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

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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.
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Post-punk is a pretty overrated genre, but this album's amazing.
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Best track: Damaged Goods
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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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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.
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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!
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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.
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