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I wanna hear the PRF perspective from 2025.

Shit, tough one. I picked 154 although they're all amazing. Pink Flag might the closest to my heart. "Ex Lion Tamer" is history's catchiest song.

They’re all great - of course - but Pink Flag is what I cut my teeth on and am most familiar with - so gotta be that. It has a particularly great cheerful energy that the other two lack - they are pretty cold records and I need to be in the right mood to listen to em. PF I can play anywhere anytime

Good timing - I was thinking of a 3 way first album post punk dome (pink flag vs entertainment vs quality of mercy is not strnen) but I think that got done in the old forum

Some of Chairs Missing is as good as anything- Heartbeat to Mercy to Outdoor Miner is such a good run--but some of it leaves me cold.

Pink Flag is one of the greatest records I've ever spent time with. I bought it when I was 15 (thanks, Minor Threat) and it made me feel like I had found my people and my world. Kind of hard to compete with that. "Field Day for the Sundays" is one of my favorite songs. It's all so good.

I have never been able to get into 154, and I've tried. I think I've bought it twice now? Sold it twice, too. Maybe third time is a charm? I really don't like the tonez on this one.

Chairs Missing is pretty much perfect. The weird stuff, the pop, the menacing rock: all while mostly staying under 2 minute song lengths. 154 is the same formula but a tad indulgent at times.

For me, it's a toss-up between the first two. There really isn't another album quite like Pink Flag, whereas I can hear the influence of Chairs Missing in just about every one of my favorite 80s and 90s bands.

Heath wrote: Mon Jun 30, 2025 6:28 am I have never been able to get into 154, and I've tried.

Me too. Am sort of bewildered by this album. I will also keep trying.

Man, how many of us Gen X/Millenials got turned onto Wire thanks to Minor Threat?

Like others here, Pink Flag has been the longer companion, but Chairs Missing is probably better. I can't even remember 154, but I needed something to listen to today so here we go.

losthighway wrote: Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:33 am Man, how many of us Gen X/Millenials got turned onto Wire thanks to Minor Threat?

For me, it was more of their name being mentioned with Elastica - whose debut I still love - that piqued my interest.

I voted Pink Flag.

zircona1 wrote: Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:38 am

losthighway wrote: Mon Jun 30, 2025 8:33 am Man, how many of us Gen X/Millenials got turned onto Wire thanks to Minor Threat?

For me, it was more of their name being mentioned with Elastica - whose debut I still love - that piqued my interest.

And it was the ultimate gateway band, R.E.M., that had me looking into Wire.

Both the Minutemen and Guided By Voices credit Wire for turning them onto shorter songs. That was enough for me to check them out.