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Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time

Gang of Four

1980 (single), 1981 (Solid Gold LP)🇬🇧

If there’s one band whose influence seems to massively outweigh their own commercial success, it’s Gang of Four. Year-in, year-out, we hear new acts influenced by their funk and dub influenced post-punk rock. This song encapsulates everything I loved about them. It’s angry. political, energetic, and yet it grooves.

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