Length 44:41 Artist Wire Producer Mike Thorne Genre Post-punk | 154
(1979) The Ideal Copy
(1987) Release date September 1979 Label Harvest Records | |
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Released September 1979 (1979-09) Recorded 1979 (1979) Advision Studios, West London, England, United Kingdom Similar Wire albums, Post-punk albums | ||
154 is the third album by the English post-punk band Wire, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music) on EMI imprint Harvest Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in America. 154 peaked at number 39 in the UK albums chart, the highest position the band has achieved. It was first issued on CD in 1987 by EMI Japan and later reissued by Restless Records in 1989. First editions of the vinyl album were accompanied by an 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 as digipacks in 2006, does not contain any extra tracks, because, according to the band, such additions dishonour the "conceptual clarity of the original statements." The album is so named because the band had played 154 gigs in their career at the time of the album's release. Pitchfork listed 154 as 85th best album of the 1970s.
Contents
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Track listing
Tracks 19–24 are demo versions that have also appeared on compilations such as Behind the Curtain and After Midnight.
Personnel
Songs
1I Should Have Known Better3:52
2Two People in a Room2:10
3The 15th3:05