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''Entertainment!'' is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four, released in September 1979. This album was released on EMI in the UK and on Warner Bros. in the US. The music on the first album shows clearly the influence of punk, yet also incorporates funk and less-obvious influences of reggae and dub, similar to other bands at the time such as Public Image Ltd., Pere Ubu, and The Pop Group. As with these other influential post-punk bands, the bass is mixed much more prominently than it typically is in rock or punk. The album has attracted praise from rock musicians. Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers stated that the first time he heard the record, "It completely changed the way I looked at rock music and sent me on my trip as a bass player."〔Liner notes to Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings reissue, 1995〕 In 2003, the album was ranked number 490 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2012, the album ranked at No. 483 on a revised list by the magazine. In March 2005, ''Q'' magazine placed the track "At Home He's a Tourist" at number 52 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Pitchfork Media listed ''Entertainment!'' as eighth best album of the 1970s. Kurt Cobain listed it in his top fifty albums of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】)">url=http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/journal/top-50-by-nirvana/ )〕 In 2005, the band performed the album live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. As of 2009, ''Entertainment!'' has sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK. ==Artwork== The album's artwork was designed by band members Jon King and Andy Gill,.〔Liner notes〕 The cover, designed by King, shows the influence of the Situationist International, a group which became famous during the Paris '68 student-led revolution in France. The cover depicts an "Indian" shaking hands with a "cowboy" in three heavily processed versions of the same image (based on a still from one of the Winnetou films starring Lex Barker and Pierre Brice), which had once been popular in communist East Germany as critical narratives of Capitalism. The faces are reduced to blobs of red and white—that is, to the stereotypical racial colours. A text that winds around the images reads, ''"The Indian smiles, he thinks that the cowboy is his friend. The cowboy smiles, he is glad the Indian is fooled. Now he can exploit him."'' In this way, it approaches themes of exploitation, but taken with the lyrical content of the album, it may also point to simplistic depictions of ethnic, social or political conflict in the media as "cowboys and Indians". The album's back cover depicts a family whose father says, ''"I spend most of our money on myself so that I can stay fat"'', while the mother and children declare, ''"We're grateful for his leftovers"''. On the album's inner sleeve, small photographs depicting scenes shown on television are interlaced with text illustrating what the band suggests are the misleading subtexts of media presentation: ''"The facts are presented neutrally so that the public can make up its own mind"''; ''"Men act heroically to defend their country"''; ''"People are given what they want"''. The album was made available in the now-extinct 8-track format. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Entertainment!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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