Pink Flag: Wire: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Reuters
2. Field Day For The Sundays
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
5. Lowdown
6. Start To Move
7. Brazil
8. It's So Obvious
9. Surgeon's Girl
10. Pink Flag
11. The Commercial
12. Straight Line
13. 106 Beats That
14. Mr Suit
15. Strange
16. Fragile
17. Mannequin
18. Different To Me
19. Champs
20. Feeling Called Love
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Wire's debut is the smartest record of the '77 punk explosion, a formally seamless suite of 21 songs in 35 minutes, edited to the bone and graced with allusive, thoughtful lyrics, howled by Colin Newman like political slogans. The band's crisp, precise snap gets an awful lot of mileage out of their three-and-a-half chords, and their attack never lets up. The album's minimal structures and snarly guitar sound are still hugely influential ("12XU" has been covered many times, and Elastica's "Connection" is basically a rewrite of "Three Girl Rhumba"), and its sequence is so perfect that the band that opened for Wire on their reunion tour ten years later simply played Pink Flag straight through, including between-song pauses. --Douglas Wolk

Album Description

Classic 1977 debut album for British punk act. Includes 2 bonus tracks 'Dot Dash' & 'Options R'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars the smartest post-punk record to ever come out in the '70s.., July 10 2004

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... or ever. the popular post-punk band Wire has released greats such as "Chairs missing, "154", and their masterpeice "Pink Flag". running twenty two songs (option R* bonus track) in only 37 minutes. i dunno if Pink Flag is truely Wire's best, because Chairs Missing offers twenty more minutes with about the same amount of songs. but if you are starting to want to get into Wire, this is the album to start on. the tracks are put in order by a God, i tell you. minus the bonus track, "12XU" is the actual ending. the album gets more amazing by each track. when it hits near "Strange" it gets amazing streaming guitars, drums, and bass. its pure brilliance.

usually, i'll be writing more about something than this. but you should have heard of this album. popular by the punk fans of the 1970s, if you haven't read some reviews. that should encourage you to buy it. and really, you don't have to even like punk to enjoy this album. i don't even enjoy punk that much, all i really enjoy from that genre is Joy Division, Elvis Costello, the Clash, and... this. you're collection is ten times better having Wire's "Pink Flag" in there.

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5.0 out of 5 stars not just a great punk record- one of the best ever made, April 16 2004

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this album is amazing and while this band is highly under rated and not well known, i think they've been extremely influencial to a lot of bands. their musical influence is equivalent to the aesthetic/attitude influence of the (...)pistols. the best band of the late seventies "punk explosion" (...).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still amazing twenty-five years later, Mar 28 2004

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Virgil "Virgil" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

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Wire's "Pink Flag" is an explosion of minimalist punk with no equal. The songs are two minutes or less and chock full of energy, vitality and intelligence. No other band sounds like Wire- in fact Wire never sounded like this again. This album influenced bands from REM to Nirvana and is an important one to have in any serious rock collection.

Also recommended and almost as influential are Wire's follow-up albums "Chairs Missing" and "154" also great albumns but totally different sounds.

A must have album and without a doubt one of the great rock albums of all time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Flawless creative rock that still sounds great!
I picked up Wire's Pink Flag album after reading a book hailing it as one of the greatest seminal albums of alternative rock. Read more

Published on Dec 19 2003 by Kenneth