The fact that this is another one picked up in Canada might give away the fact that these 12″ picks aren’t really the result of lucky dips. It doesn’t make me a bad person.
Gang of Four were on EMI over here in the UK and on Warner Brothers in North America.
I Love A Man In Uniform was released in the UK as a single, on 7″ and 12″, in May 1982, just a week ahead of the album Songs Of The Free. The single version was identical to the version on the album, and was backed by The World At Fault, an otherwise unavailable song. There were no extra tracks made available on the 12″. It reached #65 in the singles chart, just the second time Gang of Four had breached the Top 75, a full three years after At Home, He’s A Tourist.
Things were a bit different over in North America. Warner Brothers went with an extended and remixed version of Uniform as the a-side, while the b-side offered a dub version of the song along with another track which, as far as I know, was only made available initially via this release, although it would be added to compilation albums in future years.
mp3: Gang Of Four – I Love A Man In Uniform (remix)
mp3: Gang Of Four – Producer
mp3: Gang Of Four – I Love A Man In Uniform (dub version)
The drum sound is different on the remix, and the song ends up about 90 seconds longer than the original. The dub version is largely instrumental in nature and should be played loud. Producer is a fine track, and I’m assuming was left off Songs Of The Free either for reasons of space or that the band members felt it wasn’t quite a good fit.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
Thanks for this, JC !
I never knew about these different mixes of the A side and the otherwise unreleased B side.
“Anonymous” being JC Brouchard, sorry !
Not the beginning of the end of Go4, but damn close.
And later (even) Razormaid made a remix of the song stretching it to almost 7 minutes. Probably not to everyones taste.