Best Of.... Volume I

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Best Of.... Volume I
Studio album by Throbbing Gristle
Released	1975
Genre	Industrial
Label	Industrial Records IRC 0
Producer	Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle chronology
''''' Best Of.... Volume I (1975)

Best Of.... Volume I is a cassette release by industrial group Throbbing Gristle. It is the first ever recorded material by Throbbing Gristle.

The liner notes state: "All material previously unreleased. This tape was originally hand copied and sent to friends".

It was originally limited to 12 copies and sent out to mail art contacts. Throbbing Gristle later denied its existence simply to create confusion, which was why it was given the catalogue number IRC0. The cassette is a three-quarters full C90, incorrectly marked as a C60 on the tape. All the tracks on the tape are instrumental studio demos except Untitled 12 and Very Friendly. The versions of We Hate You Little Girls are instrumentals; at the end of ver. 1 applause and cheering can be heard as well someone saying "thank you", at the end of ver. 2 Genesis can be heard saying "It's getting worse, i'n' it?"

The second last track on the tape is a recording of an American magician explaining a trick. The last track is a very distorted recording of two Neil Young songs - "New Mama" starts, then is restarted and runs into "Look Out Joe", which are sequential tracks from Side 2 of Young's 1975 album Tonight's The Night. Whether these non-TG tracks feature on the original master cassette, or only on the cassette owned by the individual responsible for uploading their copy to the internet (which turns up periodically on various Blogger sites/file sharing networks, so far always with these tracks included), remains unclear.

[edit] Track listing

Side A

1. (untitled) - 1:13
2. (untitled) - 2:24
3. (untitled) - 0:56
4. (untitled) - 1:45
5. (untitled) - 15:37
6. (untitled) - 1:45
7. (untitled) - 1:13
8. (untitled) - 3:06
9. (untitled) - 1:13
10. (untitled) - 1:01
11. (untitled) - 9:09
12. (untitled) - 6:39
13. (untitled) - 0:27

Side B

1. (untitled) - 1:00
2. (untitled) - 0:40
3. (untitled) - 10:30
4. (untitled) - 1:13
5. "Very Friendly (Part 1)" - 11:55
6. "Very Friendly (Part 2)" - 10:13
7. "We Hate You Little Girls" - 2:47
8. "We Hate You Little Girls" - 2:50
9. "American Magician Talking" - 1:01
10. "New Mama"/"Look Out Joe" - 2:59

• Both songs on track 10 are Neil Young songs.