Noise for Music's Sake

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

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.	Title	Album	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.	Title	Album	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"	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[]

Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals
Mitch Harris – guitar
Jesse Pintado – guitar
Shane Embury – bass, compiling
Danny Herrera – drums
Nicholas Bullen – vocals, bass
Mick Harris – drums
Justin Broadrick – guitar
Bill Steer – guitar (disc 2, 22–24)
Lee Dorrian – vocals (disc 2, 21–24)
Jim Whiteley – bass

Technical personnel[]

Dan Tobin – compiling
Mick Kenney – cover illustration, booklet
Dom Lawson – liner notes
Mick Usher – Napalm Death family tree

References[]

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

[allmusicrev-1] Birchmeier, Jason. Napalm Death: Noise for Music's Sake > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

[metalforgerev-2] Milburn, Simon (8 January 2005). "Napalm Death - Noise For Music's Sake". The Metal Forge. Sumner, Queensland. Retrieved 18 January 2015.

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Shane Embury Mitch Harris Danny Herrera Barney Greenway Nicholas Bullen Lee Dorrian Justin Broadrick Frank Healy Bill Steer Jesse Pintado Miles Ratledge Mick Harris Jim Whitely
Studio albums	Scum From Enslavement to Obliteration Harmony Corruption Utopia Banished Fear, Emptiness, Despair Diatribes Inside the Torn Apart Words from the Exit Wound Enemy of the Music Business Order of the Leech The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code Smear Campaign Time Waits for No Slave Utilitarian Apex Predator – Easy Meat Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
Live albums	Live Corruption Bootlegged in Japan Punishment in Capitals The Peel Sessions/The Complete Radio One Sessions
Compilation albums	Death by Manipulation Noise for Music's Sake Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs
Extended plays	The Curse Mentally Murdered Suffer the Children Mass Appeal Madness The World Keeps Turning Nazi Punks Fuck Off Greed Killing In Tongues We Speak Breed to Breathe Tsunami Benefit Converge / Napalm Death
Video albums	Live Corruption The DVD Punishment in Capitals
Cover albums	Leaders Not Followers Leaders Not Followers: Part 2
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