Wire | Pink Flag (Remastered) | Vinyl

Pink Flag is Wire's 1977 debut album, a stripped-down, art-punk record built on unusually short, sharp songs, several under a minute long, that rejected punk's typical bar-chord bluster for something colder and more conceptual. Tracks like “Three Girl Rhumba” and “12XU” were later covered by Elastica and Minor Threat respectively, testament to the record's outsized influence on post-punk and hardcore alike. This remastered pressing highlights the band's minimalist approach, still cited today as a blueprint for stripped-back guitar music.

Track List

Side A

1. Reuters
2. Field Day for the Sundays
3. Three Girl Rhumba
4. Ex Lion Tamer
5. Ex Lion Tamer
6. Lowdown
7. Start to Move
8. Brazil
9. It's So Obvious
10. Surgeon's Girl

Side B

1. Pink Flag
2. The Commercial
3. Straight Line
4. 106 Beats That
5. Mr. Suit
6. Strange
7. Fragile
8. Mannequin
9. Different to Me
10. Champs
11. Feeling Called Love
12. 12XU

Release Details

• UPC: 5024545812312
• Label: Pinkflag
• Format: LP Vinyl — Remastered
• Genre: Rock
• Release Date: 7/20/18
• Release date reflects catalog release information and may not indicate the pressing/edition of the specific copy shipped.