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Hard (Gang of Four album)

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Released
  
September 1983

Artist
  
Gang of Four

Producer
  
Jon King

Genres
  
Post-punk, New wave

Length
  
36:33

Release date
  
September 1983

Label
  
EMI Electrola

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Hard (1983)
  
A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (1990)

Similar
  
Solid Gold, Shrinkwrapped, Songs of the Free, The Peel Sessions, Mall

Hard is the fourth studio album by the English post-punk group Gang of Four. It was originally released in 1983 on Warner Bros. Records and was the first album to not feature original member Hugo Burnham, while Dave Allen had already left before the previous album, Songs of the Free.

Contents

The album was later reissued as part of a two-CD package along with the band's 1981 album Solid Gold.

Gang of four silver lining hard album 1983


Track listing

All tracks composed by Andy Gill and Jon King; except where indicated

  1. "Is It Love" (Gill) – 4:35
  2. "I Fled" – 3:54
  3. "Silver Lining" - 4:13
  4. "Woman Town" (Gill) - 5:12
  5. "A Man With a Good Car" - 3:45
  6. "It Don't Matter" - 3:54
  7. "Arabic" - 3:39
  8. "A Piece of My Heart" - 3:14
  9. "Independence" - 4:05

Personnel

Gang of Four
  • Jon King - vocals, melodica
  • Andrew Gill - guitar, vocals, additional drums
  • Sara Lee - bass

    • with:

  • Jon Astrop - bass on "Is It Love", "I Fled", "It Don't Matter" and "A Piece of My Heart"
  • Alfa Anderson, Brenda White King, Chuck Kirkpatrick, John Sambataro - background vocals
  • Mike Lewis - conductor of strings & horns
    • Technical
  • John Rollo - recording
  • Scott Heiser - photography

    • Songs

    1Is It Love4:34
    2I Fled3:51
    3Silver Lining3:48

    References

    Hard (Gang of Four album) Wikipedia
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