Brief History of the 20th Century

Gang of Four

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Sat 8 Dec 1990

Catalogue Number: WBAD26448.2

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Description:
Gang Of Four: Andy Gill (vocals, guitar); Jon King (vocals, melodica); Hugo Burnham (vocals, drums); Sara Lee, Dave Allen (bass); Steve Goulding (drums).
Additional personnel: Jon Astrop (bass); Stevie Lange, Joy Yates, Dolette MacDonald, Edie Reader, Paula West (background vocals).
Producers include: Andy Gill, Jon King, Rob Warr, Rick Walton, Nick Launay.
Includes liner notes by Greil Marcus.
Released in 1990 to help promote a reformed Gang of Four, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE 20th CENTURY is a powerful overview of one of the best political rock groups. It is also a great introduction to the band's world-view. In this view, everything has a political context--love ("Anthrax"), the military ("I Love an Man in Uniform"), loneliness ("Call Me Up"), and, of course, history ("The History of the World")--and no one is innocent. Many of the band's high points appear: "At Home, He's a Tourist," "Damaged Goods," "To Hell With Poverty," and "We Live as We Dream, Alone."
Frequently employing a martial beat and elastic, funk-inspired bass-guitar lines overlaid with left-field squalls of noise, the Gang of Four's songs set out to convince you of things--and don't give up until you agree. For the believers and the scholars, A BRIEF HISTORY also includes an essay penned by culture/music critic Greil Marcus about experiencing the band's rise to fame first-hand.

Details:

Distributors: CEVA Logistics, EMI Operations
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2004

Track Listing:

1.	At Home Hes a Tourist
2.	Damaged Goods
3.	Naturals Not in It
4.	Not Great Men
5.	Anthrax
6.	Return the Gift
7.	Its Her Factory
8.	What We All Want - (Live)
9.	Paralysed
10.	Hole in the Wallet, A
11.	Cheeseburger
12.	To Hell with Poverty!
13.	Capital (It Fails Us Now)
14.	Call Me Up
15.	I Will Be a Good Boy
16.	History of the World, The
17.	I Love a Man in a Uniform
18.	Is It Love
19.	Womantown
20.	We Live As We Dream, Alone

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