Gang of Four / Entertainment! (remastered, expanded reissue) Жанр: College Rock, Post-Punk, New Wave Носитель: CD Страна-производитель диска (релиза): USA Год издания: 2005 (1979) Издатель (лейбл): Warner Bros. / Rhino Номер по каталогу: R2 78428 Страна исполнителя (группы): UK Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks+.cue Продолжительность: 01:07:21 Источник: собственный рип Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
01. Ether 03:51 02. Natural’s Not in It 03:06 03. Not Great Men 03:07 04. Damaged Goods 03:27 05. Return the Gift 03:07 06. Guns Before Butter 03:46 07. I Found That Essence Rare 03:14 08. Glass 02:29 09. Contract 02:41 10. At Home He’s a Tourist 03:30 11. 5-45 03:43 12. Anthrax 04:29 13. Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time [bonus track] 03:16 14. He’d Send In the Army [bonus track] 03:42 15. It’s Her Factory [bonus track] 03:10 16. Armalite Rifle [bonus track] 02:52 17. Guns Before Butter (Alternate Version) [bonus track] 04:26 18. Contract (Alternate Version) [bonus track] 02:49 19. Blood Free (Live) [bonus track] 03:17 20. Sweet Jane (Live) [bonus track] (Lou Reed) 03:20 All songs composed by Go4 except for 20
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Rhino reissues the 1979 post-punk classic, adding the Yellow EP and four previously unreleased tracks Gang of Four were a pop band. Their funk was no less stark or forbidding than, say, the more astringent Timbaland productions. They certainly weren’t as twitchy, speedy, or noisy as James Brown at his most energized. Their great innovation—Andy Gill’s morse code guitar, as if playing a riff for more than a few bars caused him physical pain—is post-punk’s most ripped-off idea after badly played disco drums. They had attitude, energy, the big beat, skilled players funneling their virtuosity into the necessary notes, a handy way with a catch phrase, and sweaty live performances. Sounds like pop to me. They formed in 1977 as part of a scene surrounding Leeds University’s fine arts department that also included the Mekons and the Au Pairs. They were art students who named themselves after the Maoists that ran China until the leader’s death in 1976. But they bonded over pub rockers Dr. Feelgood and ’70s British blues band Free, exactly the sort of dinosaur hard rock post-punk was supposed to have purged in its own Cultural Revolution. The seeming contradiction, at least in terms of the Good Music Society the music press was constructing at the time, might have explained their sound, which critic Simon Reynolds described as a “checked and inhibited hard rock: cock rock [with] the cock lopped off.” Andy Gill kept his guitar chilly, without the blanket of fuzz provided by effects pedals and the agreeable tone of valve amps. Blues riffs do crop up, but it’s almost as if Gill is playing against his technique, scattering them like fishes in a pond with a scrabble of notes. He rarely engages in anything like a solo, the ejaculation part of cock rock. Gill’s playing approaches rock drama through dynamics. On “Return the Gift” he’s a shrill S-O-S pattern underneath the weight of Dave Allen’s bass on the choruses, a flinty, almost Derek Bailey-like anti-solo. On “(Love Like) Anthrax,” he sounds like he’s trying to split concrete with a garden spade on a congested street. The guitars on “Natural’s Not in It” are actually kind of sexy, in an uncomfortable frottage sort of way. The band says they were trying to get Allen to play a “quarter of the notes he was actually capable of playing,” which must be a pretty alarming number given his busyness on tracks like “Damaged Goods.” The bass is the only fluid part of Go4’s sound, and even that’s more croaky than bubbling. On “Ether” there’s no bassline to speak of, just big bullfrog gulps as the guitar clangs, bell-like, and a sinister high-noon melodica whistles in the distance. Drummer Hugo Burnham played funk beats and disco snare crashes but with all the reverb stripped off so that they splashed like alcohol. He’s the band’s secret weapon, and stuff like the hard snare crack that sounds like a handclap on “Not Great Men” is often what makes a song. When they all locked in, as on “I Found That Essence Rare,” the effect is like stuffing 10 pounds of funk into a five-pound bag. Emotionally, however, Entertainment! is a brick. Like a black hole, no romanticism escapes it. Hints of black humor (especially in the artwork) creep into the band’s aesthetic without overwhelming it. Relationships are reduced to “contract(s) in our mutual interest.” Jon King often sings in the first person, implicating himself before anyone else: “I can't work / I can’t achieve”; “how can I sit and eat my tea with all that blood flowing from the television?” Out of one speaker, Gill drones the production details of the love song like a bored copywriter on “Anthrax,” concluding “we just don’t think what goes on between two people should be shrouded in mystery.” Out of the other speaker, King moans that he “feel(s) like a beetle on its back / And there’s no way for me to get up.” Hardly head over heels, Go4 continually recast “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as a death grip dragging you under. Go4 interrogated everything, including the band itself, with the kind of rigor only middle-class white art students can afford. But then they were a very English band, very much of a moment where being politically active precluded any sort of irony. (And besides, Bush / Blair may be as scary as Reagan / Thatcher, but Bloc Party aren’t scrapping with Nazis at every other show.) Not for nothing was the band that really took their sound into the mainstream, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, hardly models of good Marxist propriety. Even the recent, more stylistically faithful post-punk revival bands wouldn’t poo-poo a love song. It would have been interesting to imagine Gang of Four as not just a pop band but as proper pop stars, because they would have been the driest pop stars ever. But instead, they refused to change a lyric the BBC found offensive for a planned Top of the Pops appearance, which effectively sunk their chart hopes. By the time they were ready to insert tongue-in-ass, no one wanted to hear their too slick take on what constituted “pop.” Sometimes the people really do want it raw. Though they once might have looked askance at becoming an institution (of sorts), at least you can once again easily buy one of the great rock albums, now expanded with eight additional tracks. Anyone who says it’s played out is a douchebag who deserves his Medium Medium records and willful obscurity. And that’s one thing that I don’t want to catch. (Jess Harvell, Pitchfork, published 11. 05.2005) https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3389-entertainment/
One of the most influential and groundbreaking bands to rise from the British punk scene in the late ’70s, Gang of Four took the freedoms and possibilities presented by punk and brought them to wild and unexpected places, both musically and philosophically. Gang of Four’s music fused tough funk rhythms, jagged shards of metallic guitar, and lyrics that filtered Marxist theory through the realities of daily life into a sound that bore little resemblance to any other group when they released their debut album, Entertainment!, in 1979. The LP received triumphant reviews from critics and was a surprise hit in the U.K., while their third album, 1982’s Songs of the Free, gave them a commercial breakthrough in the United States as the single “I Love a Man in a Uniform” gained airplay on college radio and open-minded R&B stations. Gang of Four folded after 1983’s Hard, but founders Andy Gill and Jon King periodically re-formed the band in the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s for touring and recording projects that kept their singular sound alive. Gang of Four's music was a key influence on a diverse variety of musicians, including Fugazi, Franz Ferdinand, and Nirvana, while the ferocious but intelligent tone of their lyrics and their rejection of empty sloganeering would inform the outlook of any number of thoughtful post-punk groups. Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill and vocalist Jon King first met as teenagers while they were attending Sevenoaks School in Greater London; they were both keen on art studies and played music with friends, favoring reggae. In 1977, Gill and King were students at Leeds University, where a lively music scene had sprung up around groups like the Mekons and Delta 5. Eager to form a new band, they recruited fellow Leeds student Hugo Burnham to play drums, and found bassist Dave Allen through an ad they placed, describing themselves as a “fast R&B band.” From the beginning, the band’s sound was unusual, with Burnham and Allen playing a bruising variation on James Brown and Parliament/Funkadelic grooves and Gill chopping out staccato guitar patterns that incorporated clouds of noise and stark dynamics, while King’s vocals dealt with the politics of daily lives, less concerned with slogans than with a clever but streetwise analysis of how systems and economics affected the lives of nearly everyone. Named after a faction of the Chinese Communist Party who were cited for their abuse of power during the Cultural Revolution, Gang of Four made their debut in 1977, and in June 1978 they recorded their first single, a three-song 7" released by the independent Fast Product label featuring the songs “Damaged Goods,” “Love Like Anthrax,” and “Armalite Rifle.” The single received enthusiastic reviews when it was released late in the year, and major labels came calling, with EMI signing the band for the U.K. and Europe while Warner Bros. would handle their releases in North America. EMI released Gang of Four’s second single, “At Home He’s a Tourist” b/w “It’s Her Factory,” in May 1979, and while the BBC banned it from airplay due to a lyrical reference to condoms (the band’s refusal to change the lyrics also kept them off Top of the Pops), it still charted in the U.K. Top 60, and when their first full-length album, Entertainment!, appeared the following September, it rose to 45 in the U.K. album charts, an impressive showing given the uncompromising nature of their music. Critics on both sides of the Atlantic were impressed, and the group set out on well-received tours of North America, Britain, and Europe. In March 1981, Gang of Four released their second album, the more contemplative Solid Gold, which became their first LP to chart in the United States, peaking at 190 on the album charts, while the track “What We All Want” also appeared on the Club Play chart. By the time the album was released, Dave Allen had dropped out of the band (he would go on to form Shriekback); Busta Jones, who had previously worked with Talking Heads and George Clinton, briefly took over for live work before Sara Lee (who had worked with Robert Fripp’s League of Gentlemen) became GoF’s official bassist. Lee’s first album with the band, 1982’s Songs of the Free, was slightly more accessible than their previous work without robbing the sound of its power; one of the tracks, “I Love a Man in a Uniform,” received extensive club and college radio play, and its slinky rhythms even led to it being played on commercial R&B radio. GoF toured extensively in support, and were the first act to take the stage at the 1982 Us Festival, a massive music and technology event financed by Apple Computers co-founder Steve Wozniak. While Songs of the Free broke Gang of Four to a larger audience in the United States, it happened as friction arose in the group, and Hugo Burnham left the band in early 1983. For their fourth album, 1983’s Hard, a drum machine took Burnham’s place, while session musicians augmented GoF’s lineup and Howard Albert and Ron Albert (who had previously worked with the Bee Gees) produced the sessions. Steve Goulding, who had kept time for Graham Parker & the Rumour, played drums on the band’s subsequent tour, which was documented on the 1984 album At the Palace, which was not released in the United States. Shortly afterwards, Gang of Four called it quits. They didn’t stay inactive for long; in 1987, Gill and King began making music together again, and in 1991 they released a Gang of Four album, Mall, a dance-friendly effort dominated by synthesizers and featuring Gail Ann Dorsey on bass. A variety of session musicians accompanied Gill and King on 1995’s Shrinkwrapped, a more aggressive set than Mall; in 1997, they once again retired the Gang of Four banner, and King dropped out of the music business for a while. In 1998, Rhino Records released 100 Flowers Bloom, a career-spanning two-CD anthology that was compiled and annotated with the participation of Andy Gill, Dave Allen, and Hugo Burnham. As more and more bands acknowledged Gang of Four’s influence, interest in their music grew, and in 2004 the original lineup of Gill, King, Allen, and Burnham reunited for an international concert tour. Demand was such that they hit the road again in 2005, and later that year they signed with V2 Records and released Return the Gift, in which they re-recorded 14 songs from their first three albums (the musicians insisted they were never happy with the drum sounds on their early releases). In 2006, Burnham bowed out of Gang of Four, and Mark Heaney signed on as their drummer. Two years later, Dave Allen also left the lineup, with Thomas McNeice taking over on bass. The band returned to the recording studio, and 2011’s Content became their first album of original material since Shrinkwrapped. The group toured extensively in support, but in 2012 King departed Gang of Four, and John “Gaoler” Sterry took over as lead vocalist. By the time the 2015 album What Happens Next was released, Mark Heaney was no longer working with Gang of Four, and Heaney and Jonny Finnegan both contributed drum tracks on the set. Alison Mosshart of the Kills and the Dead Weather, Robbie Furze of the Big Pink, and Gail Ann Dorsey all contributed vocals to the album. In April 2018, Gang of Four dropped a four-song EP, Complicit, produced by Ben Hillier; the EP included the topical track “Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have).” A year later, the group released a full-length album, Happy Now, which included new drummer Tobias Humble. The release was followed by an extensive tour of North America. (Mark Deming, AllMusic)
Entertainment! is one of those records where germs of influence can be traced through many genres and countless bands, both favorably and unfavorably. From groups whose awareness of genealogy spreads wide enough to openly acknowledge Gang of Four’s influence (Fugazi, Rage Against the Machine), to those not in touch with their ancestry enough to realize it (rap-metal, some indie rock)—all have appropriated elements of their forefathers’ trailblazing contribution. Its vaguely funky rhythmic twitch, its pungent, pointillistic guitar stoccados, and its spoken/shouted vocals have all been picked up by many. Lyrically, the album was apart from many of the day, and it still is. The band rants at revisionist history in “Not Great Men” (“No weak men in the books at home”), self-serving media and politicians in “I Found That Essence Rare” (“The last thing they’ll ever do? / Act in your interest”), and sexual politics in “Damaged Goods” (“You said you’re cheap but you’re too much”). Though the brilliance of the record thrives on the faster material—especially the febrile first side—a true highlight amongst highlights is the closing “Anthrax,” full of barely controlled feedback squalls and moans. It’s nearly psychedelic, something post-punk and new wave were never known for. With a slight death rattle and plodding bass rumble, Jon King equates love with disease and admits to feeling “like a beetle on its back.” In the background, Andy Gill speaks in monotone of why Gang of Four doesn’t do love songs. Subversive records of any ilk don’t get any stronger, influential, or exciting than this. (Andy Kellman, AllMusic)
Dave Allen: bass Hugo Burnham: drums Andy Gill: guitar, vocals Jon King: vocals, melodica Produced by Andy Gill, Jon King, Rob Warr, Rick Walton
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