Wire's READ & BURN - wot say one two ex you?

It's nice, very nice cross between the loud and fast of yore with the electronic assistance of more recent days. It's actually a very nice combination and there's really not enough on the CD to let you get tired of it...BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM, and it's over. It's also a full band project, with all of the originals back in the fold, so it's definitely much better than the Gotobed-less stuff.

(Which reminds me that I need to get around to writing my 2nd review for 102 Beats This.)

PS: KILLING JOKE BACK IN THE STUDIO AS WE SPEAK. COMMENCE SHIVERING WITH FEAR, KJ HATERS!

Its something we all must do.

Awwwwww, yeah.

#3 any good?

A good look backwards; it's about time Wire started copying their eighties period.

!!!

The ten minute's of 23 Years Too Late are by far the best, but yeah, the whole thing is like a missing link between 154 and Ideal Copy, hanging closer to the latter.

yeah I liked it, been checking out a few tracks on our radio station copy. Still haven't heard the second one!

the whole thing is like a missing link between 154 and Ideal Copy, hanging closer to the latter.

OTM, couldn't have said it better myself, and I was trying to come up with an appropriate comparison!

R&B 3 is tremendous, this approach of recording a handful of tracks at a time is producing great results for the lads. Oh, and unlike the first two they say none of R&B 3 tracks will show up on "future recordings".

I've listened to it now. It is good. Not a bad song on it.

I still haven't heard the 1st 2 R&B EPs - I have Send on CD which is great and covers a lot of the same tracks but I dunno if the versions are any different.

They are the same versions.

The "redux" LP has all the songs in shorter versions.

So 23 years puts us in the gap between 154 and Ideal Copy. I'm guessing that that's at least some of what "23 Years to Late" is referring to.

recording a handful of tracks at a time is producing great results for the lads.

Looking over their discography, I was amazed at how much of their output is on EPs. I'm a huge fan of 4-6 song, 20 minute bursts. I guess I miss album sides. But I also think it's the best way to present ambitious rock.

I'm guessing that that's at least some of what "23 Years to Late" is referring to.

I think you might well have got it OTM, etc, as they have done that sort of thing before.

(154 was the number of gigs they'd played up till then, 106 beats that = number of beats in the song, Former Airline = the song based around the chords B E and A, etc...)

I don't get it. What does a 23 years have to do with the gap between 154 & Ideal Copy? I'm dumb.

Nothing

23 years ago Wire were between those 2 albums?

lol

Anyway, as someone disappointed by Send, this is a welcome surprise. Especially "Our Time."

I didn't like "Send" much either

2007-23=1984.

Could the lads be commenting on our fucked up society?

ah!

23 years since the release of "Whilst Climbing Thieves Vie For Our Attention", the intermittently fine album by P'o.

"23 Years (was Colin Newman's age when Wire released Chairs Missing, which ends with) Too Late"

Good skillz

Just listened to this on my way to the post office. I have to say that I barely see the comaprison to the band's 80's output. This has far more energy and relies less on the cloying "atmospherics" of those 80's records.

Gotobed shines, unlike on those 80's records. He does more w/a small kit than most drummers can muster on their standard sets. Keep in mind that at some point during the lackluster "Manscape" era Gotobed said eniugh and quit the band because they weren't using his skills enough. This is nothing like those reords.

"No Warning given" sounds like something from Colin's "Not To' or "A-Z' records and "Desert Diving" feastures some snakey keyboards that Colin used to great effect on his "Bastard" record.

Can't wait to see this stuff live.

Where I hear 80s Wire is in the textures- lots of layered, heavily processed sounds. But yeah, the energy and clear vision are more like A-Z. Also, he Newman doesn't do that moany Depeche Mode style-singing that sinks much of the 80s stuff for me.

"23 Years (was Colin Newman's age when Wire released Chairs Missing, which ends with) Too Late"

-- dad a, Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Ow! You gooood!

Just ordered this, looking forward to it.

I liked Send, but they left some of the best EP tracks off. 'Raft Ants' is one of the best things they've done.

Also, he Newman doesn't do that moany Depeche Mode style-singing that sinks much of the 80s stuff for me.

Most of this kind of singing was by Graham Lewis, no?

I haven't heard A-Z in years, but you're right: this EP has more in common with that.

hmm, just made me double check on iTunes, 'cause I don't have those records, but Newman is doing it too on "Ahead" and such, though not as affectedly as the Lewis songs. Overall, it doesn't seem as offputting to me now as it did at the time, but I sure prefer the Wire 3.5 take on it. A-Z is really worth digging up- "Life on Deck" is one of my fav tracks in the Wire neighborhood.

I liked Send, but they left some of the best EP tracks off. 'Raft Ants' is one of the best things they've done.

OTM

I really like the new Read & Burn.

Read And Burn 03 is the best non-trilogy Wire thing, by such a massive distance, that I've heard - <333333333333

It's really, really good. But have you heard the "Vien" EP? Completely forgotten piece of the puzzle.

'03 disappointed me badly, especially after listening to the first R&B ep.

Wire always seem to defy expectations. You gotta be prepared for the unexpected and follow them or not. Heck, I skipped the WIR album when it came out but stripped of expectations it's about half great and half not so much.

03

on repeat

foreverrrrrrrrrrr

sonic paramedics weep

there's no other way this 28-page project is gonna get done. btw 'desert driving' is sufficiently anthemic to leave me mindlessly punching the air as one might be expected to herald a BDI banger

*diving, even

cyberpunk is generally ill-served by music. 'send' and its surrounding eps are the glorious exception. refute, amend, etc

I prefer the Read & Burn EPs as separate entities, they really work as a short, sharp glorious racket. I've resisted buying "Send Ultimate" for that reason.

I had that "Send" LP, shortened versions of most of the songs.

The new Wire album is ace by the way...

Oh such a tease! It's two more months until the release...