I was really preplexed when this Album came out, liking it and hating it because it didn't sound like 1st round Wire, now hearing it, it sounds great, Wire really amazed me and had me scratching my head with their 80's version sometimes I thought they sucked with their 80's self reinvention, other times I thought they were so far ahead, even I couldn't catch up with them..
I got the album Chairs Missing in 1978 and they've been my absolute favourite band ever since. This version is brilliant and it's great to see them clowning around!
This isn't actually, the single mix. At least its not the mix on my CD single. The mix in this video has a radically different opening, sligtly different drum sound, and a section reduced just to drums, which the single mix doesn't.
I was really preplexed when this Album came out, liking it and hating it because it didn't sound like 1st round Wire, now hearing it, it sounds great, Wire really amazed me and had me scratching my head with their 80's version sometimes I thought they sucked with their 80's self reinvention, other times I thought they were so far ahead, even I couldn't catch up with them..
MrSpeedOcentric 4 months ago
1:54 ♥ ♥ ♥
wonderfool1234 9 months ago
Either version - love the song. I want Colin's shirt!!
pacific707 11 months ago
@pacific707 I think it's just a regular white shirt with pictures pinned to it. You could probably make one.
sydbarrett5 8 months ago
btw,
I Shift Blame
AJtheory 1 year ago
A bell is a cup until you get rung by a fastball to the nuts
AJtheory 1 year ago 2
Sorry, it's the 7" single remix, not the CD one. I guess it's an edit?
hatfulofelt 1 year ago
Ha, I ordered this CD from Amazon almost two years ago, and every four months or so I get an email saying "We think we've found one."
It's like I ordered a gallon of whale oil or something.
nri1969 1 year ago 9
@nri1969 Found mine in used record store for 7$, guess I'm just one of the lucky ones.
makeghandi 8 months ago
I got the album Chairs Missing in 1978 and they've been my absolute favourite band ever since. This version is brilliant and it's great to see them clowning around!
MrHermes08 1 year ago
my absolutely favourite band!
amazing album!
buzzkilla1 2 years ago
Great song and great album. Why so underated?
999klondike 2 years ago
This is the single remix, not the LP version. I prefer this one, with the extra instrumentation, personally.
hatfulofelt 2 years ago 5
@hatfulofelt
This isn't actually, the single mix. At least its not the mix on my CD single. The mix in this video has a radically different opening, sligtly different drum sound, and a section reduced just to drums, which the single mix doesn't.
Mixtil22 1 year ago
Why does this version sound so good?
I have the mp3's, from both "The A-List" album, and also "A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck" album...
...however, neither mp3's 'mix' sounds as good as this youtube/video version...I only wish I had a *high quality (stereo, etc.)* version of this...
AJtheory 3 years ago
Great vocal audio. let's the lycis work on your soul.
They (wire) are pretty awesome.
Not one of my favorite songs, i always include it. It's kind of like the glial cells in the brain, supports the grey matter.
Every one of these 4 are genuises. i'd place serious money on it. \
"a bell is a cup" is their most erudite + abstruse album.
xyaqua 2 years ago
No, Wire.
monochromaticsf 3 years ago 2
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ToolsnFire 3 years ago
My favorite song by them. Thank you for posting this!
coffycup75 3 years ago
I like this song´s version is faster and tighter. I´m fan of the post punk's wire, but this song is simply fantanstic,thanks for the video
komunicador 3 years ago 2
This song is awesome,takes me back to early 90`s,Ta.
jaggynettle70 3 years ago