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154 by Wire (Punk) (CD, Sep-1989, Restless Records USA) 
154 by Wire (Punk) (CD, Sep-1989, Restless Records USA)

 
154 by Wire (Punk) (CD, Sep-1989, Restless Records USA)

Artist: Wire (Punk)
Release Date: Sep 1989
Format: CD
Record Label: Restless Records (USA)
Genre: Punk Rock, Rock & Pop
UPC: 018777236225
Product ID: EPID3150047
Description: Wire: Colin Newman, B.C. Gilbert (vocals, guitars); Graham Lewis (vocals, bass); Robert Gotobed (drums). Additional personnel: Hilly Kristal (vocals); Tim Souster (electric viola); Kate Lucas (alto flute); Joan Whiting (English horn); Mi...
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Track Listing
1. I Should Have Known Better
2. Two People in a Room
3. 15th, The
4. Other Window, The
5. Single K.O.
6. Touching Display, A
7. On Returning
8. Mutual Friend, A
9. Blessed State
10. Once Is Enough
11. Map Ref. 41n 93 W
12. Indirect Enquiries
13. 40 Versions
14. Song 1 - (bonus track)
15. Get Down 1 + 2 - (bonus track)
16. Let's Panic Later - (bonus track)
17. Small Electric Piece - (bonus track)

Details
Playing Time:58 min.
Producer:Mike Thorne
Distributor:Ryko Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:AAD

Album Notes
Wire: Colin Newman, B.C. Gilbert (vocals, guitars); Graham Lewis (vocals, bass); Robert Gotobed (drums).
Additional personnel: Hilly Kristal (vocals); Tim Souster (electric viola); Kate Lucas (alto flute); Joan Whiting (English horn); Mike Thorne (keyboards).
Like its predecessor, 1977's CHAIRS MISSING, 154 finds Wire moving away from its punk roots toward darker, more experimental horizons. There is less overt anger and insolence than in the past, and in its place is plenty of dark weirdness. Truly disturbing at certain points, this album is a challenging listen. This is not a record to slap on while you clean up the house.
Beginning with the sinister "I Should Have Known Better" a song that has so little to do with the same-titled Beatles song that it really is scary, 154 follows with the shambling, atonal "Two People in a Room" and the choppy, robotic guitars of "The 15th." The fiendish "A Touching Display" sounds like music for a primitive rite, while on "A Mutual Friend," close British Invasion-flavored harmonies collide with harsh, dangerous-sounding guitar chords. The highlight here, and arguably the most incredible song in Wire's book, is "Map Ref. 41 N, 93 W." Words fail to conjure the otherworldly majesty of this track. It may be some kind of twisted cartographer's love song, but it could also be the backing music for a love scene between two artificial intelligences. What can you say? A stunner.

Editorial Reviews
...a record that improves with age....here the uneasy abstraction of their subject matter...is perfectly matched by the the magnetic attraction of their three principal voices...balanced to great effect as they would rarely be again...
Mojo (10/01/1999)

4 Stars - Excellent - ...less New Wavey, in parts industrial-grim...The Cure had a copy of this one...
Q (09/01/1994)

4 stars out of 5 -- 154 is glorious -- banks of synth hang high over the album like trails of purple cloud at sunset. It's fully blown, fully realised...
Uncut

5 stars out of 5 -- [T]his one's a classic....While some groups were wondering where post-punk would lead to, Wire had already got there...
Mojo

154 picks up the gauntlet laid down by David Bowie and Brian Eno's first two Berlin recordings...
Magnet

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