Gang Of Four - Entertainment! (1979)@flac

"Gang of Four is the first rock band I could truly relate to. The first to make me want to go crazy and dance and fuck and feel like I was a part of something really cool.
I remember the first time I heard the Entertainment! record, listening to the razor-sharp rhythms, looking at the anti-fat white pig album cover and then busting into a fit of violent spasmic dancing. The little Flea's mind was blown. It completely changed the way I looked at rock music and sent me on my trip as a bass player. Unlike any contemporary rock music I had heard before it was really fucking art... like a big Man Ray photograph jumping up and doing the watusi or something.
The electricity and inventiveness of their first few records is something any rock group should grovel to attain, and I hear their influence everywhere. It made me laugh to hear the guy from U2 talk about his guitar influences being old bluesmen. I thought, Hey, you dipshit, what about Andy Gill? I hear their influence on really great bands, too, like Fugazi and Jane's Addiction.
Gill's guitar playing on 'Anthrax' is a rare example of non-retro psychedelia and the groove laid down by the Burnham-Gill-Allen-King connection on 'Not Great Men' is the first thing I put on my turntable to show somebody what shaped the sound of the rookie Red Hot Chili Peppers. These limeys rocked my world"
-Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

01. Ether [3:51]
02. Natural's Not In It [3:06]
03. Not Great Men [3:05]
04. Damaged Goods [3:27]
05. Return The Gift [3:05]
06. Guns Before Butter [3:47]
07. I Found That Essence Rare [3:13]
08. Glass [2:28]
09. Contract [2:39]
10. At Home He's A Tourist [3:30]
11. 5.45 [3:43]
12. Anthrax [4:24]
13. Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time [3:27]
14. He'd Send In The Army [3:40]
15. It's Her Factory [3:08]
Vocals - Jon King
Guitar - Andy Gill
Bass - Dave Allen
Drums - Hugo Burnham

Liner Notes – Flea, Michael Stipe, Tad Doyle
Tracks 1-12 from the "Entertainment!" LP released in 1979.
Tracks 13-15 from the EP "Gang Of Four" released in 1980.

Label: EMI
Released: 1995
Catalogue: 7243 8 32146 2 4
Codec: Flac
Compression Level: 8
Quality: High
CD-rip by alekow (EAC and Flac)
Covers Included (600dpi)