Album of the day (#1151): Pink Flag by Wire

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Today's album of the day

Pink Flag by Wire (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1977.
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Overall rank: 241
Average rating: 82/100 (from 228 votes).



Tracks:
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
21. 1 2 X U

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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I've fairly recently began to appreciate this album a lot more. Its fucking incredible. The best pure punk rock you'll ever hear. Every song has its place and is done amazingly, and there is not one second on here that's wasted. My favourite songs on here are Ex Lion Tamer, Lowdown, Start to Move, The Commercial, Mannequin, Champs, Feeling Called Love and 1 2 X U, but then there's not one I dislike.
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Soooo GOOD!!!! And winner for my favorite album title.

Track picks
1. Reuters
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
9. Surgeon's Girl
10. Pink Flag
17. Mannequin
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Indispensable listen.
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Amazing. I much prefer this to the follow-up, but my favorite by them is 154 because Scaruffi says it's the best. Seriously I didn't got into this immediately, but it's a wonderful album full of all kinds of punk songs. Somehow they manage to play plenty of short songs in little time while maintaining a very cold delivery, and still making them incredibly striking. Strong work.
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I've been listening a lot to Wire lately, really a great album!
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I have great great love for this album. As far as I am concerned it is one of the top 20 greatest albums ever made. Pure excellence from start to finish. The greatest punk album of all time in my opinion. It should be noted I have not heard every punk record, but I've heard a lot. And this is the best in my opinion. It narrowly edges out "Never mind the bollocks" for that distinction. This record is loud and abrasive, but the really great thing about it is it's unmatched precision. The band just perfectly and artfully deconstructs rock and puts it back together again with only its most intense and necessary elements. Then it speeds it up and turns it up and spits it back out at us like a blowtorch. Then, as if that wasn't enough to make me absolutely love it, in the second half after your mind has been thoroughly whitewashed of all prior ideas of rock cliche then the record eases you back into a few unexpected and perfectly executed pop songs and hooks. So genius.
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Fantastic album! Smile
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Always puzzles me to see all the excitement for an album like this, I really wonder what people love so much about stripped down music when I myself much prefer "fluffy" music. Anyway, this is one of the better if not the best "pure" punk rock album I've listened to.
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Mother Nature's Son wrote:
Always puzzles me to see all the excitement for an album like this, I really wonder what people love so much about stripped down music when I myself much prefer "fluffy" music. Anyway, this is one of the better if not the best "pure" punk rock album I've listened to.


I can kinda see where you are coming from.

I listened to this album today to revisit and see if I still loved it. I do. The thing about it is the production is very stripped down like you pointed out, but it's the austerity of it that turns even the most simple shit into grandiose moments. An example is the song "Lowdown". That song is about as minimalistic as it comes. It's also about as heavy as it gets. But when the loud guitar chord "solo" thing comes in toward the middle-end of the song it just hits me so much. In that moment it feels almost lush. It feels just BIG, GRAND, and expressive as hell.

It's like the simple-ness and stripped down-ness of the production makes the little details all the more awesome and almost revelatory in a way. They just kinda come out at you, seemingly out of nowhere.

I just love this so much.
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