Gang of Four Lyrics     Like everyone from the Velvet Underground to Nick Drake, Gang of Four are one of those musical acts whose initial record sales didn't come close to equaling either their initial excellence or their continued influence. Founding members of the post-punk movement, Gang of Four formed in Leeds, England and came up with an inflammatory fusion of focused punk rock energy, stiff funk rhythms, blistering guitar feedback and intellectual lyrics that brimmed over with complex political and social theory (for example, one key track, "Damaged Goods" shows how the vocabulary of commerce has even transformed how we think about romantic entanglements). Entertainment, their brilliant 1979 debut hasn't lost any of its power over the decades, and while it remains Gang of Four's masterwork, they continued to create vital music. Their 1981 follow-up Solid Gold, is only slightly less powerful and contained the "birth of FM alt radio" staples "What We All Want" and "Cheeseburger." The album was quickly followed by Songs of the Free, a brave ?û and successful -- change in direction. More complex song structures and less of a punk/funk influence informed the album's sound while the lyrics (except for the bitingly sarcastic New Wave disco staple "I Love A Man In A Uniform") were more sorrowful on the subject of modern man's isolation than they were scathing. When bassist Dave Allen left the band, the gang of three softened up for Hard, an agit-pop reconfiguring of Roxy Music and Chic's swank musical universe. While the 1983 album is hardly essential listening, it does feature the excellent single "Is It Love," and the under appreciated track "Woman Town." The album was harshly criticized as a post-punk sellout (you'd think no one had ever heard New Order's single "Thieves Like Us," for Pete's sake) and Gang of Four folded soon after its release. Key members Jon King and Andy Gill reformed the band for 1991's Mall, which retained the same high quality musical and lyrical ideas as before but was missing the all-important element of pop craftsmanship that the band previously employed (there's a reason Entertainment, and not PIL's Metal Box, is the sound of today's crossover indie rock). By the late 1990s, kids not even born when Entertainment was released began getting signed to major labels with music that sounded an awful lot like the Gang of Four. This prompted the original band members to reform and headline a heralded, sold-out 2005 tour across Europe and the U.S. Gang of Four is currently working on a new album. Download Gang of Four MP3s here Buy rare Gang of Four vinyl records, CDs and rare music albums: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century Entertainment Hard Hard/solid Gold I Love A Man In A Uniform    Is It Love Money Talks Shrinkwrapped Solid Gold    Songs Of The Free Tattoo To Hell With Poverty What We All Want

Gang of Four Song Lyric: Of The Instant Who owns what you do? Who owns what you use? This land is your land This land is my land Right now to touch flesh is real Let us think only of the instant There was something that I can’t remember Did you say I’ve had enough? We are in a happy state It all comes to those who wait While others plot the fate of nations We spent the afternoons in an embrace Somehow, you can’t block it out The bitter taste of interference We still try to construct the difference The space between a word and it’s sense We, it seems, can own ourselves In imagination Then you say, we make our own world Not everyone takes what they are given If we believe what we are saying We have the chance to include ourselves out Who owns what you do? Who owns what you use? Then you say, we make our own world Not everyone takes what they are given There was something that I can’t remember Did you say I’ve had enough? There was something that I can’t remember We have the chance to include ourselves out Get This Ringtone 5. 45 Anthrax At Home He’s a Tourist Call Me Up Contract Damaged Goods Ether Glass Guns Before Butter I Found That Essence Rare I Love a Man in a Uniform I Will Be a Good Boy It is Not Enough Life, It’s a Shame Muscle for Brains Natural’s Not in It Not Great Men Of The Instant Return The Gift The History of The World

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