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Wire - The Third Day

The Third Day

Wire

Available Formats Tracks Price Buy
Download Album (MP3) 5 tracks £7.99
Download Album (FLAC) 5 tracks £7.99

Description

Wire - The Third Day

pf1....1st release on pinkflag. Recorded during rehearsals for Feb 2000's Royal Festival Hall performance. Mixed in swim studio.

Reviews

'On returning with the tan you've gained,' or so sung Wire in '78 (which, apparently, they couldn't wait for). Now, Wire are the ones returning with this release, the first new material from the band since the early '90s.

This limited CD chronicles how far Wire had got after three day's rehearsal after over half a dozen years apart and two things may surprise the long-term fan. Firstly, Wire mostly plays old material from the late '70s. Secondly, Wire is now a rock band (at least until it undergoes yet another metamorphosis). Okay, so the band may find the second point contentious, but the fact remains that, for the moment, Wire is drummer/bassist/guitarist/vocalist once again. That should please the 'everything after 154 sucks' brigade.

After hearing recent solo work the absence of electronics surprises, but stripped of electronica Wire is not as much of a fragile entity as one might expect. The opener—an impressive and hard-edged take of Pink Flag—sets the scene. If Wire is going to play old material, it's going to do it better than any of its contemporaries! The one new piece, Art of Persistence improves on this idea by mashing together a chunk of Wire's back catalogue (Ally in Exile, Our Swimmer, and Witness to the Fact) and playing it with a vigour that many younger bands would struggle to match. Not to put too fine-a point on it, the piece sounds great: far better than the remade older pieces.

However, Third Day is hardly going to make most Wire fans start self-combusting; after all, it's essentially a practice session of mostly very old material, some of which doesn't really improve on the original album takes. It does contain two great pieces, but whether that's enough to justify purchase only you can decide.

Craig Grannell (March, 2000)

Tracklisting

Download Album (PF1)
  1. Wire - Pink Flag (r1) ((29 Nov 1999 Version))
  2. Wire - Blessed State ((29 Nov 1999 Version))
  3. Wire - Mercy ((29 Nov 1999 Version))
  4. Wire - Art of Persistence (1st Draft) ((29 Nov 1999 Version))
  5. Wire - Pink Flag (r2) ((29 Nov 1999 Version))

Downloads

flac downloads

Track Number Track Name Track Length Price Buy
1 Pink Flag (r1) ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 3m 56s N/A N/A
2 Blessed State ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 3m 22s N/A N/A
3 Mercy ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 5m 28s N/A N/A
4 Art of Persistence (1st Draft) ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 4m 33s N/A N/A
5 Pink Flag (r2) ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 3m 35s N/A N/A
  Entire FLAC Download Album (5 tracks) N/A N/A

Unfortunately at this time we can't offer all the Wire - The Third Day tracks as individual mp3s, as some of these tracks exceed the shops maximum (9mins) download length.

These longer mp3 tracks are available in the full album download.

mp3 downloads

Track Number Track Name Track Length Price Buy
1 Pink Flag (r1) ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 3m 56s N/A N/A
2 Blessed State ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 3m 22s N/A N/A
3 Mercy ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 5m 28s N/A N/A
4 Art of Persistence (1st Draft) ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 4m 33s N/A N/A
5 Pink Flag (r2) ((29 Nov 1999 Version)) 3m 35s N/A N/A
  Entire MP3 Download Album (5 tracks) N/A N/A

Unfortunately at this time we can't offer all the Wire - The Third Day tracks as individual mp3s, as some of these tracks exceed the shops maximum (9mins) download length.

These longer mp3 tracks are available in the full album download.

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