I'm making a Wire playlist for Maggie. It's long overdue, especially since they played a hand in getting us together in the first place. I have an old two-disc one that I thought I could just give her, but looking at it now, I'm totally baffled at the songs I left off of it. I can't imagine who I made this thing for originally.
Back to work!
“Crazy For Love” is all you need.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I'm making a Wire playlist for Maggie. It's long overdue, especially since they played a hand in getting us together in the first place. I have an old two-disc one that I thought I could just give her, but looking at it now, I'm totally baffled at the songs I left off of it. I can't imagine who I made this thing for originally.
I'm making a Wire playlist for Maggie. It's long overdue, especially since they played a hand in getting us together in the first place. I have an old two-disc one that I thought I could just give her, but looking at it now, I'm totally baffled at the songs I left off of it. I can't imagine who I made this thing for originally.
Back to work!
“Crazy For Love” is all you need.
I'm just sequencing "Torch It" 15 times.
You could slip in "Up To the Sun" in the middle to show her that you're probably a monster.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I'm making a Wire playlist for Maggie. It's long overdue, especially since they played a hand in getting us together in the first place. I have an old two-disc one that I thought I could just give her, but looking at it now, I'm totally baffled at the songs I left off of it. I can't imagine who I made this thing for originally.
Back to work!
“Crazy For Love” is all you need.
I'm just sequencing "Torch It" 15 times.
You could slip in "Up To the Sun" in the middle to show her that you're probably a monster.
I'm making a Wire playlist for Maggie. It's long overdue, especially since they played a hand in getting us together in the first place. I have an old two-disc one that I thought I could just give her, but looking at it now, I'm totally baffled at the songs I left off of it. I can't imagine who I made this thing for originally.
Back to work!
“Crazy For Love” is all you need.
I'm just sequencing "Torch It" 15 times.
You could slip in "Up To the Sun" in the middle to show her that you're probably a monster.
Oh, she knows.
I suppose the bass solos bared that truth.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
This is barely a song, more just a persistent rhythm and rather monotonous delivery, but it can pass as a catchy song within the post-punk vein.
Then they record it again, accelerating and replacing monotony with mania or panic.
And then deconstruct and distort the fuck out of it into abstract spookiness.
So generating three distinct pieces with their own emotional effect out of what was quite limited as a song in the first place. That original stage of the band was absurdly creative, generating such interesting sounds while working on a minimalist canvas.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
The new Record Store Day list is out (April 2022) and it says there's a Wire LP 'Not About To Die' on it!
The only thing I know of that title was this bootleg. So, presumably, Pink Flag are issuing a legit version.
It had some demos and outtakes that were rare at the time but I think are all now released on the various deluxe reissues of the first 3 LPs.
The new Record Store Day list is out (April 2022) and it says there's a Wire LP 'Not About To Die' on it!
The only thing I know of that title was this bootleg. So, presumably, Pink Flag are issuing a legit version.
It had some demos and outtakes that were rare at the time but I think are all now released on the various deluxe reissues of the first 3 LPs.
I mostly agree with that. Apart from A-Z, I'm underwhelmed by solo Colin.
Unless you're a genius, it's so hard to create music that anyone will care about. I sympathize with him.
In the hierarchy of Wire solo work, for me it's Graham > Bruce > Colin. Colin's "Bastard" album is just abysmal (but I ain't a fan of drum and bass at all).
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Ha! I know Colin briefly went as Klive Nice, but Hornsey Transfer is new to me.* I'd love to meet Graham and be agog: "Oh my god, Hornsey Transfer? Is that you? I haven't seen you since 1977!"
* Huh. Wilson Neate covers it but it escaped my memory.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
