Wire/Pink Flag (1977)

An English rock band formed in London in 1976, Wire's debut album. A peculiar, post punk-oriented music, as if to condense traditional rock song structure into brief and reconstruct it with mechanical/minimal rhythm, though it was released only a year after Sex Pistols' debut and based on art school punk. Wire's first three albums, especially this one had a wide-ranging influence on later music scenes, such as post-punk, the 1980s US indie rock, hardcore punk, the 1990s britpop and others. Produced by Mike Thorne. The digitally remastered CD was released in 2006. Recommended to those who like early Joy Division and the Cure.