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Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3) Paperback – December 15, 2007

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In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates-through both his own insights and exclusive interviews with the band-an exploded view of the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, shot through with a sequence of thematic entries on key concepts, strategies, and contexts (noise, leisure, process, the abject, information, and repetition). This is a smart and unusual book about a pioneering band.

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December 15, 2007
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4.8 x 0.55 x 6.45 inches
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0826427936
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“Daniel writes evocatively of his own experience with 20 Jazz Funk Greats, which he discovered as an adolescent looking for more extreme forms of music, but the best passages in the book are his Q&A's with the band members, who remain as confrontational and confounding as ever.” ―Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork

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Drew Daniel is one half of the acclaimed electronic group Matmos - successful in their own right, and also as collaborators with Bjork. Drew has taught the history of electronic music at the San Francisco Art Institute and a sound art seminar at Harvard. He has just moved to Baltimore, where he now teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum; 0 edition (December 15, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826427936
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826427939
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.8 x 0.55 x 6.45 inches

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Rich L.

A great review of a sub-par album

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2012

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I was skeptical of this book-I love this series, but this is NOT my favourite TG album. I'm more of a fan of "The Second Annual Report" and "DOA." But to his credit, the author has done a great job analyzing this album. He goes into detail about every aspect-the artwork, the songs, the reception to the album-and gives a highly readable dissection. There's new (at least at the time of publication) interviews with all 4 TG members, and his track-by-track commentary is spot-on. It may divulge into places TG fans may not care about or be willing to go to, but his attention to detail is unwavering. Personally, as an old punk who ventured out and discovered "industrial music", I relate completely to his intro piece to this book.
Unfortunately there is precious little TG reading material available out there at a decent price-do a search for "Wreckers Of Civilization" and you'll see what I mean-and as such this book is a great find for a good price. My ONLY complaint is that I feel he should have covered an earlier album. "20 Jazz Funk Greats" remains for me an ok album by a great band. But the passion he devotes to this album more than makes up for its deficiencies.

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Random Guy

Thorough critique and analysis

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013

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Having read a few of the books in this series, this is far and away the best written I've seen. It's an in depth track by track examination that opens out a lot of thought on the layers and limitations of each. The effort gone into primary sources of the artists themselves is impressive and the aspect of the book that makes it really outstanding.

I was especially drawn into the discussion on the artwork as critique of the audience, where, as with Michael Haneke's film Funny Games, songs like Persuasion and Convincing People struggle to walk a fine line between artistic statement and hypocritical exploitation of subject matter.

The trivia gem that Cosey appears briefly in the nightclub scene to Sylvester's extended video for Mighty Real was worth the price of admission alone. It's that sort of attention to detail you can't put a price on but the publisher did and thank goodness it was so reasonable.

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Ez

Anyone who read Simon Ford's excellent "Wreckers of Civilization" should read this.

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2009

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I love 33 1/3 books. Love them! To have an entire volume dedicated to one of my favorite records is almost too good to be true. Daniel is a professor at Johns Hopkins in addition to being a musician, so he's well-equipped to offer both informed and formal criticism. He spends 18 pages discussing the cover alone.

It is one of the more deliberate and academic books in the 33 1/3 series. If you're looking for fluffy interviews and and fawning tidbits, look elsewhere.

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2013

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A well-written analysis. I was pleasantly surprised after listening to this series' pretentious book on Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, which I turned off after about five minutes.

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I Give It 33⅓ Stars!

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016

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One of the best volumes in the whole 33⅓ series, Drew Daniel (one half of Matmos and writer for Pitchfork) paints a fascinating portrait of a singular album and an uncompromising act's attempts at marketability in the Postpunk era.

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2008

Pop is, by its very nature, glossy and superficial, glancing off complexity and thorny ambivalences with blithe assurance.

With 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Throbbing Gristle attempt --in their own profoundly warped way-- to make peace with pop music's influence upon them; at the same time, the album plays out with such profound ambivalence --running hot and cold all at once, constantly vacillating between attraction and repulsion and back again-- that its exploration of "pop" becomes heavily weighted --its like a mille-feuille of ironic distance. Upon its release in 1979, TG's third full-length album was received with head-scratching condescension for the most part. Daniel's artfully written little volume makes the case for this strange, unlikable album and its often unpalatable charms.

Alluring and repellent in equal measure, the group's masterwork remains indelible for the ways in which it reworks the last vestiges of 60s optimism (as evinced in psychedelia and prog) with the darker, more ambivalent strains of punk and post-punk. In this way the band doesn't simply straddle genres but whole philosophical, moral and sexual divides. This is what makes their music so enduringly strange and repugnant --yet fascinating.

I fell into this book like Alice down an unfathomably dark rabbit-hole. It reads like a riveting detective novel, so concisely has Daniel (AKA one half of Matmos) woven personal history (both TG's and his own), (un)reliable narration (thanks to the members of TG themselves, contradictory bastards the lot of them), close dissection (a forensic/anatomic tack being particularly appropriate with TG) and overarching pop-cultural critique.

I haven't read Steven Ford's Wreckers of Civilisation, but this tiny volume on only one album in the massive TG oeuvre situates the group so powerfully in the appropriate historical, personal, and musical contexts that I never wanted the book to end. It's a vivid, revealing, and very personal work that is beautifully written from start to finish, and my favorite of the 33 1/3s so far.

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J. Miller

Spot on

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2008

I have to admit some bias -- I grew up with the author and I am quite familiar with some of the places described in the book's lengthy and personal introduction. It's not often that one sees the themes and places of one's youth detailed and dissected for an audience that is not the people who shared those experiences to begin with. That said, Dr. Daniel does an excellent job dissecting the classic and maligned TG album. Each track gets its own chapter, of course, and the chapters are filled with recent interviews with various members of TG about the songs and their processes of creation. Daniel relies on his own encyclopedic knowledge of music, history, and art -- not to mention an uncanny ability to write clearly and specifically about music for a non-professional audience -- to fully paint the picture of this Throbbing Gristle album.

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Craig White

Funked Up And Pulled Apart!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2017

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i have owned and cherished the subject of this fascinating dissection since the day it came out, and have formed opinions on it's content over the 38 years since. are my opinions similar to those of drew daniel's? in part, but it would have been highly improbable if they were in full! 'twenty jazz funk greats' is a timeless piece of work, and the themes therein are complex, contradictory, mischievous, and at times just plain wrong, so it's a delight that the author has produced a thesis that pulls it apart to take a good look inside. and not from the standpoint of a gushing servile tribute - this record is entirely unique, even within the catalogue of t.g., so it's gratifying that the failings are illustrated just as much as the triumphs. that this was undertaken with input from the members of the group, make the whole much more impressive. as well as the deep delving into the murky depths of this record, it is written in a scholarly, but entertainingly compelling style, which to my mind is appropriate for a piece concerned with one of the most iconic, challenging and individual albums ever released! and, like the author, 'twenty jazz funk greats' is not even my favourite throbbing gristle album! someone prepared to construct a similar tribute for 'd.o.a.- the third and final report of throbbing gristle'?

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Darker Scratcher

Industrial Music für Jederman ?

Reviewed in Germany on October 20, 2014

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Das Dritte Album von "Throbbing Gristle", die als "Zerstörer der Zivilsation" "gefeiert" bzw bezeichnet wurden, hat einen recht harmlosen und verwirrenden Titel.
Natürlich werden von den 4 Mitbegründern des "Industrial" weder "Hits" noch "Funk" oder "Jazz" auf dem Album dargeboten.
Das Album ist für "TG" Verhälnisse recht zugänglich und bietet die Möglichkeit für viele
Art von Interpretationen und Hintergrundstories, die hier in diesem Buch zusammengetragen werden.
Das Album wird in das wichtigste, aber auch "schwierige" Gesamtwerk der Band eingeordnet und ihm wird somit einer
ihm "gebührender Platz" in der Musigeschichte (oder vielleicht besser) Kunstgeschichte eingeräumt.

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Volker

richtig gutes Buch über eine der besten Platten der Popmusik

Reviewed in Germany on September 30, 2014

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tolles Buch über tolle Musik. Wer diese Musik besser kennen lernen will, der findet in diesem Buch Antworten, wieso weshalb und warum Sounds so sind wie sie sind.

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