| Artist |
Wire |
| Album Title: |
Pink Flag |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Post-Punk |
| Format |
Vinyl 180 gm |
| Released |
12/00/1977 |
| Reissue Date |
00/00/2006 |
| Label |
4 Men With Beards |
| Catalog No |
4M508 |
| Bar Code No |
6 46315 15081 0 |
| Reissue |
Yes |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| A1.
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Reuters (3:02)
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| A2.
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Field Day for the Sundays (0:28)
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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 (2:17)
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| A5.
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Lowdown (2:26)
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| A6.
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Start to Move (1:12)
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| A7.
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Brazil (0:40)
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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 (1:17)
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| A10.
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Pink Flag (3:48)
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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 (1:25)
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| B5.
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Strange (3:58)
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| B6.
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Fragile (1:18)
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| B7.
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Mannequin (2:36)
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| B8.
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Different to Me (0:43)
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| B9.
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Champs (1:46)
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| B10.
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Feeling Called Love (1:21)
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| B11.
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12 X U (1:55)
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| Date Acquired |
05/05/2020 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Electric Fetus - Minneapolis |
| Purchase Price |
18.99 |
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Notes |
Notes:
Recorded at Advision Studios.
Mastered at Skye Mastering, vinyl mastering at Fantasy Studios.
180 gram vinyl, printed inner sleeve with lyrics, sticker on cover.
Credits:
Arranged By – Gilbert, Newman (tracks: A1 to A10, B2 to B11), Lewis, Grey
Art Direction – David Dragon
Bass, Vocals – G. Lewis
Design Concept [Sleeve Concept] – Gilbert, Lewis
Drums – Robert Gotobed
Engineer – Paul Hardiman
Engineer [Assistant] – Ken Thomas
Guitar – B. C. Gilbert
Lacquer Cut By – George Horn
Mastered By – Denis Blackham
Music By – Newman
Photography By [B. C. Gilbert, Front Cover, Robert Gotobed] – Annette Green
Photography By [Colin] – Richard Bray
Photography By [Lewis] – Lynda House
Producer – Mike Thorne
Vocals, Guitar – Colin Newman
Companies, etc.:
Recorded At – Advision Studios
Mastered At – Skye Mastering
Lacquer Cut At – Fantasy Studios
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-60096
Pressed By – Rainbo Records – S-60097
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Scanned): 646315150810
Barcode (Text): 6 46315 15081 0
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): S-60096
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): S-60097
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): S-60096 4M508 A1
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): S-60097 4M508 B1
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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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