The very first song on the very first Wire album. Picture a teenager in 1977 buying Pink Flag, bringing it home and putting it on the turntable for the first time... and this comes out of it. I'm trying to imagine that teenager's reaction. As immense as it still sounds all these decades later, what must it have been like back then before we were all so thoroughly accustomed to punk and post-punk and apocalyptic war tunes? Sometimes I really wish I'd been around for that era - how exciting it must have been - but then again if I had been, I'd be even more of an old fart than I am now. So maybe it's just as well.
But janey mack, what a song this is. Still.
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