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1979’s “154<\/strong>” represented the final tableau in Wire’<\/strong>s Harvest released 70’s triptych and was the first Wire<\/strong> album to be released to a universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies.<\/p>\n

Thus it represented the point when the British ‘pop culture establishment’ publicly recognised Wire<\/strong>‘s primacy. “154 makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble,” wrote Nick Kent in the NME, “Wire are achieving a lot of things other – and more recognised – names have been striving for” wrote Chris Westwood in Record Mirror . “The album is a musical Tour de Force” wrote Jon Savage in Melody Maker.<\/p>\n

“154<\/strong>” is the Wire<\/strong> album that is the most popular from the 70’s albums amongst Wire<\/strong> fans (perhaps perversely Wire<\/strong> fans tend to be the least enamoured with Pink Flag) and has had the most diverse influence, across many genres, of the 3 …and despite the only slightly less stellar Pitchfork Media rating of 9.1 (“good” Pitchfork reviews rend to get a 7.5 to 8.5 rating) 154 manages to hold it’s own – rating a respectable #11 in Rate Your Music’s chart of 1979 (voted for by real people rather than music journalists). Chairs Missing made #3 in 1978’s chart Pink Flag #9 in 1977’s.<\/p>\n

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1979’s “154<\/strong>” represented the final tableau in Wire’<\/strong>s Harvest released 70’s triptych and was the first Wire<\/strong> album to be released to a universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies.<\/p>\n

Thus it represented the point when the British ‘pop culture establishment’ publicly recognised Wire<\/strong>‘s primacy. “154 makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble,” wrote Nick Kent in the NME, “Wire are achieving a lot of things other – and more recognised – names have been striving for” wrote Chris Westwood in Record Mirror . “The album is a musical Tour de Force” wrote Jon Savage in Melody Maker.<\/p>\n

“154<\/strong>” is the Wire<\/strong> album that is the most popular from the 70’s albums amongst Wire<\/strong> fans (perhaps perversely Wire<\/strong> fans tend to be the least enamoured with Pink Flag) and has had the most diverse influence, across many genres, of the 3 …and despite the only slightly less stellar Pitchfork Media rating of 9.1 (“good” Pitchfork reviews rend to get a 7.5 to 8.5 rating) 154 manages to hold it’s own – rating a respectable #11 in Rate Your Music’s chart of 1979 (voted for by real people rather than music journalists). Chairs Missing made #3 in 1978’s chart Pink Flag #9 in 1977’s.<\/p>\n

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