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Wire to reissue their first three albums in VERY special editions.....
Mar 19, 2018, 22:56
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Ok - this is by no means the first time Wire have reissued "Pink Flag", "Chairs Missing" and "154" - but as a huge Wire fan this beats the lot for me. As well as the standard releases on vinyl and CD in June - on May 18th each album is released as a "Special Edition" - an 80 page book with photos and essays - and each album has been supplemented with non-album tracks of the period - and every demo recorded to accompany each album. Those familiar with the album "Behind The Curtain" which collected a clutch of demos plus a few live tracks - every demo from there is included plus loads more that have never been released. Pink Flag is released as a double CD on the Special Edition - the others as triple CD sets. Scroll down to the bottom on each link to see the tracklist on the special edition. I've already put in my order.
Pink Flag.....
https://pinkflag.greedbag.com/buy/pink-flag-8/
Chairs Missing
https://pinkflag.greedbag.com/buy/chairs-missing-7/
154
https://pinkflag.greedbag.com/buy/ihqrye/
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Monganaut
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Edited Mar 20, 2018, 02:11
Re: Wire to reissue their first three albums in VERY special editions.....
Mar 20, 2018, 01:33
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I'm a massive Wire fan, and I kinda wanna say YAY! but what I really feel is why didn't you do this back in 2006 when the remastered digipaks came out?
I must have bought Pink Flag half a dozen times over the years in various formats, and have at least 2 editions each of 154 and Chairs Missing, plus the Behind the Curtain CD from the 90's. I'm hoping they release the extra trax as seperate DL's so I can choose the tracks I want and I'll just burn em' to disc and stick em' in the digipaks. Or even better, as a 'collection' or stand alone of those 'rarity' discs. Every re-issue/ remaster I feel suckered into picking up, and am told that this is gonna be the 'definitive edition' means a newer band misses out on me buying something, as I only have a finite amount of pennies to spend each month.
I know, I know, it's my own stoopid fault fer buying into the whole remasters thang, but as fans of particular bands, I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting the 'best' edition of an album available. But come on, just, when does it stop, when is 'insert artist name here' gonna fess up and say, that's it, y'know, it don't get any better than that, all the good stuff is already out there.
Phew! That news pissed me off more than I thought. Soz fer that, rant over. I'm guessing most of their target audience is the Mojo reading over 50's, in comfy jobs and a few bob to splash out on this essentially 'unessential' stuff. Just kinda pissed as being seen as a cash cow by one of my fav' groups yet again.
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necropolist
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Re: Wire to reissue their first three albums in VERY special editions.....
Mar 23, 2018, 12:09
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as another massive Wire fan, I will probably end up buying all three of these. I only own 154 once at the moment (and another on one of the first CDR's I ever made), so that one seems positively reasonable.
It's the singles set that I really want tho, sad git that I am
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