Throbbing Gristle's lp 20 Jazz Funk Greats is certainly endearing. opener '20 jazz funk great' rattles along well to drum machine and whispery vocals. 'Beachy Head' is good also, industrial sounds and keyboards set the sinister tone of the album early. 'Still Walking' is synth industrial experimental, with drum machines. 'Tanith' an instrumental track. 'Convincing People' a track of ghostliness and eeriness with Genesis P. Orridge sings 'theres several ways/ to convince people' eery stuff. followed by instrumental tracks and 'Hot on the heels of love' is the best of them, a synth laden electro beat driven magical number. 'Persuasion' is experimetal as they come. with p. orridges lyrcis coming through over a girl laughing. 'walkabout' is another synth driven electro storm of a track. 'what a day' is the best track on the album with an industrial pulse going through it with p orridges lyrcis over the top 'what a day what a day what a day all day'. 20 Jazz Funk Greats is probably their best work as it transpires mere industrial as an experimental genre into something synth electro driven with drum machines, thats pop, that has pop edges,quite soft but quite mysterious at the same time. its experimental but still has some synth pop drive to it. for one of the Uks most original bands. 10/10
Saturday night fever the soundtrack is so dancey . opener stalin alive will get you dancing on your feet. and night fever will keep you grooving. what bugs me about this album is that it really doesnt pick up from there so i'm going to say its good for a party but for artistic merit not so good. it really doesnt hold well as an album more or less a collection of bee gee singles and other instrumental tracks and some sung by other lesser known artists 8/10
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