Solid Gold (album)

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Solid Gold
Solid Gold cover
Studio album by Gang of Four
Released 1981
Recorded 1980
Genre Post punk
Length 38:43
Label EMI/Warner Bros.
Producer(s) Jimmy Douglass, Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andrew Gill, Jon King
Professional reviews
Gang of Four chronology
Yellow EP
(1980)		 Solid Gold
(1981)		 Another Day/Another Dollar
(1982)
1995 Reissue Cover
Infinite Zero
Infinite Zero


Solid Gold, released in 1981 is the second full album by the British post-punk band Gang of Four.

The album was reissued in an extended edition by Henry Rollins' Infinite Zero/American Archive label in 1995, which added the songs from Another Day/Another Dollar EP.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

On the sleeve of the original recording, "Why Theory?" is listed incorrectly as track 5 rather than track 3. All songs written by Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andy Gill, and Jon King unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Paralysed" (Gill, King) – 3:22
  2. "What We All Want" – 4:59
  3. "Why Theory?" (Gill, King) – 2:33
  4. "If I Could Keep It for Myself" – 4:09
  5. "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" – 3:19 (first appeared on the Yellow EP in 1980)
  6. "Cheeseburger" (Gill, King) – 4:05
  7. "The Republic" (Gill)– 3:21
  8. "In the Ditch" – 4:22
  9. "A Hole in the Wallet" (Gill) – 4:05
  10. "He'd Send in the Army" (Gill, King) – 4:28

[edit] 1995 bonus tracks

The Infinite Zero/American CD reissue includes songs from the Another Day/Another Dollar:

  1. "To Hell With Poverty!" – 4:59
  2. "Capital (It Fails Us Now)" (Gill) – 4:04
  3. "History's Bunk!" (Gill, King) – 2:59
  4. "Cheeseburger" (Live) (Gill, King) – 3:40
  5. "What We All Want" (Live) – 5:24

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1981 Billboard Pop Albums 190

Single

Year Single Chart Position
1981 "What We All Want" Billboard Club Play Singles 30
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