Power in the Darkness

by Tom Robinson Band

Power in the Darkness cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1978
  • Label: EMI
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:09:13
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Anchored by the groundbreaking gay rights anthem "Glad to Be Gay", the band's debut fuses blistering pub rock energy with uncompromisingly radical leftist politics. The record successfully channeled the sociopolitical anger of the British punk movement into highly articulate, fist-pumping rock and roll.

Genres

Descriptors: lgbtq, protest, political, conscious, confrontational

Tracklist

  1. Up Against the Wall (3:34)
  2. Grey Cortina (2:10)
  3. Too Good to Be True (3:35)
  4. Ain't Gonna Take It (2:53)
  5. Long Hot Summer (4:44)
  6. Winter of '79 (4:31)
  7. Man You Never Saw (2:40)
  8. Better Decide Which Side You're On (2:50)
  9. You Gotta Survive (3:15)
  10. Power in the Darkness (4:56)
  11. Don't Take No for an Answer (4:40)
  12. Martin (2:50)
  13. Glad to Be Gay (4:47)
  14. Right on Sister (3:28)
  15. 2-4-6-8 Motorway (3:17)
  16. I Shall Be Released (4:37)
  17. I'm Alright Jack (2:28)
  18. Waiting for My Man - Live at London Lyceum 1977 (4:25)
  19. Power in the Darkness - 2004 Remix (3:23)

Credits

  • Tom Robinson Band - primary artist
  • Tom Robinson - bass, vocals, written-by
  • Dolphin Taylor - drums, vocals, written-by
  • Danny Kustow - guitar, vocals, written-by
  • Mark Ambler - organ, piano, written-by
  • Roy Butterfield - written-by

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