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Look at the world through your Polaroid glasses.
Things’ll look a whole lot better for the working classes.

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Artist: Gang of Four
Album: Entertainment!
Track: I Found That Essence Rare
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To hell with poverty.

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Artist: Gang Of Four
Album: To Hell With Poverty!
Track: To Hell With Poverty

I Found That Essence Rare

The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini
See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini
She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the H-Bomb

Gang of Four got it half right. The modern bikini was, in fact, named after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. But it wasn’t the 1954 H-bomb test there that inspired designer Louis Réard. His bikini was a response to a Jacques Heim’s Atome, which had been touted as the smallest swimsuit in the world. Réard decided to “split the atom,” and named his even smaller swimsuit after the initial atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1946.

The United States conducted 23 nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. The original inhabitants of the atoll had to be resettled, and radioactive contamination from the tests is still a health hazard there.

Gang of Four by Eugene Merinov.

To hell with poverty

We’ll get drunk on cheap wine

The problem of leisure, what to do for pleasure

Ideal love, a new purchase, a market of the senses

Dream of the perfect life

Economic circumstances

The body is good business

Sell out, maintain the interest

Remember Lot’s wife

Renounce all sin and vice

Dream of the perfect life

This heaven gives me migraine

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Rock the vote.

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Artist: Gang Of Four
Album: A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century
Track: To Hell With Poverty!