Pink Flag - Wire

Pink Flag was the debut album by unique punk band Wire. Whilst Wire were around at the same time as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Stranglers and so on and were mainstays of the punk movement, there music is considerably different. The style is ahead of it's time and would be more at place in the early 80s during the new wave and post punk years. For anyone who listens to Slicethepie, it should be obvious that any number of Alternative bands on there would like to be Wire but fail to get the compactness of quality in to a short track or the quality of orginality and fail in doing so. Each track is lyrically good and straight to the point, my ...  Read the complete review