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Abrasive and disjointed, these 21 tracks exude a fury impossible to ignore and one enhanced by their very brevity.
The artily unintelligible lyrics and dense production marked Wire out as a sort of New Wave Roxy Music" (p. 170)
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(help)The most original album of punk's first wave....The resulting sound was far colder and more brutal than anything else around at the time.
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(help)Abrasive and disjointed, these 21 tracks exude a fury impossible to ignore and one enhanced by their very brevity.
The artily unintelligible lyrics and dense production marked Wire out as a sort of New Wave Roxy Music" (p. 170)
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(help)The most original album of punk's first wave....The resulting sound was far colder and more brutal than anything else around at the time.
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(help)This first-generation U.K. punk band made sparse tunes that erupted in combustible snippets on its 21-track debut album. America never got it, but Pink Flag – as revolutionary discs tend to do – influenced some important bands, including Sonic Youth and the Minutemen. It also might be one of the most-covered punk LPs ever: Minor Threat did "12XU", R.E.M. did "Strange", the New Bomb Turks did "Mr. Suit", Spoon did "Lowdown", the Lemonheads did "Fragile", and on and on.
The Patti Smith record Horses came out shortly after that. And then Marquee Moon, by Television, came out. And I bought the first Wire album. Those were the big influences.
The Patti Smith record Horses came out shortly after that. And then Marquee Moon, by Television, came out. And I bought the first Wire album. Those were the big influences.