For anyone that knows me even remotely on a musical level, it's well known that I'm a massive fan of all things Wire. In thinking about that, it occurred to me that the band Wire is probably the most difficult band in my collection to ever really discuss. For example, if you asked 10 major Wire fans about their favorite Wire album, I think you'd get close to 10 different answers. The band just covers so many facets and sounds simply under their own band name ("Wire" and "Wir"), but then if you include all the sub projects and solo work, the possibilities are endless. Plus, I think early/original Wire fans probably hate 80's Wire fans, and neither probably like 2000's Wire fans, so there's definitely a division in the fan universe. For example, the beginning part of Wire consists of straight up guitar punk. This is what put them on the map initially, mind you their work has unusual lyrics and they started to dabble into sometimes bizarre ...
A list of albums in no specific order that influenced my life and musical creation