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[wrobert at uci.edu]

Wire belongs in both camps ironically enough.  When people refer to the
punk Wire, they are referring to the first album.  The post-punk Wire is
the second and the third album.  Coincidentally, by those records, Wire
was so uninterested in the first album that they hired a cover band to
open for them and play those songs....  It could be that all these
categories are a bit arbitrary when you come down to it, but I say we
enforce them ruthlessly.  robert wood


> On Aug 6, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
>
>> The origin of the term is chronological, but now it is
>> a primarily aesthetic designation.  Post-punk = Joy
>> Divison, Gang of Four, Wire, The Pop Group, Public
>> Image Limited.
>
> As I recall, they all seemed to swim in the same ocean - it's just
> that the bands you list were in the artier wing. Talking Heads, which
> was very art school from the beginning, played CBGBs at the same time
> The Ramones did. I saw both of them weeks apart in 1976. I remember
> playing Wire and the Sex Pistols the same nights, driving all the
> bluegrass types in Charlottesville out of the room. Pink Flag was
> 1977, same year as Never Mind the Bollocks, no?
>
> Doug
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