Hard/Solid Gold (CD) ~ Gang Of Four (Artist) Cover Art

Hard/Solid Gold (CD)

By: Gang Of Four (Artist)

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Gang Of Four Artist Snapshot:

Formed in 1978, the Gang of Four came from Leeds, England, with sharp, political lyrics and a cutting, angular sound that mixed post-punk guitar with funk rhythms. The relative artiness of their early work put them in a class with aesthetes like Wire, but they later upped the danceability quotient to appeal to a larger audience, scoring their biggest success with the surprisingly catchy single "I Love a Man in a Uniform." During the post-punk revival of the early 2000's, the band, long since disbanded, came back into favor as a key influence, and briefly reformed for a U.S. tour and an album.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Hard/Solid Gold (CD) Album By Gang Of Four (Artist)
1   Is It Love  
2   I Fled  
3   Silver Lining  
4   Woman Town  
5   Man With A Good Car, A  
6   It Don't Matter  
7   Arabic  
8   Piece Of My Heart, A  
9   Independence  
10   Paralyzed  
11   What We All Want  
12   Why Theory?  
13   If I Could Keep It For Myself  
14   Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time  
15   Cheeseburger  
16   Republic, The  
17   In The Ditch  
18   Hole In The Wallet, A  
19   He'd Send In The Army  
 

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Review

Uncut (p.125) - 4 stars out of 5 - "SOLID GOLD catches them at their furious finest, shuffling between the personal politics of consumption and longing..."

Title Note

This twofer combines the seminal post-punk band Gang Of Four's second album with their fourth--the last studio album before their initial breakup in 1984. Though SOLID GOLD was originally less highly thought of than the band's debut, ENTERTAINMENT, it nevertheless contains two of their best songs: "Paralysed," Andy Gill's chilling narrative of the crushing effects of capitalism, and the joyful, whooping ersatz disco of "To Hell With Poverty."

1983's HARD found drummer Hugo Burnham replaced by a drum machine. Additionally, the album's production substituted the band's previous angularity for a lush, polished sound augmented by backing singers and synthesizers, which longtime fans found hard to take. But both "Is It Love" and "Womantown" have a smoky mystery, while "A Man With a Good Car" is an energetic backward glance at the band's post-punk roots.

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