizer, vibraphone, bass).
Throbbing Gristle: Cosey Fanney Tutti (vocals, guitar, cornet, synthesizer); Genesis P-Orridge (vocals, viola, synthesizer, vibraphone, bass guitar); Peter Christopherson (vocals, cornet, vibraphone, tapes); Chris Carter (vocals, synthesizer, sequencer).
Recording information: 09/03/1979.
Though Throbbing Gristle's label, Industrial Records, inadvertently gave the music world a new genre heading, there's not much in the way of clanging pipes or steam-vent hiss on 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS. Then again, you'll find no jazz (title track excepted), precious little funk, and only 13 songs here. "Maturing" beyond the performance-art outrages of COUM Transmissions, TG's Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Peter Christopherson take to cutting slabs of murky, artless, malevolent noise with such titles as "Zyklon-B Zombie" and "Maggot Death."
GREATS slaps a sarcastic happy-face on the band's antisocial aesthetic. This is TG's "pop" album. The cover even shows them standing in a meadow, grinning ear-to-ear (or trying to). The cause of their amusement, however, is a nude female corpse splayed among the tall poppies. The creepy calm of "Tanith," the tortured synth-pop of "Still Walking," and "Hot On The Heels Of Love" capture the mood. Terminally sour P-Orridge's chanted litany of complaints ("What A Day") is pretty funny, and "Walkabout" is a lovely synth-strumental. But the voyeuristic aplomb with which he tears into "Persuasion," a grainy S&M script set to Gristle-y sound effects, is thoroughly unnerving.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - ..travels between the melodic structures of a perverse Abba to the electronic austerity of Kraftwerk..
Q (09/01/1991)
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