Noise for Music's Sake

Noise for Music's Sake
Compilation album by Napalm Death
Released 8 July 2003
Recorded Various
Genre Death metal, grindcore
Length 153:34
Label Earache
Producer Various
Napalm Death chronology

Punishment in Capitals
(2002)		 Noise For Music's Sake
(2003)		 Leaders Not Followers: Part 2
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Metal Forge 9/10[2]

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

Disc one

No. TitleAlbum 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

No. TitleAlbum 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"  At the Gates split 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

Napalm Death

Technical personnel

References

  1. ↑ Birchmeier, Jason. Napalm Death: Noise for Music's Sake > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Milburn, Simon (8 January 2005). "Napalm Death - Noise For Music's Sake". The Metal Forge. Sumner, Queensland. Retrieved 18 January 2015.