The WIRE thread

davemacfrombath · Post by **davemacfrombath** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:55 pm

Just started watching the first series (aboot 3 years too late).

Class.

Watch out for McNulty and his partner reconstructing a murder using photos taken at the scene of the crime.

Fuck!

Pooka · Post by **Pooka** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:14 pm

I attempted to watch this, but I couldnt get into it. I only watched the first episode and didnt know what the fuck was going on so I got bored.
My boyfriend loves it so perhaps I'll give it another go, but you really do need to to watch The Shield, my man says its better than this.

davemacfrombath · Post by **davemacfrombath** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:28 pm

will give it a try...

memly · Post by **memly** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:53 pm

Acid Gaz · Post by **Acid Gaz** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:40 am

First album 'Pink Flag' contained short sharp arty punky slices of guitar noise, plagiarised in recent times by the likes of Elastica, with 'Connection' being a total rip-off of the album's 'Three Girl Rhumba'. Opener 'Reuters' rumbles in with a sonic force that knocks ya sideways!

Second album 'Chairs Missing', more of the same, getting into artier, more heavier territory, including classic insect-related singles 'Outdoor Miner' and 'I Am The Fly'.

This was followed by the classic '154' mixing difficult atonal shafts of noise with poppier songs such as the favourite 'Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW'.

Well, I liked 'em anyway...

Willsy · Post by **Willsy** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:50 am

^^ LMFAO - Gaz what are you talking aboot?^^

Acid Gaz · Post by **Acid Gaz** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:50 am

Willsy wrote:^^ LMFAO - Gaz what are you talking aboot?^^

Have you not heard of Wire, the influential late 70s art-punk band?

Get educated young man - go and buy Pink Flag straight away!

tcb2000 · Post by **tcb2000** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:04 pm

Pink Flag is a classic!

Though I do love their late 80's poppy 'Eardum Buzz'.

Rich

davemacfrombath · Post by **davemacfrombath** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:04 pm

I'm totally wired.

Willsy · Post by **Willsy** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:37 pm

Acid Gaz wrote:
Willsy wrote:^^ LMFAO - Gaz what are you talking aboot?^^
Have you not heard of Wire, the influential late 70s art-punk band?

Get educated young man - go and buy Pink Flag straight away!

Just wikipedia'd them! Getting educated as we speak!

memly · Post by **memly** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:47 pm

Acid Gaz · Post by **Acid Gaz** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:00 pm

tcb2000 wrote:Pink Flag is a classic!

Though I do love their late 80's poppy 'Eardum Buzz'.

Rich

Nice one! Of their later albums I only got 'A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck' (great title) and 'Manscape' which are a bit patchy; maybe I'll check oot 'Eardrum Buzz'...

tcb2000 · Post by **tcb2000** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:30 pm

Eardrum Buzz was just a single, not sure if it actually came from an album...

Ah, quick Wikipedia later...

The band released It's Beginning To And Back Again, in 1989 as a "live" album of mostly reworked versions of songs from The Ideal Copy and A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck. Ostensibly a live album IBTABA was in fact based on live recordings, but they were so heavily re-arranged, edited and remixed in the studio that it is doubtful whether IBTABA would qualify as a live album in the most common sense. One of the few new songs on the album, "Eardrum Buzz", became the band's biggest charting single.

Rich

Dollydagger · Post by **Dollydagger** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:24 am

PRISON BREAK tonight Mem