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Another Day/Another Dollar

 
Album Review: Another Day/Another Dollar

  • Artist: Gang of Four
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1982 01
  • Type: Extended Play (EP)
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Those not hip to buying non-LP releases missed out on this piece of Gang of Four product, which contains one of their hottest, funkiest songs. "To Hell With Poverty" includes one of the thickest grooves laid down by Hugo Burnham and Dave Allen -- with Andy Gill's charging guitar along for the ride -- as well as one of the band's sharpest lines of sarcastic wit ("To hell with poverty/We'll get drunk on cheap wine"). Taken as a whole the song makes the Red Hot Chili Peppers seem about as funky as Andy Williams and as brainy as -- well, never mind. "Capital (It Fails Us Now)" and "History's Bunk," though containing decent rhythms, are table scraps. Decent, panicked versions of "Cheeseburger" and "What We All Want" close out the EP, with Gill and Jon King trading lines effectively on the former. [Another Day/Another Dollar was appended to the 1995 Infinite Zero/American reissue of Solid Gold.] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

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Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
To Hell With Poverty! Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andrew Gill, Andy King Gang of Four (4:59)
Capital Andrew Gill Gang of Four (4:04)
History's Bunk! Andrew Gill, Jon King Gang of Four (2:59)
Cheeseburger [Live] Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andrew Gill, Andy King Gang of Four (3:40)
What We All Want [Live] Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andrew Gill, Andy King Gang of Four (5:24)
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Another Day/Another Dollar
EP by Gang of Four
Released January 1982
Recorded 1981
Genre Rock
Length 21:06
Label EMI/Warner Bros.
Producer Andy Gill, Jon King
Professional reviews
Gang of Four chronology
Solid Gold
(1981)
Another Day/Another Dollar
(1982)
Songs of the Free
(1982)

Another Day/Another Dollar is a 12" vinyl EP by Gang of Four, released in 1982 in the US, by EMI/Warner Brothers 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. The third track is the b-side of the UK only single "What We All Want," and the last two tracks are excerpted from a live show recorded at the Hammersmith Palais, in London, on 3/30/81. All five songs from the EP later appeared on the Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings's 1995 CD reissue of the 1981 LP Solid Gold.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andy Gill and Jon King except as indicated.

  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) – 3:40 [1]
  5. "What We All Want" (Live) – 5:24 [1]

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ a b Recorded at Hammersmith Palais, London, 30 March 1981

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1982 Billboard Pop Albums 192

Single

Year Single Chart Position
1982 "To Hell with Poverty!" Billboard Club Play Singles 38
1990 "To Hell with Poverty!" UK Singles Charts 100

 
 

 

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