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

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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

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Applerill Autistic Princess <3 Profile
Location: Chicago

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

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Location: Durham, NC, USA

Best track: Damaged Goods
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Le_Samurai

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.

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Location: Paris

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.

Norman Bates Profile
Location: Paris, France

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?

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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?

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!

Necharsian Best Ever User Profile

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.

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9/10

A post-punk classic

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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?

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