#412: Wire - Pink Flag

Wire - Pink Flag

December 1977, Harvest

1. "Reuters" - 3:03

2. "Field Day for the Sundays" - 0:28

3. "Three Girl Rhumba" - 1:23

4. "Ex Lion Tamer" - 2:19

5. "Lowdown" - 2:26

6. "Start to Move" - 1:13

7. "Brazil" - 0:41

8. "It's So Obvious" - 0:53

9. "Surgeon's Girl" - 1:17

10. "Pink Flag" - 3:47

11. "The Commercial" - 0:49

12. "Straight Line" - 0:44

13. "106 Beats That" - 1:12

14. "Mr. Suit" - 1:25

15. "Strange" - 3:58

16. "Fragile" - 1:18

17. "Mannequin" - 2:37

18. "Different to Me" - 0:43

19. "Champs" - 1:46

20. "Feeling Called Love" - 1:22

21. "12 X U" - 1:55

RESULTS

Rate: 9/10

Best Song: 12 X U

Worst Song: 106 Beats That

Comments

If they are on a Punk Rock dumping spree, I will be their landfill.

Excellent Album. I really do love short but extraordinary songs. They maintain the fun energy levels while still keeping the listener interested. Now, that's not to say I don't enjoy long and epic songs ("Stairway to Heaven"), but the short simplicity acts as very powerful fillers to an Album that keeps the fluidity of an Album going, rather than cramming in 20 long ass songs to fill in the void space to "Complete" an Album. The previous Album did the short song technique, but it just got weird, and was rushed shitty music for the fillers. Wire nailed it flawlessly, though.

Well, for the most part.

It got a little rough around some edges, and the longer songs were just to distant for my taste. Too much guitar and amp sounds that kind of blended together in a little bit of an irritating manner, in comparison with that of garage rock.

Still, I've seen this Album so many times, yet this is my first time actually hearing any of it. It's my type of music, and it has a charming atmosphere to the messy sound of the premise, so well done on Wire's behalf.