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Episode 12 - Brian Kincheloe: Pink Flag by Wire
Why did I pick Wire's Pink Flag for the Three on the Ones and Twos Podcast episode? For me personally this album came in multiple waves of progressing states of maturity for me to realize it's full potential - first excited by the upbeat aggro punk tracks as younger kid, then the pop and melodic sensibilities years later in high school, and then finally the dirgy lumbering heavy soundscape tracks which connected with me in my late teens. Essentially, the record follows its own path of musical development and maturity that mirrors somewhat of my own path of personal musical appreciation and expression growing up but inside a single record -a snapshot of a brief moment of some kids making noise and looking for a new way to express themselves back in 1976/77
In the aggregate, Wire, who really were never a punk band by most measures, managed to create a masterpiece punk record that defined most every genre of punk to come (from pop, hardcore, anarcho, garage, sludge, doom, art, and melodic punk) and on that same record also began defining a post-punk sound before post punk was yet a thing. And within 9 months of the release of Pink Flag they would have departed the punk scene altogether with a genre defining post punk/art rock record "Chairs Missing" -which is a masterpiece in its own right and continued the personal musical arc for me.
Further, I think it is likely the most influential (yet under the radar record) for the subsequent music landscape to come in our post 70s generations. It stands as a milestone of critical connective tissue between the songs of old and songs to come influenced by the weight of its accomplishments in the pivotal musical year of 1977. It's musical DNA is in experimentation, progression and moments -never standing still or hanging around long enough from song to song or album to album to get pinned down into a genre for long -Wire is about expression and exploration.
Pink Flag stands as the quintessential complete punk and experimental record of 1977 -the year in which the musical world's axis tilted further than ever before. And for many of us, that tilt in music defines more about our lives, our friends, our culture - than most anything else.
I was dead sober when I wrote this.
Lalala lala lalala lalala lalala ohh ohh last time now.....
Brian Kincheloe
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Why did I pick Wire's Pink Flag for the Three on the Ones and Twos Podcast episode? For me personally this album came in multiple waves of progressing states of maturity for me to realize it's full potential - first excited by the upbeat aggro punk tracks as younger kid, then the pop and melodic sensibilities years later in high school, and then finally the dirgy lumbering heavy soundscape tracks which connected with me in my late teens. Essentially, the record follows its own path of musical development and maturity that mirrors somewhat of my own path of personal musical appreciation and expression growing up but inside a single record -a snapshot of a brief moment of some kids making noise and looking for a new way to express themselves back in 1976/77
In the aggregate, Wire, who really were never a punk band by most measures, managed to create a masterpiece punk record that defined most every genre of punk to come (from pop, hardcore, anarcho, garage, sludge, doom, art, and melodic punk) and on that same record also began defining a post-punk sound before post punk was yet a thing. And within 9 months of the release of Pink Flag they would have departed the punk scene altogether with a genre defining post punk/art rock record "Chairs Missing" -which is a masterpiece in its own right and continued the personal musical arc for me.
Further, I think it is likely the most influential (yet under the radar record) for the subsequent music landscape to come in our post 70s generations. It stands as a milestone of critical connective tissue between the songs of old and songs to come influenced by the weight of its accomplishments in the pivotal musical year of 1977. It's musical DNA is in experimentation, progression and moments -never standing still or hanging around long enough from song to song or album to album to get pinned down into a genre for long -Wire is about expression and exploration.
Pink Flag stands as the quintessential complete punk and experimental record of 1977 -the year in which the musical world's axis tilted further than ever before. And for many of us, that tilt in music defines more about our lives, our friends, our culture - than most anything else.
I was dead sober when I wrote this.
Lalala lala lalala lalala lalala ohh ohh last time now.....
Brian Kincheloe