154 (album)

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154

Studio album by Wire
Released	September 1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Post-punk
Length	58:38
Label	Harvest Records, pinkflag
Producer(s)	Mike Thorne
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (9.1/10) link Robert Christgau (B) link
Wire chronology
Chairs Missing (1978)	154 (1979)	Document and Eyewitness (1981)

154 was the third album from the band Wire, completing their transition fom the boisterous punk of Pink Flag, via the more accomplished and melodic Chairs Missing into the seminal "art-punk" genre that has led to their lasting influence. The album was released in 1979 on EMI imprint Harvest Records. It was first reissued on compact disc in 1989. First editions of the vinyl album were accompanied by a "free" EP, the tracks from which are included on the Harvest CD, issued in 1994, along with an additional bonus track. The new remastered release, released by Pinkflag (America) as digipacks on April 11, 2006, does not contain any extra tracks, because, according to the band, didn't honour the "conceptual clarity of the original statements." link

1 Track listing
- 1.1 EP track listing
- 1.2 Bonus track (1994 reissue)
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Additional personnel

[edit] Track listing

"I Should Have Known Better" (Graham Lewis) – 3:51
"Two People in a Room" (Colin Newman, B.C. Gilbert) – 2:09
"The 15th" (Newman) – 3:04
"The Other Window" (Lewis, Gilbert) – 2:07
"Single K.O." (Lewis) – 2:22
"A Touching Display" (Lewis) – 6:55
"On Returning" (Newman) – 2:05
"A Mutual Friend" (Lewis, Newman) – 4:26
"Blessed State" (Gilbert) – 3:28
"Once is Enough" (Newman) – 3:23
"Map Ref. 41°N 93°W" (Lewis, Newman, Gilbert) – 3:36
"Indirect Inquiries" (Lewis, Newman) – 3:34
"40 Versions" (Gilbert) – 3:27

[edit] EP track listing

"Song 1" (Robert Gotobed, Newman, Simmons) – 3:02
"Get Down (Parts 1 and 2)" (Newman, Smith, Desmond Simmons, Gotobed, David) – 4:27
"Let's Panic Later" (Lewis) – 3:20
"Small Electric Piece" (Gilbert) – 3:33