Here’s something i put together quick since I haven’t posted anything in so long.  Stay tuned for a behemoth post that I’ve been putting together for about 2 years now…

So, for me personally, Wire are just about the most enduring band I can think of.  They were, if my memory serves me, one of the first non-contemporary bands I discovered, and fell in love with on my own.  When I was 14 or 15 there was a radio show on Wednesday nights, at i think midnight, on WUSB(Stony Brook) where they played all kinds of things that shaped my musical tastes for years to come.  The first Wire track I heard played on this show was “Two People In A Room”.  After that I believe came “A Question of Degree”.  I won’t go on about why I loved Wire at that age, I’ll just say that they remain as interesting and completely fulfilling to me as they did …more than half my lifetime ago. 

Okay - here’s a collection(20 tracks total) of Wire’s early non-album singles and B sides(from the original CD releases, but left off the box set/re-issues), and a bunch of really great sounding demos, most of which were never re-recorded/released otherwise.  Songs like “Stablemate” and “Stepping Off Too Quick” are absolutely brilliant, and completely essential if you don’t already have them.

Download - WIRE : Singles/B Sides/Demos - Removed, by request.

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