Released May 1989 It's Beginning to and Back Again
(1989) Manscape
(1990) Release date May 1989 Producers John Fryer, Paul Kendall | Length 59:43 Artist Wire Label Enigma Records | |
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Recorded Kitsch Studios, Brussels, Belgium Genres Alternative rock, Experimental rock Similar Manscape, A Bell Is a Cup, The Drill, The First Letter, The Ideal Copy | ||
It's Beginning to and Back Again, also known by its acronym IBTABA, is the sixth studio album by the British post-punk group Wire, released in 1989. The title comes from the lyrics of the third song, "German Shepherds".
Contents
The record mostly consists of reinterpretations of live performances of material from the band's previous record, A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck. The recordings are "based on performances in Chicago, Portugal and London." Live tracks were deconstructed in the studio and remixed by Wire. The record contains the single "Eardrum Buzz", which was the band's most successful single in their history, charting at #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #68 in the UK.
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Original edition
- "Finest Drops"
- "Eardrum Buzz"
- "German Shepherds"
- "Public Place"
- "It's a Boy"
- "Illuminated"
- "Boiling Boy"
- "Over Theirs"
CD bonus tracks
- "Eardrum Buzz" (12" Version)
- "The Offer"
- "In Vivo"
Personnel
Songs
Finest Drops4:28
EarDrum Buzz4:14
German Shepherds4:39
References
IBTABA Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA