The Second Annual Report is an album by the industrial music

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 group Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...

. A combination of live and studio songs, the album was originally released on 12" vinyl in 1977, and later pressed to CD, with additional tracks, in 1991.

The vinyl edition went through several pressings. Industrial Records

Industrial Records

Industrial Records was a record label established in 1976 by art/music group Throbbing Gristle. The group, fronted by Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, and Peter Christopherson, were to release their experiments in non-entertainment sound and multimedia through the label; in...

's original pressing totaled 785 copies, while Fetish Records pressed 2,000 copies. Fetish would press the album twice more after the original Industrial Records master plates were destroyed. The third edition was included in the five-album Throbbing Gristle box set; the album was recut to play backwards and included a chamber orchestra on the track "After Cease to Exist". The Fetish plates were reused to cut pressings made by Mute Records

Mute Records

Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...

 and Celluloid Records

Celluloid Records

Celluloid Records, a French/American record label, founded by Jean Georgakarakos operated from 1976 to 1989 in New York, and produced a series of eclectic and ground-breaking releases, particularly in the early to late 1980s, largely under the auspices of de facto in-house producer Bill...

, the latter of which was supposedly released without the band's permission. (At the very least, the Celluloid issue is known to have poor sound quality.)

In 2008, a limited edition titled The Thirty-Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle was released in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the release The Second Annual Report, as well as to mark the official re-activation of the Industrial Records label. The 12" 180gm vinyl LP comprises a recording of Throbbing Gristle's live performance at La Villette in Paris on June 6, 2008, which was a reinterpretation of their original album, and is limited to 777 copies. This album is pre-framed in bespoke, high-quality white gloss acrylic with an easy access clear window for removal of the record/sleeve so that the buyer can play the album and then reseal it in the frame. Accompanying the packaged vinyl is a special "black" extended CD version, which includes extra tracks that would not fit on the LP format. There is a version of the recording available for download, but the track lengths are different from the vinyl edition.

12" vinyl

Side A

1. "Industrial Introduction" - 1:04
2. "Slug Bait – ICA" - 4:20
3. "Slug Bait – Live at Southampton" - 2:45
4. "Slug Bait – Live at Brighton" - 1:10
5. "Maggot Death – Live at Rat Club" - 2:59
6. "Maggot Death – Studio" - 4:34
7. "Maggot Death – Southampton" - 1:37
8. "Maggot Death – Brighton" - 0:57

Side B

1. "After Cease to Exist – The Original Soundtrack of the Coum Transmissions Film" - 20:19

CD release

1. "Industrial Introduction" - 1:05
2. "Slug Bait – ICA" - 4:21
3. "Slug Bait – Live At Southampton" - 2:46
4. "Slug Bait – Live At Brighton" - 1:19
5. "Maggot Death – Live At Rat Club" - 2:50
6. "Maggot Death – Studio" - 4:35
7. "Maggot Death – Southampton" - 1:37
8. "Maggot Death – Brighton" - 0:57
9. "After Cease to Exist – The Original Soundtrack to the Coum Transmissions Film" - 20:19
10. "Zyklon B Zombie
    United/Zyklon B Zombie
    United/Zyklon B Zombie is a 7" vinyl single by industrial group Throbbing Gristle. The original pressing by Industrial Records had cream centre labels with very blurred Death Factory Logo and picture sleeve...
    
    " - 3:52
11. "United
    United/Zyklon B Zombie
    United/Zyklon B Zombie is a 7" vinyl single by industrial group Throbbing Gristle. The original pressing by Industrial Records had cream centre labels with very blurred Death Factory Logo and picture sleeve...
    
    " - 4:05

12" vinyl

Side A

1. "Slug Bait" (6:40)
2. "Slug Bait" (8:16)
3. "Slug Bait" (2:33)
4. "Maggot Death" (4:40)

Side B

1. "After Cease to Exist" (20:33)

CD

1. "Industrial Introduction" (2:04)
2. "Slug Bait" (7:28)
3. "Slug Bait" (8:16)
4. "Slug Bait" (2:33)
5. "Maggot Death" (5:00)
6. "Maggot Death" (8:10)
7. "Maggot Death" (7:02)
8. "After Cease to Exist" (20:23)
9. "Zyklon B Zombie" (6:42)