Feast your eyes on this: The Wire Magazine 20th Anniversary box set!

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TRACKLISTING:
CD1
01) Steve Lacy The Wire
02) Ennio Morricone (with Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova
Consonanza) Seguita
03) Coil Wrong Eye
04 Hands To Egress (excerpt)
05) David Toop & Max Eastley Buried Dreams
06) Vivian Jackson & King Tubby Tubby's Vengeance
07) Fennesz Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
08) Derek Bailey M 5
09) Traditional Musicians, Bali Cockfight - Trance In Paksabali
And Kesiman - Gamelan Beleganjur
10) Einstürzende Neubauten Pygmäen
11) AMM After Rapidly Circling The Plaza (excerpt)
12) Mars 11,000 Volts
13) Cabaret Voltaire Breathe Deep
14) Tony Conrad with Faust The Death Of The Composer Was In 1962
15) Designer Vandal
16) Torture Soaking Bodies In Dub
17) Fela Kuti Shenshema

CD2
01) The Art Ensemble Of Chicago Illistrum
02) Sonic Youth Expressway To Yr Skull
03) Spring Heel Jack/The Blue Series Continuum Salt
04) This Heat Paper Hats
05) Stereolab & Nurse With Wound Simple Headphone Mind
06) Jac Berrocal Rock 'N' Roll Station
07) Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra Ancient Ethiopia
08) Christian Marclay Jukebox Capriccio
09) John Cage Williams Mix
10) Yoshihide Otomo Cathode #4: Soundcheck Version
11) Björk Headphones
12) Pauline Oliveros I (excerpt)

CD3
01) Keith Hudson Satan Side
02) Terry Riley Music For The Gift Part 1
03) William S Burroughs (with Ian Sommerville) Silver Smoke Of
Dreams
04) Suicide Rocket USA
05) Supersilent 4.2
06) Pan Sonic Vaihe (Fön)
07) Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft Kebabträume
08) Larry Young Khalid Of Space Part 2 - Welcome
09) David Behrman (with Gordon Mumma) Players With Circuits
10) Fushitsusha The Caution Appears Part 5
11) John Coltrane (with Alice Coltrane) Living Space
12) John Fahey Some Summer Day
13) Diamanda Galás 25 Minutes To Go

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 25 October 2002 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ, I've only heard of about 10% of this - guess I should read The Wire, like ever...

(comes out through Mute on Nov 18th btw)

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 25 October 2002 07:04 (twenty-three years ago)

the only black people they could find are dead??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 October 2002 07:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Some must-hears there but alas I fear the Mark S era has been airbrushed from Wire history a bit!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 25 October 2002 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

which issues did mark s edit (I have some old ones where he makes more substantial contributions but they are edited by richard cook)?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 October 2002 08:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard a lot of these artists if not many of the specific tracks.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 25 October 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, Vivian Jackson is to my knowledge a) still alive and b) still very black. Is Torture Sensational of Wordsound/Ipecac Records fame (he's black and alive too btw)? Cuz that's the only thing on here that seems to be even close to hip hop (unless you wanna be SUPER lenient and count that Tricky--oops he's BLACK and sorta alive as well--produced Bjork thing, but I really wouldn't) which seems kind of weird and yet at the same time very typically Wire. Still it's a pretty cool looking collection, despite that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

where is Hear'say ???!!!

I own 3 of these tracks.

― Jeff W, Friday, 25 October 2002 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FUCK i have to hurry up with my mixtapes containing "satan side" or else i'll look a plum. grr

pff great comp for what it is but 20 years of music doesn't add up to much fun. being cynical they should've thrown in some pop tracks to silence the naysayers and "prove" they were listening all along! then they could've carried on like that for another 20 years!!

sensational just scrapes being counted as alive, yes.

― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 25 October 2002 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

the thing with this also is you can see EXACTLY who chose what. it's very herrington

― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 25 October 2002 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm going to wind up buying this just for "kebabtraume." fuck.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

If all you want is Kebapträume, pick up this:

http://www.polystar.de/_sites/vdj/

It's absolutely fantastic.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(ooh DAF is on there, I missed that. 4 not 3 then - haha jel has just spoofed me on the "Every post ever" thread)

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Satan Side is brilliant one of the best things ever - did Hudson ever record anything as good and strange?

Why the hell should the Wire pay lip service to pop music. I'm perfectly capable of buying more than music magazine in a month and am happy enough with their coverage.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 25 October 2002 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

This is kind of what I meant by the Mark S years tigerclaw - when I started reading The Wire they did cover pop music and did so very intelligently - they seemed really excited by the new dance and hip-hop stuff that was happening and had lots to say about punk and about various alternative-pop pioneers, like New Order. I don't think it's too much to expect a couple of tracks reflecting that phase (which unsurprisingly I miss enormously) on a 20-year anniversary CD. They could even have had their cake and eaten it by chucking a cpl of bootlegs on :)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 25 October 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Seems a bit light on hip hop too, especially considering the Wire writers have been keen on Antipop Consortium and Def Jux artists in last 3 years.

― zebedee (Jeff W), Friday, 25 October 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a little surprised by how much of this music I wouldn't mind owning.

― Ra-kist Scientist, Friday, 25 October 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Alice Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors, Joseph Jarman and Famadou Don Moye are dead? Shocker!

― hstencil, Friday, 25 October 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Since I never rad the credits for anything I'd still be interested to know when the Mark S (is that short for something) years were. When I started (94) it did seem more engaged with the leftfield of the mainstream, stuff like Nick Cave and Jah Wobble and so on. But with ongoing covers for radiohead and bjork thats still true to some extent. I'd possibly misinterpreted that call for pop inclusion as to put on some Britney on for the sake of balance which sounded a bit like saying 20 years of Kerrang or Classical Magazine should also have a bit of Britney.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 25 October 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Cor, is this the first time "Simple Headphone Mind" has appeared on CD? Or anywhere for about six years?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 October 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't "SHM" on that nurse with wound collaberations collection?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 25 October 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"Simple Headphone Mind"!! Amazing...one of Stereolab's best ever. Milllllky...whiiiite. This looks like a killer compilation. As diverse, or more, than the fabulous Rough Trade Shops 4CD box (listening to the RTS Electronic 01 comp now - also ace).

― Ernest P., Friday, 25 October 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"Simple Headphone Mind" is indeed on the NWW "Swinging Reflective" comp which everybody should own.

― dan (dan), Friday, 25 October 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, right - my mistake. I was under the impression that SHM had fallen off the face of the earth shortly after the initial release sold out and the bands involved stopped being pals. It was originally going to be on Aluminum Tunes, wasn't it?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 25 October 2002 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

otoh weren't there two tracks on SHM and only one shorter thing on the swinging reflective?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 25 October 2002 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

There were indeed two tracks on SHM, one per side.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 25 October 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

the expected usual suspects from the revolving carousel of the wire's v.conservative idea of what ever it is they purport to do. adventures in modern music? not fucking likely!

― bob snoom, Sunday, 27 October 2002 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah - where is hear'say????

if mark s did it - it would not seem like - well - a parody of musoness, that it is.

― doom-e, Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks MUCH, fuckers!

― mark 's (david h), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

At least it has Paper Hats, which is [insert superlative]

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Monday, 28 October 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s years = 92-93, basically

i think one of tony h's clear achievements — we didn't have the financial luxury, which th created (by making the wire profitable) — is the idea of the free promo CD featuring loadsa foax you have NEVER HEARD OF!! that's quite odd when you think of it, and pretty impressive

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)

by "you" i don't mean YOU obv, i mean Mr Passerby Music-Mag Punter who this kind of freebie promo campaign is designed to attract

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The appearance of 'oh no!....oh no!' in the latest ish was noted and appreciated, Mr S.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Immediately had to hear the 'Sonic Youth/ICP' collaboration - imagine my disappointment when I found out...oh, never mind. I hope the Wire office gets burnt down by a mob of juggaloes

― dave q, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

not before i get paid.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

odd but i was looking at this only yesterday. spent saturday ripping all my stereolab cds to a disc's worth of mp3s and was looking to see what i'd overlooked in the process.

(from www.stereolab.co.uk)
simple headphone mind.
release details
Duophonic Super 45's
DS45-11 - standard pressing on black vinyl
DS45-11 - limited edition version on yellow vinyl
DS45-CD11 - 800 copies on CD

bought 'abc music' this morning. stereolab used to be great...

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Just found this today, finally, for $50 Cdn. Anyone else picked this up in North America, and if so, how much? What's it going for in the UK? (Amazon sez 18 pounds, but what's it at retail?)

Still haven't listened through it; heard a chunk previously already though so I know I'm going to like it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 9 January 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that Diamanda Galas '25 minutes to go' a cover of the Johnny Cash song?

And would people who've bought the box set recommend it?

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

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