“Wire were born at the dawn of punk, but they became the quintessential art band. In the three closing years of the 1970s, the English quartet had one of the greatest opening runs of any band, shifting to post-punk before punk began to go stale and forging three masterpieces in a creative furnace so hot it burned out by the end of 1980. Those albums-- *Pink Flag*, *Chairs Missing*, and *154*-- stil”
“Few, if any, other rock bands experienced the rapid, exponential artistic growth that Wire did over the course of three years and three groundbreaking, masterful albums. That was evident from the start of their peerless early run. The band went into the studio all of seven months after recording their 1977 debut, the agitated and spiky Pink Flag, to lay down the tracks for its follow-up, 1978’s Ch”
