Best Ever Albums

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

cartoken — Mon, 6 Feb 2012 04:44:53 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 02/06/2012 09:44

Norman Bates wrote:

Applerill wrote:

Post-punk is a pretty overrated genre, but this album's amazing.

I don't understand this statement, how can be a genre "overrated"? There are good and bad albums in every genre, plus "postpunk" is hardly a genre in itself, more a period of time IMO.

Anyway, I love this record. It's very good from start to fiunish. However, oddly enough, I've never bothered to listen to any other Gang of Four LPs. Are they good?

I've personally listened to 3 other albums: Solid Gold, Songs of the free and Hard. The one worth listening to is definitely Solid Gold a very good album (80/100), you can't be disappointed by this one. The other 2 are just okay albums, I wouldn't recommend them really.

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

kidamnesiac — Mon, 6 Feb 2012 02:07:29 GMT

Author: kidamnesiac

Posted: 02/06/2012 07:07

thanks again for telling us the most popular track on each album

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

DuckStab — Mon, 6 Feb 2012 01:00:47 GMT

Author: DuckStab

Posted: 02/06/2012 06:00

Norman Bates wrote:

Applerill wrote:

Post-punk is a pretty overrated genre, but this album's amazing.

Actually, I would say that post-punk is most definitely a genre.

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

DuckStab — Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:59:54 GMT

Author: DuckStab

Posted: 02/06/2012 05:59

9/10

A post-punk classic

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

Necharsian — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 23:09:19 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 02/06/2012 04:09

I've only listened to this once a while ago, and didn't really think it was anything special.

I'll have to give it another listen in the coming days.

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

Anonymous — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:46:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/05/2012 22:46

Norman Bates wrote:

Applerill wrote:

Post-punk is a pretty overrated genre, but this album's amazing.

IMHO not as good as 'Entertainment!' but don't let me put you off having a listen.

I also agree that postpunk was a period of time (ca. 1978 - 1984) rather than a specific genre as such!

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

Norman Bates — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:21:18 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/05/2012 22:21

Applerill wrote:

Post-punk is a pretty overrated genre, but this album's amazing.

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

cartoken — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:40:17 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 02/05/2012 21:40

Le_Samurai wrote:

One of my favorites and easily one of the best albums of the 70s. Really funky. Green Day could take a lesson from this album on how to write political rock. The lyrics are intelligent and interesting. Gang of Four are truly one of the most underrated bands ever. The follow up to Entertainment!, Solid Gold, is great as well.

Couldn't agree more ! Solid Gold is very good too, but far from this near perfect punk album.
should be higher in the overall chart.

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

Anonymous — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:29:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/05/2012 21:29

One of my favorites and easily one of the best albums of the 70s. Really funky. Green Day could take a lesson from this album on how to write political rock. The lyrics are intelligent and interesting. Gang of Four are truly one of the most underrated bands ever. The follow up to Entertainment!, Solid Gold, is great as well.

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

RFNAPLES — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:02:23 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 02/05/2012 21:02

Best track: Damaged Goods

Re: Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

Applerill — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:35:20 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 02/05/2012 20:35

Post-punk is a pretty overrated genre, but this album's amazing.

Album of the day (#449): Entertainment! by Gang Of Four

BestEverAlbums — Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:00:41 GMT

Author: BestEverAlbums

Posted: 02/05/2012 20:00

Today's album of the day

Entertainment! by Gang Of Four (View album)

Year: 1979.
Overall rank: 222.
Average rating: 80/100 (from 105 votes).

Tracks:
1. Ether
2. Natural's Not In It
3. Not Great Men
4. Damaged Goods
5. Return the Gift
6. Guns Before Butter
7. I Found that Essence Rare
8. Glass
9. Contract
10. At Home He's A Tourist
11. 5-45
12. Anthrax

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.