Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Looking for a full cover only, please tell me if you wanna sell one :)

Just be warned, this is NOT a Jazz-Funk Album. I'm sure someone learned this the hard way in 79, and someone might once again learn the hard way when they find this in the dollar bin.

Revolutionary in any single aspect you an consider. The context. This stuff was ranting out just months after the English punk outburst, it condenses that nihilism and violence contained in such atmosphere. Awful and dark seventies. At the same year Suicide released their seminal album, Krautrock was far out, other people were experimenting with synths, all the ambient Eno, the experimental Tomita, Vangelis and Jarre. The future everywhere. And in this particular album the
the gestalt of extreme electronica, experimental electronica and simply the brutalism of sound.

The electronics sounds so compact and thick, so heavy, moogs with bad vibe, with malicious intent, and yet structure appears. This ino pure chaos and mayhem like in Second annual report, this is a statement, a manifesto. Eat it raw.

Discipline is an infamous remembrance from the awful 70s, all that nihilistic power, that sense of nothingness and at the same time that extreme sense of freedom and rebellion. Everything is possible, God and the queen are dead!

What else? Genesis screams with the sound of accomplished order mediated by mechanic sounds, pure moog and Ms20 power unleashed!
Everything is fucked up yet everything marches on! TG exploits it's own exploitation, exclaims the disharmony of a time that goes and becomes permanent. Creates songs if we may say so for the industrial youth, this the no future consignment in the key of electronics, not a typical band with a need for recognition, not the artsy stuff, yet again its punk by its delivery, this is it, this is the new language, this a slogan, this is the present, this the future, this is the angels trumpet call!

¡We need some discipline in here!

A little known fact about this cover relates to the Range Rover in the picture. The cover was designed to look like a cheesy 'nice' LP of the type sold in bargain bins in shops from this period. Therefore buyers may buy it thinking it was easy listening and then be shocked when they heard it! Of course, the photos were at Beachy Head a famous suicide spot. Now this part is all well known. However, if you search in the music press from the time, you will find that the Range Rover had nothing to do with the band. It was actually owned by a couple who had committed suicide off the cliff in the background. Hence the picture of the Range Rover on its own on the cover back.

he's a bit winey. it has to be ten words

I like it. it's nice. my mum likes it. my sister says. my brother is nice, there are not many vocal but still makes us shake. all nl a good listen.

Regarding the 'Footnote' about the Range Rover in the notes section: I reckon that can safely be put down to deliberate misinformation that TG were happy to run with, given their (especially Gen's) fondness for pranks and fake stories - see also the madeup Hamburger Lady story from one of their artist friends in the US.

The more mundane explanation that I've heard over the years is that they just rented the car for the photoshoot. Gen and Sleazy can even be seen sitting in the back of it in the booklet for the 2xCD reissue, which at the very least debunks the claim that it was "nothing to do with the band". The fake numberplate they put on it (CFT 23 TG) is a nice touch.

Edit: Drew Daniel's 33 1/3 book on 20JFG confirms that it was rented (“at considerable expense, actually”) and they drove it to Beachy Head to use as part of the photoshoot. There may also be a reference to it in Wreckers Of Civilisation (Simon Ford) but can't find my copy right now. Cosey's book doesn't mention it.

TL;DR - there may be a case for deleting that 'Footnote' para from the Notes section. I just find it mildly amusing, and 'very TG', that someone's taken an old (and now demonstrably false) music press story at face value and added it to Discogs. :)

Is anyone aware of which version of Throbbing Gristle ‎– 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial Records IR0008A / IR0008B) resembeling the original release incl. poster, except that it only has Matrix / Runout (Side A, hand-etched runout): IR 008 A and Matrix / Runout (Side B, hand-etched runout): IR 008 B

For your information: I bought a new 20 Jazz funk greats LP in Berlin. Cover and labels looked ok, industrial 0008. The record is etched 0004, what you hear is the third and final report. Go look for it or be careful. Do as you like.

I recently bought in London what feels to be a bootleg, probably by the same person(s) who pressed the SWANS Filth and the COIL Scatology boots.