imago: I'd rank the songs on Red Barked Tree above most of those on Send.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 01:06 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
okay, to me this is madness - Send is one of my all-time favourite albums by anyone
― imago, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 09:36 (two years ago) link
In the list of albums I've played more than five times, "Change Becomes Us" is right in there...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link
The First Letter is weird and doesn't have many tunes on it. I remember buying it and feeling very misled by the single (So and Slow It Goes) which is an outlier on the album. Manscape is definitely better in a lot of ways (and I never thought it was bad in the first place, but it was the first Wire album I owned).
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
Right, the single is one of the best tracks, along with Bruce Gilbert's "Ticking Mouth" and "Footsi-Footsi" is really catchy, too.
The best thing from the Wir era is the "Vien" single, with the missing title track "The First Letter" and "Sexy And Rich (Janet)".
And there's a hidden gem which I missed for years - they do a remix of Erasure's "Fingers And Crumbs" which is 9 minutes of gloriousness.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
oh jeez I forgot about that, it's epic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wC0hzmDjI
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
I love the tone Newman gets from his guitar.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link