Talk:154 (album)

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[edit] Re-issue(s)

Article says Restless re-issued 154 on CD in 1993. It was definitely re-issued before that, but I don't have an exact date, myself. (FWIW, by late 1992 many of the Restless re-issues, including this album, were already in the cut-out bins.) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:58, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

More info: the Restless CD re-issue came in a long box (Remember those? I saved part of the text from it), which would most likely put the (initial) re-issue no later than 1992. My copy (as well as that of Chairs Missing) has an additional copyright date of 1989, by EMI, suggesting that someone (if not Restless) had re-issued the album in that year. Finally, I think Mute Records may have actually been the ones who re-issued it, while Restless/Enigma licensed the rights to the Wire albums in the U.S.A. I don't have a specific reference for these, other than the copyright date, but I will at least go ahead and modify the re-issue date in the article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Lasting influence"

The article's a bit too fanzine-ish. I hardly think the transition completed by "154" is in any way responsible for Wire's "lasting influence." The first two albums are both stronger than "154", and the ripples created by them -- and "Pink Flag" especially -- are the real reason we still talk about and listen to Wire. Cloonmore 03:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)