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 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)
Alternate cover
1995 Infinite Zero reissue cover
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.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Side one

  1. "Paralysed" (Music: Gill; Lyrics: Gill/King) – 3:22
  2. "What We All Want" – 4:59
  3. "Why Theory?" (Lyrics: 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

[edit] Side two

  1. "Cheeseburger" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 4:05
  2. "The Republic" (Music: Gill)– 3:21
  3. "In the Ditch" – 4:22
  4. "A Hole in the Wallet" (Music: Gill) – 4:05
  5. "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.

[edit] CD reissue bonus tracks

The Infinite Zero/American CD 1995 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