GANG OF FOUR-Entertainment!(2005 CD)
Don't remember what exactly happened between the Gang of Four and me, but I hadn't listened to the band in something like ten years or so before picking this up a couple of weekends ago (confessions of a record-collecting loser)...rediscovering that "Ether," "I Found That Essence Rare," "At Home He's a Tourist" and "Anthrax" sound as brutal and uncompromising as ever might be the highlight of my year to date, a huge irony given my current issues with prominent basslines, didactic lyrics, and Brits with bad haircuts...of course, all Andy Gill's yammering about the "anti-solo" aside, it certainly helps that this featured one of the most bracing guitar assaults of the '70s set to songs that were artisanally crafted for maximum confrontation value (in other words, you now know why a 2005 reissue of a 1979 LP might end up topping a certain "Best of 2008" list several months/years down the road).
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