Wire - Kidney Bingos
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- from 1988's "A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck"
Natural splits sunburn jets price marks smart bets
Strikers luck pitch backs heap tips pit slacks
Dressed pints demon shrinks bread drunk dead drinks
Stretch clubs models box draw skin black shocks
Money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun
Flag stunt rock stone dole axe crash dive
Breathe thrift take speed double take weekends
Skull row drugs hall colour bars sex calls
Sparkle finds rented rings pretty things clipped wings
Gold street spy fleet scandal food poor treat
Fire run club gun rule mob burn some
Bomb time pop crime stock frame steady climb
Fresh name donor game fair meat all the same
That outro. Pure heaven.
It's beautiful
They’re not like this anymore
@@Fantom6400Ok? Should they be? Wire have always been forward-thinking. They rarely cover the same old ground with each successive album, though that dynamic did sort of change with the self-titled album from 2015 (and onward). Anyway this song came out in 1988… which was 35 years ago. Could you imagine if they had never changed or progressed in that amount of time?
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The music sounds all bright and cheerful at once but like in alot of 80's U.K. music, an underlying air of sadness always seems to seep through. That complexity and nuanced mix of emotions is what makes it so unique and wonderful. And that's not even to mention the lyrics were more intelligent, heartfelt, thought provoking, and often very mysterious back then. It can never be this good again.
That's A Bell Is a Cup in a nutshell 👌🏻👌🏻
Very well said, articulate. I completely agree; I'm only often vexed to find that (within our realm the obvious pop succeeds itself) modern musicians even with layers or levels of influence are only used for their hooks, and as time passes the people who appreciate the newer artists no nothing of the less diluted. As I've done deeper searches for what really rings with me, I've discovered I have an infinite taste for things like Wire specifically. Cold wave, french wave, and 80's uk postpunk/darkwave like this has me backing more faith, that there is more to find!
On the contrary, its really sad when I think about how lyrics/ambiance/environment of sincerity is lost to the past of more humanly earnest/poetic artists.
Upbeat sadness.
The outro may be the most melancholy expression I’ve ever heard in a melody.
Kidney Bingos is an intentional mystery. It seems as though the random lyrics are straight from a phone book. And if so, were Wire suggesting something about the meaning we seek/demand as listeners?
Yet somehow, in this puzzle, the instrumentation manages to convey much more emotion than straightforward lyrics might. The end always nearly moves me to tears.
Powerful.
@@clewismessina6630 Agree with a lot of that, but the lyrics aren't really "out of the phone book". They are about neoliberalism in the 1980s, the selling off of the NHS, the miners' strike and the how the country was being cut into 'meat and bones', as the video images imply. It's a state of the nation song. The outro is a play on words "hi/hello' but also 'high/low' (as in high and low values). It's incredibly clever and not at all random.
A riot of misunderstanding.
All hail Wire.
A criminally underrated classic
I hope someday people discover Wire like they did Velvet Underground.
no doubt
I hope the same. Salute from southamerica
still waiting
Wire is a well known band, I don’t understand why people get a kick out of liking “unknown music” lol hipsters
The lyrics remind me of those AI made songs nowadays
This song is so wonderful, like a beautiful love song. Makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. Love it!❤❤❤❤ I love how beautifully weird Wire is.
wire like fine wine better with age. pushing 40 years together and still sonically innovative
I don’t know if they’ve necessarily gotten ‘better’ with age, but they’ve certainly managed to stay relevant and interesting over the years and decades, which is something that almost none of their class of ‘77 peers can claim. I realize it’s all subjective, but to me nothing will ever top the first three albums (or the Mk.1 period). However, with only one or two exceptions they’ve somehow managed to keep releasing albums that continue to maintain the momentum that they put into motion all those years ago, and that’s pretty damn impressive in and of itself, considering that we’re talking about a time period that spans nearly half a century.
One of the best songs of the 80's. Simply perfect
I definitely think it’s a perfect pop song. I’m 56 years old, and remember 1988 very well (the year this song was released). I think back on all that was popular that year, and it’s pretty dismal. Not exactly a banner year for pop culture. At least here in the states that was the size of it. For all intents and purposes this song *SHOULD* have been a #1 hit, but instead we were bogged down in garbage like “Don’t Worry Be Happy”, Terence Trent D’Arby, and hair metal. College radio was your only true alternative (back when that word actually meant something), or for 2 hours a day you might get lucky and see this video on 120 Minutes… but for the most part the American mainstream wanted f*** all to do with Wire.
By 1988 we were all in rehab - literally.
I remember buying this cassette while I was in the Navy in 1988 in Long Beach, CA because it simply looked interesting. Loved listening to Kidney Bingos then, love listening to Kidney Bingos now.
My best friend was stationed as an officer on The Pelileu. Loved 80s KROQ
why can't i go back in time to the 80's......Music was great, life was fun, it was all ahead of me then. this song takes me back to my college years, my college sweetheart and the best years of my life. Thank God for music, it has the ability to transport us to a different place and time, it can evoke such strong emotions and bring such intense thoughts to mind. WIRE rocks. This and the song "ahead"......just the best.
I saw Wire on the Kidney Bingos tour, wish I still had the t shirt I bought at their Chicago show. Was a great performance, the sound was crystal clear and huge at Cabaret Metro.
I love wire, you know if they really wanted to they could write the best pop song ever but they chose to follow what's right for them, truly tremendous band and I love them for it
Well, one could argue they did write the best pop song ever. This is it.
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Aye I think you are right indeed
They wrote a lot of very good pop songs, this being one example, Outdoor Miner being another, Eardrum Buzz also. In fact, if you go through all the singles they released, they mostly all have a pop sensibility to them. But I take your point, buy one of their albums on the back of a quirky pop sounding single, and you're in for a big surprise.
I've always loved bands or solo artists that were a bit left field, but on their day could create a great pop song. Devo is another great example, Julian Cope also, to name but two.
@@Jamthecoolerator mmmmm, map ref and miner, and. ....
@@finnkdyBlessed State, The 15th, Our Swimmer, Mannequin, Ex-Lion Tamer, Fragile…..
Wow, this song is amazing! I think I'm way overdue on doing an immersion of the 80s Wire material. If the rest is anything like this, I've been missing out for way too long.
My favorite song ever!!
One of the best bands ever.Always innovative and interesting.
My favorite Wire song. Bizarre video makes the package complete. Late period, okay, but I actually prefer it and "A Bell Is A Cup" is hands down my favorite Wire record.
what a time, got it in 88, lived Newport Beach CA, and, just played the shit out this song, what a mood swing, memory sensation with that of what may be the best ending ever in a song, brilliant. ...
Great tune! I would say that this is not a typical Wire song, except that I don't believe that such a thing exists! Amazing talent that spreads in every conceivable direction. I never tire of Wire.
Maybe not “typical”, but there is definitely such a thing as ‘classic’ Wire-pop, and this song is a classic example. It’s another in a long line of signature Wire-pop songs that begin on their first album (Fragile, Ex-Lion Tamer, Mannequin, Champs), and continues throughout each successive album, and beyond to the present day. Wire have always been a very multifaceted and layered band, and pop is definitely a slice of the pie.
THIS is a video as far as I'm concerned. Nothing too fancy, just weird and cryptic.
Bought this 45rpm single from a clearance rack. It was warped, and made the stylus jump about like crazy. Perhaps the stylus was as over-excited as I am whenever I listen to it
Back in the 80s i had a fav. Radio DJ called Steve Doyle and he always played great Pop, Soul, Funk, RnB songs, while my twin brother's fav. DJ was a guy called Nick Raynor who represented Indy, Underground music....and he always had the most amusing-yet-peculiar reportoirs, amongst others this one by Wire
i love wire. this one is perfect if you wanna just smoke a reefer and watch your cats tumble around.
that sounds delightful. and awesome reference in your username, friend!
u put them in the spin dryer too....
God genius bassline.
If i heard this the first time not knowing who it was by i would have NOT guessed it was recorded in the 80s. Sounds super modern.
Check out “The 15th” by them if you don’t already know it. Released in 1979, but sounds like early 2010s indie music
@@EricaFlippedThe 15th totally predicts The Pixies. I’ll never forget the very first time I heard The Pixies, in some record store in Huntington Beach, CA in 1988… and I immediately thought of The 15th. I went up to the counter and asked the guy at the register who it was that they were playing over the store p.a., and he told me it was this “new band out of Boston called The Pixies”. I just figured at the time that they must’ve been huge Wire fans. Fast forward to summer 1994. I met Frank Black, and started talking about Wire. Sure enough his eyes lit up and he told me in depth about how much he loved them. I was like “Yeah, I kind of figured”.
One of the best songs ever.
im having an out of body experience (not really). taken back to the late 1980s. alone and decompressing with music on MTVs "120 MInutes" (finally, the family went to bed, fuckers). the week's stress and anxiety of a certain youth were quelled when songs like this were heard. the rhythm, the soothing guitar riffs, and that cooing british voice....life is good.
Yes, I loved 120 Minutes! 90% of the music I still listen to was from those shows. 🎶🎵🎼📺
I really don’t get all the comments with people saying this sounds like the Smiths. I’m just not hearing it at all. This is straight up Wire-pop.
The smiths are shit, wire are legend.
This used to play a on the radio and in the clubs back in those years. Where has the time and good music gone to???
what club!!! are you serious
@@algebrasuicide I used to live in Houston (Texas) back in the early 1990s and at the time there were two top-40 radio stations (93Q-KKBQ FM & Power 104-KRBE) that were going at each other’s throats by very much playing the same dark, obscure, independent music coming from the UK and Europe.
So the radio stations were broadcasting live from Houston dance club venues such as; Numbers, NRG, The Ocean Club, Club 6400, Xcess, DV8, Detour, Bayou Mama's and many more. Several of these clubs were located on the Richmond Avenue strip in the posh Galleria area of Houston. Most of the clubs have come and gone but whatever happened there I can tell you …went down in human history.
As of 2023, Numbers is pretty much the sole survivor from the aforementioned clubs here.
@@Fantom6400I grew up in Houston, but haven’t lived there since ‘86. I still go back sometimes to see family and old friends, and each time it seems like a completely different city than it was the last time I was there. In Houston, change comes hard and fast. However… throughout all the crazy changes, there’s Numbers… still standing defiantly in the face of rapid fire gentrification and looking EXACTLY the same as it did over 40 years ago, still booking the same kind of bands and DJ’s and still with it’s mural. It’s nice to know there’s at least one landmark of my long gone youth still remaining.
Money spines paper lungs kidney bingos organ fun
I get happy or sometimes sad when I hear this. Seriously, I hope this song is in the next Joker movie because I can see Arthur just sitting on his couch, lost in thought while this plays on the brink of insanity.
one of the greatest songs ever recorded. should've been a huge hit.
As a guitarist of the 80's I always loved the chunky guitar "hits" in this song. Talk about a band that did more without using keyboards.
I'm hearing a synth though
Bassline sounds like a synth. Some synthesizer parts added by producer Mike Thorne
Wrong decade for Mike Thorne, I do believe this was produced Gareth Jones (resident MUTE producer famous for his work with Depeche Mode amongst others)
Daniel Miller produced this particular song. Which might explain the synth bass. But boy, what a mighty mix. It still sounds fresh and current and relevant in 2021
It was Gareth Jones.
wonderful lyrics! great freedom ;)
As Colin Newman said, "A video of violently chopping meat doesn't make you think, "Great Song!"
No, but it sure is mesmerizing.
My favorite Wire song. Something haunting about it.
Colin related to me in 1989 interview that the song was about human kidneys being auctioned off or sold like the pools in India.
If I remember correctly, the nucleus of the lyrics came from some dream that Bruce Gilbert had, about a dystopian scenario where human organs were regularly auctioned off to the highest bidder, and then the rest of the lyrics were built around that but also influenced by the horrible state of affairs in post-Thatcher England. Hence much of the imagery in this video.
As usual, it’s all very cryptic and abstract… the way only a Wire song can be.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Sounds like the same story as I don’t recall Colin telling me he wrote the lyrics.
@@marcbolan1818 Again, I’m going off of some very distant memories here, but I’m pretty sure Bruce wrote the lyrics. I could easily be mistaken about that, but for some reason, through my hazy recollection I want to say it was Bruce.
@@Shikta-poobah67 Could have been as I believe Colin just told me what it was about and I assumed he provided the lyrics. That interview I conducted was right at the release of IBTABA. Long time now
I Love this musicccccc
I always wonder who the miscreants are that give these gems a thumbs down
Contrarians. Trolls. That, and people who mistakenly came here looking for Wire Train.
Está canción me transporta a los 80s aunque no haya vivido esa época
Brings back lots of happy memories
@Mosux2007 The song equates the marketplace for human body parts (å la the film "Coma") with the commodification (and cheapening) of human life in Thatcher England. This is just my opinion. And as with most Wire songs and all great songs in general, there are probably many more layers of meaning than that.
perfect pop
I love this freakin' song!!!!
"Natural splits sunburn jets price marks smart bets
Strikers luck pitch backs heap tips pit slacks
Dressed pints demon shrinks bread drunk dead drinks
Stretch clubs models box draw skin black shocks
Money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun
Flag stunt rock stone dole axe crash dive
Breathe thrift take speed double take weekends
Skull row drugs hall colour bars sex calls
Sparkle finds rented rings pretty things clipped wings
Gold street spy fleet scandal food poor treat
Fire run club gun rule mob burn some
Bomb time pop crime stock frame steady climb
Fresh name donor game fair meat all the same"
Wire - Kidney Bingos
The above are possibly the oddest lyrics of any song with which I am familiar. (And I have been terribly familiar with this song since my teens. Which may be indicative of the vaporous miasma of my mind since that tragically early age 😶🌫🥶😱!!).
Images of human body parts are interspersed with the stuff of everyday 1980's English life.
"sunburn jets price marks smart bets"
Sunburnt from a holiday on the Med coast that was flown to on a discounted jet ticket bought with the winnings acquired from laying a smart bet at the horses or a similar sporting gamble.
"Strikers luck pitch backs heap tips pit slacks"
Northern English miners who work down the pit spend their leisure hours playing on a football-pitch in their preferred position as a center-forward or as a striker. Also the bloody miners' strikes of Thatcher's democidal reign of iron-maiden misrule.
The chorus in the film clip is always accompanied by a butcher's cleaver chopping the rib cage cut of a small animal that is most likely a lamb or a veal calf. Our kidneys are bingos according to this esoteric line of associations. The shots of daily life in the film-clip are always shot through a meshed-wire like that found within the glass-doors on microwave ovens.
We are the citizens of a capitalism whose every day existence is spent in an endless orgy of self-butchering, self-cooking, self-serving self-consumption and self-immolation.
Yes to all that lot, but it’s so catchy!!
❤ memories 🥰
How were Talking Heads successful at radio and yet this was not? NO JUSTICE
Nik Farr byrne had that image thing goin on, is one guess.
Nik Farr : Two words : Pere Ubu (American band, btw)
Talking heads, what a shitty band
Yes.
@@drunkroku4054I love Pere Ubu, but what did they have to do with Talking Heads’ rise to fame?
I didn't even realize there was a video for this- you instantly earned a sub and my hat's off to you! Great taste! :)
Colin Newman was so cute.
In this video especially.
btw they were both british guys working for the largest Radio station in Denmark, Radio Voice --it was also the newest, being launched in 1984 or '85 i believe
I love the Moose cover version. Super cool.
Still sounding in my head... kidney bingos
Timeless shit....The best there is....Pure British legacy.
Kidney bingos organ fun
Sublime. Gilbert, much missed.
Wire live in NYC Sept. 2017 ⚡️
Latter period Wire but still... get hook, great melody, great groove... great song!
5th Album out of 16!
*mid period
This is called "80s"
Super Dark Times
how does one even conceptualize a video like this
I'd say it was probably an idea of Colin Newman, fits well with his personality. Lyrics are surely from Lewis but still...
THEY HAVE SURVIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE THEIR INFLUENCES BEAR FRUIT WHILE MOVING ON TO A MORE TRANCEY, HYPNOTIC KIND OF MUSIC THAT JUST MIGHT INSPIRE YET ANOTHER GENERATION OF MUSICIANS. WIRE WEAVES INTRICATE TEXTURES OUT OF THE MOST BASIC MATERIALS; THE COMPONENTS OF A SONG ARE ALMOST AS FASCINATING AS THEIR INTERPLAY. ON THE ALBUM, TIMBRE IS AS IMPORTANT AS ANY OTHER FACET OF THE MUSIC.
Haha, I love how sarcastic this song is.
The English have a patent on sarcasm.
A música é ótima mas o clip é de um mau gosto impressionante. Talvez seja coisa de gênio, algo que eu não seja capaz de entender. É a minha esperança.
❤Time to bouffer❤😂
So you remember that college (before it was Alternative) song with the great melody that starts out like "LIfe In a Northern Town" then the great bass kicks in, and the lyrics make absolutely no sense. This is that song. I still like it.
Gruesome, but reminds me some of the gibbering sort of music that tries to be intelligent “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Billy Joel
LOVE IT
All good fun
Love Wire. This vid is every vegans nightmare...
Actually, this comes closer to Jackson Browne than it might seem. And that's a good thing! I like Jackson Browne.
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I'd love to learn the inspiration of this song :)
Pop music
@@God-mb8wi shooby shooby do wop, pop pop do wop.
@@dangray9536
that's right
I think it’s a reference to boxing; e.g. punching someone in various areas of the torso as though stamping a bingo card
I read somewhere I think about it being a comment on a two tier health service in Britain under the Conservative government where the wealthy can afford to pay for the best treatment but the poor are forced to resort to basically a lottery system of whether they receive adequate care. Hence, kidney bingo
This is a great song! An equally great song that came out around the same time is: The Wendys - Pulling My Fingers Off. These 2 songs are absolutely brilliant and are similar in many ways... You're welcome!
I just checked out the Wendys, and subsequently that song, and yes… indeed quite similar. Not bad. I missed out on them when they were going. Apparently a Scottish band that relocated to Manchester and were part of the Madchester scene and signed to Factory Records. They only released 2 albums. One at the beginning of the 90’s, and another at the end of the 90’s. So far I’ve only heard the one song. Hopefully the rest is as good.
agree....
kidney bingos organ fun !
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This seemed like a shot at Morrissey.
Doubtful.
Look at the scene from 1:04 and the time period it was referencing. I'm not saying it was necessarily a negative reference; just a nod to the scene at the time. Post New Wave: Lots of chime, reverb, and crooning, and often a pad synth lobbed on. @@Shikta-poobah67
Gutfeld is awesome!
LOL!
I guess you are referring to "dole axe" where she courageously killed the unions pulling England into an economic toilet.
Excellent morceau, ils ont conçu de remarquables titres, sacrés musiciens.
Quel est le thème de ce morceau, même question poue eardrum buzz
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Always liked the sound of this song, but I could never make out the lyrics. Now I've seen them, will someone PLEASE explain what the HECK this is about?! EXTREMELY odd lyrics!
Mosux2007 I'm waiting too
I think the lyrics are completely devoid of meaning, and that's the point. It's mocking hollow commercial pop songs and the society that brings them about.
I think this song is about a dystopian future where people have to sell their organs to survive (word of Bruce Gilbert, who wrote most of this).
It's surrealism. In particular they're juxtaposing the sweet, up beat sounding pop music with confusing and somewhat eerie lyrics. It's kind of like their other song "Still Shows" which does the same thing.
Elastica ripped this song off for The Menace album. Unless it's an actual cover😂.
SUBLIME NONSENSE!
The best Johnny Marr song Johnny Marr didn’t write.
my kids are 9 and 11 and they lov it
bingo!
Beautiful gibberish
The Vines - Mary Jane
Whoa!
High...low
'drugs haul' rather than 'drugs hall'...
think it’s funny that Bruce isn’t in the video at all
Maybe he's the one dancing?
@@no98765Nope that’s definitely Colin.
Nice how MTV got the title of this album wrong at the beginning (and end).................it's NOT Kidney Bingos!
A Bell In A Cup... More significant
Kidney Bingos was an EP out before A Bell Is A Cup
Natural splits sunburn jets pride marks smart bets
Strikers luck pitch backs heap tips pit slacks
Dressed pints demon shrinks bread drunk dead drinks
Stretch clubs models box draw skin black shocks
Money spines paper lung kidney bingos organ fun
Flag stunt rock stone dole axe crash dive
Breath thrift take speed double take weekends
Skull row drugs hall colour bars sex calls
Sparkle finds rented rings pretty things clipped wings
Gold street spy fleet scandal food poor treat
Fire run club gun rule mob burn some
Bomb time pop crime stock frame steady climb
Fresh name donor game fair meat all the same
free market, western life is as plastic as fuck. no song say's it better than this.
2 vegetarians dislike.
zero dislikes
ahhhh yeah!
Eric Leippe now 3 a shame
Every time someone points these things out, some joker thinks it’s their moral obligation to be a contrarian troll and hit the thumbs-down tab. Fortunately RUclips changed their format so you can no longer see the ‘dislike’ counter.
This video made me sick .Sound like The Smiths though...
Sound like The Smiths
It was released in 1988 at the height of the Smiths' profile/breakup. The offcial video even mimics Morrisey's
physical expesssions.
Guitar reminds me of into to The Bottom Line by Big Audio Dynamite