Chairs Missing (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk & Alternative

Chairs Missing (Vinyl LP) Indie Punk & AlternativeReleased a mere 10 months after the punk blaze of Pink Flag, Chairs Missing from 1978 proved Wire was more than a smart arse punk band. The abrasive nature of the earlier release is still evident in many of the tracks, but the input of Mike Thorne's keyboard arrangements adds far more depth and atmospheric layers. Standout cuts are the instant pop single 'Outdoor Miner' and the mindless but catchy chant of 'I Am the Fly.' Chairs Missing is full of

Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams-and their ace band

A song dreamt up

Calvin Keys's 1971 debut album for the Black Jazz Records label announced the arrival of a new star in the jazz guitar firmament

'Fly Little Bird

challenges

influenced by the sound system parties that he had seen in Jamaica before his family moved to New York in 1967

they transform themselves into the kind of band that could easily fill a stadium

no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony

In the Garden is the debut studio album by the Eurythmics

is a craggy

While simultaneously looking back towards the classic days of highlife and forward to a fresh revival of the guitar band sound

The work of Illinois-born