Biography

One of the first wave of punk groups during the late 1970s, Wire was neither nihilistic in the Sex Pistols tradition nor political like the Clash. With its brief, caustic songs, Wire was closest to the Buzzcocks' brand of poppy punk, but its art-school leanings took the band into more challenging and experimental territory. The group's sound eventually progressed through dark, quirky dissonance to an ear-friendly brand of synth-pop, but Wire never lost its cheeky edge or palpable air of strangeness. In 2000, the group reformed, brandishing a highly aggressive edge that touched on its old incarnations, but also jutted out into new sonic terrain.

Top Tracks

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• 106 Beats That

• 12 X U

• 12xu

• A Question Of Degree

• A Serious Of Snakes

• A Touching Display

• Ahead

• Another The Letter

• Dot Dash

• Drill

• Eardrum Buzz

• I Am The Fly

• I Should Have Known Better

• In The Art Of Stopping

• In Vivo

• Kidney Bingos

• Lowdown

• Map Ref. 41 °n 93° W

• Map Ref. 41°n 93°w

• Moreover

• Mr. Marx's Table

• Nice Streets Above

• Outdoor Miner

• Pink Flag

• Please Take

• Practice Makes Perfect

• Practise Makes Perfect

• Public Place

• Stepping Off Too Quick

• Strange

• The Agfers Of Kodack

• The Finest Drops

• The Queen Of Ur And The King Of Um

• Three Girl Rhumba

• Too True

• Torch It

• Trash/treasure

• Two Minutes

• Underwater Experiences

Discography

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• The Black Session: Paris, 10 May 2011

  Pink Flag / Revolver USA

  2011

• Red Barked Tree

  Pink Flag

  2011

• Object 47

  Pink Flag

  2008

• Send Ultimate

  Pink Flag

  2003

• Manscape

  Mute

  1990

• It's Beginning to and Back Again

  Mute

  1989

• A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck

  Mute

  1988

• The Ideal Copy

  Mute

  1987

• Document and Eyewitness

  Mute

  1981