This reissue of The Second Annual Report is a must-have if you're a fan of the record -
Remastered by Chris Carter, the sound on this is more detailed than on the previous edition, and it's like hearing the thing for the first time all over again.
Included in this set is a second disc with live recordings (mainly from 1977) that work very well alongside the original album - Forced Entry and Tesco Disco especially are both atmospheric (in a typically awful way). Plus there's also United and Zyklon B Zombie (the versions from the single).
The set is well packaged, with a short sleevenote by Cosey Fanni Tutti from 1990 - not sure why they couldn't get on their Apple laptops and pen some new sleevenotes? Still, it's good to know there's a connection between Throbbing Gristle, and - of all people - Billy Idol.
Some good pictures are reproduced in the booklet - my favourite one being (presumably from around 1977) of the band in a hotel room, with Genesis P-Orridge looking inexplicably like a member of a mod revival band, or a member of Beady Eye.