Gang of Four must have been a pretty good band to have Michael Stipe, Flea, Kurt Cobain, and Tom Morello all state that they were major influences to their own music and style. Yet, I knew almost nothing of them at the time and didn't discover their music until the 2000s.
Maybe they didn't get airplay or that much publicity to the masses because their music didn't quite fit into a distinct box. Were they punk, post-punk, punk with some funk? Maybe they were just a band with talented musicians who played in a punkish style? I don't know.
I do know that just about all of their early stuff is phenomenal. Check out the album version of Love Like Anthrax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXoGa2stcOE
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