Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 310/500!
Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years.
"This first-generation U.K. punk band made sparse tunes that erupted in combustible snippets on its twenty-one-track debut album. America never got it, but Pink Flag as revolutionary discs tend to do influenced some important bands, including the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Elastica and R.E.M." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
Original artwork
180g audiophile vinyl
Musicians:
Colin Newman, vocals, guitar
B.C. Gilbert, guitar
G. Lewis, bass, vocals
Robert Gotobed, drums
Kate Flukas, flute (15)
Dave Oberle, back-up vocals (17)
Selections:
1. Reuters
2. Field Day for the Sundays
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
5. Lowdown
6. Start to Move
7. Brazil
8. It's So Obvious
9. Surgeon's Girl
10. Pink Flag
11. The Commercial
12. Straight Line
13. 106 Beats That
14. Mr. Suit
15. Strange
16. Fragile
17. Mannequin
18. Different to Me
19. Champs
20. Feeling Called Love
21. 12 X U
Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years.
"This first-generation U.K. punk band made sparse tunes that erupted in combustible snippets on its twenty-one-track debut album. America never got it, but Pink Flag as revolutionary discs tend to do influenced some important bands, including the Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Elastica and R.E.M." - www.rollingstone.com
Features:
Original artwork
180g audiophile vinyl
Musicians:
Colin Newman, vocals, guitar
B.C. Gilbert, guitar
G. Lewis, bass, vocals
Robert Gotobed, drums
Kate Flukas, flute (15)
Dave Oberle, back-up vocals (17)
Selections:
1. Reuters
2. Field Day for the Sundays
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
5. Lowdown
6. Start to Move
7. Brazil
8. It's So Obvious
9. Surgeon's Girl
10. Pink Flag
11. The Commercial
12. Straight Line
13. 106 Beats That
14. Mr. Suit
15. Strange
16. Fragile
17. Mannequin
18. Different to Me
19. Champs
20. Feeling Called Love
21. 12 X U