Noise for Music's Sake

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Noise for Music's Sake
Noise for Music's Sake cover
Compilation album by Napalm Death
Released July 8, 2003
Recorded Various
Genre Death metal
Grindcore
Length 153:34
Label Earache
Producer(s) Various
Professional reviews
Napalm Death chronology
Punishment in Capitals
(2002)
Noise For Music's Sake
(2003)
Leaders Not Followers: Part 2
(2004)


Noise for Music's Sake is a double-disc compilation by British band Napalm Death. 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.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

Total length 76:38

  1. "The Kill"
  2. "Scum"
  3. "You Suffer"
  4. "Deceiver"
  5. "Hung"
  6. "Antibody"
  7. "Unchallenged Hate"
  8. "Siege of Power"
  9. "Greed Killing"
  10. "Suffer the Children"
  11. "Mass Appeal Madness"
  12. "Next of Kin to Chaos"
  13. "Judicial Slime"
  14. "Lucid Fairytale"
  15. "If the Truth Be Known"
  16. "Plague Rages"
  17. "Social Sterility"
  18. "From Enslavement to Obliteration"
  19. "Lowpoint"
  20. "Contemptuous"
  21. "Diatribes"
  22. "The Chains that Bind Us"
  23. "Armageddon X 7" (pronounced "Times Seven")
  24. "Breed to Breathe"
  25. "The World Keeps Turning" (EP Version)
  26. "The Infiltraitor"
  27. "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"

[edit] Disc two

Total length 76:56

  1. "Rise Above"
  2. "Missing Link"
  3. "Mentally Murdered"
  4. "Walls of Confinement"
  5. "Cause and Effect"
  6. "No Mental Effort"
  7. "Pride Assassin"
  8. "Avalanche Master Song" (featuring Godflesh, live at ICA, London, 1990-06-29)
  9. "One and the Same"
  10. "Sick and Tired"
  11. "Malignant Trait"
  12. "Killing with Kindness"
  13. "Means to an End"
  14. "Insanity Excursion"
  15. "Truth Drug"
  16. "Living in Denial"
  17. "Food Chains"
  18. "Upward and Uninterested"
  19. "I Abstain"
  20. "Politics of Common Sense"
  21. "Internal Animosity" (studio recording featuring Lee Dorrian)
  22. "Scum" (studio recording featuring Dorrian & Bill Steer)
  23. "Life" (studio recording featuring Dorrian & Steer)
  24. "Retreat to Nowhere" (studio recording featuring Dorrian & Steer)
  25. "Remain Nameless" (Pete Coleman original mixdown)
  26. "Twist the Knife" (Slowly) (Pete Coleman original mixdown)
  27. "Deceiver" (w/Swanky's Intro - live in Wakken, Belgium, 1987-07-11)
  28. "The Traitor" (live at The Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 1986-11-01)
  29. "Abattoir" (live at The Mermaid, Birmingham, UK, 1986-03-30)

[edit] Credits

Various line-ups within the times