Return the Gift (2005)

About this title: Why let others reheat your back catalog when you can do it yourself? Maybe that's one of the questions Gang of Four asked themselves before recording Return the Gift, a self-tribute album involving re-recordings of their earliest and best work. While the reunion of the original members synched up with the popularity of several bands that were appropriating some of their ideas, one of the greater music-related motivators behind this release was...wait for it...correcting the drum sound. Drummer Hugo Burnham likened the drum sound on those releases to that of cardboard boxes, and some of ...

Tracks:

1. To Hell with Poverty [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
2. Damaged Goods [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
3. Natural's Not in It [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
4. Not Great Men [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
5. Why Theory? [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
6. Anthrax [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
7. Paralysed [Gill/King]
8. What We All Want [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
9. Ether [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
10. He'd Send the Army [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
11. Capital [Gill]
12. I Love a Man in Uniform [Gill/King]
13. At Home He's a Tourist [Allen/Burnham/Gill/]
14. We Live as We Dream, Alone [Gill/King]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.