Torture Garden (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Torture Garden
Type = Album
Artist = Naked City


Released = 1989
Recorded = 1989
Genre = Avant-Garde
Label = Shimmy Disc
Producer = John Zorn
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxfrxqegldae link]
Last album = "Naked City"
(1989)
This album = "Torture Garden"
(1989)
Next album = "Grand Guignol"
(1991)
Misc = extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Black Box cover
Type = studio


Lower caption =

"Torture Garden" is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collection of "hardcore miniatures" from "Naked City" and "Grand Guignol". Unlike other Naked City albums, there are no breaks between the screaming, the seemingly random saxophone blasts and grindcore. The album was originally released on Shimmy Disc in 1989. Following controversy over Naked City's album covers it was re-released in 1996 on Tzadik Records with "Leng Tch'e" simply as "Black Box". The album was also released as part of in 2005.

The name for the collection comes from "Le Jardin des supplices", an 1899 Decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau.

Track listing

# "Blood Is Thin"
# "Demon Sanctuary"
# "Thrash Jazz Assassin"
# "Dead Spot"
# "Bonehead"
# "Speedball"
# "Blood Duster"
# "Pile Driver"
# "Shangkuan Ling-Feng"
# "Numbskull"
# "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh"
# "Jazz Snob Eat Shit"
# "The Prestigitator"
# "No Reason To Believe"
# "Hellraiser"
# "Torture Garden"
# "Slan"
# "Hammerhead"
# "The Ways of Pain"
# "The Noose"
# "Sack of Shit"
# "Blunt Instrument"
# "Osaka Bondage"
# "Igneous Ejaculation"
# "Shallow Grave"
# "Ujaku"
# "Kaoru"
# "Dead Dread"
# "Billy Liar"
# "Victims of Torture"
# "Speedfreaks"
# "New Jersey Scum Swamp"
# "S & M Sniper"
# "Pigfucker"
# "Cairo Chop Shop"
# "Fuck the Facts"
# "Obeah Man"
# "Facelifter"
# "N.Y. Flat Top Box"
# "Whiplash"
# "The Blade"
# "Gob of Spit"