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  Type Studio album
  Artist Gang Of Four
  Cover solidgoldgangoffourjpg
  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
  Last Album '' Yellow EP ''<br/>(1980)
  This Album ''Solid Gold''<br/>(1981)
  Next Album '' Another Day/Another Dollar ''<br/>(1982)
  Misc {{Extra album cover 2
  Upper Caption Alternate cover
  Type studio
  Cover gofsgizjpg
  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" were previously released on the '' Yellow EP ''.

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.


TRACK LISTING

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

Side 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

Side 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


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