Solid Gold is the second album by the British post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 band Gang of Four

Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...

, 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

Compact Disc

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 expanded version by the EMI Records and Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings labels in 1995, which added the songs from Another Day/Another Dollar

Another Day/Another Dollar

Another Day/Another Dollar is a 12" vinyl EP by Gang of Four, released in 1982 in the US, by Warner Bros. Records. The release is a compilation of material previously unreleased in the US. The first two tracks were released in the UK as a single...

EP.

Track listing

All music written and arranged by Gang of Four, and all lyrics by Jon King

Jon King

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, except as indicated.

Side one

1. "Paralysed" (Music: Gill; Lyrics: Gill/King) – 3:22
2. "What We All Want" – 4:59
3. "Why Theory?" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 2:33
4. "If I Could Keep It for Myself" – 4:09
5. "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" – 3:19

Side two

1. "Cheeseburger" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 4:05
2. "The Republic" (Music: Gill)– 3:21
3. "In the Ditch" – 4:22
4. "A Hole in the Wallet" (Music: Gill) – 4:05
5. "He'd Send in the Army" (Lyrics: Gill/King) – 4:28
   • On the original EMI (UK) pressing of the LP, "Why Theory?" is track 5 rather than track 3.

CD reissue bonus tracks

The EMI Records and Infinite Zero/American CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 1995 reissue includes songs from the Another Day/Another Dollar

Another Day/Another Dollar

Another Day/Another Dollar is a 12" vinyl EP by Gang of Four, released in 1982 in the US, by Warner Bros. Records. The release is a compilation of material previously unreleased in the US. The first two tracks were released in the UK as a single...

:

1. "To Hell With Poverty!" – 4:59
2. "Capital (It Fails Us Now)" (Gill) – 4:04
3. "History's Bunk!" (Gill, King) – 2:59
4. "Cheeseburger" (Live) (Gill, King) – 3:40
5. "What We All Want" (Live) – 5:24

Personnel

• Dave Allen
  Dave Allen (producer/bassist)
  Dave Allen was the bass guitarist for the post-punk band, Gang of Four. In 1981, he left Gang of Four to found Shriekback....
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Hugo Burnham
  Hugo Burnham
  Hugo Burnham was the drummer for the English rock group Gang of Four. Creem magazine's Dave DiMartino said in 1980 "Witness Hugo Burnham, a close-cropped, thickset out-and-out scary drummer who looks like his idea of fun might be pushing young American faces into old American brick walls." He...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals
• Andy Gill
  Andy Gill
  Andy Gill is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most influential post-punk bands...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
• Jon King
  Jon King (musician)
  Jon King, born 8 June 1955, London, is a singer, musician and founding member of the Leeds based UK rock band Gang of Four. He attended Sevenoaks School, where he was a member of the 'Art Room' that produced musicians Tom Greenhalgh and Mark White of The Mekons, along with Andy Gill of Gang of...
  
   - vocals

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1981	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Pop Albums	190

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1981	"What We All Want"	Billboard Club Play Singles	30