Album

Pink Flag

Wire

1977 · Rock

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Pink Flag by Wire

Pink Flag is a Punk album by Wire, originally released in 1977. On Gatefold: 62 pressings tracked, owned by 45 collectors.

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Pink Flag is the first studio album by the English band Wire. It was released in November 1977 by Harvest Records. Though the album failed to chart on its initial release, it has been widely considered to have been highly influential on many other musicians. Upon its release, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called Pink Flag a "punk suite" and praised its "simultaneous rawness and detachment" and detected a rock-and-roll irony similar to but "much grimmer and more frightening" than the Ramones. In a retrospective review, Steve Huey of AllMusic opined that Pink Flag was "perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk" and also "recognizable, yet simultaneously quite unlike anything that preceded it. Pink Flag's enduring influence pops up in hardcore, post-punk, alternative rock, and even Britpop, and it still remains a fresh, invigorating listen today: a fascinating, highly inventive rethinking of punk rock and its freedom to make up your own rules." Trouser Press called the album "a brilliant 21-song suite" in which the band "manipulated classic rock song structure by condensing them into brief, intense explosions of attitude and energy, coming up with a collection of unforgettable tunes".

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1Reuters
  2. A2Field Day For The Sundays
  3. A3Three Girl Rhumba
  4. A4Ex Lion Tamer
  5. A5Lowdown
  6. A6Start To Move
  7. A7Brazil
  8. A8It's So Obvious
  9. A9Surgeon's Girl
  10. A10Pink Flag

Side B

  1. B1The Commercial
  2. B2Straight Line
  3. B3106 Beats That
  4. B4Mr. Suit
  5. B5Strange
  6. B6Fragile
  7. B7Mannequin
  8. B8Different To Me
  9. B9Champs
  10. B10Feeling Called Love
  11. B111 2 X U

Sound DNA

  • Punk
  • Punk Rock
  • brittle
  • aggressive
  • art school

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Harvest labels, dark green and lime, with small EMI logo to the left.
Includes a thick inner sleeve with rounded corners and printed lyrics.
Recorded at Advision Studios.
Catalog # SHSP 4076 appears on spine, back cover, and labels.
Catalog # 0C 062-06 564 on back cover.
Catalog # SHSP 4076(I) on inner sleeve.
Side A runouts are stamped/etched, side B runouts stamped, except side B variant 7.

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Bruce GilbertBASS GUITAR GUITAR, OTHER
  • Colin NewmanLEAD VOCALS VOCALS VOCALS, GUITAR
  • Graham LewisBASS BASS, OTHER BASS, VOCALS
  • Robert GotobedDRUMS DRUMS, OTHER
  • Robert GreyDRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS PERFORMER , DRUMS, HANDCLAPS
  • Wire
  • Dave OberléBACKING VOCALS PERFORMER , VOCALS VOCALS
  • Kate LukasFLUTE PERFORMER , FLUTE
  • Mike ThornePERFORMER , ARRANGED BY , SOUNDS PERFORMER , BACKING VOCALS PERFORMER , HANDCLAPS

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