This is brilliant. The sort of tossing off the lyrics and looking the other way. Exactly what I imagined when I bought the vinyl many years ago. Amazing video.
@secondstolast:it was in summer 1979 and the audience were "learning" hippies, i was maybe the only "punk" inside the audence, but i can´t find myself inside the crowd on the vid. taped inside WDR-studios (German sate cahnnel. Cologne)
Prefer this version to the album version...chilling vocals from Lewis Graham...and the fighting guitar interlude is really something special..something very simple but the way it just gels here is amazing.
I don't know man, maybe it's just familiarity, but I still prefer the album verson. The studio track is much lighter and the vocals are cleaner. I think that works better for this kind of song.
you´re right, I think. Both versions are nice in their way, but the studio-one is produced far better. It sounds like music from deep inside, crawling through your veins and brain.
I also have to go with the album version, but for a different reason than those mentioned: Wire's trademark snarkiness.
The studio track is so delightfully detached--even Lewis' bored vocals don't seem in on the biting lyrics. The song doesn't work as well live because, well, live performances are at least a requisite amount emotive.
I have 2 copies of 154. The first one I wore out.
uberalles2 9 months ago 5
@uberalles2 Fantastic album! "The 15th" is probably the best new wave song ever!
Vispateresa3 2 months ago
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TheWheels777 9 months ago
This is brilliant. The sort of tossing off the lyrics and looking the other way. Exactly what I imagined when I bought the vinyl many years ago. Amazing video.
misssooshi 11 months ago 3
this is great, but the studio version...
Raymantico 2 years ago
studio version is better, more gothic
caiofons 2 years ago
well yeah
Raymantico 2 years ago
....brutal but equal.....
MrSKINFLICK 2 years ago
Is he singing into a mushroom? That mic is SUPER FUZZY.
blarvids456 2 years ago 2
The audience looks like they're being held hostage at gunpoint.
SecondsToLast 2 years ago 10
@secondstolast:it was in summer 1979 and the audience were "learning" hippies, i was maybe the only "punk" inside the audence, but i can´t find myself inside the crowd on the vid. taped inside WDR-studios (German sate cahnnel. Cologne)
MrSKINFLICK 2 years ago 3
two things about Graham Lewis: one, he looks like Michael Ballack when he pouts, which is almost always: two, he stole my hat.
evelyneverettgreen 2 years ago
biting sarcasm. stimulating rhetoric.
iris2gamera 2 years ago
closing doors, open minds
ColoredTvs 3 years ago
154 is the album, which said it all for the people who lived in 1979. And I mean those who lived at this time, not those, who were only there.
oxtheravenxo 3 years ago
Interesting how Bruce & Colin swap guitar parts after the last chorus.
nri1969 3 years ago 2
Yeah I noticed that. Great band, well ahead of their time.
ZipButtons 2 years ago 2
err..that should Graham Lewis.
keilan303 3 years ago
Prefer this version to the album version...chilling vocals from Lewis Graham...and the fighting guitar interlude is really something special..something very simple but the way it just gels here is amazing.
keilan303 3 years ago
I don't know man, maybe it's just familiarity, but I still prefer the album verson. The studio track is much lighter and the vocals are cleaner. I think that works better for this kind of song.
ThePepperKing 3 years ago
you´re right, I think. Both versions are nice in their way, but the studio-one is produced far better. It sounds like music from deep inside, crawling through your veins and brain.
oxtheravenxo 3 years ago
I also have to go with the album version, but for a different reason than those mentioned: Wire's trademark snarkiness.
The studio track is so delightfully detached--even Lewis' bored vocals don't seem in on the biting lyrics. The song doesn't work as well live because, well, live performances are at least a requisite amount emotive.
SecondsToLast 2 years ago
@SecondsToLast And the Bass is to loud, and guitar not and much electric.
SuperPais 1 year ago