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  • @paulsbreakfast Why do you care about his review of "ONE FIFTY FOUR." He already told you he doesn't get it. "When he looked through the window for the thousandth time, he saw a black horse entangled in a barbed wire fence. The more he struggled, the more he strangled. Time passed painfully. Time passed painfully. Time passed PAIN FULLY!" You think this bald dude he doesn't even get 1-5-4 is going to comprehend that? Dig it yourself D.IY.

  • I mean, saying "Wire - One Fifty Four" is like hearing somebody say: "Led Zepplin! He's pretty good." So who are you? Who cares. I will listen to the music and decide for myself. Basically, your review means ZERO. Cause who cares about you and your 'classic album review.' LOSER. ZERO. Do something yourself instead of talking about what other people do.

  • From A to B, again avoiding C,D, and E... cause E is where you play the blues.

  • We don't care about you & your channel. Ego running too loud. Just want to hear about new Wire lp. Respect on "Pink Flag" easy 10. But we who know already know. that. "One fifty four" ? it's ONE-FIVE-FOUR idiot!!! as in one-four-five blues progression flipped... ok. So you don't like the latest wire album,. Your "One Fifty Four" remark gives perspective on you. Credibility zero after that FAIL remark. Haven't heard the album. So I will hear it and judge myself. For now, you are judged FAIL

  • The review is pretty well on the mark— this album and 'Object 47' both could have been very good five- or six-song EPs.

  • i couldn't agree more with this review, it's a really dull album. At their best wire songs were like sculptures, all weird shapes and texture. This is just a big slab of lazy nothingness.

  • best first 30 seconds ever

  • i listen to a few tracks

    its definitly differant

  • i love bad worn thing!! JAM SANDWICH!!!!

  • Yeah, I dunno. This reviewer (I don't know who he is, but I know Wire, and they are very, very great) spends a lot of words on compression and effects and etc. In fact, this is a very good Wire record, their best in a while. It's not Pink Flag--I agree with the bald guy on this--but it's better than a good portion of other records by newer bands. A "five"--out of "ten," I suppose? No. It's more like a 7 or 8. Despite the (ahem) compression.

  • Best intro ever? Probably.

  • Don't listen to the haters. This was a very good review.

  • Don't listen to the haters. This was a very good review.

  • Best album of Wire in years, and best album of 2011 so far. Hands down.

  • I think this guy will revalue this album. Like Magazine was too quickly put down by rock critics at the time. Years later, no critic was found not to like Magazine. This album does the same. It all fits together. 35 yrs of knowledge how to make music and sounds, Wire fabricated a better album than it appears at first. Theneedledrop should let the music work for him. It's NOT 'Indie rock'. It's Wire. Understand the vibes and the atmosphere. So no chewing gum quickies here, mister.

  • Not Colin's vocals on Bad Worn Thing. Love the record! Review Githead Heatgit

  • Not Colin's vocals on Bad Worn Thing.

  • Good review, as it starts with Pink Flag being a 10. I have never stopped listening to this album since I say Wire in London in about 1978 and have wondered if it was just me that raves and froths over this.

    After a long gap (and I mean long), I am back onto Wire after seeing them in Sydney a few weeks ago. The 30+ years melted away! Haven't checked out the album yet, but will soon.

  • @twoshirts1 You will definetely love it. Enjoy. Greetings to Australia, where I did see great bands in the 80's when I was there.

  • Colin doesn't sing "Bad Worn Thing." That's Lewis.

  • "Bad Worn Thing", is sung by Graham Lewis, and (rather obviously) NOT Colin Newman. Rather emphatically delivered by Mr. Lewis, I might add.  To describe light use of chorus effect by an artist such as Wire a obnoxious, is, in itself ... At any rate, RBT is a rich and pastoral offering, deepening the bands' full circle forum in form.

  • 5/10 is spot on

  • Object 47 blows this out of the water

  • @DanielBowden1975

    No way close. As absolute Wire lover to the max, and listening to both albums a million time...Object 47 is not even a shadow from this album.

  • the guy is far more interested in himself than in the music he reivews. pathetic.

  • This album marks a return to Wire's pinnacle, it is fantastic, and matey, you know fuckall about fuckall especially if you think Colin Newman sings Bad Worn Thing. Go away.

  • You are talking bollocks this is a fantastic album and I can not fault the production ,what the fu"k are you talking about. Take your head out of your ass and listen to it properly ;-)

  • what a shite review - he's knows fuckall about this band (it's all trouser and haricuts with this guy) take it from someone who's been there from the very begining this is a good album with some killer tracks.

  • nice one!- Red barked trees is an amazing album!- I wonder if this man has any talent himself!!!????....what an up his own arsehole idiot!!!!!!.H.Hx.

  • hey listen to "the show with no name " on fcum radio weekdays 4-6 pm uk time we,re reviewing wires new album

  • :O Awesome Sunn Shirt

  • electronic and experimental music of the independant persuasion :) fuente.bandcamp.com

  • I'm a huge Wire fan and have been looking forward to this album for a long time (well, since the mp3 release of 'Red Barked Tree'), but I was hoping for something that, well, isn't what it is. I don't actually have the album yet, but I just listened to the samples on Pinkflag dot com and I was startled and thoroughly disappointed. As for their two latest releases, I LOVE R&B 3 (amazing 4 tracks, perfect in my opinion); O 47 has some very weak spots but it grew on me, but I don't know about RBT

  • @KingOfUm I share your view on Object 47 and R&B 3 (exactly the same opinion). I think, and am almost shure you will change your opinion on RBT. It's SO much better than Object 47.

  • @Devito46 I got your other comment on the song 'Bad Worn Thing', and I'm glad you're not a fan who hates anyone who has a negative opinion (you're a true fan, in my opinion); anyway, O47 sounds, to me, way too much like a Githead album. I'll say right now that I really don't like Githead, had their first EP and got tired of it after 2 months, haven't listened to it since. I think my main complaint about Wire's latest works is the absence of Bruce Gilbert.

  • @KingOfUm Nice to read your comments and your Wire uploads on YouTube. Githead is a band that I still have to get into. Do you actually like the soloworks of Gilbert & Lewis ? And from Graham Lewis ? I think his cooperation with Omala is great. I think RBT is a well put together album. Good arrangements and follow up in songs. But may be I'm not that objective. Music is a subjective artform anyway. ;-) I will follow your musictaste and may be find something new and interesting.

  • @Devito46 Thanks for the kind words. I actually LOVE the works of Lewis and Gilbert; I have almost all of their additional solo pieces, as well as the Dome works, and I think it's fantastic what they did for the realm of experimental music. The He Said Omala album is really outstanding I think, along with the Hox album. I have to say that RBT is growing on me, despite a few songs that still seem really weak. My favorites are Clay, Bad Worn Thing, and Moreover.

  • illlllllllll ninooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooo!

  • The Chariot Long Live ... The Chariot is a good band. You might like them. :)

  • Horrible album, I agree with everything you said.

  • great album in my opinion... those who complain about the production have a point, but personally I really like that shoegazy sound.

  • Are you related to Merton

  • @Devito46 You sound pretty condescendant to me. TheNeedleDrop is just reviewing albums, these are his points of view, that's what rock critics are doing, nothing more, nothing less. And there are discussions on what he reviews, just maybe not concerning Wire and Foals. On my part, I do believe the last LCD Soundsystem album is pretty overrated, but TheNeedleDrop just love it, it doesn't stop me from watching his videos. I discovered Women thru here, so I come back.

  • @DeSpookrijder

    Well...this guy is making remarks as if he doesn´t know the sound of Wire at all. I just stated that. And suggested that he should listen to those albums (again).

  • AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ANTHONY YOU RESPONDED TO ONE OF MY POSTS!!! THIS IS INCREDIBLE

  • One more thing. I like the way you present your reviews. But some one who can´t appreciate the latest Foals and the latest Wire ?

    Sorry, isn´t of any value to my music taste.

    Wish you good luck with other review viewers...or when I look at the comments, with hardly any discussions on WHAT you review, I must say gimmick fans of yours.

  • Hahaha, what a clown you are...

    You missed something.The value of Red Barked Tree. You have the ´classic Wire´ probably read about it in books. Guitar ´overmodulation´ Start listening to Wire albums and notice that it´s ALWAYS there, and isn´t at, for exampel, the last song on the album.

    Just play it a few more times and start picking up on the songwriting and the atmosphere ofthe album except just labeling it as a supermarket product (indie rock, shoe gaze etc)

    Wish you good luck with it.

  • James Blake leaked

  • I hear the album for the first time now. Let it grow !! That's how WIRE albums work...for a long, long time !

  • Anthony have you ever reviewed Loveless by My Bloody Valentine? Just want to know how you'll rate this album which is a personal favourite of mine.

  • You sound like an AM radio station now.

  • do you got any love for the new decemberist album?

  • New smith westerns when it comes out...although I'm sure you've heard it already.

  • Wire rarely sounds the same from album to album, they have never wanted to repeat themselves, and this album, with what I think are great, layered, almost shoegaze like guitar sounds, is pretty cool for them. I'm a huge Wire fan, and have just about every solo project any of the members has been involved in. Their has been 30 years of progression to this point, lets not slam it for not being Pink Flag. I'm glad Wire hasn't yet tried to cash in on making another PF.

  • Really sorry, do not agree with much of what your say. I think its a terrific album.

  • When I saw the Cal Chuchesta photo at 1:13 I tough "omg did he release an album ?! my dreams come true !!"

    Would make an awesome cover by the way

  • Giving a 5/10 to an album created by one of your favorite bands (i would say...) makes us see how impartial you are... You are a better journalist than what i would have ever expected mr. Fantano!!!

  • Nice teleportation

  • Wouldn't mind seeing a review of the new Chad Smith just to see what you think about the dude as well.

  • i just flicked down through the comments and decided maybe its time for someone to give an opinion on the album reviewed??? maybe???? ok, i wil. i love it. i didnt like object 47 but i love this. best thing theyve done since the read and burn series. great record one of the true great bands of my lifetime.

  • :) Destroyerplz

  • lol i wonder what your neighbours think when you do these intros :D

  • @VegetableHero They thought it was pretty crazy when they saw me teleport into my room, for sure. Now they're calling at all hours of the night saying, "Yo, bro, teach me how to teleport." I'm all like, "nah!"

  • please omg pleaaaaaaase review the next cold war kids album

  • watch out for the cold!

  • You should review Bad Books' self-titled album. It's so good.

  • Possibly the best opening you've ever done

  • Destroyer <3 Review it <3

  • Best intro ever.

  • DUDE, you got teleporting powers!!??

  • Listened to "Pink Flag", it's nothing special, not sure what all the fapping's about.

  • kanye's hard as a motherfu**er!

  • Seeing my comment in this video made my day (well night, as I just watched this.) Thanks for reviewing this album!

  • review suggestion:

    Fan Death – Womb of Dreams (2010)

    might be some interesting music

  • hey man haven't said anything to you in a while lol. well since i was there before you had 2k subs, i think i can make a request hahaha. you dont have to review it in a video, but i just want your professional opinion lol. GDP- Succumb. it's the first video if you youtube it. i think you'd dig it a lot. so yeah, get on that if you want. lemme know how it goes.

  • hey if you ever get the chance could you review the new Foster The People single "Helena Beat"? see watcha think? I really really enjoyed their single "pumped up kicks" from last year, and i like this track a little less but still find it to be a totally worthwhile listen

  • can you do a review of the new Kanye/Jay-Z track "H.A.M."?

  • Uh you need to review Abigail Williams "In The Absence of Light" like now... !!!

  • hhmhmmhhm whos this old indie hipster geezer!!! back in my day we listened to two sticks banging together... hipsters cant rescept good old music

  • New Kanye West and Jay z track "HAM" just popped up on the web. TRACK REVIEW!!

  •  YEAH CAL

  • Ehhhh.....depressing. I need to revisit some old Wire albums. Best stuff

  • Sunn O))) <333

  • Make sure you review the new Smith Westerns and Kurt Vile when they come out. Thx!

  • review Grouplove : ) 

  • Finally do a track review of Destroyer - China Town. I've been waiting for that one for a while.

  • Love to hear a review on the new Intronaut album. Please.. Please.. tell us what you think! !!INTRONAUT!! ..just to get your attention

  • review request: autre ne veut - "s/t"

  • lol@ :45

  • i liked the uh........transportation brah

  • New Cage the elephant, odd cake influence (imo) on it. Review?

  • Anthony Fantastic! Youre in HD WOO HOOO!

  • @R34n1mated yep i am.

  • I would like to see you do a review of the track "Out Getting Ribs" by Zoo Kid. It's so genuine.

  • you should review the new smith westerns

  • you should review minor threat

  • @Trevor9849 10/10

  • smithy westernz pls

  • ARE YOU IN HD? THATS GREAT! GREAT VID!

  • @130leviatan i'm in hd, but i have a better camera on the way. it won't look so smudgy in the future, i hope.

  • @theneedledrop

    You are looking a little fuzzy indeed, but at least your audio seems pretty good lately. Always had that "omnidirectional mic picking up too much ambient sound" touch before. Now it's reasonably dry, as it should be.

  • holy crap sparkly head!

  • INTRO WIN!

  • Love the higher video and audio quality.

  • When I first heard the track "Two Minutes", I knew they were of course echoing their earlier "punk" sound, but with songs like "Please Take" and "Now Was", there is a more post-punk sound, which I really liked because it sounded like a lot of music from the 80s- I would give it a 7/10.

    I went on TND.com and I couldn't find the forum...is there a link I'm missing?

  • you in georgia my any chance?

  • AYYAYAY new camera!

  • Dude an amazing band called graveyard is supposed to have a new album out this spring. If you wanna hear some old stuff listen to "satan's finest" or submarine blues" or really anything off their first record its awesome. I don't know what the new one is called though

  • Cage the Elephant releases "Thank You Happy Birthday" tomorrow. Please.

  • your voice sounded super deep on this video, or maybe just really HD. were you speaking directly into my ears?

  • u wear that shirt a lot

  • @ManBag101 it's a good shirt. :-)

  • I flat out HATE it. The songwriting is sooo boring to me. Like you said, the lyrics, production, and the effects all just seem horid. But I guess the first track is mediocre. But that's the only song I could really listen to. 2 minutes is annoying..

  • @CLU10123

    Really curious about what you DO like. Or actually...hmmm, not.

  • Hey Anthony, I'm sure your aware that the new Earth Album leaked. Can you review that please?

  • Can u do a review of Big Krit Wuz Here album

  • CAL'S DOING A ROCKTOUT BLOG PARODY? WOOOT!!!

  • Anthony when Earth's new album drops...

    please review it for the sake of humanity

  • @PhillipThunderGrunge this will be done. :-)

  • DESTROYER - KAPUTT

  • British. Sea. Power.

  • The new Melodium. Check it out, please =D

  • WIRE + shoegaze = oh wow, must hear

  • can you review the new smith westerns album?

  • check out my band please called sleepyheads, on facebook. not trying to spam u

  • @unplugged1994

    ORLY...

  • @ignoranttwat reallly 

  • 1:37 = best Anthony remix yet.

  • please please make a best of cal chuchesta montage video, haha

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  • Anthony doing Cal doing Sammy...this could be interesting!

  • 5 is very gentle. It sucks.

  • Your jeans are WAY TOO HIGH D:<

  • @MutantCheeseburger those are his mom jeans

  • PETER BJORN AND JOHN!!!!!

  • Thumbs up for Best Intro Ever !!

    and for Cal and that Killer Sunn0))) T shirt too \m/ !!

  • Cage the Elephant!!!

  • White Shoes and the Couples Company - Album Vakansi!

  • review The Apers - Whatever It Takes

  • You could do the new Cage the Elephant album!

  • awesome effects this episode :D is there gonna be a blog tv sometime soon?

  • Review Autre Ne Veut's self titled album or Forest Swords Dagger Paths. Anything off the Olde English Spelling Bee label really.

  • the car pulling out in the intro was probably pretty amused

  • That's a beautiful picture of Cal.

  • NIce review. I need to go back to the wire's pink flag i guess. Ive been slack lately on listening to the things you suggest. Obsessed with glasser and twin shadows right now, not listening to much else.

  • Would you do a review for Hercules and Love Affair? Want to hear your thoughts on it.

  • Anthony, you're hilarious. The teleport was great.

  • Review the Decemberist's new album. I love it.

  • nice teleport FTW

  • yo sick bird in the intro am i right

  • I was wondering, Anthony - since you're so into drone music, do you like indian classical music? That's the birthplace of drone. :D

  • Audio is great!

  • Step 1: Listen to The King Is Dead by The Decemberists

    Step 2: Review it

  • @Palimeris

    Step 3: ???

    Step 4: Profit

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  • review the new Korpiklaani!

  • Anthony clearly has a new toy.

  • do the BADU. Do It :)

  • new teen daze mannnnnn!

  • British Sea Power Valhalla Dancehall!!!!!

  • You should do British Sea Power's new CD.

    Also, Driftless Pony Club is about to come with their new CD. Might be a good review.

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  • Intro = Win!

  • Review the James Blake album, please!!

  • @Steoandnoodles1

    Hahaha, yep!

  • Yo Anthony I dont know shit about Wire, but if you say that "Pink Flag" is a 10 Im buying (downloading!) that album right now! By the way there is another track from that Fashawn mixtape with Common and John Legend called "Strange Fruit"

  • wiz khalifa taylor gang or ......