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 from 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, such additions dishonour the "conceptual clarity of the original statements." link

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Bonus tracks
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Additional personnel

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Bonus tracks

"Song 1" – 3:02 [1989 reissue, 1994 reissue]
"Get Down (Parts 1 and 2)" – 4:27 [1989 reissue, 1994 reissue]
"Let's Panic Later" – 3:20 [1989 reissue, 1994 reissue]
"Small Electric Piece" – 3:33 [1989 reissue, 1994 reissue]
"Go Ahead" – 4:01 [1994 reissue]

Extra tracks have been removed from the 2006 remastered reissues, because they, according to the band, didn't honour the "conceptual clarity of the original statements".