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Wire: Chairs Missing Japanese import CD
If you do not know what this title is and you are reading this review, then you are not that cool...just kidding (maybe you were born after it came out). Consider that in the late 70s early 80s pop music was a mix between hair bands, post disco pop drivel, and maybe some english synth bands ( a la duran duran). Wire was part of a post-punk movement that is influential amongst indie bands today. Consider the context of Joy Division--early New Order, early Cure, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, the Buzzcocks and you can see where Wire fits in. While Colin Newman and crew did not release too many albums, there was a precision and technical perfection that was lacking in punk releases yet not as extreme as some of the artier edges of alternative music. I must say that one of my all time FAVORITE songs is Outdoor Miner. This release is ethereal, powerful, interesting, and beautiful-but-edgy. When it came out it was lost (see the above context statements), yet it is timeless. Current bands like the Editors, Interpol, even TV on Radio owe as much a debt to Wire as Joy Division. Highly recommended to the kiddies as well as their parents (egads are we that old?).