1.1 Early years and Entertainment! (1976-79).David Fricke of Rolling Stone described Gang of Four as "probably the best politically motivated band in rock & roll.".
GANG OF FOUR SONGS FREE
Their early 80s albums ( Songs of the Free and Hard) found them softening some of their more jarring qualities, and drifting towards dance-punk and disco. In 2004, the album was listed by Pitchfork Media as the 8th best album of the 1970s and, in 2020, by Pop Matters as "Best Post Punk album ever". Their debut album, Entertainment!, was ranked by Rolling Stone as the fifth greatest punk album of all time and at number 483 in their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Gang of Four are widely considered one of the leading bands of the late 1970s/early 1980s post-punk movement. The band played a stripped-down mix of punk rock, funk and dub, with a lyrical emphasis on the social and political ills of society. Between 20 the original line-up was reunited Gill toured using the name between 2012 and his death in 2020. After a brief lull in the 1980s, different constellations of the band recorded two studio albums in the 1990s. There have been many different line-ups including, among other notable musicians, Sara Lee, Mark Heaney and Gail Ann Dorsey. The original members were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. Noise11.Gang of Four is an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Leeds. Sekar Melati – Not Great Men (live version) (Japan) Killing Joke x Gang of Four – Forever Starts Now (Killing Joke Dub) (UK)ĥ. Hardcore Raver in Tears – Last Mile** (China)Ĥ. The Sounds – I Love a Man in a Uniform (Sweden)ģ. Flea & John Frusciante – Not Great Men (USA)Ģ. The Dandy Warhols – What We All Want (USA)ġ. Dado Villa-Lobos – Return the Gift (Brazil)Ĥ. Everything Everything – Natural’s Not in It (UK)ģ. Alex Silva – I Love a Man in a Uniform (Germany)Ģ. Gail Ann Dorsey – We Live as We Dream, Alone (USA)ģ. Nova Twins – Where the Nightingale Sings (Redux) (UK)Ģ. Tom Morello & Serj Tankian – Natural’s Not in It (USA)Ĥ. The complete track listing is as follows:Ģ. So I just continued with Andy’s wishlist and pursued musicians after his death and got it up to 20 tracks, a double album”. At the point he died there were more than enough tracks for one album but so many it was already looking like a double album and there was the wishlist there. Again, another reason I could never shelve this. Yeah, Andy was still working on it and still very excited by it. Damien sent us the different possible designs while Andy was in hospital. The amazing artwork for the album was by Damien Hirst. He kept getting me to bring in external hard-drives that he could plug-in so that he could listen to tracks that came in while he was in hospital. When he went into hospital he actually delayed the ambulance for me to run inside to get his computer and his noise cancelling headphones. “He was the most hands on person you could possibly imagine about everything,” Catherine says. It is absolutely a tribute to Andy and a tribute to Gang of Four and the power of Gang of Four songwriting and Gang of Four’s extraordinary influence on music”.Īndy put storyboard for this project well into play before Andy passed away. It was something that obsessed him for the past two years of his life and that is how it came into being. I just thought I have to finish this for him. “It was only after he died and so many of the tracks were already in and he had a wishlist of other people he was going to approach. “Andy was the only member of the band who was in it from its beginnings in the late 1970s right through to when he died in February 2020,” Catherine says. Guitarist and singer Jon King left in 2012 to pursue a media career. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea and John Frusiante covered ‘Not Great Men’, La Roux ‘Damaged Goods’, Helmet ‘In The Ditch’, Gary Numan ‘Love Like Anthrax’.Īndy was the only original Gang of Four member still with the band at the time of his death.
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