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Solid Gold (album)

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Released
  
March 1981

Length
  
38:43

Release date
  
March 1981

Genres
  
Post-punk, Dance-punk

Recorded
  
January 1981

Artist
  
Gang of Four

Label
  
EMI

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Studio
  
Abbey Road Studios, London

Solid Gold (1981)
  
Songs of the Free (1982)

Producers
  
Jimmy Douglass, Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andy Gill, Jon King

Similar
  
Songs of the Free, Entertainment!, Shrinkwrapped, What Happens Next, Hard

Gang of four solid gold 1981 full album bonus tracks


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

Contents

The album was issued in an CD expanded version by the EMI Records and Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings labels in 1995, which added the songs from Another Day/Another Dollar EP.

Pitchfork Media listed Solid Gold as 24th best album of the 1980s.

Gang of four what we all want


Track listing

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

  • On the original EMI (UK) pressing of the LP, "Why Theory?" is track 5 rather than track 3.
  • The EMI Records and Infinite Zero/American 1995 reissue includes songs from the Another Day/Another Dollar EP.

    Personnel

    Gang of Four
  • Dave Allen - bass, vocals
  • Hugo Burnham - drums, vocals
  • Andy Gill - guitar, vocals
  • Jon King - vocals
  • Charts

    Album

    Single

    Songs

    1Paralysed3:23
    2What We All Want4:56
    3If I Could Keep It for Myself4:08

    References

    Solid Gold (album) Wikipedia