20 Jazz Funk Greats

the only reason Still Walking is my fave now is cuz I have listened to this record for a long time and it is the only track that keeps on giving, that I discover new things about.

20 years ago I would have said Hot On The Heels or Walkabout.

well aren't you just awesome.

'walkabout', then 'hot on the heels', then 'convincing people'.

i could never take 'persuasion' seriously after the panties bit!

hot on the heels...

and they played an amazingly heavy version of it when i saw TG live last year...

I fucking love "Convincing People" but the point of TG records isn't individual tracks, right?

"What A Day", because it reminds me of living in a city and working at a stupid job that I hate, staggering home through crowds of commuters shouting to myself "WHAT A DAY!!! AAAAAAAAARRGGGHHH!!!"

"Persuasion" for me, but only just, over "Six Sixties Sixties" "Convincing People", "What a Day"

'convincing people,' barely. it always reminds me of 'i won't grow up' from the peter pan musical.

over the years it keeps changing. today it is "convincing people".

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Whoah.

What a record..

not enough jazz funk

If only there was enough jazz funk

any jazz funk is too much.

There is a major jazz head I know who bought this as a teenager when it came out genuinely thinking he was getting a comp of 20 Jazz Funk Greats. He persevered with it (as you do at that age) and to this day is a big TG fan even though they bear zero relation to absolutely anything else he likes.

I was actually listening to some of this yesterday, I edited a version of "Walkabout" for my radio show next Monday.

There is also a "Walkabout" edit on this - https://www.discogs.com/Sonic-Assassins-Show-Up-Be-Counted/release/1690955

There is a major jazz head I know who bought this as a teenager when it came out genuinely thinking he was getting a comp of 20 Jazz Funk Greats. He persevered with it (as you do at that age) and to this day is a big TG fan even though they bear zero relation to absolutely anything else he likes.

― stirmonster, Friday, 25 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Awesome

i salute this intrepid person tbh, correct approach and correct result

This has probably been addressed somewhere, but did anyone from Throbbing Gristle ever address their personal relationship to the genre of jazz funk? The cover and titles were supposed to evoke "something you would find in a Woolworth's bargain bin," but Jazz funk was still a thriving genre at the time! The cover itself looks more like a Cowsills or Osmonds album than anything Herbie Hancock or Billy Cobham would have released.

I may have posted this previously but kind of related, there is a Jazz Funk DJ i know who was in his late teens when it came out and who bought it by mistake, so was successfully duped by it. He persevered with it and says it is one of his all time favourite records even though he likes and listens to nothing else whatsoever that is vaguely similar.

As far as i know nobody in TG was into Jazz Funk.

Yeah, I saw your post just above! That is cool and I'm glad it worked out well for someone.

I guess my question is, were they specifically taking aim at jazz-funk, or was it picked for the absurdity?

I'm trying to think of a good analogy for modern times. Maybe like if 100 gecs put out a record called 20 Afrofuturist Neo-Soul Greats with an album cover lifted from Five for Fighting.

i think it was picked for the absurdity rarher then them having a particular issue with jazz-funk.