Discography
Gang Of Four - The Peel Sessions (1990)
A compilation album, this brings together three separate live sessions recorded for John Peel, at that time the premier champion of new music on BBC Radio 1, the national music station with the largest reach into the youth market in Britain. Two sessions are from 1979, and one from 1981. All tracks, but for the final three, were produced by Bob Sergeant.
The album is only available to listen to on Youtube, link on this page.
TRACKLISTING
- I Found That Essence Rare
- Return The Gift
- 5.45
- At Home He’s A Tourist
- Natural’s Not In It
- Not Great Men
- Ether
- Guns Before Butter
- Paralysed
- History’s Bunk
- To Hell With Poverty!
Album reviews:
“Rendering the one-session Peel EP (from January ’79) redundant, the eleven-song album (available in the US on CD and cassette as The Peel Sessions) offers that artifact as well as return visits to the BBC radio studios from July ’79 and March ’81. Not quite an alternate greatest hits, the full-length collection nonetheless offers such Gang classics as To Hell with Poverty, At Home’s He’s a Tourist and I Found That Essence Rare, all rendered with stiff-backed ferocity” – Trouser Press.
“Peel Sessions is both a showcase for the band’s sheer power and amazing transformation of funk and punk for its own virulent ends, with all three sessions featuring the full original lineup” – Ned Raggett – AllMusic.com.
Discography
Gang Of Four - The Peel Sessions (1990)
A compilation album, this brings together three separate live sessions recorded for John Peel, at that time the premier champion of new music on BBC Radio 1, the national music station with the largest reach into the youth market in Britain. Two sessions are from 1979, and one from 1981. All tracks, but for the final three, were produced by Bob Sergeant.
The album is only available to listen to on Youtube, link on this page.
TRACKLISTING
- I Found That Essence Rare
- Return The Gift
- 5.45
- At Home He’s A Tourist
- Natural’s Not In It
- Not Great Men
- Ether
- Guns Before Butter
- Paralysed
- History’s Bunk
- To Hell With Poverty!
Album reviews:
“Rendering the one-session Peel EP (from January ’79) redundant, the eleven-song album (available in the US on CD and cassette as The Peel Sessions) offers that artifact as well as return visits to the BBC radio studios from July ’79 and March ’81. Not quite an alternate greatest hits, the full-length collection nonetheless offers such Gang classics as To Hell with Poverty, At Home’s He’s a Tourist and I Found That Essence Rare, all rendered with stiff-backed ferocity” – Trouser Press.
“Peel Sessions is both a showcase for the band’s sheer power and amazing transformation of funk and punk for its own virulent ends, with all three sessions featuring the full original lineup” – Ned Raggett – AllMusic.com.