| Solid Gold | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Gang of Four |
| Cover: | solidgoldgangoffour.jpg |
| Recorded: | January 1981 |
| Studio: | Abbey Road (London) |
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| Producer: | |
| Prev Title: | Yellow EP |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Songs of the Free |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
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.
The album was issued in a 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.
The Boston Globe wrote that, "even if musical experiment on this album generally succeeds, there are few memorable riffs, let alone much that's hummable or danceable, unlike the Gang's first album."[1] The Globe and Mail opined that "the guitar work is consistently scratchy and feverish, busting out of the mix at crucial points to carry along some of the duller items."[2]
Pitchfork listed Solid Gold as 24th best album of the 1980s.
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.
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