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Wire's Pink Flag (Paperback, New)
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Wire's Pink Flag (Paperback, New)
Series: 33 1/3
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List price R299
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In this book, Wilson Neate gets beneath the surface of a punk band
with a difference. In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire
were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the
crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was
already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more
revolutionary musically than the rest of the competition. Few punk
bands moved beyond pared-down rock 'n' roll and garage rock,
football-terrace sing-alongs or shambolic pub rock and, if we're
honest, only a handful of punk records hold up today as anything
other than increasingly quaint period pieces.While the majority of
their peers flogged one idea to death and paid only lip service to
punk's Year Zero credo, Wire took a genuinely radical approach,
deconstructing song conventions, exploring new possibilities and
consistently reinventing their sound. This is a chord. This is
another. This is a third. Now form a band, proclaimed the caption
to the famous diagram in a UK fanzine in 1976 and countless punk
acts embodied that do-it-yourself spirit. Wire, however, showed
more interesting ways of doing it once you'd formed that band and
they found more compelling uses for those three mythical chords."33
1/3" is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by
artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in
September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is
acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.
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