Torture Garden (album)

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Torture Garden
Torture Garden cover
Studio album by Naked City
Released 1989
Recorded 1989
Genre Avant-Garde
Label Shimmy Disc
Producer John Zorn
Professional reviews
Naked City chronology
Naked City
(1989)		 Torture Garden
(1989)		 Grand Guignol
(1991)
Black Box cover
Black Box cover

Torture Garden is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collection of "hardcore miniatures" from Naked City and Grand Guignol. Unlike other Naked City albums, there are no breaks between the screaming, the seemingly random saxophone blasts and speed metal. The album was originally released on Shimmy Disc in 1989. Following controversy over Naked City's album covers it was re-released in 1996 on Tzadik Records with Leng Tch'e simply as Black Box. The album was also released as part of Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings in 2005.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Blood Is Thin"
  2. "Demon Sanctuary"
  3. "Thrash Jazz Assassin"
  4. "Dead Spot"
  5. "Bonehead"
  6. "Speedball"
  7. "Blood Duster"
  8. "Pile Driver"
  9. "Shangkuan Ling-Feng"
  10. "Numbskull"
  11. "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh"
  12. "Jazz Snob Eat Shit"
  13. "The Prestigitator"
  14. "No Reason To Believe"
  15. "Hellraiser"
  16. "Torture Garden"
  17. "Slan"
  18. "Hammerhead"
  19. "The Ways of Pain"
  20. "The Noose"
  21. "Sack of Shit"
  22. "Blunt Instrument"
  23. "Osaka Bondage"
  24. "Igneous Ejaculation"
  25. "Shallow Grave"
  26. "Ujaku"
  27. "Kaoru"
  28. "Dead Dread"
  29. "Billy Liar"
  30. "Victims of Torture"
  31. "Speedfreaks"
  32. "New Jersey Scum Swamp"
  33. "S & M Sniper"
  34. "Pigfucker"
  35. "Cairo Chop Shop"
  36. "Fuck the Facts"
  37. "Obeah Man"
  38. "Facelifter"
  39. "N.Y. Flat Top Box"
  40. "Whiplash"
  41. "The Blade"
  42. "Gob of Spit"