The Clash and Sex Pistols wrote songs complaining about how record labels screwed them over,but no punk group before Leed's Gang of four had ever assaulted the entire popular culture industry so radically.Filled with bitter references to television and disco as elements of state control,the band's debut,"Entertainment",comes perilously close to priggish hypocricy in its suggestion that this particullar commodity could escape the taint it describes."Down at the disco floor/They make their profits/From the things they sell."So,"Saturday Night Fever" fans are suckers.Dave Allen(bass)and Hugo Burnham(drums)create an uneasy rhythm.Andy Gill's quitar is precise and startling,choking on its own fumes and coughing up bursts of sharp notes,feedback,and melodic phrases.An impossible ambition to infiltrate mass culture and tear it apart from within.
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