Song · Gang of Four
“Ether” by Gang of Four
From the album Entertainment! (1979)
“Ether” by Gang of Four appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2024. It was first released in 1979 on the album Entertainment!. Its best result is #578 on The Best Opening Tracks of All Time.
"Ether" comes off Entertainment!, the debut album Gang of Four released in September 1979, on EMI internationally and Warner Bros. in North America. All four members wrote it and the band shares the arranging credit: Andy Gill on guitar, Dave Allen on bass, Hugo Burnham on drums and Jon King out front on lead vocals.
Gill and King produced it with Rob Warr, who was managing the band then, while Rick Walton engineered and Edwin Cross and Davy Phee did the recording. The album they made takes punk down to the studs and rebuilds it with funk, reggae and dub, King's lyrics steeped in Situationism, feminism and Marx on alienation, all of it chasing the idea that the personal is political. Entertainment! has since come to be counted among the cornerstones of post-punk.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 578 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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