Noise for Music's Sake
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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
Disc two
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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" | Utopia Banished Demo | 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
- Dan Tobin – compiling
- Mick Kenney – cover illustration, booklet
- Dom Lawson – liner notes
- Mick Usher – Napalm Death family tree
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