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Gill’s guitar doesn’t build a melody: it builds a structure. The bass comes in from below, the drums lay down the ground, and King starts talking about violence and power. Then comes “Natural’s Not in It,” even more direct. The message is in the title itself: the things we are sold as natural—desire, consumption, relationships, hierarchies—usually have a good deal of vested interests behind them. And Gang of Four don’t need to get solemn to say it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Not Great Men” continues the demolition. It isn’t great men who make history, but the structures that allow certain people to have power. “Damaged Goods” changes the setting and puts sex and relationships into the same analytical machine. Love, merchandise, possession, exchange: everything can become a product. 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