ENTERTAINMENT Gang Of Four - 1979 Warner Bros BSK 3446 1st Jacksonville VG+ VG+
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Description
Entertainment! is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four. It was released in September 1979 through Warner Bros. Records in North America. Stylistically, it draws heavily on punk rock but also incorporates the influence of funk, reggae and dub. Its lyrics and artwork reflected the band's left-wing political concerns. Entertainment! became a seminal album in the post-punk movement.
It was ranked the fifth best album of 1979 by NME. Reviewing the album in Rolling Stone in 1980, David Fricke regarded Entertainment! as "the best debut album by a British band – punk or otherwise – since the original English release of The Clash in 1977”. Creem's RJ Smith, looking back on Entertainment! in 1984, found it to be "the most difficult Gang album, because it's so damn hard to find the front door to the thing. The ugly emotions Entertainment! dredges up are almost freakish, and all the more unsettling for the way they poke unexpectedly through the record's detached, architectonic front." In 2004, Pitchfork listed Entertainment! as the eighth best album of the 1970s. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 490 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, raising the album's rank to number 483 in their 2012 update of the list, saying that its "stiff, jerky aggression... invented a new style that influenced bands from the Minutemen to LCD Soundsystem". In their 2020 reboot of the list, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 273. In March 2005, Q placed the track "At Home He's a Tourist" at number 52 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Tracks". As of 2009, Entertainment! has sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
THIS COPY is a 1st Jacksonville pressing from 1979 on the Warner Bros. label (see Notes, below).
The vinyl is in Very Good Plus [VG+] condition.
The original cover is in Very Good Plus [VG+] condition.
The original inner sleeve with a 2" split in one side seam, is in Very Good Plus [VG+] condition.
Notes
"0" stamped in runouts denotes Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville, pressing. Remainder of runouts etched.
Label variant, on tan "pinstripe" label design..
Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics and credits.
℗1979 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
©1979 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Recorded at the Workhouse Old Kent Road.
Lyrics Copyright EMI Music.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Rights Society: PRS
Barcode (Scanned): 075992344616
Barcode (Text): 0 7599-23446-1
Pressing Plant ID (Runouts): 0
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): BSK-1-3446-JW3 #3 PHASE TWO 0
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): BSK-2-3446-JW1 #1 OF THE PLAN 0
ENJOY!
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