Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Throbbing Gristle - "20 Jazz Funk Greats" (1979)






Someone on Facebook said that they are annoyed by aliens from outer space with cyclops eyes who collect barbed wire and buy two of everything at the grocery store... and personally, I feel like I'm being attacked... I need my safe space.

In all seriousness, "20 Jazz Funk Greats" advertises a tongue planted firmly in cheek fib. Clearly, there is nothing jazzy nor funky about the music. This is take a lawnmower to your face industrial electronica, and I love every track. Secondly, the original release had only eleven tracks, not twenty. My later reissue contains an additional pair of tracks act the end: two live versions of "Discipline". It wasn't until the 2011 reissue that with the right amount of bonus tracks, they indeed gathered twenty jazz funk greats which aren't jazzy or funky at all. Third off, dig on their snappy threads on the cover.

I feel bad, though, that I'm only offering up an earlier reissue with only thirteen of the later fulfilled twenty jazz funk greats (which, yeah, aren't jazzy or funky in the least), so, I've gone ahead and added some images to this post which I trust are to your liking.












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