Obiwanshinobi wrote:
Revisiting early Wire albums (1977-'79), I can't believe my former indifference* towards 'em (A Bell Is a Cup… Until It Is Struck was the first one that once clicked with me). They are like a second-period Arvo Pärt of punk rock in that they make most other music seem like someone's having a wank. I wonder if there's a single musician who heard Wire and has never felt just a tiny bit envious of their mojo hard at work there.
Listening to White Light/White Heat and Loaded by The Velvet Underground inbetween.
*) Not so much indifference as losing to other stuff I'd listened to at the time of major internet piracy.
Riffing on those days of rapid fulfillment, THRaKaTTaK by King Crimson was another album amiably spoken of by those in the know A.D. 1996. Long story short, my tolerance to improvisation is a thing of usefulness.
Yeah Wire are incredible, also can't believe you ignored them

especially since you seem to like mechanical/cold/artsy/high-concept stuff! they're both one of the best punk AND best post punk band of all time, which is no small feat. the penultimate art-punk band, you could say. Their robot rock is such a high concept and it's pulled off so masterfully. and stripped down so much even the Ramones are doing a double take! yet plenty of venom, swagger, hooks and cold and surreal exposés of human interractions
To deconstruct punk(which itself is a deconstruction) as early as 1977, is straight up madness! yet they did it