Other Mixes By Rob Conroy
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The happy ever after is at the end of the rainbow
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| Gang of Four |
Damaged Goods 
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Anthrax
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Armalite Rifle
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| Gang of Four |
At Home He's a Tourist
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| Gang of Four |
Ether
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| Gang of Four |
Natural's Not in It
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| Gang of Four |
Not Great Men
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| Gang of Four |
Guns Before Butter
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| Gang of Four |
I Found That Essence Rare
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| Gang of Four |
Glass
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| Gang of Four |
Contract
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| Gang of Four | Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time [Yellow e.p.] | |
| Gang of Four | He'd Send in the Army [Yellow e.p.] | |
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What We All Want
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| Gang of Four |
Paralysed
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| Gang of Four | Cheeseburger | |
| Gang of Four | In the Ditch | |
| Gang of Four |
I Love a Man in Uniform
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| Gang of Four | Call Me Up | |
| Gang of Four | It is Not Enough | |
| Gang of Four | Life! It's a Shame | |
| Gang of Four | Muscle for Brains | |
Comment:
This is a belated 80-minute compilation of the "post-punk" (God, how I'm hating that term these days, now that it's been bastardized by groups like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, the Rapture, Arcade Fire, etc., etc.) (not that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Franz Ferdiand aren't pretty decent)--group whose debut (Entertainment!), is also one of my all-time favorite records. It was actually hard to cut a single song from that record, although I did manage to ditch "Return the Gift" and "5-45" to make room for other worthy later tracks. After Entertainment!, though, things get spotty. Solid Gold is a decent follow-up, for sure, but, to me, it suffers from thin production and a lack of memorable hooks. Songs of the Free is better, but considerably different from the other two records; the political content is still there, but there are more "personal" songs and there's a more pop-/dance-oriented feel, in general. I honestly don't own anything after that, but I can't imagine (after cursory listenings to the other records when they were released) that anything from them outclasses the work that preceded it. (If I'm wrong, please feel free to name some tracks for me to revisit, should I stumble across copies of their other releases.) Last tracks cut: "It's Her Factory," "To Hell with Poverty," "If I Could Keep It for Myself," "Why Theory?" and the two Entertainment! tracks listed above.Feedback:
One of my all time favorites. Especially those first two albums. Saw them back on their first US tour. I found that essense rare.
hey man, You can't do a gang of four mix without "To Hell with Poverty," , great band anyway
I was kind of over them by the "I love a man in uniform" days, but I sure loved them before that. And this looks great.
Hey Rob. I got the expanded "Entertainment!" recently. I had forgotten how much I loved Gang of Four. This looks like a great collection of their songs.
Damaged Goods.This most certainly ain't.
Nice.
entertainment! is an awesome awesome album. i have a sentimental attachment to "return the gift" but i can forgive you. gang of four are a worthy band for a good compilation. but hey, screw the chinese gang of four, bunch of murdering suckers. you get em deng xiaoping!
In a better world than this all their singles would have been no.1.I wouldn't have ditched It's Her Factory though,it was an interesting contrast to the harsher sounds of their early stuff.This mix is a reminder that nobody does this kind of stuff anymore (unless someone knows better) and the world is all the poorer for that.
Hmmm - I like 'solid gold' much more than 'songs of the free'. but oh well. and 'to hell with poverty' is clearly a fave.
Another band I found less impressive in reality than the hype had led me to expect, but I'm planning to check out the reissue to see if I just missed out first time around. (You've already set me straight on Pere Ubu, so who knows...) Incidentally, regarding the first line of your comments: Read a great interview with Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, where she was ripping on all those bands, describing them as "sounding just like Gang of Four... if Gang of Four sucked." Though I have to say, I kinda like Interpol. "Evil" was one of the best songs of 2004, not to mention the coolest. video. ever.