Solid Gold (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Solid Gold
Type = Studio album
Artist = Gang of Four


Released = 1981
Recorded = 1980
Genre = Post punk
Length = 38:43
Label = EMI/Warner Bros.
Producer = Jimmy Douglass, Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andrew Gill, Jon King
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifixqy5ldte link]
* Pitchfork (9.5/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18027/Gang_of_Four_Hard_and_Solid_Gold]
*Robert Christgau (A) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=gang+of+four link]
Last album = "Yellow EP" (1980)
This album = "Solid Gold" (1981)
Next album = "Another Day/Another Dollar" (1982)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = 1995 Infinite Zero reissue cover

Solid Gold, released in 1981, is the second full album by the British post-punk band Gang of Four. Two of its tracks, "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" and "He'd Send in the Army", are re-recordings of songs previously released on the 1980 "Yellow EP".

The album was issued in an CD expanded version Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings label in 1995, which added the songs from "Another Day/Another Dollar" EP.

Track listing

All music written and arranged by Gang of Four, and all lyrics by Jon King, except as indicated.

ide one

#"Paralysed" (Music: Gill; Lyrics: Gill/King) – 3:22
#"What We All Want" – 4:59
#"Why Theory?" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 2:33
#"If I Could Keep It for Myself" – 4:09
#"Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" – 3:19

ide two

#"Cheeseburger" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 4:05
#"The Republic" (Music: Gill)– 3:21
#"In the Ditch" – 4:22
#"A Hole in the Wallet" (Music: Gill) – 4:05
#"He'd Send in the Army" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 4:28
*On the sleeve of the original LP, "Why Theory?" is listed incorrectly as track 5 rather than track 3.

CD reissue bonus tracks

The Infinite Zero/American CD 1995 reissue includes songs from the "Another Day/Another Dollar":
#"To Hell With Poverty!" – 4:59
#"Capital (It Fails Us Now)" (Gill) – 4:04
#"History's Bunk!" (Gill, King) – 2:59
#"Cheeseburger" (Live) (Gill, King) – 3:40
#"What We All Want" (Live) – 5:24

Personnel

* Dave Allen|Dave Allen - baixista, vocals
* Hugo Burnham - bateria, vocals
* Andy Gill - guitarra, vocals
* Jon King - vocals

Charts

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