Still need to look into this band

nice troll attempt i almost got furious

Album Rating: 3.5

Lol @ getting furious at someone not liking the things you like.

Album Rating: 4.5

lol at writing this terrible review

Lol @ getting furious at someone not liking the things you like.

yes, next question

i think that wraps everything up

Album Rating: 3.5

Well, if Trebor admits to it...

Album Rating: 4.0

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As it stands, the album truly does get weighed down by the oppression of the politics and the fact that they're barely even relevant today (lol @ socialism). It's just a shame to see such great dance music gone to waste by pretentious college students. Thankfully Franz Ferdinand would come along and actually make an album that saw the potential in post-punk and gave it the treatment it was asking for decades earlier.

great read

hahaha profound revieww

Like most punk bands at the time, Gang of Four were "politically conscious." While in punk rock the politics are usually absurdly stupid (they promote anarchism for crying out loud) and are often as immature as the sound itself, this album was obviously made by liberal college students who took a poli sci class. That's not entirely a bad thing. 5.45 for example does have an interesting take on the war images that were broadcasted on TV about the Vietnam War (although, rather ironically, many historians believe that these very images helped stop the war as public sentiment changed once they saw what war actually looks like. Take that you socialist scum!). For the most part though, the album is making cryptic, overly abstract political statements.