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Pink Flag - BioVinyl - Sealed

WIRE Pink Flag (Critically acclaimed landmark debut album from definitive and highly influential post-punk band Wire, originally released in 1977 and now available with remastered audio pressed on BioVinyl LP. Featuring 21 songs that are diverse in mood and style, "perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk", according to AllMusic. Picture sleeve with original cover artwork and inner, minus the Harvest logo. Factory sealed andhighly recommended)
#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time

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$25.39, £19.99  
Product Availability In stock. Order now for shipping on Friday 22nd November
Release Year 2024
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Pinkflag
Complete Stock List Go to Wire
Product Catalogue No PF11LP
Music Genre Punk
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

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 Brit-pop, 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.

Side 1
Reuters
Field Day For The Sundays
Three Girl Rhumba
Ex Lion Tamer
Lowdown
Start To Move
Brazil
It's So Obvious
Surgeon's Girl
Pink Flag

Side 2
The Commercial
Straight Line
106 Beats That
Mr. Suit
Strange
Fragile
Mannequin
Different To Me
Champs
Feeling Called Love
12XU

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist Wire
Product Title Pink Flag - BioVinyl - Sealed
Product Information Wire Pink Flag - BioVinyl - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To A.C. Marias, Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman, Cupol, Duet Emmo, Gilbert & Lewis, He Said, Immersion
Product Barcode 5024545812312
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