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Release Date
1 January 1982
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Length
9 tracks
Songs of the Free is the third studio album by Gang of Four, released in 1982 by Warner Bros.. In 1996, Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings label issued it on CD, with two bonus tracks, and with a slightly changed song order (swapping the positions of "Muscle for Brains" and "We Live as We Dream, Alone"), and mistitling "I Love a Man in a Uniform" as "I Love a Man in Uniform." EMI reissued the album on CD in 2008 with the original song order and no bonus tracks.
Pitchfork Media listed Songs of the Free as 99th best album of the 1980s.
Rhino Records re-released Songs of the Free in Limited edition of 6,250 on 180-gram blue, purple, and yellow splattered vinyl for Black Friday Record Store Day 2015.
- Hugo Burnham – drums, percussion
- Andrew Gill – guitar, vocals
- Jon King – vocals, melodica
- Sara Lee – bass, backing vocals
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