Noise for Music's Sake

Noise For Music's Sake
Compilation album by Napalm Death
Released	8 July 2003
Recorded	Various
Genre	Death metal Grindcore
Length	153:34
Label	Earache
Producer	Various
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Napalm Death chronology
Punishment in Capitals (2002) Noise For Music's Sake (2003) Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 (2004)

Noise for Music's Sake is a double-disc compilation by British band Napalm Death. This album is a retrospective of the band's entire career. The first disc is a best-of compilation; the second disc contains rarities. The booklet includes 20 pages with interviews of band members Shane Embury and Mark "Barney" Greenway. It also includes a guide to all the songs from the second disc, and a complete "Family Tree" detailing every person who was ever in the band.

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Kill" (from the album "Scum")	0:20
2.	"Scum" (from the album "Scum")	2:37
3.	"You Suffer" (from the album "Scum")	0:06
4.	"Deceiver" (from the album "Scum")	0:27
5.	"Hung" (from the album "Fear, Emptiness, Despair")	3:48
6.	"Antibody" (from the EP "Greed Killing")	2:50
7.	"Unchallenged Hate" (from the EP "Mass Appeal Madness)	2:07
8.	"Siege of Power" (from the EP "Suffer The Children")	3:32
9.	"Greed Killing" (from the EP "Greed Killing")	3:04
10.	"Suffer the Children" (from the album "Harmony Corruption")	4:20
11.	"Mass Appeal Madness" (from the EP "Mass Appeal Madness")	3:28
12.	"Next of Kin to Chaos" (from the album "Words from the Exit Wound")	4:08
13.	"Judicial Slime" (from the album "Utopia Banished")	2:37
14.	"Lucid Fairytale" (from the album "From Enslavement To Obliteration")	1:02
15.	"If the Truth Be Known" (from the album "Harmony Corruption")	4:10
16.	"Plague Rages" (from the album "Fear, Emptiness, Despair")	3:50
17.	"Social Sterility" (from the album "Mass Appeal Madness")	1:12
18.	"From Enslavement to Obliteration" (from the album "From Enslavement To Obliteration")	1:35
19.	"Lowpoint" (from the album "Inside the Torn Apart")	3:16
20.	"Contemptuous" (from the album "Utopia Banished")	4:22
21.	"Diatribes" (from the album "Diatribes")	3:50
22.	"The Chains that Bind Us" (from the album "Harmony Corruption")	4:06
23.	"Armageddon X 7" (pronounced "Times Seven") (from the album "Fear, Emptiness, Despair")	3:14
24.	"Breed to Breathe" (from the EP "Breed to Breathe")	3:15
25.	"The World Keeps Turning" (EP Version)	3:17
26.	"The Infiltraitor" (from the album "Words from the Exit Wound")	4:30
27.	"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" (from the EP "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!)	1:27
Total length:		76:38

Disc two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rise Above" (from the EP "Mentally Murdered")	2:41
2.	"Missing Link" (from the EP "Mentally Murdered")	2:14
3.	"Mentally Murdered" (from the EP "Mentally Murdered")	2:09
4.	"Walls of Confinement" (from the EP "Mentally Murdered")	2:55
5.	"Cause and Effect" (from the EP "Mentally Murdered")	1:23
6.	"No Mental Effort" (from the EP "Mentally Murdered")	4:08
7.	"Pride Assassin" (from the EP "Mass Appeal Madness")	2:05
8.	"Avalanche Master Song" (featuring Godflesh, live at ICA, London, 1990-06-29)	5:00
9.	"One and the Same" (from limited edition free EP released with album "Utopia Banished")	1:47
10.	"Sick and Tired" (from limited edition free EP released with album "Utopia Banished")	1:24
11.	"Malignant Trait" (from limited edition free EP released with album "Utopia Banished")	2:17
12.	"Killing with Kindness" (from limited edition free EP released with album "Utopia Banished")	2:01
13.	"Means to an End" (from the EP The World Keeps Turning)	2:56
14.	"Insanity Excursion" (from the EP The World Keeps Turning)	2:15
15.	"Truth Drug" (from limited edition version of album "Fear, Emptiness, Despair")	3:50
16.	"Living in Denial" (from limited edition version of album "Fear, Emptiness, Despair")	2:58
17.	"Food Chains" (from rare split EP with Coalesce)	3:14
18.	"Upward and Uninterested" (from rare split EP with Coalesce)	2:24
19.	"I Abstain" (from rare split EP with At The Gates)	3:33
20.	"Politics of Common Sense" (from rare split EP with At The Gates)	2:59
21.	"Internal Animosity" (studio recording featuring Lee Dorrian; Pathological compilation)	5:19
22.	"Scum" (studio recording featuring Lee Dorrian & Bill Steer; North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation)	2:21
23.	"Life" (studio recording featuring Lee Dorrian & Bill Steer; North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation)	0:37
24.	"Retreat to Nowhere" (studio recording featuring Lee Dorrian & Bill Steer; North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation)	0:27
25.	"Remain Nameless" (Pete Coleman original mixdown)	3:32
26.	"Twist the Knife (Slowly)" (Pete Coleman original mixdown)	2:51
27.	"Deceiver" (w/Swanky's Intro - live in Wakken, Belgium, 1987-07-11)	0:47
28.	"The Traitor" (live at The Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 1986-11-01)	3:23
29.	"Abattoir" (live at The Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 1986-03-30)	3:12
Total length:		76:56

Credits

Various line-ups within the times

• Mark "Barney" Greenway – Vocals
• Mitch Harris – Guitar
• Jesse Pintado – Guitar
• Shane Embury – Bass, compiler
• Danny Herrera – Drums
• Nicholas Bullen – Vocals, bass
• Mick Harris – Drums
• Justin Broadrick – Guitar
• Bill Steer – Guitar
• Lee Dorrian – Vocals
• Jim Whiteley - Bass