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Posted on: February 13, 2016 Posted by: John B. Moore Comments: 0

Freaks R Us Reissue 1980 Pop Group Classic

You don’t immediately think funk when you hear the album title “For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder,” but from the opening bass lines of “Forces of Oppression” through the next eight songs, funk is front and center in this post punk hybrid from 1980. The short-lived British punk collective The Pop Group combined funk, jazz and industrial rock, long before the latter genre had a name, with…