Noise for Music's Sake

Napalm Death | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Earache Records
• ASIN: B0000A1HPS
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,269 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Napalm Death's Brilliant History, February 2, 2004

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Twitch (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Noise for Music's Sake (Audio CD)

A long time in the making, Napalm Death's greatest hits package `Noise for Music's Sake' does not disappoint by any stretch of the imagination. Containing some of their best work and rare and unreleased goodies including live tracks, covers, and pre `Scum' demos, it gives you enough music to pacify even the most rabid grind / death fan's aggression. As a fan of Napalm Death throughout all of their phases, and I mean I love all of their records, I can safely say that there could not be a better collection of their brutal sonic genius. The compilation includes tracks with both Barney Greenway in vocals as well as original screamer Lee Dorrian giving the record a both death and punk / grind flavor that personifies the Napalm Death entity as a whole. My personal favorites are "Chains that Bind Us", the demo of "I Abstain", the live cover of "Avalanche Master Song", and the original mix of "Twist the Knife (Slowly)", but on a record like this you can pick and choose for yourself. I can only find one problem with the album and that is that "Dogma" is on here, and that is just because it is one of my personal favorite Napalm Death songs, but hey, you can't win them all. Even though Napalm Death are always mistaken as the fathers of grindcore, either Deep Wound or Siege are the true holders of that title, they still know how to play a great tune even after years as a band. This truly highlights one of the best and most influential bands of all time throughout their career. For newcomers to Napalm Death, this is a great place to get acquainted with their grinding sound and for fans there are plenty of unreleased tracks. `Noise for Music's Sake' is definitely a greatest hits compilation that contains truly the best of the best.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The World Keeps Turning..., September 23, 2004

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J. Brittman "The Bottom Line" (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Noise for Music's Sake (Audio CD)

I usually avoid compilations but Napalm Death's Noise for Music's Sake is the exception to the rule. Spanning two cd's of Napalm Death's long and illustrious career, Noise for Music Sake is a balanced attack of old mixed with new. The Lee Dorian voiced tracks such as If the truth be known, Unchallenged Hate and FETO stand tall alongside newer Greenway classics like Hung, Plague Rages, Diatribes and the World Keeps Turning. The mix of the new and old tracks really gives the listener a good idea of how long these innovators have been turning out flawless metal. Disc one plays as a "greatest hits" and disc two is unreleased material, demos and "B" sides. I purchased this double cd strictly for the second disc but soon found myself drawn to the first eventhough I own all of the individual albums. The family tree liner insert is really comprehensive. Shane took great time and effort to outline all of the side projects and band formations. Overall, most ND fans will already own 99% of the material on Noise for Music's Sake but it's worth buying for the second disc of rarities alone. Recommended.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grind Your Mind!!!!, October 22, 2003

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Xenosapien (Altered States of America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Noise for Music's Sake (Audio CD)

Napalm Death aren't a band they are already a living legend and finally "Noise For Music's Sake" is their document and the definitive Napalm Death collection. The inventors of grindcore who confuse the extreme music scene for more than 20 years! The first CD features all of Napalm Death's classics like songs from their early records "Scum" and "Suffer The Children" and of course also the best songs of the later albums "Diatribes" and "Breed To Breathe". As I said this CD features only some tracks of the albums so it's definitely no discography, if Earache wanted to do so this must be a 10 CD set! It would be just to much to name all the tracks but beside the classics like "Scum", "You Suffer" or "Deceiver" of the Scum-LP, "Hung" from "Fear, Emptiness, Despair" and "Antibody" from the "Greed Killing" album they also offer "The Chains That Bind Us" from "Harmony Corruption" or "Breed to Breathe" from "Inside The Torn Apart"! They picked the best songs of all their albums and at the end of the first CD they also added the Dead Kennedys cover "Nazi Punks Fuck Off"! The second CD features rare and unreleased tracks beginning with the four songs of the "Mentally Murdered" EP and "Pride Assassin" of the "Mass Appeal Madness". It follows the live cover of Godflesh's "Avalanche Master Song" and the bonus-tracks of the additionally 3" CD of the "Utopia Banished" album. After that two songs of the "World Keeps Turning" EP and the bonus tracks of "Fear, Emptiness, Despair" made it on the compilation. Now we come to the demo-version "Upwards and Uninterested" that was also on the Split with Coalesce and the demo-version of "I Abstain". Next one are "Politics of Common Sense" of the At The Gates Split and four compilation tracks. Least but not last we get five unreleased tracks, the Pete Coleman mix of "Remain Nameless" & "Twist the Knife". "Deceiver" live in Wacken '87 with Mitch Dickinson of Unseen Terror on guitar, "The Traitor" live in Birmingham '86 and "Abattoir" also live in Birmingham '86! That's it...almost 2 1/2 hours of Napalm Death destruction and this should be a part of every CD-collection!!