Wire - 154: Classic or Dud?

Also, word from the Wire camp is that Bruce Gilbert has left the group, leaving Wire mark 3 in jeopardy. Colin's Githead album will be out this year though...

Funny, I thought I typed that in 6 months ago. (I do have the REDUX now, suffice to say I've played it once. Boy am I backed up with stuff thesedays. I blame that 1981 box)

Happy birthday, that message.

I have played it a fair bit now, and it's excellent stuff. More than the actual 'normal' CD funnily enough.

lyrically/vocally I see it as something to work through, beyond (kill this buddha, the road leads on)
love "Blessed State" though - an all time fave:
"loved in the flesh, but butchered in the mind"

sonically awesome - production masterpiece + terrific hooks and sounds.
much Cocteau Twins seems a worthy continuation of parts of 154 -
e.g. intro to "A Touching Display"

one review at the time (Rolling Stone?) read: Wire, Get Out Of Marienbad (!!!)

best album evah

are the PF/CM/154 remasters worth getting?

Still interminable.

I'd take Pink Flag over Young & The Hopeless now, but it's close. I'd take Good Morning Revival over 154 by a mile though.

I think I will call 154 the Sgt. Pepper's of punk(/postpunk), though. The Sgt. Pepper's of punk(/postpunk) SCREWED & CHOPPED.

Or maybe The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway of punk(/postpunk)

Still interminable.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, June 1, 2007 3:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

kind of redundant

I'm coming towards the end of my first ever listen to this record. Feeling pretty chuffed tbh.

Dome next then Louis?

Also upthread: enthusiastic British poster of my own current age gushing untempered praise, seen here before inevitable transformation into laconic cynical antiamerican who makes improper jokes about gun control

Dome? Is that Wire's 4th album?

Dome was a Graham Lewis side project.

Lewis and Gilbert's side project and generally well worth your attention.

But don't expect it to be anything like Wire

I don't mind things that don't sound like other things.

Then you will do well...

who's this pre-ilm-makeover british poster you refer to?

Some say his name is...MP4xA

but I am loathe to believe them

*loath

grr

what happened to sundar?

Still shows up now and again

Did you like "Map Reference..." JGO? It's my favourite Wire song.

the 15th is one of my fav songs ever recorded

That's great too!

ya map reference is rly gd but then so is the whole album

shouldn't rly pick a favourite but maybe "i should have known better" is edging it atm

"the 15th" is timeless brilliance, mind

i'm rly falling for the tuneful ones like those two and "a mutual friend", sheesh, i feel like i'm cheating or something

but "a touching display" is mega-awes along with the vast majority of the rest so that's probably ok

Two People in a Room is fantastic.

Music to gnash teeth and rip seams to

It's a great bit of musical panic, superbly sequenced between the showstopping opener and the gorgeous, relaxing 3rd. 15th. Whatever. It's a great complacency-destroying song.