Wire - Chairs Missing

Chairs Missing

Wire

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CD Album (Special Edition) 47 tracks £25.99 Out of stock

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Wire - Chairs Missing

Wire's three Harvest released albums in the 70's are often referred to as a kind of "accelerated development triptych". The differences between the reductive minimalism of 1977's Pink Flag and the layered baroque (albeit still minimalistic) of 1979's 154 show a staggering turn over of ideas, yet each album remains iconic.

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 favourite 70's album. The clarity of vision of the band at the time has been rewarded with a large appreciation in it's standing in hindsight the album also having been awarded (alonside Pink Flag) the distinction of a 10.0 rating by Pitchfork Media amongst many other plaudits.

Chairs Missing has been influential on the British wave of the late 70's & early 80's, Britpop and 21st C art & post punk and provided Wire biggest "nearly hit" in "Outdoor Miner".

Tracklisting

CD Album (Special Edition) (PF12SE)
    1. Practice Makes Perfect
    2. French Film Blurred
    3. Another the Letter
    4. Men 2nd
    5. Marooned
    6. Sand in My Joints
    7. Being Sucked in Again
    8. Heartbeat
    9. Mercy
    10. Outdoor Miner
    11. I Am the Fly
    12. I Feel Mysterious Today
    13. From The Nursery
    14. Used To
    15. Too Late
    1. I Am The Fly (Single Version)
    2. Dot Dash
    3. Options R
    4. Outdoor Miner (Single Version)
    5. Practice Makes Perfect (Single Version)
    6. Underwater Experiences (Advision Version)
    1. Practice Makes Perfect (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    2. Oh No Not So (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    3. Culture Vultures (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    4. It’s The Motive (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    5. Love Ain’t Polite (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    6. French Film Blurred (Version 1) (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    7. Sand In My Joints (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    8. Too Late (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    9. I Am The Fly (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    10. Heartbeat (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    11. Underwater Experiences (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    12. Stalemate (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    13. I Feel Mysterious Today (Fourth Demo Sessions)
    14. Dot Dash (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    15. French Film Blurred (Version 2) (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    16. Options R (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    17. Finistaire (Mercy) (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    18. Marooned (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    19. From The Nursery (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    20. Indirect Enquiries (Version 1) (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    21. Outdoor Miner (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    22. Chairs Missing (Used To) (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    23. Being Sucked In Again (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    24. Men 2nd (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    25. Another The Letter (Fifth Demo Sessions)
    26. No Romans (Fifth Demo Sessions)