| Artist |
Wire |
| Album Title: |
Pink Flag |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Old School Punk |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
12/00/1977 |
| Reissue Date |
04/11/2006 |
| Label |
PinkFlag/Mutesong |
| Catalog No |
PF11 |
| Bar Code No |
8 43190 00050 0 |
| Packaging |
Digipack |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Reuters (3:03)
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| 2.
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Field Day For The Sundays (0:28)
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| 3.
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Three Girl Rhumba (1:23)
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| 4.
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Ex Lion Tamer (2:19)
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| 5.
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Lowdown (2:26)
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| 6.
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Start To Move (1:13)
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| 7.
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Brazil (0:41)
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| 8.
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It's So Obvious (0:53)
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| 9.
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Surgeon's Girl (1:15)
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| 10.
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Pink Flag (3:47)
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| 11.
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The Commercial (0:49)
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| 12.
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Straight Line (0:44)
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| 13.
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106 Beats That (1:12)
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| 14.
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Mr. Suit (1:24)
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| 15.
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Strange (3:57)
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| 16.
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Fragile (1:18)
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| 17.
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Mannequin (2:37)
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| 18.
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Different To Me (0:43)
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| 19.
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Champs (1:45)
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| 20.
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Feeling Called Love (1:22)
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| 21.
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12 X U (1:55)
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| Date Acquired |
11/29/2012 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
13.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
Remastered reissue of this 1977 LP.
Bruce Gilbert is exclusively known as B.C. Gilbert in 70's Wire, Graham Lewis is alternatively known as Lewis & G. Lewis in 70's Wire
Credits conform to the "WIRE 1977-1979" box set edition of the 2006 re-releases & are to be considered to be the most deinitive crediting of the 70's Wire releases [as approved by the band]
Released in a standard Digipak.
foobar2000 1.1.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-09-02 01:49:56
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Analyzed: Wire / Pink Flag
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.01 dB -9.54 dB 3:04 01/21-Reuters
DR10 -0.10 dB -10.82 dB 0:28 02/21-Field Day for the Sundays
DR10 -0.10 dB -12.90 dB 1:24 03/21-Three Girl Rhumba
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.81 dB 2:20 04/21-Ex Lion Tamer
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.80 dB 2:27 05/21-Lowdown
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.23 dB 1:13 06/21-Start to Move
DR8 -0.10 dB -10.15 dB 0:41 07/21-Brazil
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.60 dB 0:54 08/21-It's So Obvious
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.19 dB 1:18 09/21-Surgeon's Girl
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.81 dB 3:46 10/21-Pink Flag
DR9 -0.10 dB -9.86 dB 0:49 11/21-The Commercial
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.55 dB 0:45 12/21-Straight Line
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.74 dB 1:13 13/21-106 Beats That
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.39 dB 1:25 14/21-Mr. Suit
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.59 dB 3:59 15/21-Strange
DR10 -0.10 dB -11.23 dB 1:18 16/21-Fragile
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.54 dB 2:37 17/21-Mannequin
DR9 -0.10 dB -11.14 dB 0:44 18/21-Different to Me
DR9 -0.10 dB -10.58 dB 1:46 19/21-Champs
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.49 dB 1:28 20/21-Feeling Called Love
DR8 -0.10 dB -10.73 dB 1:57 21/21-1 2 X U
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Number of tracks: 21
Official DR value: DR8
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 915 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Steve Huey
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 Britpop, 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. [The original 1989 CD issue by Restless Retro features a bonus track, "Options R.
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