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Wire - Pink Flag (Remastered) (LP)

Wire - Pink Flag (Remastered) (LP)

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Digitally remastered edition. Pink Flag is the debut studio album by English band Wire. It was released in November 1977, through Harvest Records. Though the album failed to chart on its initial release, it has been widely acclaimed and is considered by critics and other commentators to have been highly influential on many other musicians since its release. Wire's first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire's reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first.

Wire's furious interpretation of punk was encapsulated on this primitive, minimalist debut. Abrasive and disjointed, these 21 tracks exude a fury impossible to ignore and one enhanced by their very brevity. Tracks halt, sometimes abruptly, when the point has been made, creating an ever-changing melange of sound and texture. While generally aggressive, Pink Flag also boasts two wonderful pop songs ('Ex-Lion Tamer' and 'Mannequin'), suggesting that Wire would not be constrained by stylistic expectations. The album's mixture of polemics and pointedness would influence several US groups, including R.E.M., who later covered 'Strange'. Its perceptive urgency grows with time.

Wire: Colin Newman (vocals, guitar); Graham Lewis (vocals, bass); B.C. Gilbert (guitar); Robert Gotobed (drums).
Additional personnel: Kate Lukas (flute); Dave Oberle (background vocals).

  • Genre: Punk
  • Format: Vinyl

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Tracklist 

A1 Reuters
A2 Field Day For The Sundays
A3 Three Girl Rhumba
A4 Ex Lion Tamer
A5 Lowdown
A6 Start To Move
A7 Brazil
A8 It's So Obvious
A9 Surgeon's Girl
A10 Pink Flag
B1 The Commercial
B2 Straight Line
B3 106 Beats That
B4 Mr. Suit
B5 Strange
B6 Fragile
B7 Mannequin
B8 Different To Me
B9 Champs
B10 Feeling Called Love
B11 1 2 X U

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