Gang of Four

Forget about all the indie bands that ape the Gang of Four. What's really important is that this 1979 debut is still as resonant and powerful as ever. White funk rhythms, blasts of off-kilter guitar, and lyrics that matter-of-factly show how the rules of commerce have conquered our personal lives. (OK, professor -- this always rocks!) This version adds three cuts.

Entertainment! isn't just the best debut album by a British band – punk or otherwise –
since the original English release of The Clash in 1977. Nor is it simply a fierce, emotionally
taut dramatization of youth's loss of innocence as seen through the clouded lens of
neo-Marxist dogma and ambitiously obscure free verse. Stripped of its own pretensions and
the burden of sociopolitical relevance forced on it by a knee-jerk leftist English... More >