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154 is the third album by the English post-punk band Wire, released in 1979 on EMI imprint Harvest Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in America. Branching out even further from the minimalist punk rock style of their earlier work, 154 is considered a progression of the sounds displayed on Wire's previous album Chairs Missing, with the group experimenting with slower tempos ...
The discography of Wire, an English rock band, consists of seventeen studio albums, twenty-six live albums, eleven compilation albums, eleven EPs, and twenty-four singles. Albums [ edit ]
The Ideal Copy is the fourth studio album by the English rock group Wire, released in April 1987 by Mute Records. It was the first full-length recording following the band's hiatus of 1980–1985 (The band had also recorded and released the Snakedrill EP in 1986 after reuniting). The Ideal Copy peaked at number 87 in the UK albums chart. [3]
Robert Pollard once declared Wire's 154 to be "the greatest album of all time", [30] and has stated that "There's always some Wire influence in my stuff." [31] Numerous other bands and artists have cited Wire as an influence, including Soundgarden, [32] Manic Street Preachers, [33] Hüsker Dü, [34] Quicksand, [35] Mary Timony, [36] and Mission ...
"The 15th" is a song from the 1979 album 154 by the English rock band Wire, written by Colin Newman ... The 15th" as the second single from its 2001 debut album #1 ...
Object 47 (Object Forty-Seven) is the eleventh studio album by the English post punk band Wire, named so because it is the 47th item in the Wire discography – a methodology harking back to the name of their 1979 album, 154, which was named after the number of concerts they had played to that point.
On Returning (1977–1979) is a compilation album by English rock band Wire.It was released in 1989 and comprises recordings of the band from 1977 to 1979 (the albums Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, which are also each represented graphically on the album cover), and is seen as the band's first "best of" album, complemented four years later by 1985–1990: The A List which is the "best of ...
[5] BBC Music called the album a "glorious avant-pop coup" and (referring to the 2006 edition of the album) "the most satisfying of the three reissues [the others being Pink Flag and 154]." [17] In 2004, Pitchfork listed Chairs Missing as 33rd best album of the 1970s. [18] In 2013, NME listed the album as the 394th greatest album of all time. [19]