Solid Gold (album)


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

Track listing

On the original EMI 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
Album
YearChartPosition
1981Billboard Pop Albums190

Single
YearSingleChartPosition
1981"What We All Want"Billboard Club Play Singles30