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I listened to Entertainment! for the first time today.
And i am wondering : is the intro to Damaged goods very similar to a Young marble giants song (dont know which one - I lost my copy of colossal youth).
Also, who covered Damaged goods?

― Arnault (arc73hk), Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

And i am wondering : is the intro to Damaged goods very similar to a Young marble giants song (dont know which one - I lost my copy of colossal youth)

It'd be the other way `round, given that Entertainment! pre-dates Colossal Youth

I've never heard of anyone covering "Damaged Goods," but I'd love to hear it if so.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

According to Allmusic.Com, an all-girl Punk band called the Devotchkas (from here in NYC) evidently released on a song of the same name on their album, Annihilation (unfortunately released on September 11, 2001). I suppose it could be a cover.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Gang of 4's own new version is on Myspace: www.myspace.com/gangoffour.
I don't much like it.

― Scrubbing Bubbles, Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

No, "Damaged Goods" sounds more like early Cure than YMG.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh they really dont sound as YMG. It's just that intro.
Will try to find colossal youth and track the song.
Also found that it flows quite well to play tiefschwarz "Warning siren" after damaged goods

― Arnault (arc73hk), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of anyone covering "Damaged Goods," but I'd love to hear it if so.

my friend's band did!! it was a good cover w/male & female vox!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh they really dont sound as YMG. It's just that intro.

I know, but even the intro doesn't sound like anything on Colossal Youth.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 19 August 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

OK, but does it not sound like the guitar parts on the first single that DNA released? That stuff pretty much sounds exactly like the solo on "At Home He's a Tourist". Which band came first?

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 16 January 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

I've had the exact same thought about DNA/Go4 guitar influence on that song. I think the only way to figure it out would be to ask the parties involved, as record release dates won't settle the question.

― dlp9001, Monday, 16 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

maybe the Gang of Four myspace page should ask the DNA/Arto Lindsay myspace page.

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

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