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(NOTE: BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED ITEM!)
(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
"Wire's first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire's reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first. It has been a number of years since these albums were readily available. The aim with these new vinyl and CD releases is to approximate the original statements as closely as possible, but with remastered audio. The vinyl releases have the same covers and inners as the originals (minus the Harvest logo). The digipack CDs have identical track listings to their vinyl counterparts. These versions should be considered Wire's classic 1970s albums, pure and undiluted. Usually contextualized against a backdrop of two years of the growing cultural importance of punk rock--Wire's debut Pink Flag, released in December 1977 on EMI's progressive label Harvest was in fact was something 'other.' To the keen cultural commentator, the timing and label of its release will register two essential facts about it. Firstly, too late (a year after the Pistol's debut release) to be part of UK punk's first flush and secondly that the band were signaling something beyond punk by their choice of label. Further investigation would reveal twenty-one tracks, some of them clocking in at well under a minute and covering a range of tempi well beyond the buzzsaw rockabilly that had become, even by the second half of 1977, punk's staple."
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
| A1 Reuters |
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| A2 Field Day For The Sundays |
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| A3 Three Girl Rhumba |
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| A4 Ex Lion Tamer |
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| A5 Lowdown |
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| A6 Start To Move |
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| A7 Brazil |
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| A8 It's So Obvious |
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| A9 Surgeon's Girl |
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| A10 Pink Flag |
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| B1 The Commercial |
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| B2 Straight Line |
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| B3 106 Beats That |
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| B4 Mr. Suit |
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| B5 Strange |
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| B6 Fragile |
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| B7 Mannequin |
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| B8 Different To Me |
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| B9 Champs |
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| B10 Feeling Called Love |
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| B11 1 2 X U |