{"id":184,"date":"2006-05-25T23:55:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T04:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-05-25T23:55:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T04:55:49","slug":"gang-of-four-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/gang-of-four-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang of Four &#8212; Entertainment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gangoffourentertainment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-652\" title=\"Gang of Four -- Entertainment!\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gangoffourentertainment.jpg\" alt=\"Gang of Four -- Entertainment!\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Gang of Four<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Entertainment!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1979<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> ? Just glad to have it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>The problem of leisure<br \/>\nWhat to do for pleasure<br \/>\nIdeal love a new purchase<br \/>\nA market of the senses<br \/>\nDream of the perfect life&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are the first five lines of &#8220;Natural&#8217;s Not In It&#8221; from &#8220;Entertainment!&#8221;, Gang of Four&#8217;s debut album. I read a quote by Bono where he describes Andy Gill&#8217;s lyrics as &#8220;&#8230;a smart bomb of text that had me &#8216;at home feeling like a typist.'&#8221; The latter part of that sentence is, of course, a pun referring to the song &#8220;At Home He Feels Like a Tourist&#8221; which is also on this album. That song is an all-time favorite of mine, although I like almost every song on this record just as much. It&#8217;s just that good.<\/p>\n<p>I never got to see them live in their prime, but I did go stand outside a small club in Virginia Beach to hear the muffled songs rumble through the concrete walls at one Gang of Four show. It was tragic, but I was an under-age teenager and couldn&#8217;t get inside. They&#8217;re just that good.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the band, know that they are definitely one of the most important &#8220;rock&#8221; bands ever and have influenced more artists than you would believe.<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entertainment%21\">article about &#8220;Entertainment!&#8221;<\/a>, including its packaging, at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Gang of Four Title: Entertainment! Year: 1979 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: ? Just glad to have it. Keeper: Yes The problem of leisure What to do for pleasure Ideal love a new purchase A market of the senses Dream of the perfect life&#8230; Those are the first five [&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":[502,696,46,905,1033],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-502","tag-gang-of-four","tag-music","tag-postpunk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}