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Title Album details Peak chart positions UK Indie [2]Document and Eyewitness: Released: July 1981; Label: Rough Trade Formats: 2xLP, MC; 3 It's All in the Brochure
The album consists of recordings made for EMI as demos for the 1978 and 1979 albums, Chairs Missing and 154. The songs on Not About to Die were also previously released in 2018 by Wire on the special editions of the two EMI albums.
Many reviewers noted the album's melodic sensibility, [7] [10] [16] with AllMusic writing, "Object 47 highlights Wire's pop credentials, but the band hasn't lost its edge." [6] Stereogum ranked it 12th (out of 15) in their 2015 "Wire Albums from Worst to Best" list, saying that it is "the most normal sounding album from a band interested in being anything but."
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In 1976 Newman formed the band Wire and was its main songwriter, singer and guitarist. [2] Their first performance was on 19 January 1977 at the London nightclub Roxy. [3] At the start, the band was considered a part of London's punk rock scene but later reached critical acclaim for their massive influence on post-punk, new wave and alternative rock.
According to the band's official webpage for the release, Wire is the first time that guitarist Matthew Simms, who joined in 2012, was heavily involved in the creation of album material. [1] Colin Newman said of Simms: "This is the first album where Matt's been involved in the whole process.
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has cited Pink Flag as an influence. [29] Britpop band Elastica were influenced by Wire; they used a riff similar to that of "Three Girl Rhumba" for their song "Connection". [30]