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Pink Flag [Original recording remastered]

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4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (18 Jul 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B000024E05
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 99,456 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Reuters
2. Field Day For The Sundays
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
5. Lowdown
6. Start To Move
7. Brazil
8. It's So Obvious
9. Surgeon's Girl
10. Pink Flag
11. Commercial
12. Straight Line
13. 106 Beats That
14. Mr Suit
15. Strange
16. Fragile
17. Mannequin
18. Different To Me
19. Champs
20. Feeling Called Love
See all 23 tracks on this disc

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Forget the Ramones' brutal minimalism. On Pink Flag, Wire's fractured, visionary debut album from 1977, Newman, Gilbert, Lewis and Gotobed raced through 21 songs in under 40 minutes, never once forgetting to write a memorable hook-line, and some smart, sassy words. This is experimental, insidiously catchy art-pop at its peak. Fans argue over which of Wire's first three albums is the greatest--both the layered Chairs Missing and the synthesiser-laden 154 have their moments of sheer sublimeness--but there's no arguing that Pink Flag was the most ground-breaking. Its nervy, dissonant guitar-led sound went on to influence numerous bands over the following two decades--Blur and Elastica most famously among them. Even now, tracks like the invigorating punk love song "12XU" and fragile "Mannequin" sound state-of-the-art. This is a brilliant debut. --Everett True

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5.0 out of 5 stars The definitve punk template, 24 Jul 2001
By M. GILL "Mind Crash" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is the other definitive '77 punk album, with the Pistols "Nevermind..." being the first. Pink Flag contains the song structures, chord shapes and back beats from which all other punk records descend - consider it a punk template! The power transfers well to CD, unlike some other material from the same era. In my view, the only "weakness" here is the inclusion of the two "bonus tracks" ("Dot Dash" & "Options R" from "the rare stuff"), though these are not exactly rubbish, the space may have been better occupied by the live versions of "12XU" and "Lowdown" from the Vortex sessions. Your partner & neighbours will cringe - buy it!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard as Nails, 30 Aug 2004
This album sounds fresh even today. The guitar attack has rarely been matched, and the visceral intelligent lyrics make this album even more astonishing.

Name checked by such respected artists as Steve Albini and Iain MacKaye, this album has a great influence on american hardcore punk. It's the kind of music only an English band of the 70s could make; abrasive, intelligent and very kraut-rock influenced.

The songs are all short and snappy, with driving hooks that fall apart at just the right time. No room for guitar histrionics.

The only album I can think of that resembles it is Entertainment by the Gang of Four, or maybe Metal Box by PiL. It has to be one of my absolute faves.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 77's true masterpiece, 7 Feb 2006
Disappointed by the Ramones albums? This album packs more songs in to less time, with genuinely witty and intelligent lyrics and inventive music. Pre-empting the post punk movement, Wire moved on from the tired nihilism and cliches of punk. Pink Flag is filled with plays on the song structure. 106 Beats That was originally intended to be a song of exactly 100 syllables, and the title track was supposed to be "Johnny B. Goode" written with one chord. Whilst the Sex Pistol's debut was carefully crafted in the studio, Pink Flag's clean production ensures that instruments carve out clean shapes through the mix. For Wire, there was to be no cashing in, as they moved on and continued to innovate over their next albums.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dont ever forget this one
True winners of the most influential forgotten band of the 70's punk scene. Enjoy.
Published on 14 Nov 2003 by yosemite sam

5.0 out of 5 stars classic, penetrating, two-minute punk tracks
i reckon that this is one of the classic punk albums. The songs are short and fast, the lyrics are quite meaningful.
Published on 6 Jul 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars Not The Best In The World
Although the rest of Pink flags albums are good, this one wasnt the best. I sat down and listned to 15 mins of it and turned it off.
Published on 19 April 2001 by aracooper@btinternet.com

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