From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #483 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, September 28 2008 Volume 10 : Number 483 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Brand New Subscriber ["Stewart Danford" Subject: [idealcopy] Brand New Subscriber Greetings from Southern California, fellow IdealCopyists! I am new to the forum but certainly not new to the band. I became familiar with Wire in the identical fashion that many people became familiar with Wire--my friend played Pink Flag for me in the late 1970s-- and my love for their sound and style was instantaneous. Being that I was only 11 or 12 at the time and had no real sense of categorizations, subgenres or "labels" I was also fond of the myriad other bands who had formed in the UK around that time--namely, The Damned, The Jam, Ultravox!, PiL, etc., etc.-- but I genuinely liked how Wire seemed to perseverate upon just a couple of chords, had repetitiously catchy lyrical passages, and played markedly brusque songs. Some of the American club bands attempted this approach, but few, if any, did it quite like Wire. The subtle, intelligent lyrics and visceral vocals were truly the dividing factor, too. "Poets at Work" indeed. Save for the 'Rodney on the ROQ' show on the So. Cal radio station KROQ, I was never going to hear Wire unless I went to a hip music shop and bought their albums, which of course I did, and to this day I embrace the fact that the band are not commercially well-known in the States. Most of the blindly-patriotic plateheads in these parts would not understand the group at any rate, so, it is just as well. Admittedly, for reasons I am still trying to cope with myself, I lost track of Wire during their first renaissance period and completely missed out on what I now consider to be the finest music I have ever heard. And as I continue to acclimate myself with Ideal Copy, A Bell Is A Cup..., IBTABA, Manscape, & etc., I realize I'm in the midst of yet another rebirth and comprehend once and for all that Wire simply get better with age (theirs and mine). For instance, this century would not be at all satisfying thus far sans Send and Object 47. And I still have all of the side projects and solo works to swallow and digest. Life is beautiful. Colin, Graham, Robert, Margaret (sorry Bruce), I will see all of you October 14 at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Break a leg! ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #483 ********************************