WIRE Pink Flag LP HARVEST 1977 UK re+inner SHSP 4076 (black label NO barcode)
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WIRE
The most innovative of British punks, an art band with a penchant for dissonant, minimalist arrangements
and lyrical abstraction. Emerging from the British punk explosion, Wire have resisted easy categorization from
the start, and for decades to come. Focused on experimentation and process, Wire's musical identity constantly changes.
Their first three albums alone attest to a startling evolution as the band repeatedly, and rapidly, reinvented themselves.
Pink Flag (1977) found them twisting punk's simplicity and rawness to their own arty designs; on Chairs Missing (1978),
they added frosty atmospheres and more melodic songwriting, both of which they heightened on 154 (1979)
"PINK FLAG"<reissue, originally published in 1977>
LP HARVEST RECORDS SHSP 4076
MADE IN ENGLAND EARLY-80s REPRESSING
[First Press with Green label. This version with Black label and Silver printing.
Later pressing with Black label & Barcode (1987)]
SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE
Barcode and Other IdentifiersBarcode: none
LABEL: HARVEST - BLACK LABEL w/EMI LOGO (boxed) - SILVER TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) Harvest SHSP 4076 (rear) SHSP 4076 stereo 0C 062-06 564
Catalog on inner: SHSP 4076(I)
Catalog on labels: SHSP 4076 (SHSP 4076A) / SHSP 4076 (SHSP 4076B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): SHSP 4076 A-4 X (Etched): BLAIR
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): SHSP 4076 B-3 X
On labels: top rim text reads "All rights......reserved"
bottom rim text reads "Unauthorised public......Manufactured in the UK by Emi Records Limited"
? 1977 EMI Records Ltd.
Produced by Mike Thorne
Published by Carlin Music Corp. except * Virgin Music Publ. Ltd.
On Back Cover: All songs composed by B. Gilbert/G. Lewis/C. Newman/R. Gotobed except* Annette Green.
? 1977 EMI Records Ltd.
All titles produced by Mike Thorne
Recorded at Advision Studios
Made and printed in Great Britain
7711 RS
tracklisting
Side A: REUTERS - FIELD DAY FOR THE SUNDAYS - THREE GIRL RHUMBA
EX LION TAMER - LOWDOWN - START TO MOVE - BRAZIL
IT'S SO OBVIOUS - SURGEON'S GIRL - PINK FLAG
Side B: THE COMMERCIAL - STRAIGHT LINE - 106 BEATS THAT - MR. SUIT - STRANGE - FRAGILE
MANNEQUIN - DIFFERENT TO ME* - CHAMPS - FEELING CALLED LOVE - 1 2 X U
gradingRECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk, Wire's Pink Flag plays like The Ramones Go to Art School,
song after song careens past in a glorious, stripped-down rush. However, unlike the Ramones, Wire ultimately made
their mark through unpredictability. Very few of the songs followed traditional verse/chorus structures,
if one or two riffs sufficed, no more were added; if a musical hook or lyric didn't need to be repeated,
Wire immediately stopped playing, accounting for the album's brevity...(AllMusic)
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