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Topic: Gang of Four vs. Mission of Burma Posted: December 20 2014 at 10:43
Gang of Four vs. Mission of Burma
Gang of Four were the next step from The Clash. Mixing funk and dub into their punk stew, they were the progenitors of dance punk.
Inspired by John Cage, Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mission of Burma wielded dissonance, but tempered it with melodic-ness, background vocals, and labrynthine song structures.
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Posted: December 20 2014 at 12:06
Easy vote for Burma. I like a few GoF songs but Love MoB, particularly "Vs" and the more recent "The Obliterati" which has some of the most righteous guitar tones I've heard.
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Posted: December 21 2014 at 06:47
Gang of Four is one of those bands I enjoy kind of in spite of themselves. I mean, Maoist dance-punk? Need to listen to Mission of Burma more than I do, they were a big influence on the US noise rock scene which I like way more than GoF and most of what they in turn inspired.
As you can guess, I generally prefer punk to be sociopathic more than socialistic. Of course you can be both at the same like Crass or Killdozer.
Edited by Toaster Mantis - December 21 2014 at 06:52
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Posted: December 22 2014 at 04:16
Just realized that both band names reference totalitarian East Asian states. Wasn't the original "Gang of Four" a dissident faction within the Chinese Communist Party during Mao Zedong's reign?
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Posted: December 22 2014 at 12:02
I was trying to find a representative song from Mission of Burma's "Obliterati" (2006) album to post here, but I just couldn't decide on one. Also, they don't really sound that great coming through my dinky computer speakers. But please check that album out, and let those guitars roar their way through your guts. What an album.
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Posted: December 23 2014 at 08:28
Mission of Burma...hometown band. Love 'Signals, Calls and Marches' and I even like their oddball 'Forget' album a lot. There's sort of a desperation to their sound & vocals that I don't hear very often, as if they really are stuck in Burma.
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