It blew my mind straight off. I had only really heard A Bell Is A Cup and Ideal Copy prior to this, and I wasn't prepared for the sheer brilliance.
A Mutual Friend is one of my all-time favorite songs.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 11 March 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
that's what listening to 154 feels like for us, yes
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), September 23rd, 2004 1:46 PM. (link)
Funny, I thought I typed this in last month... (Still haven't got the REDUX yet, suffice to say)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I mean, Miccio, it's not even worth responding to. We all know he's a joke. What's weird is that I like SOME of our posts Alfred, but then you post craziness like this. don't get it.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
As for not playing an instrument, geez, can an argument be any lamer? You don't know if I play an instrument; and if I didn't, how would that make "154" a more rewarding experience?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 14 March 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
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...
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), March 14th, 2005 9:32 AM. (link)
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)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tomato Voyeur (Bimble...), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 14 January 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), July 4th, 2005 2:36 PM. (link)
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.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (!!!)
― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
best album evah
are the PF/CM/154 remasters worth getting?
― jabba hands, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Still interminable.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I will call 154 the Sgt. Pepper's of punk(/postpunk), though. The Sgt. Pepper's of punk(/postpunk) SCREWED & CHOPPED.
― da croupier, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Or maybe The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway of punk(/postpunk)
― da croupier, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, June 1, 2007 3:02 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
kind of redundant
― s1ocki, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm coming towards the end of my first ever listen to this record. Feeling pretty chuffed tbh.
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Dome next then Louis?
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Dome was a Graham Lewis side project.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Lewis and Gilbert's side project and generally well worth your attention.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link
But don't expect it to be anything like Wire
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link