Hard, the album release by Gang Of Four in 1983, is now available as a digital download for the first time ever.
Originally release on Vinyl, and then later reissued as part of a two-CD package along with the band's 1981 album Solid Gold, this will be many people's first chance to hear this classic album.
It’s the news fans have been waiting for. Gang of Four, the definitive punk-funk, post-punk agitators, are about to release new material. Formed in 1977 and within two years delivering their epochal ‘Damaged Goods’ debut EP and the genre-defining ‘Entertainment’ album, there’s still no other band in the world that’s quite as tight, quite as angular, quite as uncompromising. Icons and inspiration for many of the world's biggest acts (REM, U2, Rage against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers), they also serve as direct stylistic antecedents of today’s guitar heroes (step forward Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Rapture, Radio 4, Liars et al).
Through shifting line-ups and while building a canon including albums like ‘Solid Gold’, ‘Songs of the Free’and ‘Shrinkwrapped’, and keynote tracks like ‘Natural’s Not in It’ and ‘Love like Anthrax’, the key partnership of Andy Gill and Jon King endures. Gill (guitar and vocals), producer of such globe bestriding rock behemoths as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Killing Joke, Michael Hutchence, Bono, Jesus Lizard, the Futureheads and the Young Knives, has strapped on his trusty Stratocaster to provide the anguished riffs and driving chords that send extraordinary singer and lyricist King diving and contorting across the stage. They are joined in the studio and on stage by bass player Thomas Mcneice and Mark Heaney, veteran of such bands and artists as The Shining and Jacknife Lee: a drummer of surgical precision.
The band always sounded years ahead of their time and now this is their moment, with tracks featuring on films by directors such as Michael Moore and Sophia Coppola, a host of new imitators and emulators, and a fanbase swelled by new adherents.
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Hang: Pinko C. Strom: Sweet Afton Sinking Ships: Irish Wristwatch Firewater: Banghra Bros Vision of Disorder: Don't Let Me Down Blood for Blood: Goin' Down the Bar Devo: Let's Go The Keeper: Tonight We Ride Hammerfall: We're Gonna Make It Dead Scene Celebrity: Didn't You Middle Class: You Belong El Swingo: She Loli & the Chones: I Think I'm Gonna Cramps: I Ain't Nothin' but a Gorehound Scremers: I Wanna Hurt Desperate Measures: Moving On Sleeping: Don't Hold Back Shadows: A Place in the Sun The Puntice Reflection: Sky Weighed Prize Country: Nice View Elastica: Rockunroll Mohlavyr: Whatever IfIHadAHiFi: We Got the Beat Epoxies: Beat My Guest Curtis Eller's American Circus: After the Soil Fails Christian Williams: To the Trees Hopscotch Boys: Bed Ridden Old Dog Thursday: Cross Out the Eyes Soft Pink Truth: Out of Step Coconut Coolouts: Tire Shredding Madness: Razor Blade Alley Sixteen Horsepower: Cinder Alley Headliners: Sketch City Chinese: Leg Bunker Broken Social Scene: Market Fresh Hidden Number: The Sum of None Donnas: Nothing to Do Descendents: Enjoy Richard Stormy: Something Different Exploding Hearts: Throwaway Style Vexed: GWYM Diesto: Monarch Gang of Four: To Hell with Poverty Electric Hellfire Club: Unleash the Beast Quinn Scharber & the...: Latest Flame Dragstrip Riot: In Flames Quintessentials: Energy Copshootcop: Chameleon Man Lard: 70's Rock Must Die Cruxshadows: Marilyn My Bitterness Young Fresh Fellows: Black Betty Agent Orange: Blood Stains Erase Errata: Flippy Flop Beat Happening: Knick Knack
love u for so long, you rocked the electric picnic in ireland 2 years ago...would love to see ye again...any chance ye mite come back and play in dublin??xxxxx
Hi Gang of Four, Thank you for the add. I have been your fan for long time. Is it Love and Woman Town are just some of my favorites! Greetz from Tokyo, Japan!
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