This, and the entire "Send" album, are absolutely fantastic. Sometimes, old bands make reunion albums that are passable... in this case, Wire did the unthinkable and managed to EQUAL their classic material.
My friends & I saw Wire at the Great American Music Hall in 2003 and from the opening cords of this song were completely blown away by these middle-aged punk/art rockers. Years later, we still talk about that show...
I will never never never never get enough Wire. I loved their first run in the 70s, their second run in the 80s, and I'm bonkers for this stuff, too. "Art of Stopping" & "Comet" in particular are both so f***ing RELENTLESS. Alas, I live in New Orleans, so I guess for me, seeing these gentlemen in concert is about as likely as sharing a pizza with Jesus. Is it true Wire are putting out a new album this year?
I agree. I was really really surprised that they came back with such a caustic and noisy incarnation. They managed, all at once to 1) Reinvent themselves drastically, 2) Do something no one else was doing and 3) still sound like Wire. If anything, doing that, at that age makes them even more valid. I do remember hating some of the drum machine aspect of the drumming at the time. But I've come to love Robert's metronome style.
2024 and this still sounds fresh as hell!! Could've been released yesterday. But it was released 20 years ago by a band 25 years into their career at that time. These guys are just something else. The whole Send album is fucking awesome, on par with their original classics!!
You can throw this song into todays psych-rock genre's playlist and it wouldn't look a day out of place , so it with most of Wire's visionary upbeats ~
I've posted comments about this before, but just want to introduce my facebook friends to this via the link. Both "Read and Burn 01" and "Read and Burn 02" (and the subsequent "SEND" are brilliant, combining the structural framework of early WIRE with the production values of the late '80's WIRE. They reach such levels of intense power that I feel they've reached a new level of excellence. The new "Object 47" is also excellent.
Fantastic - love how they can still pull of that sense of menace and weirdness-you can see the connection to past glories like a thread reaching way way back - true art
I saw Wire support Eater in Plymouth in 1977, for some reason Eater were delayed and Wire had to play their set twice.They didn't play the type of music you would expect on a punk night and were not well received. I would never have beleived that Wire would still be making quality music and that Id be buying it 30 years later
I saw Wire in Sydney circa 2003 and what a show it was. I still think it was one of the best gigs I have ever been to. The energy of the band was something else. I remember reading that they were touring in the Drum Media, a few months or so before the gig and I remember excitedly telling all my workmates about it. Not that any of them knew the band, but it was great news for me!
This is so taoist... or buddist. I forget the difference (HA HA HA). The art of stopping. funny how i can use their lyrics as philosophy in business, or in teaching, and it works as well as any lao tzu or bertram russell. Wire kicks intellectual ass!
I remember the day back in 1981 that I finally grabbed hold of Pink Flag after nearly a year of having Mr. Suit and 12XU on a great cassette I'd recorded from WPRB. One totally great record! I enjoyed this tune a great deal and the first e.p. on which it appeared. Glad that I finally got to catch them live for the first time around then. Much like The Fall, I respect that they forge on from where they were last.
@Marcuskristicus the problem is that music has lost all provocative/ rebellious/political power due to the all-absorbing music INDUSTRY.. When Wire started, when punk "happened" it was called the music BUSINESS...(and a few decades before that music was just an art form). Industry has nothing to fear from music and music nothing to fear from industry: result is pop fluff called punk like blink. green day etc...it was the breaking of taboo that made Wire great.Industry left no taboo to break.
@chrism823 Well there are certain types of music that belong to the young. I mean you can go on and make art rock fr as long as you live but things like noise, folk, punk stuf can only be make well by the young.Especially when playing live is really what matters these days.
@chrism823 i am 46 and i agree totally: we, the old farts are the real cool and the only cool youth are those we say are cool. and i say so from the depth of the hole i dug myself into during 30 years and that i call experience. And don't bother me with your computer things i have my phonograph thank you
From Pink Flag to Send . . infinity and beyond . . . these guys aint waiting for any adulation or praise because that would mean they'd taken their collective eye of the ball and glanced sideways . . . and that is yet to happen . . .
U.S. NAVY a while BACK...embraced WIRE...at least at the OFFICER Level. D.I.J. also. Splendid Music Making...Message? dunno exactly however GOTOBED San is my Hero Time Keeper! Jesus Ov Nazareth Lives and IS Returning soon...
Christ has told His Mother, He's told Her not to bother... becuz he's just shopping around... & it's all in the art, it's all in the 'art, it's all in the Sacred 'art of Shopping!
there was always disposable pop fluff in every era- every generation has plenty of creative types - you and others just need to seek them out instead of pining on nostalgia- I happen to think the late 60s and 70s were the best however I have found a lot of great young bands simply by youtube or Pandora or by simply asking
What happens is that cool pop culture gets co-opted by big business. I doubt Wire would get snapped up in that but I wish they would for everyones sake!
@Marcuskristicus pfff, there's been bad shit to grow up on since there was good shit, lol im wonderfully articulate..point is shit didnt come into existence with this generation, so everyone cut back on the trite grousing over how "kids nowadays only listen to pop shit like justin bieber( ugh, bieber bashing, another thing thats fatuous and fashionable)"
What is it about being 60 that would invalidate them? I know you meant no offense, but do you assume the young are the keepers of the cool? Whoever thinks so has a lot to learn. You are competing with people far more experienced in the art of awesome.
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This, and the entire "Send" album, are absolutely fantastic. Sometimes, old bands make reunion albums that are passable... in this case, Wire did the unthinkable and managed to EQUAL their classic material.
My friends & I saw Wire at the Great American Music Hall in 2003 and from the opening cords of this song were completely blown away by these middle-aged punk/art rockers. Years later, we still talk about that show...
citroen66 Me too. I’ve seen Wire a hatful of times, always good, but that one tour..... oooh man..
Robert Christgau wrote that the Send tour show he saw was the best show he saw all year
My friend Mallory and I were there and had the same experience…. It was the best show we ever went to and we went to a lot. RIP Malrat.
It's scary how good they still are. STILL ARE.
wire are without age, they are the tao-
who else could make a punk rock album better than the originals 25 years ago?
only Wire
I will never never never never get enough Wire. I loved their first run in the 70s, their second run in the 80s, and I'm bonkers for this stuff, too. "Art of Stopping" & "Comet" in particular are both so f***ing RELENTLESS.
Alas, I live in New Orleans, so I guess for me, seeing these gentlemen in concert is about as likely as sharing a pizza with Jesus.
Is it true Wire are putting out a new album this year?
I agree.
I was really really surprised that they came back with such a caustic and noisy incarnation. They managed, all at once to 1) Reinvent themselves drastically, 2) Do something no one else was doing and 3) still sound like Wire. If anything, doing that, at that age makes them even more valid.
I do remember hating some of the drum machine aspect of the drumming at the time. But I've come to love Robert's metronome style.
Wire are cool in their 60's because of the music they make, timeless art, i'm approaching 50 and still love every era of their music, truly awesome.
2024 and this still sounds fresh as hell!! Could've been released yesterday. But it was released 20 years ago by a band 25 years into their career at that time. These guys are just something else. The whole Send album is fucking awesome, on par with their original classics!!
love this track, the whole 'Send' album is stunning.
Fucking incredible. After years of (im)perfect records, it stays consistent. Really proud of Colin & the gang.
The last album with Bruce Gilbert and one of the best.
You can throw this song into todays psych-rock genre's playlist and it wouldn't look a day out of place , so it with most of Wire's visionary upbeats ~
This happens be my favorite off the album, it's hard-edged enough and flows well, how do they do it.
Love this tons...been a big Wire fan ever since Pink Flag...they've been my favorite band for a long damn time...
I've posted comments about this before, but just want to introduce my facebook friends to this via the link. Both "Read and Burn 01" and "Read and Burn 02" (and the subsequent "SEND" are brilliant, combining the structural framework of early WIRE with the production values of the late '80's WIRE. They reach such levels of intense power that I feel they've reached a new level of excellence. The new "Object 47" is also excellent.
please give credit to Patrick Bateman for this quote / review.
25ys ago? this sounds 2 me like done yesterday on the other side of the street!!(nyc)
Fantastic - love how they can still pull of that sense of menace and weirdness-you can see the connection to past glories like a thread reaching way way back - true art
I saw Wire support Eater in Plymouth in 1977, for some reason Eater were delayed and Wire had to play their set twice.They didn't play the type of music you would expect on a punk night and were not well received. I would never have beleived that Wire would still be making quality music and that Id be buying it 30 years later
I saw Wire in Sydney circa 2003 and what a show it was. I still think it was one of the best gigs I have ever been to. The energy of the band was something else. I remember reading that they were touring in the Drum Media, a few months or so before the gig and I remember excitedly telling all my workmates about it. Not that any of them knew the band, but it was great news for me!
Still got it
Great artists never stop creating.
Excellent 👍👍
no, this is from the 'send' CD, and it's absolutely brilliant, razor-sharp playing, I love it to death! get it if you can.
This is so taoist... or buddist. I forget the difference (HA HA HA).
The art of stopping. funny how i can use their lyrics as philosophy in business, or in teaching, and it works as well as any lao tzu or bertram russell.
Wire kicks intellectual ass!
Wow, I can't think of a band outside of Manchester, except for the Stones, that have lasted so long at a top level. They are brilliant.
Martyn Jones The Fall
***** Oh, outside of Manchester, got it.
But The Fall changed membership almost constantly. Wire were/are stable. (True, BC Gilbert left tho.)
Hallo Venray.
WIRE is absolutely freedom to make music
I remember the day back in 1981 that I finally grabbed hold of Pink Flag after nearly a year of having Mr. Suit and 12XU on a great cassette I'd recorded from WPRB. One totally great record!
I enjoyed this tune a great deal and the first e.p. on which it appeared. Glad that I finally got to catch them live for the first time around then. Much like The Fall, I respect that they forge on from where they were last.
Fucking BRILLIANT!
great track from a very martial album!
Wow Wow Wow ... unstoppable
In case anyone doesn't know. This is a track from 2003's "Send" album.
when wire returned with the "send" record i was stopped in my tracks.
@Marcuskristicus
the problem is that music has lost all provocative/ rebellious/political power due to the all-absorbing music INDUSTRY.. When Wire started, when punk "happened" it was called the music BUSINESS...(and a few decades before that music was just an art form). Industry has nothing to fear from music and music nothing to fear from industry: result is pop fluff called punk like blink. green day etc...it was the breaking of taboo that made Wire great.Industry left no taboo to break.
@chrism823 Well there are certain types of music that belong to the young.
I mean you can go on and make art rock fr as long as you live but things like noise, folk, punk stuf can only be make well by the young.Especially when playing live is really what matters these days.
Thanx for the video.
I was just a WIRE fan; now that I watched more WIRE, I'm a big fan.
High class punk.
Unadulterated freaking genius. Wire are GOD.
let's rock !!
This song is what Suicide would sound like in the mind of Valerie Solanas. Also, this is what Oscar Grouch listens to in his trashcan.
It is beautiful. Always !
'Are you ready, Bruce?'
'Uh-huh'
'Graham?'
'Yeah'
'Robert'
'OK'
'Well alright fellas, let's go!!!'
Peeing in my pants laughing!
Thank you.
genius
Timelessssssssssss..
The best from the best.
Listen to kexp.org out of Seattle and you'll hear 5 bands an hour you never knew existed that will sound like some of the most amazing music you know.
Love it 🖤
Ian Curtis would have loved this ..young hearts fail..wire are amazing
REALLY IMPRESSIVE!
love it.
@Marcuskristicus Ha ha, right on . . . though there's good modern music, too.
I love this album. A lot. When is there gonna be another Wire album?
nice vid tae a great song:)
@chrism823
i am 46 and i agree totally: we, the old farts are the real cool and the only cool youth are those we say are cool. and i say so from the depth of the hole i dug myself into during 30 years and that i call experience. And don't bother me with your computer things i have my phonograph thank you
dang! these guys are effin' *serious* about this stuff, yo~!
Still groovy and smart after all the years.
@wirehq but before, Read and Burn 1
From Pink Flag to Send . . infinity and beyond . . . these guys aint waiting for any adulation or praise because that would mean they'd taken their collective eye of the ball and glanced sideways . . . and that is yet to happen . . .
Blinding track.
U.S. NAVY a while BACK...embraced WIRE...at least at the OFFICER Level. D.I.J. also. Splendid Music Making...Message? dunno exactly however GOTOBED San is my Hero Time Keeper! Jesus Ov Nazareth Lives and IS Returning soon...
@Marcuskristicus
I absolutely agree with you!
The crazy interruptions in the video remind me of Chris Marker!
UV-hot ultra-cool.
the highest art.
Christ has told His Mother, He's told Her not to bother... becuz he's just shopping around... & it's all in the art, it's all in the 'art, it's all in the Sacred 'art of Shopping!
... shocking... blasphemy....
@Marcuskristicus Most favorable punk ups. (thirty year fuscia hair freak) Wire were wondercats.
there was always disposable pop fluff in every era- every generation has plenty of creative types - you and others just need to seek them out instead of pining on nostalgia- I happen to think the late 60s and 70s were the best however I have found a lot of great young bands simply by youtube or Pandora or by simply asking
@Marcuskristicus Wisdom always eludes the young.
Wire "In the art of Stopping"
+BiFemiNarcissist No shhhhhhh sherlock.....lol
+James Bell jr. James Bell jr. "Wire 'In the art of Stopping'"
bzfgt bzfgt That's what I said too....lol
keeping on top of pop its wire keep taking your chewables kiddies stay young and greasey forever rockonbonzo76
WIRE: REALLY GOOD SHIT!
Wire
wonderful. Who made pictures ? I like it very much.
Eine Empfehlung für den Song und das ganze Album gibt es hier rockmeisterwerke.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/wire-send/
@synth77 You fell in the quicksand, matey
congratulations. today this video was selected by the NYC Punk Rock Evolution Foundation. way to go!
I need a bottle with this song
@evilmoussaka
ah, le style fanzine critique rock...
Tout ça, on s'en fout...
Wire, c'est les meilleurs!
;)
Bring me Areski et Brigette's heads.
Chronos!
Frank Spencer?
@Marcuskristicus indeed
it's all in the art of.
Damned ballroom blitz riff !
cojonuda¡¡¡
i like that they still take acid
Ho ho!
Oh, OK!
What happens is that cool pop culture gets co-opted by big business. I doubt Wire would get snapped up in that but I wish they would for everyones sake!
never share a pizza with jesus. he well over does it on the anchovies. I think they maybe leftover from the feeding of the 5000.
Samatha
@Marcuskristicus pfff, there's been bad shit to grow up on since there was good shit, lol im wonderfully articulate..point is shit didnt come into existence with this generation, so everyone cut back on the trite grousing over how "kids nowadays only listen to pop shit like justin bieber( ugh, bieber bashing, another thing thats fatuous and fashionable)"
Pay attention. Re-read what he wrote. He has already agreed with you.
What is it about being 60 that would invalidate them? I know you meant no offense, but do you assume the young are the keepers of the cool? Whoever thinks so has a lot to learn.
You are competing with people far more experienced in the art of awesome.
Hectic.
:)
Sounds like the Rolling Stones.
music has for the most part been neutered and caged.
punk rock evolution foundation lmao,is that what punks do today .
Sorry about that, I was very drunk at the time.
They should stop :(
Why?
they lost the core. Here i hear pop...
Just saw them on tour this week. You're wrong.
Dunno what you mean, man. Wire are shockingly consistent.
you don't know what pop is.
Cut the childish crap and try, if you can to concentrate on this seminal band and this great music.