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Man Vs Monster

by: Fighting With Wire

Release Date March 10, 2008
If you like up-tempo Foo-fighter-esque Rock then this is exactly what your after, They haven't broken down any barriers here but have added another piece to the rock jigsaw puzzle, great for the ipod down the gym.

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Object 47

by: Wire

Release Date July 15, 2008
This is like a cross between Send and 154, lacking the angryness of Send and the wetter bits of 154. They must be knocking on a bit now but they sound fresh and dynamic. I think i will play it a lot.

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Chairs Missing: Remastered

by: Wire

Release Date March 27, 2006
Wire were one of the few pioneers who took punk as an ethos rather than a fashionable uniform, 1977's classic debut 'Pink Flag' is remembered for the minimal songs which lasted a minute, or in some cases seconds (it's probably celebrated lots for having the original version of Elastica's 'Connection' on - 'Three Girl Rhumba'). But there were hints of things to come on 'Pink Flag' - the catchy-bleakness of 'Lowdown', the sinister rock of 'Reuters' & the whirring avant-pop of 'Strange' (later murdered by REM). 'Chairs Missing' followed these oblique directions and those advanced by 'I am the Fly' and 'Dot Dash' - though at the time Wire were probably tagged prog by those who didn't understand (Magazine also suffered from this with their great second ... Read More:

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On Returning: Wire 1977-1979

by: Wire

Release Date February 07, 2000
Wire has recently re-released re-mastered versions of their first three hot streak albums "Pink Flag". "Chairs Missing" and "154", three albums of such fractured brilliance that the band promptly split up, claiming their creative juices had run dry. Subsequent reformations have put that theory to the sword but this was a band who was post punk before punk had a post, jumping from the angular edgy bursts of "Pink Flag" to the artier electronic "Chairs Missing" to the even more abstract surfaces of "154" while barely pausing for breath.
Anyone should really ascribe to owning all those albums but for those lacking the finances this is a sound option with is budget price and 31 tracks. As is always the case with these kinds of compilations there are ... Read More:

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Pink Flag: Remastered

by: Wire

Release Date March 27, 2006
The are not many 30 year old albums that sound more smart, vital, and up to date than anything currently being churned out. Time has revealed this as a genuine classic - and makes much of the guitar-pap being churned out by today's indie-poppers seem juvenile amd irrelevant. It's all very simple - fuzzy, churning, bounding guitars (sounding just like what the electric guitar was invented for), brilliant drumming and bass lines, and edgy, intelligent lyrics. If you don't like one track there will be another along in a minute - they don't overstay their welcome and leave you wanting more. Despite the plethora of tracks this album is consistently brilliant - you will play it all the way through and then go back again to the tracks you love best. I do not play ... Read More:

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Manscape

by: Wire

Release Date December 31, 1993
I put this in the CD player, pressed play and actually stopped and took it out to make sure I hadn't put in a disc by a dreadful 80's synth pop band. Sadly it was Wire!! Now I love the first three Wire albums and the latest two and everything in between has until now been a mystery to me. I wish it had remained that way. I mean what were they thinking? This is the worst kind of rubbish and completely lacks their sound, humour, quirkyness and tunefulness. Whatever happens do not buy, this is only good for an interesting coaster unless I can offload it on somebody else on e.bay.

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Wire Daisies

by: Wire Daisies

Release Date May 07, 2007
Second albums are always tricky territory, but Wire Daisies show how far they've come with this album. This band are fab live, and the producers have really caught the live feel with tracks like 'I never meant to hurt you' and 'Roll Me Over', which is an awesome track. Highly recommended!

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I Killed the Zeitgeist

by: Nicky Wire

Release Date September 25, 2006
I do love the glam/trash days of the Manics, and it was this that inspired me to buy this album, and it is a decent effort - Don't imagine he has the rock range of his mate James, but then who thought he would? He isn't exactly a guitarist either, but so what? If you can sit through Jarvis Cocker or Morrissey, you'll enjoy this - If you think Moz and Jarv are tone deaf, avoid this release like the plague!!!

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154: Remastered

by: Wire

Release Date March 27, 2006
1979 delivered three essential albums for me: PiL's Metal Box, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and 154, Wire's third studio LP (so-called because they had played 154 gigs by that time). Songs are generally longer than on the debut "Pink Flag", and the overall intensity and creepiness is cranked up by some serious excursions into weird sounds. Much of this must be due to producer Mike Thorne, who adds haunting synth and keyboard sounds that absolutely refuse to date and sound as mysterious today as the did then. This is best typified on "the Other Window", Lewis intoning a very English experience to being on a foreign train, culminating in seeing a dying horse trapped in a barbed wire fence. "he turned away/what could he do?/the other window had a...nicer view". ... Read More:

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I Killed the Zeitgeist

by: Nicky Wire

Release Date September 25, 2006
I do love the glam/trash days of the Manics, and it was this that inspired me to buy this album, and it is a decent effort - Don't imagine he has the rock range of his mate James, but then who thought he would? He isn't exactly a guitarist either, but so what? If you can sit through Jarvis Cocker or Morrissey, you'll enjoy this - If you think Moz and Jarv are tone deaf, avoid this release like the plague!!!