Wire
Wire are a British post-punk group formed in London in 1976, whose first three albums — Pink Flag (1977), Chairs Missing (1978), and 154 (1979) — are considered foundational texts of punk, post-punk, and minimalist rock. The band stripped rock to its most essential elements with a programmatic rigor that distinguished them from virtually all their contemporaries: short songs, few notes, radical economy of means.
Pink Flag contains twenty-one songs in under thirty-six minutes, many lasting under a minute, anticipating hardcore punk while remaining entirely their own invention.
In the archive
- Chairs Missing Pinkflag — PF12LP
- Pink Flag Pinkflag — PF11LP
- The Best Punk Album In The World (Disc 2) Virgin — VTDCD 42
- WIRE on the BOX_ 1979 Pinkflag — PF7TV
- Chairs Missing Pinkflag – PF12, Pinkflag – 843190000517