The 1977 debut by Wire, universally praised and cited as an important records in the history of punk and seminal to the development of post-punk.
As for me -- I can't disagree. I think the critics got this one pretty
much exactly right.
As you can see, Wire writes 'em short and numerous on this album. And every one of the twenty-one offerings here has some punch to it. I often lose a little enjoyment with some British punk because it was so damn serious and political, compared to the generally much more lighthearted approach of the American
punkers, but Wire manages that middle ground where there is a message but it's always about the music. Wire never falls into the abject political nudity of, say, Gang of Four.
At times melodic, at times cacophonous, Wire was something very distinct and new in 1977. I hear plenty of what would become Flipper, Husker Du, The Minutemen, and others.
The creativity and brilliance of this album is summed up by \"Field Day for the Sundays,\" which, in a mere 28 SECONDS, so aptly captures the stupidity of fame and the press that feeds upon it.
This album gets an A with no reservations.
The visuals is me being silly with a video editing program. I found several slightly different pictures of the front cover of this album; I put them together then started fooling around with ways to loop and overlay the pictures. The title slides are found pix on Google, overlaid with pink, fittingly. Where the font is not the usual one,
that means the words were found naturally occurring in the picture.
Made with (if you are still reading at this point you are Subscriber of the Year!):
Sansui P-D10 turntable
BBE preamp
Audacity
Paint.net
Corel VideoStuidio X9 Ultimate
My Iphone 6 (source of the pictures of album covers, etc)
