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   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.

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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 lyrics

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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

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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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