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What I mean is, "Dot Dash", followed by "I am the Fly" and then "Outdoor Miner", would have been a big push.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"I Am the Fly" on the back of Tiswas of course!!!!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh I love the extended Outdoor Miner.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

BMRB ban.

WOT?

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

British Market Research Bureau (compiled UK pop charts until Gallup took over in '83 or so); they decided "Outdoor Miner" showed signs of being hyped (EMI employees buying fistfuls of the 7" in chart-return shops) and deleted it from the chart.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

All that stands between Wire and megastardom is an appearance in a commercial, really.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember "Kidney Bingos" being the 80s "hit" for Wire in the U.S., at least.

Actually, "Kidney Bingos" kinda prototypes the more poppy Disco Inferno numbers like "The Last Dance" a bit.

― donut ferry (donut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-J7G7uGhBg

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link

― imago, Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:58 (two years ago) link

Sweet.

― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 May 2021 09:22 (two years ago) link

Iowa is pig latin for Wire

― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 1 May 2021 09:48 (two years ago) link

I love this song so much

― brimstead, Saturday, 1 May 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link

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