| Product Summary | | Label: Warner -- A.d.a. -- | | UPC: 00075992644822 | | Release Date: 11/6/1990 | | Buy.com Sku: 60266291 | | Item#: MTSSFK | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25332 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. At Home He's A Tourist ~ Gang Of Four |  | | 2. Damaged Goods ~ Gang Of Four | | | 3. Natural's Not In It ~ Gang Of Four | | | 4. Not Great Men ~ Gang Of Four | | | 5. Anthrax ~ Gang Of Four | | | 6. Return The Gift ~ Gang Of Four | | | 7. It's Her Factory ~ Gang Of Four | | | 8. What We All Want - (live) ~ Gang Of Four | | | 9. Paralysed ~ Gang Of Four | | | 10. Hole In The Wallet, A ~ Gang Of Four | | | 11. Cheeseburger ~ Gang Of Four | | | 12. To Hell With Poverty! ~ Gang Of Four | | | 13. Capital (It Fails Us Now) ~ Gang Of Four | | | 14. Call Me Up ~ Gang Of Four | | | 15. I Will Be A Good Boy ~ Gang Of Four | | | 16. History Of The World, The ~ Gang Of Four | | | 17. I Love A Man In A Uniform ~ Gang Of Four | | | 18. Is It Love ~ Gang Of Four | | | 19. Womantown ~ Gang Of Four | | | 20. We Live As We Dream, Alone ~ Gang Of Four | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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. |
Musical Guests | | Alyson Williams |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/06/1990 | | Original Release Date : 1990 | | Catalog ID : 26448 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 76m : 58s | | Studio/Live : Mixed | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00075992644822 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (2/04, p.118)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]hey still sound contemporary, especially on daring breakthrough moment 'At Home He's A Tourist'."Uncut (2/04, pp.84-5)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "Few Groups were more conscious, more vigilant, more keenly aware than Gang of Four....It's bracing to hear this cold, acid shower once more." Mojo (Publisher)
(2/04, p.114)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is a serviceable comp....[With] good non-album stuff too..." |
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