{"id":153,"date":"2006-04-19T00:31:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T05:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-04-19T00:31:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T05:31:05","slug":"gang-of-four-yellow-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/gang-of-four-yellow-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang of Four &#8212; Yellow EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gangoffourep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-653\" title=\"Gang of Four -- Yellow EP\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gangoffourep.jpg\" alt=\"Gang of Four -- Yellow EP\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Gang of Four<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Yellow EP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1980<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy \/ Mary &#8211; We both had copies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Not sure when or where. Early 1980s&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Yellow EP&#8221; is the first Gang of Four record I&#8217;m logging, but it was their second release. I should&#8217;ve pulled &#8220;Entertainment&#8221; instead, but since we&#8217;ve packed all but a couple dozen records until we get to Asheville, &#8220;Yellow&#8221; it is.<\/p>\n<p>Gang of Four is one of my all-time favorite bands. I was only 13 or 14 when this came out. Hanging out with my friend John Hurlock is probably how I first got into the band. His older brother Mike had a killer record collection and was into just about everything worth being into. This music is so edgy, political, minimalistic, and just plain arty it&#8217;s a wonder they were as popular and influential as they were. Sometimes music is just too good to be ignored, no matter how weird it is.<\/p>\n<p>Tracks included here are: &#8220;Outside The Trains Don&#8217;t Run on Time&#8221;, &#8220;He&#8217;d Send in The Army&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s Her Factory&#8221;, and my favorite &#8220;Armalite Rifle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gang_of_Four_(band)\">Read all about them at Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Gang of Four Title: Yellow EP Year: 1980 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy \/ Mary &#8211; We both had copies. Acquired: Not sure when or where. Early 1980s&#8230; Keeper: Yes &#8220;Yellow EP&#8221; is the first Gang of Four record I&#8217;m logging, but it was their second release. I should&#8217;ve pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,452,453],"tags":[503,696,46,905,1033],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-503","tag-gang-of-four","tag-music","tag-postpunk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}