1
ENTERTAINMENT!
2
Ether
3
Natural's Not In It
4
Not Great Men
5
Damaged Goods
6
Return The Gift
7
Guns Before Butter
8
I Found That Essence Rare
9
Glass
10
Contract
11
At Home He's A Tourist
12
Track 12
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Track 13
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Love Like Anthrax
15
SOLID GOLD
16
Paralysed
17
What We All Want
18
If I Could Keep It For Myself
19
Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time
20
Why Theory?
21
Cheeseburger
22
The Republic
23
In The Ditch
24
A Hole In The Wallet
25
He'd Send In The Army
26
SINGLES
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To Hell With Poverty
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It's Her Factory
29
Armalite Rifle
30
Capital (It Fails Us Now)
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History's Bunk!
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Cheeseburger (Live) *
33
What We All Want (Live) *
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*Live at Hammersmith Palais
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LIVE AT AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER 1980
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A
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Not Great Men
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A
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Contract
40
A
41
Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time
42
A
43
Damaged Goods
44
B
45
He'd Send In The Army
46
B
47
Guns Before Butter
48
B
49
Track 49
50
Track 50
51
C
52
Anthrax
53
C
54
It's Her Factory
55
C
56
Ether
57
C
58
Natural's Not In It
59
D
60
At Home He's A Tourist
61
D
62
Rosanne
63
D
64
Return The Gift
65
D
66
Glass
67
CASSETTE
68
SIDE A -THE EARLY DEMOS (VARIOUS)
69
I) REHEARSAL ROOM - LEEDS, 1977-78
70
The Things You Do
71
What You Ask For
72
Armalite Rifle
73
Love Like Anthrax
74
Silence Is Not Useful
75
Disco Sound
76
Damaged Goods
77
Elevator
78
II) CARGO DEMOS - CARGO STUDIO, ROCHDALE
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Song One
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Song Two
81
iii) THE TAPES - POLYDOR STUDIOS, JAN 1978
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Essence Rare
83
Tourist
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Return The Gift
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Track 85
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Track 86
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Corked Up With The Ether
88
SIDE B - ABBEY ROAD DEMOS
89
FROM 5TH JANUARY 1981 - (single track from cassette)
90
Why Theory
91
Cargo
92
Trains
93
Army
94
Disco/Funk
95
Dog's Breath
96
Asshole
97
Cymbal
98
Reverb
99
Cheeseburger
100
Ditch
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
Matador Records will release GANG OF FOUR: 77-81, a stunning, limited edition box set gathering Gang of Four's influential early work.The book details the history and legacy of the original Gang of Four with never before seen photos, contributions from surviving original band members, rare posters, ephemera, flyers, essays, artwork, liner notes and more. It also marks the first official publication of their lyrics.Gang of Four was formed in Leeds 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. They put every element of the traditional "rock band" format to question, from notions of harmony and rhythm to presentation and performance.This original lineup of the band released two monumental albums, Entertainment! (1979) and Solid Gold (1981). A third, Songs of the Free (1982), was recorded with bassist Sara Lee replacing Dave Allen. After Songs Of The Free, Burnham departed the band and Andy Gill and Jon King continued on to release Hard in 1983. After this release, the band broke up. In 2004, the original quartet reformed for tour dates and released Return The Gift (2005).Gill's untimely death in February 2020 was cause for many to once again re-examine the group's catalog and the legacy of these early releases was widely cited. Not only did Gang of Four's music speak to the generation of musicians, activists, writers, and visual artists that emerged in the group's immediate wake, but the generation after that. And the generation after that, even.In the last few years, their songs have continued to resonate with and been sampled by artists far afield from "post-punk," including Run the Jewels ("The Ground Below") and Frank Ocean ("Futura Free"). Now forty years since the original release of Entertainment!, Gang of Four's legacy cannot be overstated.MATADOR RECORDS - GANG OF FOUR / 77-81
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