Wire: Object 47

Could imagine. Track up on PTW certainly was

Totally great.

I liked the preview track, too, but no Gilbert?

i liked it the first time I listened to it, then I listened to it again and it didn't do much. it's no 'ahead' or 'bell is a cup'.

i do love margaret fielder's playing on it though

i liked it the first time I listened to it, then I listened to it again and it didn't do much.

See, this is exactly what happened to me with Read & Burn 3. So frustrating. I want to believe!

totally digging this

xpost whatchu talkin bout Bimble, Read & Burn 03 is GRATE

OH my god.
Only the first song in and wow...SUGARY SWEET MELODIES JUST LIKE THE GOOD OLD MID 80'S WIRE

SO much better than that Send crap. Melodies! Good old fashioned fucking British goddamn good ass music, that's what.

I must be 15 again. Wire have a new album out.

Isn't the production wonderful? Isn't it? Isn't it?

Oh I really liked Send :(

Read & Burn 03 & Send were fucking excellent, only problem with Send was they left out some of the stronger tracks from R&B01 & 02.

So is this for sale yet at Pinkflag.com? *checks* Yes. Purchased.

I got the vinyl, all tracks included and remixed. I forget that when I think about "Send".

The vinyl version's tracks are all edited down much shorter. I made a CD with all the tracks in the same order as the record. Flows quite well actually.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THERE IS A NEW WIRE ALBUM OUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I keep trying to post the sleeve but the computer won't cooperate with me. Help.

http://www.pinkflag.com/assets/cover-art/object-47.jpg

Does it NOT make you have an orgasm?

Doesn't it though? Oh my god. There's a new Wire album doesn't it just scrach your itch, baby.

I like the cover. It looks like a Warp record circa mid- 90's. I must investigate.

"One of Us" is such a great song.

I'm with Bimble here. The Read & Burns and Send were not very good at all, but this makes up for all that.

No, they were/are great.

Send was meh, I liked the first EP a lot.

This one is...pretty good. The Ideal Copy wasn't a great album either.

collectively the read & burn eps were better but Send was great. this new one is too. i like pretty much everything this band has done.

Just got this today. First listen through elicited a pretty big "meh" from me. Gilbert is missed. There is no edge to these songs. At times it is reminiscent of some of Newman's solo work but without the beauty of those songs.

I love the first three records and then was bored until the Rad and Burns showed up. Now those were a wake up call.

I am beginning to think there are two schools of Wire fans, the fans of the old classic edgy records and those that prefer the listless middle period (for some reason.)

This record just sort of makes me sad.

They were rad and they did burn

i said my piece here and i can't be arsed repeating myself ;)

kwitehead: yeh, you're fundamentally right. i love pretty much everything wire have done but "a bell is a cup" and "the ideal copy" are pretty much the acme for me.

with you, grimly. this record is.... comfort music. It doesn't jump out with awesomeness but I want to play it just because it sounds like Wire, i guess?

"Perspex Icon" and "One of Us" are great.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "Perspex Icon" a delicious piece of pop music you could almost roll out for your mother?

I just downloaded Perspex Icon and I'm floored by the beauty of it. Thanks for the tip.

Hmm. On first listen yeah, the opener and 'Perspex Icon' stand out, but on a whole this sounds very dated, and not in a good revisionist way like a couple of the tracks off R&B03 did. That was a week ago, just listened to The Scottish Play: 2004 which was great, so about to have another crack at it now.

Definitely better second time around. 'Hard Currency', 'Patient Flees' and 'All Fours' have their strengths. I'm sure it will stand for future listens

On the whole though, previous criticisms stand, and compared to the simply stunning R&B03 with '23 Years Late' and 'Desert Diving', this is a bit of a letdown.

See you're making me listen to this. I'm going to put it on my iPod right now.