Great album covers: Throbbing Gristle's "20 Jazz Funk Greats"

Talk about misleading indeed! Anyone who knows Throbbing Gristle just a wee bit knows that they were anything but an easy listen at all, and some of their stuff was damn near unlistenable. Obviously the original pioneers of industrial noise (as in the original industrial and the noise aspect of that particular genre), Nothing in their repertoire would scream "hit single" in any way, but Nothing was more erronous (and on purpouse, of course) than this album from 1979. There is Nothing "jazz" or "funk" about this album nor the band itself, and there weren't 20 tracks, and... and... and just look at that cover picture - no wonder some people would be totally mislead into thinking this was an album deserving to be placed in the "easy listening" category! Anyway, I just thought that this was quite an intriguing cover and that it's "benign" style went on to influence many people including myself (see the cover art for The Impromptu Theater Noise Project" 's second album: https://www.discogs.com/The-Impromptu-Theater-Noise-Project-Return-Of-The-Impromptu-Noise-Theater-Project/release/12246313)


Anyway while I thought of sharing this album cover, I wanted to take the opportunity to also share this one:

Also done in a similar vein of "20 Jazz Funk Greats", their "Best Of" compilation doesn't scream any "top 40 hits" at all, but did feature a very nice collection of the band's repertoire, and serves as a good starting point, or reference point, to a broad variant of styles the band explored up until then.