Suit,' REM covered 'Strange,' Minor Threat covered Ripped off by Elastica, Henry Rollins covered 'Ex Lion Tamer,' the New Bomb Trillion bands have covered or ripped off songs from this album (did I Sounds like no other, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. That the songs are really short and catchy. The astonishingly hypnotic guitar tone, which somehow manages to be filthy,įoreboding and chiming all at the same time. Maybe I'm drawn to the brilliance masquerading as simplicity. My Walkman for like two weeks in a row, which is something I NEVER do. Point where I was literally listening to it over and over and over again in Then I kept being drawn back to it over and over again until it got to the Those records where I started off thinking it had maybe three good songs, I can't even really put my finger on what it is, but it's one of I am in awe of this album and have been for a very long Track that have you clawing your eyes out at the ensuing drama. Then there's these amazing slow moody songs like 'Reuters' and the title So you're all like 'punk band, okay.' But 'Field Day For The Sundays,' which sticks about 52 false ends into a song Then a third chord pops in and WHAMMO! It's over. 'Surgeon's Girl' forĮxample careens along with ONE chord until they decide to change to a secondĬhord. Stop all of a sudden as soon as the lyrics are over. No real verse or chorus to most of them - just start, go and SCREAMS 'pretentious.' After that, there's the fact that the songs start, Student spitting out his abstruse lyrics in a detached voice that just Then there's the singer who just sounds like a deep art With the bass, guitar and drums all sounding like one big fuzzy beautiful This is the album that made some people startĬalling Wire 'Punk Floyd.' It's exactly what you would expect a punk rockĪlbum by art students to sound like. Shittyass dick albums! That's more than you can say for most of the world's You consider that I actually bothered to BUY most of their late-period Real question we all want to ask ourselves? Sure it is! Especially when Slowed down and got arty/experimental but good. HEEE!!! Wire were British art students who started off as a punk band, then (1977-1979) Behind The Curtain Document AndĮyewitness Turns And Strokes Snakedrill EP The Ideal Copy A Bell Is A Cup Until It Isīack Again Manscape The Drill The First Letter The Third Day EP Read & Burn EP Send Read & Burn 03 EP Object 47 Red Barked Tree Paragraph! Pink Flag Chairs Missing 154 The Peel Sessions On Returning

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