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Mar 15, 202177-81 is a brilliant testament to their visionary impact and lasting importance.
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Mar 15, 2021Despite the omission of radio sessions and later work, this is a blistering collection of songs by a band at their peak, and a fan-set by and large without compare (the live set alone being a fantastic time machine into a world where cool bands played Mekons covers and swore a lot).
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Mar 15, 2021It’s a lot of Gang of Four, and if you’re interested at all, you probably already have a good portion of it. Still, it’s a nicely packaged set from the best years of the career of one of post-punk’s best ever bands.
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Mar 15, 2021The material on 77-81 is clearly a big bang, informing not just everything the band did after, but a lot of what other bands did, too.
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Jun 18, 2021Their political agenda from this distance is not quaint, it remains entirely relevant.
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Mar 15, 2021As a whole, 77–81 presents Gang of Four’s brilliance while putting it on context.
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The WireJun 29, 2021A box set containing their first two LPs plus demos and live tracks, provides some help in cleansing the palette while providing context for the evolution of their massively cribbed style. [Jun 2021, p.67]
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UncutMar 15, 2021Does the reissue/repacking thing properly. Forty years after they kicked-off post-punk in a blaze of punk, funk and revolutionary praxis, Gang of Four bow out with a box that deserves a place in the history books. [Apr 2021, p.38]