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100
154 is still a benchmark for unsettling adventures with guitars.
5y
91
Despite the incredible highs ... 154 is also the least consistent of Wire's first three albums, and a few of its experiments don't bear full fruit.
11y
90
If Chairs Missing was a transitional album between punk and post-punk, 154 is squarely in the latter camp, devoting itself to experimental soundscapes that can sound cold and forbidding at times.
13y
90
154, the final album of Wire's first career arc, continued to complicate their sound with more elabo-rate arrangements, a thicker sound, and more com-plex, studio-enabled melodies.
2y
album cover looks like the cover of an underground wonky techno album mixtape released in 2017
Damn, talk about mysterious, am I right...
This album is easily Wire's darkest and most cryptic album to date, and it's also one of their best.
It takes all the elements that made Chairs Missing so ominous and intense and cranks it up to a million. Some of the tracks are downright scary imo. Tracks such as The Other Window, Indirect Enquiries and the closing track 40 Versions are perfect examples of this album's more intense and dark tracks. If anything, most of this album is ... read more
*154* — what a bizarre title. It’s the exact number of concerts the band had played by the time this album was released. An album that has now become as iconic as *Pink Flag*, long remembered in various encyclopedias for being more accessible. This is truly one of the strangest pieces in the entire post-punk genre. In fact, it wasn’t until the 2000s that Wire’s incredible modernity hit everyone in the face, and much of that is due to *154*. Wire continues to experiment ... read more
Es una escucha interesante aunque no diria que sea el sonido con el cual me quede de ellos
Piaciuto molto.
Produzioni tutte stupende, vocals che non sempre mi facevano impazzire ma erano molto varie.
Unico difettuccio vero è che nonostante fossero solo 44 minuti mi sono sembrati molto di più.
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Track List
| 1 | I Should Have Known Better 3:52 | 90 |
| 2 | Two People in a Room 2:11 | 89 |
| 3 | The 15th 3:05 | 92 |
| 4 | The Other Window 2:08 | 80 |
| 5 | Single K.O. 2:24 | 86 |
| 6 | A Touching Display 6:57 | 89 |
| 7 | On Returning 2:07 | 89 |
| 8 | A Mutual Friend 4:28 | 85 |
| 9 | Blessed State 3:27 | 88 |
| 10 | Once Is Enough 3:23 | 85 |
| 11 | Map Ref. 41°N 93°W 3:40 | 94 |
| 12 | Indirect Enquiries 3:36 | 83 |
| 13 | 40 Versions 3:28 | 87 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
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3mo
this album is so cool. definitely needs more appreciation for its experimentation. some of the guitar sounds on here remind me of swans somehow.
5mo
this album is unbelievable until Map Ref. comes and the consistency gets instantly fucked up
