Damaged Goods & Silver Linings
Gang Of Four - Live At The Palace [MERL 51 UK 1984 24-Bit FLAC] As a mark of respect after the passing of Andy Gill, I could have ripped any of the first three Gang Of Four albums, however these are already all over the web. Most turned off when the band splintered and went pop, however the American audience continued to grow resulting a fairly triumphant tour of the USA in the spring of 1984. The Hard album had not been greatly received on the eastern shores of the pond it did produce a couple of hit singles in America. Ripped here from penguinflight 's pristine copy, here is a 1984 pressing of Live at The Palace released on Mercury Records as part of the band's very short relationship with the label. The band are in top form buoyed by an enthusiastic audience, you get most of their most well known compositions as well as some of those US hits. If you ask me Gang Of Four sound wrong with backing singers, but this was the eighties and those post-punk days were gon...