20 Jazz Funk Greats

Infobox Album |
Name = 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Type = Album
Artist = Throbbing Gristle


Released = 1979
Recorded = August 1979
Genre = Industrial
Length = 61:16
Label = Industrial
IR 0008
Producer = Brooks,
Sinclair
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ep4uakok5m3n link]
Last album = ""
(1978)
This album = "20 Jazz Funk Greats"
(1979)
Next album = "Heathen Earth"
(1980)

"20 Jazz Funk Greats" is the third full-length album by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. It is considered to be the group's most accessible release, landing at number 91 on Pitchfork Media's top 100 albums of the 1970s. The track "Still Walking" also appears on the live album "Heathen Earth", although with a radically different structure.

Track listing

"All songs written by Throbbing Gristle"
#"20 Jazz Funk Greats" – 2:51
#"Beachy Head" – 3:42
#"Still Walking" – 4:56
#"Tanith" – 2:20
#"Convincing People" – 4:54
#"Exotica" – 2:53
#"Hot on the Heels of Love" – 4:24
#"Persuasion" – 6:36
#"Walkabout" – 3:04
#"What a Day!" – 4:38
#"Six Six Sixties" – 2:07;CD Bonus tracks
#

"Discipline (Berlin)" – 10:45
#"Discipline (Manchester)" – 8:06

Miscellanea

* Story has it that frontman Genesis P. Orridge's mother had asked him why he never did anything nice, and as a result the band dressed nicely for the album's cover photo. The band is standing on Beachy Head, a very popular location for those seeking to commit suicide in England.

* The back cover features what appears to be the same image in black and white. A closer look reveals that a nude male corpse is now lying in the grass in front of the band.

References

*discogs.com entries: Industrial Records 12" vinyl release: [http://www.discogs.com/release/70587] , Fetish Records 12" vinyl release: [http://www.discogs.com/release/328130] , Expanded Music 12" vinyl release: [http://www.discogs.com/release/640971] , Mute Records 12" vinyl release: [http://www.discogs.com/release/151648] , Elektra 12" vinyl release: [http://www.discogs.com/release/47339] , The Grey Area CD release [http://www.discogs.com/release/308239]