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Punk Rock Playlist (No Arguments)

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definenredefine said:
I don't think I'd listened to Wire before like...2 or 3 days ago. I'd heard Minor Threat's cover of 12XU, and I think one or two other covers, but that's it.

Pink Flag is a really good album, and I hate that it took me so long to actually listen to them.
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The Wire-verse is vast and rich. After you've investigated the band's catalog (which goes all over the place, they really don't like repeating themselves) you still have many happy hours exploring the band members' various independent projects...
 
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definenredefine said:
I don't think I'd listened to Wire before like...2 or 3 days ago. I'd heard Minor Threat's cover of 12XU, and I think one or two other covers, but that's it.

Pink Flag is a really good album, and I hate that it took me so long to actually listen to them.
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Their first three albums were a fascinating arc; they progressed more than “prog rock” at the time, but every album sounded like Wire. The third, 154, remains my favorite(but it doesn’t mean the other two are lesser)….



When they reconvened in the mid-80’s, that was an entirely different path as well. Then all the solo/side projects will keep you busy. I finally got to see them around 2000, with all four original members, very intense show.

An interesting bit of trivia: In the later 80’s, when they were more into using synths and sequencers, they heard about a group of hardcore devotees that would perform the early material note-for-note(The Ex-Lion Tamers); this was way before the notion of “tribute band”. As Newman and company weren’t interested at that time in playing that stuff live, they hired those guys to open for them. Yet when I saw them much later on, they played the early catalog almost exclusively, plus the latest.
 
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Michedelic said:
Their first three albums were a fascinating arc; they progressed more than “prog rock” at the time, but every album sounded like Wire. The third, 154, remains my favorite(but it doesn’t mean the other two are lesser)….



When they reconvened in the mid-80’s, that was an entirely different path as well. Then all the solo/side projects will keep you busy. I finally got to see them around 2000, with all four original members, very intense show.

An interesting bit of trivia: In the later 80’s, when they were more into using synths and sequencers, they heard about a group of hardcore devotees that would perform the early material note-for-note(The Ex-Lion Tamers); this was way before the notion of “tribute band”. As Newman and company weren’t interested at that time in playing that stuff live, they hired those guys to open for them. Yet when I saw them much later on, they played the early catalog almost exclusively, plus the latest.
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Those are the songs I am playing in my current and last band
 

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