Episode 147 - Pink Flag by Wire (Side A) with Ferruccio Quercetti

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We hope you like Wire. Or, at the very least we hope you’re interested to hear about Wire because we have a lot to get through with this.

David couldn’t join us this week, but we were able to get a post-punk expert to join us for this mammoth two parter, so say hello to Ferruccio Quercetti of the Italian punk band Cut. He is a true font of knowledge and he provides a ton of context here, which frankly is worth the price of admission alone.

Anyway, Chris has been talking about nominating Pink Flag for years. Literally years. He made it known that he was thinking of pulling the trigger on this a few weeks back, which is just as well as this band have a lot of albums. That’s why this ends up as a two parter.

We cover about half of their career in this episode. The crux of Chris’s argument here is that Pink Flag is one of the most important and under recognised punk albums ever written. Coming out at the height of punk in 1977, it’s clear from the outset that their approach was different from many of their contemporaries, looking to psychedelia and America instead of what was going on over on these fair shores at the time.

On this episode we talk about their history, chat about the Ramones influence (and more), and cover about half of their discography. It’s a great episode, and the second part is also a doozy so come back for part two next week!

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