| Artist |
Wire |
| Album Title: |
Pink Flag |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Post-Punk |
| Format |
Vinyl |
| Released |
12/00/1977 |
| Reissue Date |
06/22/2018 |
| Label |
Pinkflag |
| Catalog No |
PF11LP |
| Bar Code No |
5 024545 812312 |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| A1.
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Reuters (3:03)
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| A2.
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Field Day for the Sundays (0:23)
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| A3.
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Three Girl Rhumba (1:23)
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| A4.
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Ex Lion Tamer (2:19)
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| A5.
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Lowdown (2:25)
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| A6.
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Start to Move (1:13)
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| A7.
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Brazil (0:41)
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| A8.
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It's So Obvious (0:53)
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| A9.
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Surgeon's Girl (1:15)
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| A10.
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Pink Flag (3:47)
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| B1.
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The Commercial (0:49)
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| B2.
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Straight Line (0:44)
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| B3.
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106 Beats That (1:12)
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| B4.
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Mr. Suit (1:24)
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| B5.
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Strange (3:57)
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| B6.
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Fragile (1:18)
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| B7.
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Mannequin (2:37)
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| B8.
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Different to Me (0:43)
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| B9.
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Champs (1:54)
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| B10.
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Feeling Called Love (1:22)
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| B11.
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1 2 X U (1:55)
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| Date Acquired |
03/03/2020 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
The Band At A Gig |
| Purchase Price |
30.00 |
Web Links |
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Notes |
Notes:
Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics.
Recorded at Advision Studios.
℗ & © 2018 pinkflag
Credits:
Bass – Lewis
Drums – Robert Grey
Guitar – B. C. Gilbert
Guitar, Vocals - Colin Newman
Art Direction – David Dragon
Engineer – Paul Hardiman
Engineer [Assistant] – Ken Thomas
Photography By [Colin] [Uncredited] – Richard Bray
Photography By [Front Cover] – Annette Green
Photography By [Lewis] [Uncredited] – Lynda House
Producer – Mike Thorne
Sleeve [Sleeve Concept] – B. C. Gilbert, Lewis
Composed By [Uncredited] – B. Gilbert (tracks: A1 to B7, B9 to B11), C. Newman (tracks: A1 to B7, B9 to B11), G. Lewis (tracks: A1 to B7, B9 to B11), R. Gotobed (tracks: A1 to B7, B9 to B11)
Companies, etc.:
Copyright © – Pinkflag
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pinkflag
Recorded At – Advision Studios
Licensed From – The state51 Conspiracy
Distributed By – Cargo
Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BI 24122
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text): 5 024545 812312
Barcode (Scanned): 5024545812312
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): PF11LP-1
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): PF11LP-2
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A etched, variant 1): BI 24122-01 A1 PF 11 A2 (REV)
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B etched, variant 1): BI 24122-01 B1 PF 11 B2 (REV)
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A etched, variant 2): BI 24122-01 A1 PF 11 A2 (REV) +r
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B etched, variant 2): BI 24122-01 B1 PF 11 B2 (REV)
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by Steve Huey:
Perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk, Wire's Pink Flag plays like The Ramones Go to Art School -- song after song careens past in a glorious, stripped-down rush. However, unlike the Ramones, Wire ultimately made their mark through unpredictability. Very few of the songs followed traditional verse/chorus structures -- if one or two riffs sufficed, no more were added; if a musical hook or lyric didn't need to be repeated, Wire immediately stopped playing, accounting for the album's brevity (21 songs in under 36 minutes on the original version). The sometimes dissonant, minimalist arrangements allow for space and interplay between the instruments; Colin Newman isn't always the most comprehensible singer, but he displays an acerbic wit and balances the occasional lyrical abstraction with plenty of bile in his delivery. Many punk bands aimed to strip rock & roll of its excess, but Wire took the concept a step further, cutting punk itself down to its essence and achieving an even more concentrated impact. Some of the tracks may seem at first like underdeveloped sketches or fragments, but further listening demonstrates that in most cases, the music is memorable even without the repetition and structure most ears have come to expect -- it simply requires a bit more concentration. And Wire are full of ideas; for such a fiercely minimalist band, they display quite a musical range, spanning slow, haunting texture exercises, warped power pop, punk anthems, and proto-hardcore rants -- it's recognizable, yet simultaneously quite unlike anything that preceded it. Pink Flag's enduring influence pops up in hardcore, post-punk, alternative rock, and even Britpop, and it still remains a fresh, invigorating listen today: a fascinating, highly inventive rethinking of punk rock and its freedom to make up your own rules. [The original 1989 CD issue by Restless Retro features a bonus track, "Options R.
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