↑Sebagai verifikasi bahwa grup musik tersebut adalah bagian dari para pelopor post-punk , lihat Heylin 2007, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Magazine and PiL, Wire; Reynolds 2013, hlm.210, "... the 'post-punk vanguard'—overtly political groups like Gang of Four, Au Pairs, Pop Group ..."; Kootnikoff 2010, hlm.30, "[Post-punk] bands like Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Fall were hugely influential"; Cavanagh 2015, hlm.192–193, Gang of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cure, PiL, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division; Bogdanov, Woodstra & Erlewine 2002, hlm.1337, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads; Cateforis 2011, hlm.26, Devo, Throbbing Gristle, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Slits, Wire