Name: Chairs Missing (2018 Reissue)
Brand: Wire

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PF12LP

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-07-20

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5024545812411

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Artist

Wire

Genre US

New Wave & Post Punk

Label US

Pinkflag

English punk quartet Wire reissues sophomore album <i>Chairs Missing</i>. Available on CD, LP, and special edition 3-CD set.

Wire’s first three albums need no introduction. They are the three classic albums on which Wire’s reputation is based. Moreover, they are the recordings that minted the post-punk form. This was adopted by other bands, but Wire were there first. <br>It has been a number of years since these albums were readily available. The aim with these new vinyl and CD releases is to approximate the original statements as closely as possible, but with remastered audio. The vinyl releases have the same covers and inners as the originals (minus the Harvest logo). The digipack CDs have identical track listings to their vinyl counterparts. These versions should be considered Wire’s classic 1970s albums, pure and undiluted.<br>1978’s Chairs Missing represented perhaps the biggest conceptual leap made during this period of Wire and was widely misunderstood at the time yet it remains, to the band and production crew Wire’s favorite ’70s album. If Pink Flag proposed an almost cut and paste approach to deconstructing rock history, Chairs Missing proposed something more radical, a definite futurism with much less influence from it’s antecedents. Chairs Missing was at once more stark and more lush than it’s predecessor and has exerted it’s own influence on the course of cultural history, having laid down one of the earliest (if not the earliest) blueprints for the genuinely post-punk aesthetic.

CDx3 - Includes singles, b-sides, unreleased songs, plus book containing many photos unseen for over 40 years.

Chairs Missing (2018 Reissue)

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