Following on from yesterday's Fun Boy Three post I will leave it to you to decide whether today's post is down to adject laziness or inspired genius. Obviously I am plumping for the latter.
Although they have had many varied line ups over the years the main line up was Jon King on vocals, Andy Gill on guitar, Dave Allen on bass and Hugo Burnham on drums. Sadly Andy Gill died in 2020 at the age of 64 and as I have just discovered Dave Allen very recently left us on 5th April at the age of 69
They were a band that I never quite got initially finding them a little bit to earnest and serious for my liking.That soon changed and I became a fan of their music and in particular the 1979 debut Entertainment and 2005's Return the Gift.
I've stuff lined up for the next few days and I haven't decided yet whether I will attempt a Five from Five.
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty
Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in Uniform
Gang of Four - Outside The Trains Don't Run on Time
Looking forward to 11 from Lord Rockingham's XI
ReplyDeleteGreat songs by a great band. Will we see Jackson 5 or MC5 tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the last couple of posts have been all part of your masterplan to post music by the boy band Five. Or Si(e)ve as Mrs K & I prefer to call them.
ReplyDeleteWhether they actually have 5 decent songs to meet the criteria is debatable, but I won’t argue with your assessment that this idea is inspired genius, CC.
Or will it be Delta 5?
ReplyDeleteLooking fwd to 10,000 Maniacs.
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Now there's a challenge!
DeleteToptastic songs from a toptastic band. I wonder if the next in the series will feature some people with eyesight problems?
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