Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time

[DevoDevoT]

I like a song you can not "sit down to".

This beat grabs you by the neck and throws you on the dance floor.

[Koetoezov]

and they still don't run on time ...

[icmequipment]

This songs is so killer, I remember this from the 80's!!!

[rafaelblock]

The first band I played in covered this song....oh yeah!!!!!!!!!

[therealsoulproduct]

I like the Yellow EP version better.

[cwelch333]

they don"t



[subvert47]

a total crang fest :D

[flintmichigan1]

my university!

[jfpOne23]

Still amazing

[robasci00]

where franz ferdinad came from

[fringedweller99]

I must say that I am putting the go4 at the top of my all time list. I have a vague rememberance of seeing them with the dead kennedy's in 79 or 80 in van at the commadore ballroom? anybody else remember that gig?

[birdynumnumz]

@fringedweller99 yep I was there for me one of the best nites of my life the walls dripped sweat that nite the energy pouring off the stage was overwhelming!! Unforgettable!

[pcnonono]

Got to see them in Pasadena,Ca in '80....completely underrated band...unbelievable...

[DeathMetalDouglas68]

This album shits all all over the first record. "Solid Gold" is GO4 in their prime. I's kind of like how Wire's "Chairs Missing" kicks "Pink Flag" to the curb. The better production does not hurt. The drums sound menacing. Gotta love it.

[maclennan73]

Good point but people remember the debuts as they were like nothing else at the time, all good though.

[filtro6]

A Marxist/Leninist band, I wonder how far that got them

[maclennan73]

Especially in Leeds!

[alejandro15187]

goddam the guitar/ bass in this song just fucking slaughters. Sounds like he's playing his guitar with a katana. Amazing.

[jfpOne23]

The LP version is far better...absolutely better produced and how it was meant to be heard. I wish someone would post it buy my copy is iTunzed.

But I did also buy the original ('79 ish?). Was working in a record shop. The first Entertainment! album was just ....hell there was nothing like it when it came out.

If you find that original LP for OutSTTDROT, buy it. Cherish it, dip it in Gold.

[christot2001]

the genius of chaos.....I remember waiting months for the single to come out

[marquisethe]

The reason I started playing bass

[Makrofono]

YES!!!

[01Silverado]

An inspired arrangement and performance. In their original line-up, they are the still the best.

[lyonslaforet]

despite the Solid Gold (1981) cover, you can find this song on the Entertainment (1979) album

[karakand]

It didn't show up on Entertainment! until 1995.

Solid Gold is its original LP debut and its first album debut period was the Yellow EP (1980).

HTH

[JanBenes]

This version was on the "Solid Gold" record. The version you can hear on the extended-play "Entertainment" CD was the single version. The single version is a little faster with better dynamics.

[christot2001]

not when it first came out...

[Bacopa68]

A commenter in Pharyngula linked to this earlier today. I am sure the views have doubled today.

[Reint25]

Classic!