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August 19, 2002

Wire to "Burn" Up the Road

Group to tour behind continuing series of EPs
October 22, 1998

Deja-vu

Influential punk band re-Wires its back catalog

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The modern punk of Good Charlotte and their peers descends from one band in the original wave of English punk circa 1978: the Buzzcocks. But back in the day, punk rock was much more fragmented and varied, and hardly anyone was as fragmented as Wire, a four-piece that flamed on in 1977 with Pink Flag...

2003 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Read & Burn 01

2002

Pink Flag [1989 Bonus Track]

1989

154 [Restless Bonus Tracks]

1989

A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck

1988

The Ideal Copy

1987

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Wire's art-school approach to punk set the U.K. quartet apart from its brasher contemporaries. Drawing more from avant-garde ideas about minimalism than from stripped-down rock & roll, Wire extracted the essential elements of pop - beat, rhythm, melody - and left it at that. The result was a deceptively simple, unemotional sound whose success rode on the tension between the group's often introspec...

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