The Perfect Album

sgt_wilko said:
2022 mix of Revolver
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Always had a problem with this. Who the f*ck is Giles Martin and why does he have the keys to the car? If Dave Clark's roadie's second cousin twice removed started screwing around with DC5 tracks and skimming off the top I'd be furious. :mad:


The Perfect Album​

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Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel - Duane Eddy
 
Any of Wire’s first three albums are deserving of a mention, each magnificent and entirely brilliant.

The debut ‘Pink Flag’ (1977) is a classic three-chord, short sharp shock guitar abuse, delivered at breath taking speed and accompanied by intelligent, surrealist poetic lyrics. Rarely have three chords and the English language been put to better use than by Wire.

The follow up, ‘Chairs Missing’ (1978) was not radically different, it still has the firepower but now with sonic atmospherics.

But for me ‘154’ (1979) is ‘the perfect album’. Lyrical intrigue, haunting melodic soundscapes but still with their trademark guitars. Thirteen mini strokes of genius, it’s like listening in to someone’s thoughts, a schizophrenic drip-drip-drip of doubt with the ever present sound of coiled anger, writhing slippery rhythms and sudden rays of insight and pop sunshine.

 
Perfect albums for me:
Phaedra
Script of the bridge
LC
underwater moonlight
wish you were here
seven songs
white light from the mouth of infinity
emergency third rail power trip
hex enduction hour
the splendour of fear
in the flat field
going for the one
sgt pepper (sorry)
paris 1919
reach the beach
waiting for a miracle
from the lions mouth
 
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