anthems from the alleyways: Wire

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Wire - Live at the CBGBs

"By the time Wire made it to America for a mini-residency at New York's CBGB in July 1978, punk was dead and the band was moving in a radically different musical direction. The material featured here is an abridged version of a set recorded before a small audience (not at CBGB itself but in a nearby space) for broadcast on local station WPIX. Since American audiences had never seen Wire, the band uncharacteristically reprised some Pink Flag tracks. However, most of the songs come from Chairs Missing and explore exciting new territory, particularly the jagged exercises in creepy surrealism "From the Nursery" and "Practice Makes Perfect." Scant live evidence of Wire's exhilarating early phase exists; these recordings start to fill that gap, providing a vivid, fleeting snapshot of a group whose natural state was constant change." from ALLMUSICGUIDE

Gettin' lazy again! lol

Anyways, this is a piece of work so ENJOY!

Wire - Live at the CBGBs

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Back from Virus

It’s been a long time, I’ve been very busy, plus the fact that I had a Trojan virus in my computer which was not detected by my previous Anti-Virus. That shit slowed down my Upload (8 kbps) and Download (20 kbps) speeds. It took me 2 hours just to upload 1 CD. FFFUUUUUUCCCCK!

I’m cool now. I changed my anti-virus and back to normal speed. AWRAYT!!! I was actually thinking of quitting this blogging thing but I simply can’t. This thing keeps me SANE. lol.

Well, I’m back to school now, getting another degree. A degree that would help me go places, at least that’s what I was hoping. Hehe. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Anyways, enough about me and let’s go to my post. This isa different from my usual post since my wife asked me if I could lessen the Crust and the Hardcore stuff for it might damage Dylan’s hearing. Well, anything for my kid.

Now, I kind of lay off from the loud stuff and returned to basics, the not so noisy stuff whenever I play music around the house. So, I’m back with my earphones whenever I'm playing some loud stuff.

So, without further blah blah, here’s the Undertones self-titled album, Gang of Four’s Return the Gift. Originally, it’s a double CD. Disc 1 is comprised of Gang of Four’s back catalog re-recorded by the band. It’s a pretty neat outing. But I didn’t include the Disc 2 for in my opinion it’s just rubbish! Because it’s a remix CD done by bands such as Hot Hot Heat and the like and sounded very disco. So, I’m not going to waste my time ripping and uploading that shit!

Also posted was a classic one from the Buzzcocks-Love Bites, Mission of Burma’s first 12” release, Signals, Calls and Marches, Alternative TV's Radio Sessions and Wire's On Returning which covers their first three albums plus non album tracks.