Gang of Four - Solid Gold / Another Day / Another Dollar (CD)

Gang of Four - Solid Gold / Another Day / Another Dollar (CD)

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Collects GANG OF FOUR's second album, Solid Gold, and the 1982 EP Another Day/Another Dollar.

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Track listing

  1. Paralysed
  2. What We All Want
  3. Why Theory?
  4. If I Could Keep It for Myself
  5. Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time
  6. Cheeseburger
  7. The Republic
  8. In the Ditch
  9. A Hole in the Wallet
  10. He'd Send In the Army
  11. To Hell With Poverty
  12. Capital (It Fails Us Now)
  13. History's Bunk!
  14. Cheeseburger (Live)
  15. What We All Want (Live)

Review

Abrasiveness was a means to grab the listener, and it worked. Reciting Solid Gold's lyrics on a local neighborhood corner might get a couple interested souls to pay attention. It isn't poetry, and it's no fun; most within earshot would just continue power-walking or tune out while buffing the SUV. Solid Gold has that unholy racket going on beneath the lyrics, an unlikely mutation of catchiness and atonality that made ears perk and (oddly) posteriors shake. With its slightly ironic title, Solid Gold is more rhythmically grounded than the fractured nature of Entertainment!, a politically charged, more Teutonic take on funk. It's a form of release for paranoid accountants. - 5/5