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| Noise for Music's Sake | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | 8 July 2003 | |||
| Recorded | Various | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 153:34 | |||
| Label | Earache | |||
| Producer | Various | |||
| Napalm Death chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [2] |
| The Metal Forge | 9/10[3] |
Noise for Music's Sake is a double-disc compilation by British band Napalm Death. It was released on 8 July 2003 on Earache Records. This album is a retrospective of the band's entire career. The first disc is a best-of compilation; the second disc contains rarities. The booklet includes 20 pages with interviews of band members Shane Embury and Mark "Barney" Greenway. It also includes a guide to all the songs from the second disc, and a complete "Family Tree" detailing every person who was ever in the band.
Track listing
[edit]Disc one
[edit]| No. | Title | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Kill" | Scum | 0:20 |
| 2. | "Scum" | Scum | 2:37 |
| 3. | "You Suffer" | Scum | 0:01 |
| 4. | "Deceiver" | Scum | 0:27 |
| 5. | "Hung" | Fear, Emptiness, Despair | 3:48 |
| 6. | "Antibody" | Greed Killing | 2:50 |
| 7. | "Unchallenged Hate" | Mass Appeal Madness | 2:07 |
| 8. | "Siege of Power" | Suffer The Children | 3:32 |
| 9. | "Greed Killing" | Greed Killing | 3:04 |
| 10. | "Suffer the Children" | Harmony Corruption | 4:20 |
| 11. | "Mass Appeal Madness" | Mass Appeal Madness | 3:28 |
| 12. | "Next of Kin to Chaos" | Words from the Exit Wound | 4:08 |
| 13. | "Judicial Slime" | Utopia Banished | 2:37 |
| 14. | "Lucid Fairytale" | From Enslavement to Obliteration | 1:02 |
| 15. | "If the Truth Be Known" | Harmony Corruption | 4:10 |
| 16. | "Plague Rages" | Fear, Emptiness, Despair | 3:50 |
| 17. | "Social Sterility" | Mass Appeal Madness | 1:12 |
| 18. | "From Enslavement to Obliteration" | From Enslavement to Obliteration | 1:35 |
| 19. | "Lowpoint" | Inside the Torn Apart | 3:16 |
| 20. | "Contemptuous" | Utopia Banished | 4:22 |
| 21. | "Diatribes" | Diatribes | 3:50 |
| 22. | "The Chains that Bind Us" | Harmony Corruption | 4:06 |
| 23. | "Armageddon X 7" | Fear, Emptiness, Despair | 3:14 |
| 24. | "Breed to Breathe" | Breed to Breathe | 3:15 |
| 25. | "The World Keeps Turning" | The World Keeps Turning | 3:17 |
| 26. | "The Infiltraitor" | Words from the Exit Wound | 4:30 |
| 27. | "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" | Nazi Punks Fuck Off! | 1:27 |
| Total length: | 76:38 | ||
Disc two
[edit]| No. | Title | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rise Above" | Mentally Murdered | 2:41 |
| 2. | "Missing Link" | Mentally Murdered | 2:14 |
| 3. | "Mentally Murdered" | Mentally Murdered | 2:09 |
| 4. | "Walls of Confinement" | Mentally Murdered | 2:55 |
| 5. | "Cause and Effect" | Mentally Murdered | 1:23 |
| 6. | "No Mental Effort" | Mentally Murdered | 4:08 |
| 7. | "Pride Assassin" | Mass Appeal Madness | 2:05 |
| 8. | "Avalanche Master Song" (featuring Godflesh, live at ICA, London, 29 June 1990) | 5:00 | |
| 9. | "One and the Same" | Utopia Banished bonus disc | 1:47 |
| 10. | "Sick and Tired" | Utopia Banished bonus disc | 1:24 |
| 11. | "Malignant Trait" | Utopia Banished bonus disc | 2:17 |
| 12. | "Killing with Kindness" | Utopia Banished bonus disc | 2:01 |
| 13. | "Means to an End" | The World Keeps Turning | 2:56 |
| 14. | "Insanity Excursion" | The World Keeps Turning | 2:15 |
| 15. | "Truth Drug" | Fear, Emptiness, Despair bonus track | 3:50 |
| 16. | "Living in Denial" | Fear, Emptiness, Despair bonus track | 2:58 |
| 17. | "Food Chains" | Coalesce split | 3:14 |
| 18. | "Upward and Uninterested" | Coalesce split | 2:24 |
| 19. | "I Abstain" | Utopia Banished Demo | 3:33 |
| 20. | "Politics of Common Sense" | At the Gates split | 2:59 |
| 21. | "Internal Animosity" | Pathological compilation | 5:19 |
| 22. | "Scum" | North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation | 2:21 |
| 23. | "Life" | North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation | 0:37 |
| 24. | "Retreat to Nowhere" | North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation | 0:27 |
| 25. | "Remain Nameless" (Pete Coleman original mixdown) | 3:32 | |
| 26. | "Twist the Knife (Slowly)" (Pete Coleman original mixdown) | 2:51 | |
| 27. | "Deceiver" (with Swanky's Intro, live in Wakken, Belgium, 11 July 1987) | 0:47 | |
| 28. | "The Traitor" (live at The Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 1 November 1986) | 3:23 | |
| 29. | "Abattoir" (live at The Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 30 March 1986) | 3:12 | |
| Total length: | 76:56 | ||
Personnel
[edit]Napalm Death
[edit]- Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals
- Jesse Pintado – guitar
- Mitch Harris – guitar
- Shane Embury – bass
- Danny Herrera – drums
- Nicholas Bullen – bass, vocals
- Mick Harris – drums
- Justin Broadrick – guitars
- Bill Steer – guitars (disc 2, 22–24)
- Lee Dorrian – vocals (disc 2, 21–24)
- Jim Whiteley – bass
Technical personnel
[edit]- Dan Tobin – compiling
- Shane Embury – compiling
- Mick Kenney – cover illustration, booklet
- Dom Lawson – liner notes
- Mick Usher – Napalm Death family tree
References
[edit]- ^ Birchmeier, Jason. Napalm Death: Noise for Music's Sake > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. pp. 1015–1016. ISBN 978-0857125958.
- ^ Milburn, Simon (8 January 2005). "Napalm Death - Noise For Music's Sake". The Metal Forge. Sumner, Queensland. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
