Gang of Four: 77-81 (Vinyl LP)
Matador Records
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Limited box containing five vinyl LPs, cassette, 100 page hardbound book, and two badges. Features remasters of the albums Entertainment! And Solid Gold plus an LP of non-album singles, a previously unreleased live album on two LPs, and a cassette containing 26 previously unreleased tracks. It also marks the first official publication of their lyrics. Gang of Four was formed in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punk's blunt and explosive energies - favoring tense rhythms, percussive guitars, and lyrics that traded in Marxist theory and situationism. Even now, 45 years after the birth of the band, Gang of Four's music has endured as a formative influence, not only to subsequent generations of musicians, but also activists, writers, and visual artists. Ether, Natural's Not in It, Not Great Men, Damaged Goods, Return the Gift, Guns Before Butter, I Found That Essence Rare, Glass, Contract, At Home He's a Tourist, 5.45, Love Like Anthrax, Paralysed, What We All Want, If I Could Keep It for Myself, Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time, Why Theory?, Cheeseburger, The Republic, In the Ditch, A Hole in the Wallet He'd Send in the Army, To Hell with Poverty, It's Her Factory, Armalite Rifle, Capital (It Fails Us Now), History's Bunk!, Cheeseburger (Live), What We All Want (Live), Not Great Men, Contract, Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time, Damaged Goods, He'd Send in the Army, Guns Before Butter, 5.45, Anthrax, It's Her Factory, Ether, Natural's Not in It, At Home He's a Tourist, Rosanne, Return the Gift, Glass
Limited box containing five vinyl LPs, cassette, 100 page hardbound book, and two badges. Features remasters of the albums Entertainment! And Solid Gold plus an LP of non-album singles, a previously unreleased live album on two LPs, and a cassette containing 26 previously unreleased tracks. It also marks the first official publication of their lyrics. Gang of Four was formed in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punk's blunt and explosive energies - favoring tense rhythms, percussive guitars, and lyrics that traded in Marxist theory and situationism. Even now, 45 years after the birth of the band, Gang of Four's music has endured as a formative influence, not only to subsequent generations of musicians, but also activists, writers, and visual artists. Ether, Natural's Not in It, Not Great Men, Damaged Goods, Return the Gift, Guns Before Butter, I Found That Essence Rare, Glass, Contract, At Home He's a Tourist, 5.45, Love Like Anthrax, Paralysed, What We All Want, If I Could Keep It for Myself, Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time, Why Theory?, Cheeseburger, The Republic, In the Ditch, A Hole in the Wallet He'd Send in the Army, To Hell with Poverty, It's Her Factory, Armalite Rifle, Capital (It Fails Us Now), History's Bunk!, Cheeseburger (Live), What We All Want (Live), Not Great Men, Contract, Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time, Damaged Goods, He'd Send in the Army, Guns Before Butter, 5.45, Anthrax, It's Her Factory, Ether, Natural's Not in It, At Home He's a Tourist, Rosanne, Return the Gift, Glass